Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Edward Bruce, to whom the Irish chiefs thus ” transferred their own right of royal dominion,” was the brother of the victorious King Robert of Scotland.     Brave and resolute, but reckless and imprudent, he had shared the toils and glories of his brother. Accepting the invitation, Edward Bruce landed either at Larne or at the [...]

.The line of Scottish Kings which descended from the Gaels of Dal Riada had ended with the death of Alexander III in 1286. Gaelic in race, the Kings of Scotland had, for two centuries, ceased to be Gaelic in character. The marriage of Malcolm ” Ceann Mdr ” to a Saxon princess in the twelfth [...]