Above : Picture Of Queen Maeve About three centuries before the Christian Era the light of reliable history begins to dawn, and we meet with the legends of two important events, which seem to be based upon actual facts. The first of these is the foundation of the famous palace of (Jau'iaih THaCa (Eamhain Macha) or Emania, which for six hundred years afterwards was the seat of the powerful kings of the line of Ir in the North. Its foundation is attributed to ... Read More

Above : Illustration Picture From Battle of Kinsale The establishment of the new dynasties in the West and North-west by the brothers and sons of Niall respectively completed the political organisation of Ireland as we find it in strictly historical times. The seven independent states into which the island was thus divided, remained—modified under changing conditions—the fields of political influence in Ireland until the whole Gaelic fabric was destroyed after the Battle of Kinsale in 1603. The formation of the seven dynasties has ... Read More