Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

Kelly, Fergus.A Guide to Early Irish Law. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988. McKenna, Lambert. Iomarbhágh na b ...

References and Further Reading Bugge, Alexander, ed. Caithréim Ceallacháin Caisil, the Victo- rious Career of Ceallacháin of Cas ...

exploited to extend their conquests across almost all of the area of modern County Cork and to hold it down with a string of cas ...

MAC CON MIDHE, GIOLLA BRIGHDE (C. 1210–C. 1272) Born in or near Ardstraw, County Tyrone, he is some- times confused with an earl ...

extensive territories in Tyrone and Armagh. The numerous Meic Domnaill galloglass in Connacht (where they appear by the 1360s) a ...

MAC FHIR BHISIGH native Irish—of which he had an unrivalled mastery for his time—he had a good knowledge of English and Latin, a ...

MAC LOCHLAINN MAC LOCHLAINN A leading family of the Cenél nEógain branch of the northern Uí Néill dynasty, the Meic Lochlainn (M ...

MAC LOCHLAINN, MUIRCHERTACH (C. 1110–1166) Nevertheless, the Mac Lochlainns did survive in a very reduced condition in the penin ...

MAC LOCHLAINN, MUIRCHERTACH (C. 1110–1166) In that year Archbishop Gelasius of Armagh (d. 1173) visited Tír nEógain to receive f ...

MAC LOCHLAINN, MUIRCHERTACH (C. 1110–1166) UíFailge, Loígis, and Osraige, forcing their kings to flee to Connacht. Diarmait Mac ...

UaCerbaill. After becoming king of Ulaid, Eochaid too revolted, provoking the high king. Eochaid was duly banished, allowing Mui ...

MAC MURCHADA, DIARMAIT high king of Airgialla, a man who held sway [over the territory extending] from the Boyne to Derry, and f ...

MAC MURCHADA, DIARMAIT The homeland of the Meic Murchada dynasty was Uí Chennselaig, a region in south Leinster with its center ...

MAC MURCHADA, DIARMAIT other. This was particularly true after Diarmait’s joint action with Mac Lochlainn’s principle rival— Tai ...

Assessment Historians debate the importance of Diarmait Mac Murchada. Arguing counterfactually, they question whether, even had ...

MACMURROUGH himself with English and Welsh help over Leinster and Dublin—threatening the O’Connor high kingship. Upon his death ...

MACMURROUGH, ART (C. 1357–1416/1417), MACMURROUGH, ART (C. 1357–1416/1417), son of Art MacMurrough (Mac Murchada) the elder (d. ...

MACSWEENEY disaster, as Art ceaselessly harried the English. At a failed parley, Art—described as a tall handsome man with a ste ...

MACSWEENEY of the great migration of Scottish mercenary dynasties into the north of Ireland in the thirteenth and early fourteen ...

MÁEL-ÍSU UA BROLCHÁIN (D. 1086) O’Donovan, John, ed. and trans. Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland. Dub ...