Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia
With wealth from Dublin, and an ally in his nephew Gilla Pátraic, the king of Osraige, Diarmait attacked Donnchad in 1054, raidi ...
details known of his life are what can be garnered from incidental references in his works. He was teacher at the Palace School ...
milk were the basic foodstuffs consumed and that these were supplemented for proteins, minerals, and flavoring by meat, vegetabl ...
DIET AND FOOD (including analysis of fecal fill of cesspits) suggests that the townspeople would have been self-sufficient in so ...
O’Sullivan, C. M. Hospitality in Medieval Ireland, 900–1500. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. Sexton, R. “Porridges, Gruels and ...
While most of the poems in the Dinnshenchasare anonymous, a number are ascribed to seven well-known poets of the ninth to eleven ...
as an unfinished motte, and there is no evidence of a castle of the earl of Ulster in Down; the bishop was the lord of the town. ...
DUBLIN See alsoBardic Schools, Learned Families; Flann Mac Lonáin; Gaelicization; Gerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond; Grammatical Treat ...
DUBLIN High Medieval Expansion The immediate outcome of the Anglo-Norman takeover of Dublin in 1170 to 1172 was that Dublin acqu ...
of walling and of the need for rebuilding occur from 1427 onward. In addition to the main defensive cir- cuit, extramural gatewa ...
DÚNS DÚNS SeePromotory Forts; Ringforts DURROW, BOOK OF The Book of Durrow (Trinity College Dublin MS 57) contains a Latin copy ...
E ECHTRAI Echtrae (expedition, adventure) is an early Irish tale type that tells of the hero’s journey to another world. In some ...
story of the transformed hag would be most effective if only Niall enjoyed her favor, but it is modified here because its author ...
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART At least two ambitious metal reliquaries may be dated to the seventh century—both are made of engraved tinne ...
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART date of the manuscript are hotly contested which, if nothing else, indicates the close community of culture ...
References and Further Reading Edwards, Nancy. The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland. London: Batsford, 1990. Harbison, Pete ...
ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION the Bishopsand is, therefore, an early feature of Church organization rather than the result of dege ...
ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION from the head of any other independent church. In the seventh century, Tírechán talks frequently of ...
Englishmen, and Cashel had a mixture of Irish and Englishmen. Another divisive issue concerned the pri- macy of Armagh; Dublin w ...
been discerned in the layout of these features along with the shrine or small church built over the saint’s grave. There is a ne ...
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