Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Bruce’s march through Leinster had broken the Norman grip on the plains lying between the Liffey and the Barrow, and these were now assailed by the Irish. On one side the O’Moores, and on the other the Mac Murroughs swept down on the lands from which they had been driven. Similarly, the O’Byrnes and O’Tooles [...]

The north had been the headquarters of the invaders, and, consequently, the settlers of ” Ulster ” had suffered heavily. Some of them, indeed, not taking kindly to the De Burgh supremacy, had sided with the Bruces. Their neighbours on the west of the Bann—the O’Neills—were steadily advancing in power under Domhnall, and his son, [...]