Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

SHIPS AND SHIPPING and could be taken up rivers and carried by the crew if necessary, in effect “the only ocean-going landing cr ...

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Duffy, Seán. “Irishmen and Islesmen in the Kingdoms of Dublin and Man, 1052–1171.” Ériu, 43, (1992), 93–133. Kinsella, Stuart. “ ...

SOCIETY, FUNCTIONING OF ANGLO-NORMAN upon Meath, the ally of Muirchertach, by burning, killing, and leading off many captives. T ...

SOCIETY, FUNCTIONING OF ANGLO-NORMAN century, they were systematically extended to Ireland. By the turn of the fourteenth centur ...

SOCIETY, FUNCTIONING OF ANGLO-NORMAN earl of Louth (d. 1329). The marriages of minor heirs were also arranged by the Crown, and ...

“unofficial” practices. Such attempts bred hostility between the “English of Ireland” and the “English of England,” and it soon ...

SOCIETY, FUNCTIONING OF GAELIC ideas of royal authority. Like their contemporaries elsewhere in Europe, they claimed paramount r ...

opinion, such as sacrilege, could involve the death penalty. In the latest period, the same fate could befall a thief whose clan ...

SOCIETY, GRADES OF ANGLO-NORMAN Their endurance was guaranteed because the grants were made in “tail male,” meaning that should ...

the early fourteenth century as a merchant family. They then progressed to careers in law. That the descendants of the new Sir R ...

SOCIETY, GRADES OF GAELIC own land. The principle distinction between these two classes was that the common freemen served as th ...

SOCIETY, GRADES OF GAELIC grade of independent poet were three subdivisions of apprentice poets, still dependent on their master ...

ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL crimes such as intentional wounding or arson. In cases of very serious criminality, (such as killing one ...

the cathedral) to shake that of Ormond’s and thus restore trust. The Reformation at St. Patrick’s saw statues in the choir destr ...

STRONGBOW (RICHARD FITZ GILBERT) now traveled in person to meet Henry at Newnham in Gloucester. His anxiety to confer with the k ...

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T TÁNAISTE The word tánaiste, anglicized as “tanist,” refers to the candidate who, by the Gaelic method of succession, was recog ...

TARA 3000 B.C. by a passage tomb, known today by its medi- eval name as the “mound of the hostages.” The tomb is oriented to the ...

See alsoBurials; Dinnshenchas; Earthworks; Feis; Forus Feasa ar Éirinn; Kings and Kingship; Máel Sechnaill I; Máel-Sechnaill II; ...