Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Domhnall O’Neill, the signatory to this ” Remonstrance,” was the son of Brian of Down, who had been acknowledged as Ard Ri at the conference of Caol Uisge. Despite the gloomy tone in which he writes, the Irish had, for some time past, been fairly successful in checking the progress of the invaders. Domhnall had [...]

.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 [...]