Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

KELLS, SYNOD OF little is known about his activities before the convening of the synod in the following March; approximately fou ...

On March 23, 1152, the day after the synod closed, Cardinal Paparo set sail for Rome, calling on the king of Scotland on his way ...

KILKENNY continued through the Middle Ages as a church dedi- cated to St. Patrick, it was eclipsed in importance dur- ing the se ...

KINGS AND KINGSHIP See alsoClare, de; Lionel of Clarence; Marshal; Ormond-Butler; Osraige; Parliament; Urban Administration KING ...

KINGS AND KINGSHIP names ending in -r(a)ige, from -rigion(kingdom), such as Cíarraige and Osraige. These are held to express a t ...

KINGS AND KINGSHIP reason—were passed over for the succession were often unable to attract sufficient clients to maintain noble ...

on the whole Gaelic tendencies persevered. These included the donation of tuarastaland the impositions of coshering and coyne an ...

L LACY, DE The first member of the de Lacy family to arrive in Ireland was Hugh de Lacy, of the Hereford branch of the family, w ...

out of Ulster by the Mac Lochlainn family; one of his sons was killed in the fighting before he regained his position. Hugh died ...

LAIGIN Thomas’s abbey, Dublin, beside his wife, and his decapitated corpse being solemnly interred in Bective abbey, Co. Meath, ...

LANCASTRIAN-YORKIST IRELAND LANCASTRIAN-YORKIST IRELAND The deposition in September 1399 of King Richard II in favor of Henry of ...

LANCASTRIAN-YORKIST IRELAND war” inhabited by “the wild Irish” living in their woods and bogs—was of little concern to the gover ...

LANCASTRIAN-YORKIST IRELAND York’s attempt on the throne the following autumn drew solid support from the English of Ireland. Al ...

LANGUAGES LANGUAGES Early medieval Ireland was host to a number of lan- guages, two of which stand out: Irish and Latin. The fir ...

LANGUAGES Linguistically, Old Irish is characterized by a high degree of morphological complexity especially in its verbal syste ...

Greek The issue of knowledge and use of Greek in Ireland is problematic. Certainly, the Irish knew the Greek alphabet and the nu ...

seems to have been for glosses to be written between the lines of the text, and to consist largely of explana- tions of words wh ...

LAW TEXTS cited in the texts relate to the northern Midlands and southern Ulster, so it is probable that the material derived fr ...

there are many correspondences between Irish, Welsh,and Breton legal vocabulary. For example, Old Irishmacc, “surety,” is cognat ...

LEBOR NA HUIDRE known as Leabhar Mór Dúna Doighre, as it was in the possession of a branch of that family who lived in Duniry ne ...