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Uí Ímair

Index Uí Ímair

The Uí (h)Ímair, or Dynasty of Ivar, was a royal Norse dynasty which ruled much of the Irish Sea region, the Kingdom of Dublin, the western coast of Scotland, including the Hebrides and some part of Northern England, from the mid 9th century. [1]

124 relations: Alex Woolf, Alexander Bugge, Amlaíb Conung, Amlaíb Cuarán, Amlaíb mac Sitriuc, Annals of Inisfallen, Annals of Ulster, Auisle, Ériu (journal), Ímar, Ímar mac Arailt, Ímar ua Ímair, Ímar Ua Donnubáin, Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 1153), Bárid mac Ímair, Benjamin Hudson, Blácaire mac Gofraid, Boydell & Brewer, British Isles, Cacht ingen Ragnaill, Cadet branch, Cammán mac Amlaíb, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Cerball mac Dúnlainge, Clan Donald, Clan MacDougall, Clann Cholmáin, Clann Somhairle, Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib, Connachta, Crovan dynasty, Cynan ab Iago, Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, Donnchad mac Briain, Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Dynasty, Echmarcach mac Ragnaill, Encyclopædia Britannica, Eric Bloodaxe, Floruit, Four Courts Press, Glúniairn, Godred Crovan, Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill, Gofraid mac Arailt, Gofraid mac Sitriuc, Gofraid ua Ímair, Great Book of Lecan, Great Heathen Army, ..., Gruffudd ap Cynan, Guðrøðr Magnússon, H. R. Loyn, Harald Sigtryggsson, Hebrides, History of Limerick, Iain Moncreiffe, Irish annals, Irish people, Irish Sea, Ivar of Limerick, Ivar of Waterford, Ivar the Boneless, Ivar Vidfamne, James Henthorn Todd, King of Mann, Kingdom of Dublin, Kingdom of Meath, Kingdom of Northumbria, Kingdom of Scotland, Kingdom of Strathclyde, Kingdom of the Isles, Kingdom of the Rhinns, Kings of Brega, Lacuna (manuscripts), Laigin, Leinster, Limerick, List of consorts of the monarch of Ireland, List of monarchs of East Anglia, List of monarchs of Northumbria, List of Norwegian monarchs, List of rulers of Waterford, Lord of the Isles, Maccus mac Arailt, Magnús Óláfsson, Máel Muire ingen Amlaíb, Mercia, Munster, Norman invasion of Ireland, Normandy, Norse–Gaels, Norsemen, O'Brien dynasty, O'Donovan family, Obituary, Olaf Guthfrithson, Olaf Tryggvason, Old Irish, Osraige, Peritia, Power (social and political), Ragnall mac Gofraid, Ragnall ua Ímair, Ragnall ua Ímair, King of Waterford, Ragnar Lodbrok, Richard Oram, Rurik dynasty, Síl nÁedo Sláine, Scandinavian York, Scotland, Sichfrith mac Ímair, Sigtrygg Silkbeard, Sitric Cáech, Slavery, Somerled, Toirdelbach Ua Briain, Tudor conquest of Ireland, Uí Ceinnselaig, Uí Maine, Uí Néill, University College Cork, Viking Age, Waterford. Expand index (74 more) »

Alex Woolf

Alex Woolf, (born 1963) is a British medieval historian and academic.

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Alexander Bugge

Alexander Bugge (30 December 1870, Christiania – 24 December 1929, Copenhagen) was a Norwegian historian.

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Amlaíb Conung

Amlaíb Conung (Óláfr; died c. 874) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century.

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Amlaíb Cuarán

Amlaíb mac Sitric (c. 927980; Old Norse: Óláfr Sigtryggsson), commonly called Amlaíb Cuarán, in Old Norse: Óláfr kváran, was a 10th-century Norse-Gael who was King of Northumbria and Dublin.

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Amlaíb mac Sitriuc

Amlaíb mac Sitriuc ("Amhlaeibh, son of Sitric") or Olaf Sigtryggsson was the son of Sigtrygg Silkbeard, the Hiberno-Norse King of Dublin, and Sláine, the daughter of Brian Boru.

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Annals of Inisfallen

The Annals of Inisfallen are a chronicle of the medieval history of Ireland.

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Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster (Annála Uladh) are annals of medieval Ireland.

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Auisle

Auisle or Óisle (Ásl or Auðgísl; died c. 867) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century.

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Ériu (journal)

Ériu is an academic journal of Irish language studies.

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Ímar

Ímar (Ívarr; died c. 873) was a Viking leader in Ireland and Scotland in the mid-late ninth century who founded the Uí Ímair dynasty, and whose descendants would go on to dominate the Irish Sea region for several centuries.

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Ímar mac Arailt

Ímar mac Arailt (died 1054) was an eleventh-century ruler of the Kingdom of Dublin and perhaps the Kingdom of the Isles.

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Ímar ua Ímair

Ímar ua Ímair (Ívarr, died 904) was a Norse or Norse-Gaelic King of Dublin.

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Ímar Ua Donnubáin

Ímar Ua Donnubáin or Ivor O'Donovan, and possibly nicknamed Gilla Riabach, was a legendary and celebrated petty king, navigator, trader, and reputed necromancer of 13th century Ireland belonging to the O'Donovan family.

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Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 1153)

Óláfr Guðrøðarson (died 29 June 1153) was a twelfth-century King of the Isles.

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Bárid mac Ímair

Bárid mac Ímair (also referred to as Barith, Baraid, and Bard; Bárðr or Bárǫðr; d. 881) was a ninth-century King of Dublin.

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Benjamin Hudson

Benjamin T. Hudson is an American medievalist based at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.

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Blácaire mac Gofraid

Blácaire mac Gofraid (Blákári Guðrøðsson; died 948) was a Viking leader who ruled Dublin in the 10th century.

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Boydell & Brewer

Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England that specializes in publishing historical and critical works.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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Cacht ingen Ragnaill

Cacht ingen Ragnaill was the queen of Donnchad mac Briain, from their marriage in 1032 to her death in 1054, when she is styled Queen of Ireland in the Irish annals of the Clonmacnoise group: the Annals of Tigernach and Chronicon Scotorum.

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Cadet branch

In history and heraldry, a cadet branch consists of the male-line descendants of a monarch or patriarch's younger sons (cadets).

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Cammán mac Amlaíb

Cammán mac Amlaíb was a Norse-Gaelic viking who is recorded in the Irish annals as being defeated in 960.

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Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh

Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (fl. 1624–1664) was an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery.

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Cerball mac Dúnlainge

Cerball mac Dúnlainge (patronymic sometimes spelled Dúngaile) (died 888) was king of Ossory in south-east Ireland.

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Clan Donald

Clan Donald, also known as Clan MacDonald (Clann Dòmhnaill), is a Highland Scottish clan and one of the largest Scottish clans.

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Clan MacDougall

Clan MacDougall is a Highland Scottish clan.

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Clann Cholmáin

Clann Cholmáin is the dynasty descended from Colmán Már (Colmán Már mac Diarmato), son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill.

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Clann Somhairle

Clann Somhairle, sometimes anglicised as Clan Sorley, refers to those Scottish and Irish dynasties descending from the famous Norse-Gaelic leader Somerled, King of Mann and the Isles, son of Gillabrigte (†1164) and ancestor of Clann Domhnaill.

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Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib

Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib ("The War of the Irish with the Foreigners") is a medieval Irish text that tells of the depredations of the Vikings and Uí Ímair dynasty in Ireland and the Irish king Brian Boru's great war against them, beginning with the Battle of Sulcoit in 967 and culminating in the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which Brian was slain but his forces were victorious.

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Connachta

The Connachta are a group of medieval Irish dynasties who claimed descent from the legendary High King Conn Cétchathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles).

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Crovan dynasty

The Crovan dynasty, from the late 11th century to the mid 13th century, was the ruling family of an insular kingdom known variously in secondary sources as the Kingdom of Mann, the Kingdom of the Isles, and the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles.

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Cynan ab Iago

Cynan ab Iago (c. 1014 c. 1063) was a Welsh prince of the House of Aberffraw sometimes credited with briefly reigning as King of Gwynedd.

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Diarmait mac Máel na mBó

Diarmait mac Máel na mBó (died 7 February 1072) was King of Leinster, as well as High King of Ireland (with opposition).

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Donnchad mac Briain

Donnchadh mac Briain (old spelling: Donnchad mac Briain) (died 1064), son of Brian Bóruma and Gormflaith ingen Murchada, was King of Munster.

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Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork.

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Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius (fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist.

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Dynasty

A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,Oxford English Dictionary, "dynasty, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897.

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Echmarcach mac Ragnaill

Echmarcach mac Ragnaill (died 1064/1065) was a dominant figure in the eleventh-century Irish Sea region.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Eric Bloodaxe

Eric Haraldsson (Old Norse: Eiríkr Haraldsson, Eirik Haraldsson; c. 885 – 954), nicknamed Eric Bloodaxe (Old Norse: Eiríkr blóðøx, Eirik Blodøks), was a 10th-century Norwegian ruler.

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Floruit

Floruit, abbreviated fl. (or occasionally, flor.), Latin for "he/she flourished", denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.

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Four Courts Press

Four Courts Press is an Irish academic publishing house.

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Glúniairn

Glúniairn (died 989), in Old Norse Járnkné, was a Norse-Gael king of Dublin of the Uí Ímair kindred which ruled over much of the Scandinavianised and Norse-Gael parts of Great Britain and Ireland in the tenth century.

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Godred Crovan

Godred Crovan (died 1095), known in Gaelic as Gofraid Crobán, Gofraid Meránach, and Gofraid Méránach, was a Norse-Gaelic ruler of the kingdoms of Dublin and the Isles.

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Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill

Gofraid mac Amlaíb meic Ragnaill (died 1075) was a late eleventh-century King of Dublin.

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Gofraid mac Arailt

Gofraid mac Arailt (died 989), in Old Norse Guðrøðr Haraldsson, was a Scandinavian or Norse-Gael king.

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Gofraid mac Sitriuc

Gofraid mac Sitriuc (died 951), in Old Norse Guðrøðr Sigtryggsson, was King of Dublin.

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Gofraid ua Ímair

Gofraid ua Ímair or Guthfrith (Guðrøðr, died 934) was a Viking leader who ruled Dublin and briefly Viking Northumbria in the early 10th century.

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Great Book of Lecan

The (Great) Book of Lecan (Irish: Leabhar (Mór) Leacain) (RIA, MS 23 P 2) is a medieval Irish manuscript written between 1397 and 1418 in Castle Forbes, Lecan (Lackan, Leckan; Irish Leacan) in the territory of Tír Fhíacrach, near modern Enniscrone, County Sligo.

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Great Heathen Army

The Great Viking Army, known by the Anglo-Saxons as the Great Heathen Army (OE: mycel hæþen here), was a coalition of Norse warriors, originating from primarily Denmark, Sweden and Norway, who came together under a unified command to invade the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that constituted England in AD 865.

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Gruffudd ap Cynan

Gruffudd ap Cynan (c. 1055 – 1137), sometimes written as Gruffydd ap Cynan, was King of Gwynedd from 1081 until his death in 1137.

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Guðrøðr Magnússon

Guðrøðr Magnússon (fl. 1275), also known as Godred Magnusson, was an illegitimate son of Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles.

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H. R. Loyn

Henry Royston Loyn (16 June 1922 – 9 October 2000), FBA, was a British historian specialising in the history of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Harald Sigtryggsson

Harald Sigtryggsson (Aralt mac Sitric; Haraldr, died 940) was a Viking leader who ruled Limerick in the early 10th century.

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Hebrides

The Hebrides (Innse Gall,; Suðreyjar) compose a widespread and diverse archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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History of Limerick

The history of Limerick, stretches back to its establishment by the Vikings as a walled city on King's Island (an island in the River Shannon) in 812, and its charter in 1197.

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Iain Moncreiffe

Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet, CVO, QC (9 April 1919 – 27 February 1985), Chief of Clan Moncreiffe, was a British Officer of Arms and genealogist.

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Irish annals

A number of Irish annals, of which the earliest was the Chronicle of Ireland, were compiled up to and shortly after the end of the 17th century.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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Ivar of Limerick

Ivar of Limerick (Old Norse: Ívarr), died 977, was the last Norse king of the city-state of Limerick, and penultimate King of the Foreigners of Munster, reigning during the rise to power of the Dál gCais and the fall of the Eóganachta.

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Ivar of Waterford

Ivar of Waterford (Ímar, rí Puirt Láirgi; Old Norse: Ívar) (died 1000) was the Norse king of Waterford from at least 969 until his death in the year 1000, and also reigned as King of Dublin, possibly from 989 to 993, and certainly again for less than a year between 994 and 995, returning after his expulsion from the city in 993 by Sigtrygg Silkbeard, who would expel him for good the next time.

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Ivar the Boneless

Ivar the Boneless (Ívarr hinn Beinlausi; Hyngwar) (also known as Ivar Ragnarsson) was a Viking leader and a commander who invaded what is now England.

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Ivar Vidfamne

Ivar Vidfamne (or Ívarr inn víðfaðmi; English exonym Ivar Widefathom; Old Danish Ivar Vidfadme – in Norwegian and Danish the form Ivar Vidfavne is sometimes used as an alternative form) was a legendary Scanian, Danish and Swedish mythological king hailing from Scania.

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James Henthorn Todd

James Henthorn Todd (23 April 1805 – 28 June 1869) was a biblical scholar, educator, and Irish historian.

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King of Mann

The King of Mann was the title taken between 1237 and 1504 by the various rulers, both sovereign and suzerain, over the Kingdom of Mann – the Isle of Man which is located in the Irish Sea, at the centre of the British Isles.

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Kingdom of Dublin

Vikings invaded the territory around Dublin in the 9th century, establishing the Norse Kingdom of Dublin, the earliest and longest-lasting Norse kingdom in Ireland.

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Kingdom of Meath

Meath (Old Irish: Mide; spelt Mí in Modern Irish) was a kingdom in Ireland for over 1000 years.

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Kingdom of Northumbria

The Kingdom of Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīce) was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland (Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Kinrick o Scotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843.

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Kingdom of Strathclyde

Strathclyde (lit. "Strath of the River Clyde"), originally Ystrad Clud or Alclud (and Strath-Clota in Anglo-Saxon), was one of the early medieval kingdoms of the Britons in Hen Ogledd ("the Old North"), the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England.

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Kingdom of the Isles

The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD.

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Kingdom of the Rhinns

Na Renna, or the Kingdom of the Rhinns, was a Norse-Gaelic lordship which appears in 11th century records.

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Kings of Brega

The Kings of Brega were rulers of Brega, a petty kingdom north of Dublin in medieval Ireland.

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Lacuna (manuscripts)

A lacuna (lacunae or lacunas) is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or a musical work.

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Laigin

The Laigin, modern spelling Laighin, were a population group of early Ireland.

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Leinster

Leinster (— Laighin / Cúige Laighean — /) is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland.

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in County Limerick, Ireland.

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List of consorts of the monarch of Ireland

The Queen of Ireland or sometimes Royal Consort of Ireland was the spouse of the ruler and monarch of Ireland.

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List of monarchs of East Anglia

The kingdom of East Anglia, (also known as the kingdom of the East Angles), was a small independent Anglo-Saxon kingdom that comprised what are now the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk and perhaps the eastern part of the Fens.

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List of monarchs of Northumbria

Northumbria, a kingdom of Angles, in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland, was initially divided into two kingdoms: Bernicia and Deira.

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List of Norwegian monarchs

The list of Norwegian monarchs (kongerekken or kongerekka) begins in 872: the traditional dating of the Battle of Hafrsfjord, after which victorious King Harald Fairhair merged several petty kingdoms into that of his father.

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List of rulers of Waterford

The Vikings, who had created a longphort near Waterford in 853, finally settled and created a town in 914.

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Lord of the Isles

The Lord of the Isles (Triath nan Eilean or Rìgh Innse Gall) is a title of Scottish nobility with historical roots that go back beyond the Kingdom of Scotland.

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Maccus mac Arailt

Maccus mac Arailt (fl. 971–974) was a tenth-century King of the Isles.

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Magnús Óláfsson

Magnús Óláfsson (died 24 November 1265) was a King of Mann and the Isles.

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Máel Muire ingen Amlaíb

Máel Muire (died 1021) was Queen of Ireland, being actually styled so in the Annals of Clonmacnoise.

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Mercia

Mercia (Miercna rīce) was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy.

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Munster

Munster (an Mhumhain / Cúige Mumhan,.

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Norman invasion of Ireland

The Norman invasion of Ireland took place in stages during the late 12th century, at a time when Gaelic Ireland was made up of several kingdoms, with a High King claiming lordship over all.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Norse–Gaels

The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Irish: Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture.

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Norsemen

Norsemen are a group of Germanic people who inhabited Scandinavia and spoke what is now called the Old Norse language between 800 AD and c. 1300 AD.

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O'Brien dynasty

The O'Brien dynasty (Classical Irish Ua Briain, (Modern Irish Ó Briain, IPA: /oːˈbʲɾʲiənʲ/), genitive Uí Bhriain, IPA: /iːˈβʲɾʲiənʲ/) are a royal and noble house founded in the 10th century by Brian Boru of the Dál gCais or Dalcassians.

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O'Donovan family

O'Donovan (Ó Donnabháin) or Donovan is an Irish surname, also written Dhonnabháin in certain grammatical contexts, as well as Donndubháin, being originally composed of the elements donn, meaning dark brown or noble, dubh, meaning dark or black, and the augmentative suffix án.

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Obituary

An obituary (obit for short) is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral.

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Olaf Guthfrithson

Olaf Guthfrithson (Óláfr Guðrøðsson; Ánláf; Amlaíb mac Gofraid; died 941) was a Viking leader who ruled Dublin and Viking Northumbria in the 10th century.

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Olaf Tryggvason

Olaf Tryggvason (960s – 9 September 1000) was King of Norway from 995 to 1000.

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Old Irish

Old Irish (Goídelc; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish; sometimes called Old Gaelic) is the name given to the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive written texts are extant.

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Osraige

Osraige, also known as Osraighe or Ossory (modern Osraí), was a medieval Irish kingdom comprising most of present-day County Kilkenny and western County Laois.

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Peritia

Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Irish and Insular medieval studies in the context of the European Middle Ages and European medieval studies in general.

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Power (social and political)

In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people.

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Ragnall mac Gofraid

Ragnall mac Gofraid (died 1004/1005) was King of the Isles and likely a member of the Uí Ímair kindred.

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Ragnall ua Ímair

Ragnall ua Ímair (Rögnvaldr, died 921) or Rægnald was a Viking leader who ruled Northumbria and the Isle of Man in the early 10th century.

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Ragnall ua Ímair, King of Waterford

Ragnall ua Ímair (died 1035), also known as Ragnall mac Ragnaill, was an eleventh-century King of Waterford.

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Ragnar Lodbrok

Ragnar Lodbrok or Lothbrok (Ragnarr Loðbrók, "Ragnar shaggy breeches") was a legendary Danish and Swedish Viking hero and ruler, known from Viking Age Old Norse poetry and sagas.

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Richard Oram

Professor Richard D. Oram F.S.A. (Scot.) is a Scottish historian.

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Rurik dynasty

The Rurik dynasty, or Rurikids (Рю́риковичи, Ryúrikovichi; Рю́риковичі, Ryúrykovychi; Ру́рыкавічы, Rúrykavichi, literally "sons of Rurik"), was a dynasty founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who established himself in Novgorod around the year AD 862.

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Síl nÁedo Sláine

Síl nÁedo Sláine are the descendants of Áed Sláine (Áed mac Diarmato), son of Diarmait mac Cerbaill.

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Scandinavian York

Scandinavian York (also referred to as Jórvík) or Danish/Norwegian York is a term used by historians for the south of Northumbria (modern day Yorkshire) during the period of the late 9th century and first half of the 10th century, when it was dominated by Norse warrior-kings; in particular, used to refer to the city (York) controlled by these kings.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sichfrith mac Ímair

Sichfrith mac Ímair (Sigfrøðr Ívarrsson; died 888) was a ninth-century King of Dublin.

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Sigtrygg Silkbeard

Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson (also Sihtric, SitricÓ Corráin, p. 123 and Sitrick in Irish texts; or SigtrygWinn, p. 46 and SigtryggrMac Manus, p. 278 in Scandinavian texts) was a Hiberno-Norse king of Dublin (possibly AD 989–994; restored or began 995–1000; restored 1000 and abdicated 1036) of the Uí Ímair dynasty.

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Sitric Cáech

Sitric Cáech or Sihtric Cáech or Sigtrygg Gále, (Sigtryggr, Sihtric, died 927) was a Viking leader who ruled Dublin and then Viking Northumbria in the early 10th century.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Somerled

Somerled (died 1164), known in Middle Irish as Somairle, Somhairle, and Somhairlidh, and in Old Norse as Sumarliði, was a mid-12th-century warlord who, through marital alliance and military conquest, rose in prominence and seized control of the Kingdom of the Isles.

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Toirdelbach Ua Briain

Toirdhealbhach Ua Briain (old spelling: Toirdelbach Ua Briain), anglicised Turlough O'Brien (1009 – 14 July 1086), was King of Munster and effectively High King of Ireland.

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Tudor conquest of Ireland

The Tudor conquest (or reconquest) of Ireland took place under the Tudor dynasty, which held the Kingdom of England during the 16th century.

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Uí Ceinnselaig

The Uí Ceinnselaig (also Uí Cheinnselaig, Anglicized as Kinsella), from the Old Irish "grandsons of Cennsalach", are an Irish dynasty of Leinster who trace their descent from Énnae Cennsalach, a supposed contemporary of Niall of the Nine Hostages.

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Uí Maine

Uí Maine, often Anglicised as Hy Many, was one of the oldest and largest kingdoms located in Connacht, Ireland.

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Uí Néill

The Uí Néill (Irish pronunciation:, descendants of Niall) are Irish and Scottish dynasties who claim descent from Niall Noigiallach (Niall of the Nine Hostages), a historical King of Tara who died about 405.

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University College Cork

University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.

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Waterford

Waterford (from Old Norse Veðrafjǫrðr, meaning "ram (wether) fjord") is a city in Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uí_Ímair

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