Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

An important feature of general education was the knowledge it enjoined of historical and romantic tales and poems calculated to inspire truthfulness, manliness, dignity, nobility, virtue. Tales were recited almost by every one. History, tradition, biography, topography, sometimes in the form of verse, were also taught universally, as was native poetry, which, in time, was [...]

Above: Picture of Diarmuid MacMurchaclha Folach Othrusa or maintenance for a wounded person : ogairc, two upon folach ; bruighfhear, three; bo-aire, four ; aire desa, six ; aire ard, seven ; aire tuise, eight ; ri beann, ten. A ri buidhean is non-folach ; eight cumhals are pledged to him for his folach, with [...]