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In Search of Ancient Ireland is a 2002 Irish/American three-part television documentary about the history of Ireland from Neolithic times to the English invasion of the 12th century. [1] It is a WNET/Raidió Teilifís Éireann production. Historian of Ireland Carmel McCaffrey was the series historical consultant and co-author of the book of the ...
The Young Ireland movement had come to believe that in the wake of the failure of the Repeal Association, violence was the only alternative. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] O'Mahoney took part in the failed Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 , [ 3 ] [ 5 ] which largely fell apart as British authorities had become well aware of it before it commenced.
Ireland was a separate kingdom ruled by King George III of Britain; he set policy for Ireland through his appointment of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or viceroy. In practice, the viceroys lived in England and the affairs in the island were largely controlled by an elite group of Irish Protestants known as "undertakers."
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.A typical culture hero might be credited as the discoverer of fire, or agriculture, songs, tradition, law or religion, and is usually the most important legendary figure of a people, sometimes as the founder of its ruling dynasty.
George told friends of glimpses of past existences he had had, in Assyria, Pre-Columbian America, as a contemporary of William Blake and also, as he told Lady Constance Sitwell, of "brief but very vivid, of Druidic times in Ireland; of a Spanish life―riding into a walled town and fighting; one Egyptian period, and very, very far back, a life ...
Unlike the majority of early Irish historical tradition, which presents ancient Ireland as largely united under a succession of High Kings, the stories of the Ulster Cycle depict a country with no effective central authority, divided into local and provincial kingdoms often at war with each other. The civilisation depicted is a pagan, pastoral ...
Many towns and dwellings in Gaelic Ireland were often surrounded by a circular rampart called a "ringfort". [14] There were very few nucleated settlements, but after the 5th century some monasteries became the heart of small "monastic towns", [15] [16] many of the Irish round towers were built after this period. A tower house in Ireland.
One of the most famous stories of the cycle. The High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for a young hero of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and the pair runs away together with Fionn in pursuit. The lovers are aided by Diarmuid's foster-father, the god Aengus.