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Irish History Exam 1
IRISH HISTORY
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History
Undergraduate 2
03/07/2010

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one of the deadliest pandemics peaking in Europe 1348-1349
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Black Death
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Brehon
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law giver, administers the law
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Brian Boru
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1st king of Munster “High King Greatest military leader the country had ever known
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stronger tools(shiny metal), watershed w/ in human, History Creation!
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Bronze Age
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rise to legends
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Celtic Spirituality
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Cult of Patrick
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St Patrick had many followers (pilgrims -> early tourists)
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language, family forms and general social customs as well as the native interpreters of the country's culture, its poets, bards, storytellers, and singers
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Cultural Assimilation
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Divorce
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was common [1year and 1 day]
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best position you can get
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Poets
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Is a real person, When he was 16, sometime in the early 400s, he was kidnapped by an Irish raiding party and sold into slavery in Ireland. Patrick worked as a slave for 6 years tending sheep. After 6 years, Patrick managed to escape from captivity, walked the 200 miles to the east coast and managed to negotiate passage aboard a trading ship to Gaul [France].
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Saint Patrick
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Statutes of Kilkenny (1366)
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which did the following:
•ban intermarriage with the Irish;
•ban the adoption of Irish names, dress, customs, or speech;
•impose fines for "harbouring or encouraging Irish minstrels, rhymers, or taletellers"; and
•forbid those holding land granted by the Crown to allow the Irish to graze cattle on that land.
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was the King of Leinster during the twelfth century and is most remembered as the man who invited the English into Ireland. He was born circa 1100 and succeeded to the throne of his father
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Dermot MacMurrough
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like preist's but more celebrational
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Druids
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lord deputy of Ireland from September 1494 to December 1495, mainly remembered for the laws—“Poynings’ Laws”—that subjected the Irish Parliament to the control of the English king and council.
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Edward Poyning
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(7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen regnant of England and Queen regnant of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess. She was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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Elizabeth I
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A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, by strongbow
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Feudalism
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the custom of placing children during their minority in charge of other members of the clan. To make family ties.
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Fosterage
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refers to the late-nineteenth-century interest in the Irish language and ancient Irish folklore, sports, songs, and arts considered to be part of the pre-conquest heritage of the native Irish people and the reemergance of the Irish language in its native Ireland. Irish had diminished as a spoken tongue, remaining the main daily language only in isolated rural areas, with English as the dominant language of the majority of Ireland.
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Gaelic Revival
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Irish noblewoman who led a band of 200 sea-raiders from the coast of Galway in the sixteenth century. Twice widowed, twice imprisoned, fighting her enemies both Irish and English for her rights, condemned for piracy, and finally pardoned in London by Queen Elizabeth herself, She was one of the few sea-raiders to retire from the sea and die in her own bed, though where she's buried remains a mystery.
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Grainne Ni Mhaille
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was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor.
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Henry VII
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was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) and claimant to the Kingdom of France. He was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father
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Henry VIII
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is the term used to describe the most powerful Irish kings of the pre‐ Norman period.
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High Kingship
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price determined by his or her position in society, and this price determined his or her worth. This price was independent of wealth; though rare, it was not unheard of for a person with a low honor price to have more wealth than a person with a higher honor price. Its main use was in determining the fine (dire) that had to be paid for committing a crime.
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honor price
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period in human development between the end of the Paleolithic period and the beginning of the Neolithic period . It began with the end of the last glacial period over 10,000 years ago and evolved into the Neolithic period; this change involved the gradual domestication of plants and animals and the formation of settled communities at various times and places.
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Mesolithic period or Middle Stone Age
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began on 1 May 1169 when a Norman military force landed near Bannow, County Wexford. This was at the behest of Dermot MacMurrough (Diarmait Mac Murchada), the ousted King of Leinster who sought their help in regaining power.
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Norman Invasion
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was a 12th century King of Connacht and the last High King of Ireland.[1] He was the son of Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair (English: Turlough O'Connor), King of Connacht, who had obtained the high kingship in 1151 but lost it in 1154 through the rise of Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn. He died 1198 at Cong Abbey.
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Rory O'Connor
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marked the end of the harvest, the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half". It was traditionally celebrated over the course of several days.
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Samhain
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Son of Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (1513–1537)
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Silken Thomas
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In 1565 he was appointed lord deputy of Ireland in place of Sir Nicholas Arnold, who had succeeded the earl of Sussex in the previous year.
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Sir Henry Sidney
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was an English soldier and naval commander, who served in Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I during the reconquest of the country and was appointed governor of Connacht.
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Sir Richard Bingham
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was the legal mechanism by which Irish clans were to be converted from a power structure rooted in clan and kin loyalties, to a late-feudal system under the English legal system. The policy was an attempt to involve the clan chiefs within the English polity, and to guarantee their property under English common law, as distinct from the traditional Irish Brehon law system.
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surrender and regrant
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was the part of Ireland that was directly under the control of the English government in the late Middle Ages.
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The Pale
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According to Celtic legend, they were the second wave of invaders that came to Ireland. They are defeated by the third wave of invaders (the Sons of Mil) in a great battle. However, while they lose the battle, they withold grain and milk from the Sons of Mil, who come to a compromise as they needed those resources. They divided the land - the Sons of Mil would take the top and the Tuatha De Dannan would take the bottom or the underground. They became the source of inspiration for leprechauns, fairies, etc. However, remember that archaeology shows no waves of invaders but rather gradual settlement.
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Tuatha De Danann
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Irish version of the laws (more popular)
•Trade @ Galway allow more trade for Gallic
•Travel by boat
-safer, cheaper, easier
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Desmond
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Irish Paganism
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early irish religious-> Pagan, “sun oriented”, impacts everyday life w/ sun.
•NO WEAPSONS!
•Lot’s of jewelry
--Tara Broaches, emphases PEACE!!
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the yorkest cause
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Kildare
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the 1st king in Ireland / his son dies in battle in Ireland / loses the thrown in England (to Henry of Lancater) because of the battle
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Richard II
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Round Towers
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there really tall and if there is any battle or war or Viking attacks everyone goes in the round towers
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Saint Bridget
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the goddesses of crafts, fertizition etc.
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made the diction to come under Normans to bring Ireland to Feudalism
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Strongbow
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Tara
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(is a hill) and a big spiritual and political center
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period of violence 1534-1603 completed the conquest of Ireland / church of England
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Tudors
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Vikings
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or the norse are Pagan
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