Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Piece of Book of Ballymote The wife of Caer king of Connacht conceived a criminal passion for Neidhe the king’s adopted nephew, " and offered him a ball of silver to purchase his love."    Neidhe, who was a distinguished poet too, asked his royal uncle, after much hesitation, for a knife which the king [...]

The greatest of the general collections is the ” Leabhar Breac,” or ” Speckled Book of Duniry,” written about the year 1400 by a member of the great literary family of the Mac Egans, who long maintained a famous school at Duniry on the west bank of the Shannon.  It is a compilation from various [...]