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Eochaid mac Eirc - High King of Ireland, the last Fir Bolg king and the first king to establish a system of justice; Fiacha Cennfinnán - High King of Ireland; Fodbgen - High King of Ireland; Gaillimh iníon Breasail - mythical woman from whom the river and city of Galway derive their name; Gann and Genann - joint High Kings of Ireland
The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th/early 12th century Lebor na hUidre (Book of the Dun Cow), which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, and is the oldest surviving manuscript written entirely in the Irish language; the early 12th-century Book of Leinster, which is in the Library of Trinity College ...
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This is a list of the saints of Ireland, which attempts to give an overview of saints from Ireland or venerated in Ireland. The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland , when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent.
The Gauls inhabited the region corresponding to modern-day France, Belgium, Switzerland, southern and western Germany, Luxembourg and northern Italy. They spoke Gaulish.The Celtic Britons inhabited most of the island of Great Britain and spoke Common Brittonic or British.
Cúchulainn – Ireland, folk legend and the pre-eminent hero of Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle. Moremi Ajasoro – Nigeria, Yoruba queen and heroine of Ife; Till Eulenspiegel or Tijl Uilenspiegel – Germany and the Low Countries, trickster and jester. Fionn mac Cumhaill – Ireland, warrior, leader of the Fianna. Primary figure in the Oisin cycle.
The traditional list of High Kings is thus a mixture of historical facts and legend. The annals describe some later High Kings as rígh Érenn co fressabra ("Kings of Ireland with opposition"), which is a reference to the instability of the kingship of Tara from the death of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill in 1022.
The Irish word fir means "men" and the word bolg/bolc can mean a belly, bag, sack, bellows, and so forth. Kuno Meyer and R. A. Stewart Macalister argue that the name comes from the term Fir i mBolgaib, meaning "breeches wearers", literally "men in (baggy) breeches", which could be interpreted as a term of contempt for the "lower orders".