A Land of war

Lydon, James

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539703.003.0010

“…They were at war-with the English and each otherin Thomond from 1306 until the Battle of Dysert O'Dea (1318). 60 Domhnall Ó Néill, as we have seen, claimed to be 'king of the Gaels of Ulster', but the English records call the Uí Néill 'rex de Kyneleun' (king of the Cineál Eoghain), 'regulus de Keneloun' (minor king of the Cineál Eoghain), and 'dux Hibernicorum de Tyrowyn' (leader of the Gaels of Tír Eoghain). 61 The English administration and courts in Ireland did not consider Tír Eoghain as part of Ulster or the Uí Néill as kings of Ulster.…”

Section: M\ C /Murogho Of Leinstermentioning

confidence: 80%

The myth of the ‘five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland

Hewer¹

2018

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, H

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This paper examines two issues: misconceptions concerning English law in high medieval Ireland; and the invention and mutation of an exceptio (objection) in court which was based on a fabrication. The plea, or defensive claim, was that the plaintiff in a court case was an unfranchised Gael (Hibernica/Hibernicus) and therefore could not sue a civil writ in the English king's royal courts in Ireland. This pleading has led some historians to surmise that all Gaels were unfranchised in English Ireland without a personal grant of access from the crown of England. The plea also claimed that only five Gaelic families were allowed to sue in the royal courts. Each time the plea was made, it changed, and after sixty years a defendant claimed that the ancestors of the then current king (Edward III) had granted access to English law only to five Gaelic families. There are many problems with this claim.Since the subject was addressed by John Davies (1569-1626), historians of medieval Ireland have presumed that there was a general exclusion of all Gaelic people from the English courts in Ireland established c.1200. 1 This hypothesis partially rests on the exceptio (objection in court) of the 'five bloods'. This objection was a claim by defendants that only five Gaelic families ('bloods') were allowed to use the English royal courts in Ireland. 2 Over the years the exceptio 1 John Davies, A discovery of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued: [and] brought under obedience of the crown of England until the beginning of his majesty's happy reign (1612), ed. J.P. Myers (Washington, D.C., 1988), 124-30. 2 These 'five bloods' were the patrilineal families of what were considered the five most powerful kings in Ireland and due to their nobility, power or status they were to be regarded as free to use the English courts. No thirteenth-century source names them, but an early modern source claims that the five were the Uí Néill of Ultonia, the Uí Mhaoilsheachlainn of Mide (Meath), the Uí Chonchobhair of Connacht, the Uí Bhriain of Tuadhmhumha (Thomond) and the Meic Mhurchadha of Laighin (Leinster). A.J. Otway-Ruthven rightly observed that these were not the most powerful Gaelic kings Abstract Introduction

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“…146 James Lydon believes that the dearth drove the Gaelic Irish of the Leinster mountains into rebellion. 147 Further problems were created by the bitter feud that broke out between the earls of Kildare and Ulster. 148 These were also crisis years in England, when, on both sides of the Irish Sea, depressed temperatures and elevated rainfall resulted in a succession of inferior harvests.…”

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Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland

Campbell¹,

Ludlow²

2020

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, H

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Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500 CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts in the epidemiological environment were mapped onto Irish society is explored using a tree-ring chronology reflecting the retreat and advance of oak woodland. Years characterised by significant weather-related food scarcities are identified from the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Annals in combination with the independent record of English chronicles, grain yields and prices. Between the thirteenth and the

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“…146 James Lydon believes that the dearth drove the Gaelic Irish of the Leinster mountains into rebellion. 147 Further problems were created by the bitter feud that broke out between the earls of Kildare and Ulster. 148 These were also crisis years in England, when, on both sides of the Irish Sea, depressed temperatures and elevated rainfall resulted in a succession of inferior harvests.…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland

Campbell¹,

Ludlow²

2020

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

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Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500 CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts in the epidemiological environment were mapped onto Irish society is explored using a tree-ring chronology reflecting the retreat and advance of oak woodland. Years characterised by significant weather-related food scarcities are identified from the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish Annals in combination with the independent record

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A Land of war

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The myth of the ‘five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland

The myth of the ‘five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland

Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland

Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland

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