Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

Uí Dúnlainge also had to contend with the kings of Osraige, whose power grew steadily in the late ninth and tenth centuries. Cer ...

UÍ NÉILL (d. 1440), may have been one of the anonymous scribes. In any event, some of the material contained therein is indeed a ...

not until the ninth and tenth centuries, during the reigns of Máel-Sechnaill I mac Máele-ruanaid (d. 862), and a number of his s ...

UÍ NÉILL, SOUTHERN at the expense of the Airgialla. So extensive was this expansion that, by the ninth century, Airgialla had be ...

UÍ NÉILL, SOUTHERN center of Ireland from north County Dublin to north- eastern Connacht. During the earliest period of recorded ...

ULAID Congalach’s reign was relatively unremarkable, and, following his death in 956, the alternating succession between Cenél n ...

ULSTER CYCLE ULSTER CYCLE The large body of stories and poems that constitute the Ulster Cycle concern the exploits of the Ulaid ...

ULSTER CYCLE depicted in the Cycle have shown that it broadly reflects post-Viking society, and analyses of the tales themselves ...

ULSTER, EARLDOM OF ULSTER, EARLDOM OF The Earldom of Ulster grew to be the most powerful territorial unit in Anglo-Norman Irelan ...

URBAN ADMINISTRATION serve as chief governor—attempted to regain the “bon- naght” of Ulster, which had been appropriated by the ...

URBAN ADMINISTRATION handed over to merchants from Bristol for a whole generation. Only in 1192 was the city granted its first c ...

URBAN ADMINISTRATION lower social levels (by apprenticeship) and from out- side the city. Waterford had a similar set of by-laws ...

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V VALENCE, DE The connection of the de Valence family with Ireland began in 1247 when William de Valence (d. 1296), the Poitevin ...

VERDON, DE In 1185, Bertram III de Verdon (d. 1194) was sent to Ireland as seneschal of the Lord John. Bertram estab- lished him ...

VIKING INCURSIONS attacks, Irish armies began to intercept the raiders, with varying degrees of success, from the 810s. By the 8 ...

art and literature. In turn, the Irish exercised a profound influence on Viking settlers. As Vikings from Ireland made incursion ...

VILLAGES an arable infield set in strips while the outfield was grazed in common, and in Meath the ridges dividing the strips ar ...

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W WALL PAINTINGS Medieval interiors were far more ornate than one might envisage from what survives of them today. One aspect of ...