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Dáire Doimthech (Dáire "poor house"), [1] alias Dáire Sírchréchtach ("the ever-wounded"), [2] son of Sithbolg, [3] was a legendary King of Tara and High King of Ireland, and one of the eponymous ancestors of the proto-historical Dáirine and historical Corcu Loígde of Munster.
The Irish Army [2] [3] or Irish establishment, [4] in practice called the monarch's "army in Ireland" or "army of Ireland", [4] was the standing army of the Kingdom of Ireland, a client state of England and subsequently (from 1707) of Great Britain.
The territory of the kingdom comprised that of the former Lordship of Ireland, founded in 1177 by King Henry II of England and the English Pope Adrian IV, after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. By the 16th century, the Pale , the area of effective English rule, had shrunk greatly; most of Ireland was held by Gaelic nobles as principalities ...
Armour was usually a simple affair: the poorest might have worn padded coats, the wealthier might have worn boiled leather armour called cuir bouilli, and the wealthiest might have had access to bronze chest plates, padded textile armour or maybe perhaps mail or scale armours (though they did exist in Ireland, they were quite rare).
6.2.2 Ireland. 6.2.3 Scotland. 6.2.4 Wales. 7 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Armorial of the United Kingdom. ... Arms of the Kingdom of Ireland (with crest ...
It has been suggested that Armagh used these arms as it is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland. Sometimes the field of the arms has been depicted as green, identical to the arms of the province of Leinster. These arms have appeared upon Northern Ireland bank notes representing the county. [13] Cavan: Ulster
[2] When Gaveston returned from his exile in Ireland in 1309, he further infuriated the kingdom's most senior nobles by treating them with contempt, giving them crude nicknames such as "Burstbelly" and "Whoreson". They refused to attend parliaments called for October 1309 and February 1310, citing Gaveston's presence as the reason.
A soldier from 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, wearing Enhanced Combat Body Armour during Operation Telic. British forces first began using body armour on a widespread basis when combatting terrorist activities in Northern Ireland during Operation Banner, [1] with this initially consisting of M52 and M69 flak vests and then the Individual Northern Ireland Body Armour vest which could be ...