Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia
hierarchy of land tenure could be precisely defined, exceptionally so by European standards. If these insti- tutions are thought ...
FÍACHNAE MAC BÁETÁIN from the fourteenth century the earls of Kildare, Ormond, and Desmond all personally controlled lib- erties ...
the Saxons. In his absence the god Manannán mac Lir visits his wife and Mongán is conceived. The fact that a cycle of tales was ...
Swords is first recorded in 994 and it may have received patronage from the kings of Dublin. Each site has a fine round tower th ...
into an opening where they could be trapped in nets or baskets. Most were ebb-weirs, catching fish on a falling tide, and were t ...
FITZGERALD Bristol, Chester, and the west coast of England. The herring fisheries off Ardglass and Carlingford were also attract ...
FITZGERALD estates in Kildare and Limerick, and his younger son Maurice fitzMaurice (d. 1286) who inherited the estates and clai ...
employed by his father, dispensing gifts and protection to his adherents in return for their service in peace and war. However, ...
His second wife, Elizabeth St. John, was Henry VII’s first cousin, and his son and heir, Lord Gerald, married Elizabeth Zouche, ...
FITZHENRY, MEILER Irish, but nonetheless being generous to the Gaelic literati. His servant, Philip Flattisbury of Johnstown, wr ...
Orphen, G. H., ed. The Song of Dermot and the Earl. London: 1892. Scott, A. B. and F. X. Martin, eds. Gerald of Wales, Expugnati ...
before Pope Clement VI on July 5, 1350. He subse- quently developed his arguments on the poverty ques- tion, which he published ...
of Écnechán mac Dálaig who died five years after Flann to Early Modern Irish eulogies of the Dál Cais were attributed to him. Of ...
FORAS FEASA AR ÉIRINN as ní soraid, ní snéid-shuilig (not easy, not readily contrived). Part of the difficulty certainly involve ...
FORAS FEASA AR ÉIRINN educated at home and on the continent, and both his outlook and works are very much the products of his ba ...
himself as the successor of the bardic chroniclers and the precursor of that epic and record of a people on the verge of extensi ...
FOUR MASTERS See Annals of the Four Masters FRATERNITIES AND GUILDS Fraternities and guilds were essentially urban phenom- ena, ...
FRENCH WRITING IN IRELAND (The Tale of the Eagle Youth) stated that he “heard the bones of this story from a nobleman who said h ...
FRENCH WRITING IN IRELAND dialect of French evolved. This is the French that came to Ireland with the coming of the Normans. Unf ...
FRENCH WRITING IN IRELAND Mullally, Evelyn, ed. and trans. The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland: La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande ...
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