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The Clans & The Pale

Above : Painting Of Richard Talbot, Lord Deputy Throughout this period an intermittent and harassing warfare went on between the Pale and its old antagonists—the Mac Murroughs, O’Connors and O’Neills. Although Donough, the son of Art Mac Murrough, was made prisoner soon after his father’s death, and confined for nine years, yet the contest was [...]

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The Talbots & Ormonde

Above : White Castle In Barrow, Build By Sir John Talbot A new English family now comes into Irish history—that of the Talbots. In 1414 Sir John Talbot, afterwards Lord Furnival and Earl of Shrewsbury, came to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant for six years, and on two other occasions (1423 and 1446-9) he occupied the [...]

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