Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

To the overlordship which we have seen the O’Neills had obtained over clans outside of Tir Eoghain was now added a supremacy over nearly all the country east of the Bann. They now adopt the title of ” King of Ulster ” to indicate their leadership over all the north. The name of the Norman [...]

The north had been the headquarters of the invaders, and, consequently, the settlers of ” Ulster ” had suffered heavily. Some of them, indeed, not taking kindly to the De Burgh supremacy, had sided with the Bruces. Their neighbours on the west of the Bann—the O’Neills—were steadily advancing in power under Domhnall, and his son, [...]