Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia
AGRICULTURE of oxen. The usual term for such a team is seisrech, which contains the numeral sé, “six,” so it is possible that al ...
AGRICULTURE Farm Layout For the early period, the law texts are an important source of information on the layout of the Irish fa ...
AIDEDA AIDEDA In medieval Irish literary terminology, the word aided refers to a tale in prose or prosimetrum that relates the v ...
set in the early Christian period, specifically the sixth and seventh centuries, and center on conflicts between what would now ...
AILECH County Derry, could also have been the location of the historic Northern Uí Néill capital. The chronicles note the destru ...
nEógain in preference to Ailech or Armagh is evidence enough of the political importance attached to it. The first king of Ailec ...
Ardstraw; Uí Thuirtri east of the Sperrins (collectively known as Uí Maccu Úais); the Fir Chraíbe and the Fir Lí west of the Ban ...
ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS Mide, but in 947 he and Congalach were defeated in battle at Slane by Ua Canannáin. The following year, 94 ...
ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS claimed—partly on the basis of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History—to be primate of all Britain, including Irela ...
ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION fund Edward I’s campaigns against Wales and Scotland. From the fourteenth century, however, amid the hards ...
ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION provenance consistently described the incomers as Saxain, i.e., English. The earliest were adventurers fro ...
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE, INFLUENCE OF remain within the political orbit of the English royal court. In the early decades, a fairl ...
hospitality for considerable numbers of Anglo-Saxon students who came to study in its schools of higher learning. Moreover, Angl ...
ANNALS AND CHRONICLES may also have been influential. When such notes were subsequently copied without the Easter tables, “K” or ...
ANNALS AND CHRONICLES more international in content, but also projected back concepts such as the “kingship of Ireland” and the ...
ANNALS OF THE FOUR MASTERS References and Further Reading Anderson, Marjorie O. Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland. Edinburgh ...
Ó Cléirigh, while Conaire Ó Cleirigh and Muiris Ó Maoilchonaire worked with him for shorter periods. TheAnnals of the Four Maste ...
ARCHAEOLOGY earthwork castles and not prehistoric sites. In the new Republic, archaeology was strongly supported but the nationa ...
them has resulted in the relative neglect of other, less well-known areas. Principal among these is the world of the Gaelic Iris ...
ARCHITECTURE design sophistication, but we have no independent test of the accuracy of such accounts; significantly perhaps, the ...
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