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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe is a non-fiction historical book written by Thomas Cahill. Cahill argues a case for the Irish people 's critical role in preserving Western Civilization from utter destruction by the Huns and the Germanic tribes ...
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
It begins with a preface in which Keating defends the honour of Ireland against the denigrations of writers such as Giraldus Cambrensis, [3] followed by a narrative history in two parts: part one, from the creation of the world to the arrival of Christianity in the 5th century, and part two, from the 5th century to the coming of the Normans during the 12th century.
The title page of the Chronicles of Eri. The Chronicles of Eri; Being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber: or, the Irish People; Translated from the Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian Language is an 1822 book in two volumes by Roger O'Connor (1762–1834), purporting to detail the history of the Irish from the creation of the world.
Cú Chulainn (/ k uː ˈ k ʌ l ɪ n / koo-KUL-in [1] [2] Irish: [kuːˈxʊlˠɪn̠ʲ] ⓘ), is an Irish warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. [3] He is believed to be an incarnation of the Irish god Lugh, who is also his father.
A Concise History of Ireland; A History of Gaelic Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1608 (1893) English as We Speak it in Ireland (1910) Ireland's Battles and Battlefields; Irish Names of Places; Old Irish Folk Music and Songs; A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols. (1906) The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation (1907) The Wonders of ...
General Charles Vallancey FRS (6 April 1731 – 8 August 1812) was a British military surveyor sent to Ireland. He remained there and became an authority on Irish antiquities. Some of his theories would be rejected today, but his drawings, for example, were painstakingly accurate compared to existent artefacts.
Lives of the Irish Saints: with special festivals, and the commemorations of holy persons, compiled from calendars, martyrologies, and various sources, relating to the ancient church history of Ireland (Dublin, 9 volumes published from 1875, with a 10th partially completed in 1905) The Buried Lady, a Legend of Kilronan (Lageniensis) (Dublin, 1877)