Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

the most notable being the story of the conversion of Loíguire’s daughters (§26), with its rhythmic, quasi- poetical language. H ...

Tower houses are most common in a swathe across Ireland from Galway, Clare, and Limerick in the West through the Midlands toward ...

TRADE and southeast of the country, there was an export trade in the products of these farms, principally grain (oats and wheat) ...

TRIADS within codes of practice recognized all over western Europe. Binding agreements governed the chartering of ships and crew ...

TRIADS Fódla, and Ériu), numerous triple adversaries of Cú Chulainn, the motif of the threefold death, and so on. Trefocul(three ...

TRIBES References and Further Reading Bromwich, Rachel. Trioedd Ynys Prydein. The Welsh Triads. Cardiff: University of Wales Pre ...

References and Further Reading Binchy, D. A. Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Kingship . Oxford: Clar- endon Press, 1970. Byrne, F. J. “Tr ...

TÚATH the earlier practice whereby the over king’s leading vassals might expect to be in his service for two or three weeks in a ...

TÚATH standing army. Thus the túathnever evolved beyond a very simple state, and under ever-increasing pressure from the provinc ...

U UA BRIAIN (UÍ BRIAIN, O’BRIEN) The O’Briens (Uí Briain) are descended from Brian Boru, king of the Dál Cais from 976. The Dál ...

UA BRIAIN (UÍ BRIAIN, O’BRIEN) of Clare to Connacht, driving them to accept Cormac Mac Cárthaig, king of Desmond, as the king of ...

UA BRIAIN, MUIRCHERTACH (1050–1119) in any case, to mount an effective nationwide resis- tance to the English. Nonetheless, Ua B ...

UA BRIAIN, MUIRCHERTACH (1050–1119) Osraige, Mide, Connacht, and Dublin to Ardee, County Louth, to gain submission from the Airg ...

UA BRIAIN, MUIRCHERTACH (1050–1119) Now the dominant figure in Ireland, as king of Munster and usually overlord of Osraige, Lein ...

Annals of Ulster calling him “the tower of the honour and dignity of the Western World.” All future kings of Thomond were descen ...

UA CATHÁIN Armagh to make a circuit of Munster and to take away a stipend and gifts. Tairrdelbach was among those who petitioned ...

Ua Ceallaigh, Séamus. Gleanings from Ulster History. Cork: Cork University Press, 1951. Reprint, Draperstown: Ballinascreen Hist ...

UA CONCHOBAIR (UÍ CONCHOBAIR, Ó CONCHOBAIR) position in 1175 when he signed the Treaty of Windsor with Henry. In the treaty Irel ...

accepted Edward Bruce’s offer of the kingship of Connachtand left de Burgh’s army. Feidlim fell in 1316 in the Battle of Athenry ...

punishing Ua Ruairc with a raid into Dartry during During 1146 and 1150, he improved his status, capturing and later killing Do ...