Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

describe a musical instrument, undoubtedly a whistle or flute. Pipes, flutes, and whistles have been found in archaeological exc ...

MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE is called Arcatlám, “silver arm.” However, this physical blemish renders Núadu unsuitable for kingship and he ...

MYTHOLOGICAL CYCLE cup of the wife of an Ulster king and is reborn 1,012 years after her first birth. In the second story, anoth ...

N NATIONAL IDENTITY It is problematical to work with the concept of “nation” in the Middle Ages. What will be investigated here ...

In a similar manner the social values articulated in political poetry, even when applied to individual peo- ple, expressed not s ...

The Irish were now increasingly making use of fleets in their battles with the Norse and among themselves. The lakes and rivers ...

whom were the progenitors of the Connacht dynasties of Uí Briúin, Uí Fiachrach, and Uí Ailello. Mongfind resented Niall, and she ...

against any lay power trying to hinder them in the exercise of their episcopal duties. Although nothing more is heard of this mo ...

NUNS Twelfth Century Many early Irish nunneries survived until the twelfth century, when church reforms by Irish churchmen inclu ...

O OIREACHT See Society, Functioning of Gaelic OLD AGE See Society, Functioning of ÓENACH The word derives from óen (one) and has ...

Doherty, Charles. “Exchange and Trade in Early Medieval Ire- land,” Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 110 ( ...

P PALE, THE The idea of the Pale has become one of the defining features of late-medieval Ireland, symbolizing the political and ...

were so tainted by Gaelic alliances and customs as to arouse the suspicion of the Palesmen; their attempts to impose coyne and l ...

PAPACY At just this point, however, Palladius disappears entirely from view, his role and that of his followers completely subme ...

was strictly controlled by statute, Gaelic Ireland was under no such strictures and the papal records abound in references to di ...

PARISH CHURCHES, CATHEDRALS thepriest performed the ceremonies at the altar. The upkeep of the nave was the responsibility of th ...

Many Irish cathedrals incorporate Romanesque fabric from the twelfth century and indeed the Romanesque style is often seen as cl ...

PARLIAMENT The towns were not requested to send representa- tives in 1297, but cities and boroughs to which foreign merchants ca ...

PARLIAMENT and while all those for the medieval period were destroyed in 1922, a great deal of the legislation sur- vives in tra ...

PASCHAL CONTROVERSY Duffy, Seán. Ireland in the Middle Ages. Dublin: MacMillan, 1997. Ellis, Stephen. Ireland in the Age of the ...