Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Norman Adventures I95. In the month of May, 1169, a force of 100 knights and men-at-arms in coats of mail and about 600 archers, under Robert Fitzstephen and Maurice Pren- dergast landed at Bannow in Wexford with Hervey Mountmaurice, Strongbow’s uncle. As knights and archers had attendants, the total force was about 2,000. Having [...]

Above: The Way for Invader During the century and a half from the death of Malachi II to the Anglo-Norman invasion, Ireland had no universally acknowledged over-king. To every one there was opposition from some influential quarter or another; which the annalists indicate by the epithet, ” king with opposition ” commonly applied to the [...]