Ulaid

The Ulaid or Ulaidh (singular Ulad or Uladh) were a Celtic people of Early Ireland who gave their name to the Irish Province of Ulster. They may appear in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as the Voluntii. Their capital was traditionally at Emain Macha near modern Armagh. Their territory at its height extended as far south as the River Boyne and as far west as County Leitrim, but by early Christian times they were pressed by the northern Uí Néill and they were reduced to eastern County Down, where they became kno ...

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Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: /ˈkuːgʲ ˈulu/) is one of the four provinces of Ireland. Ulster - Geography and demographics. Ulster has a population of just under 2 million people and an area of 24,481 square kilometres (8,952 square miles). Its biggest city is Belfast (Béal Feirste). Six of Ulster's nine counties, Antrim (Aontroim), Armagh (Ard Mhacha), Down (An Dún), Fermanagh (Fear Manach), Lond ...

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Conall Cernach (Conall the Victorious) is a heroic warrior of the Ulaid in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. His father was Amairgin mac Echit and his mother was Findchoem. He has a fierce rivalry with the Connacht warrior Cet mac Mágach, and is said to have always slept with the head of a Connachtman under his knee. He had a crooked neck. He shamed Cet at a feast at the house of Mac Dá Thó, a hospitaller of Leinster, when the warriors of Connacht and Ulster competed for the champion's portion by boasting of their ...

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Amergin Athirne Blaí Briugu Briccriu Cairbre Cuanach Cathbad Celtchar Cethern mac Fintain Conall Cernach Conchobar mac Nessa Condere mac Echach Cruinniuc Cúchulainn Culann Cúscraid Dáire mac Fiachna Deichtine Deirdre Éogan mac Durthacht Fedlimid mac Daill Fergus mac Leti Folloman mac Conchobair Furbaide Ferbend Láeg Lóegaire Búadach Mugain Naoise Ness Sencha mac Ailella Sualtam Usnech Ailill mac Máta Bélchú Cet mac Mágach Ferdiad Findabair Fráech Maine Medb Nera Cormac Cond Longas Dubthach Dóelt ...

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The History of Ireland is the story of a large island in the north-west of Europe and is heavily influenced by the concurrent History of Britain, its larger neighbour to the east. The first humans inhabited Ireland from around 7500 BC and were later responsible for major Neolithic sites such as Newgrange. Following the arrival of St. Patrick and other Christian missionaries in the mid-fifth century, a syncretized form of Christianity subsumed the indigenous pagan religion by A.D. 600. This led to a golden age of monastic Irish writing and ar ...

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• History of Ireland - Gaelic Resurgence Norman Decline 1254–1360
• History of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 and Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801
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• History of Ireland - Union with Great Britain 1801-1922
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The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branches of Celtic mythology. Although many of the manuscripts have failed to survive, and much more material was probably never committed to writing, there is enough remaining to enable the identification of four distinct, if overlapping, cycles: the Mythological Cycle, The Ulster Cycle, th ...

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• Irish mythology - Historical cycle
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On the island of Ireland, most people consider themselves to be descended from a mixture of three broad groups: the nameless, prehistoric indigenous people(s) of the isles; the successive waves from continental Europe who arrived in the centuries BC, and subsequent groups (Vikings, Normans, English and Lowland Scots) who either invaded or settled Ireland from the Middle Ages onwards. The names the ancient peoples of Ireland (creators of the Ceide Fields and Newgrange) used for themselves are not known, nor are their language(s). As la ...

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Irish people, Irish people - Descent, Irish people - Surnames, Irish people - Personal Names forenames, Irish people - Recent history, Irish people - Irish diaspora, Irish people - Notable Irish people selection

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On the island of Ireland, most people consider themselves to be descended from a mixture of three broad groups: the nameless, prehistoric indigenous people(s) of the isles; the successive waves of Celtic tribes from continental Europe who arrived between 600 and 150 BC [8], and the assortment of subsequent groups (Vikings, Normans, English and Lowland Scots) who either invaded or settled in Ireland from the Middle Ages onwards. The names the ancient peoples of Ireland (creators of the Ceide Fields and Newgrange) used for themselves ar ...

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Irish people, Irish people - Descent, Irish people - Surnames, Irish people - Personal Names forenames, Irish people - Recent history, Irish people - Irish diaspora, Irish people - Notable Irish people selection

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"Diarmaid, son of Mael-na-mbo, King of Leinster, of the foreigners of Ath-cliath, and of Leath-Mogha-Nuadhat, was slain and beheaded in the battle of Odhbha, on Tuesday, the seventh of the Ides of February, the battle having been gained over him by Conchobhar O'Maeleachlainn, King of Meath. There were also slain many hundreds of the foreigners and Leinstermen, along with Diarmaid, in that battle. In it was killed Gil ...

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Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times. Darini, in Tyrone, Armagh and Down, possibly a branch of the Érainn and linked with their supposed ancestor deity Dáire Erdini in County Fermanagh Robogdii, in Antrim and Londonderry, possibly related to the later Dál Riata Venicnii in County Donegal Voluntii, probably the people later known as ...

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Kingdoms of ancient Ireland, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Ulster, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Meath, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Leinster, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Munster, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Connacht, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times, Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian

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In 1800, after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the British and the Irish parliaments (the latter controversially, as massive bribery was involved) enacted the Act of Union, which merged Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself a union of England and Scotland, created almost 100 years earlier), to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Part of the deal for the union was that Catholic Emancipation wo ...

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History of Ireland, History of Ireland - Early history: 8000 BC–AD 400, History of Ireland - Early Christian Ireland 400–800, History of Ireland - Early medieval era 800–1166, History of Ireland - Later Medieval Ireland, History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185, History of Ireland - The Lordship of Ireland 1185–1254, History of Ireland - Gaelic Resurgence Norman Decline 1254–1360, History of Ireland - Reformation 1536–1654 and Protestant Ascendancy 1654–1801, History of Ireland - Re-conquest and rebellion, History of Ireland - Civil Wars and Penal Laws, History of Ireland - Colonial Ireland, History of Ireland - Union with Great Britain 1801-1922, History of Ireland - Home Rule Easter 1916 and the War of Independence, History of Ireland - Free State/Republic 1922-present, History of Ireland - Northern Ireland, History of Ireland - Footnotes

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Ulster - Early history. Ulster is one of the four Irish provinces. Its name derives from the Irish language Cúige Uladh (pronounced "KOO-gi OO-lah"), meaning "Province (literally 'fifth') of the Ulaid," named for the ancient inhabitants of the region.[1] The Irish Uladh with the addition of the Old Norse ster, meaning "province," yields "Uladh Ster" or, in English, "Ulster." The province's early history extends further back than written records and is known only by legends such as the ...

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Ulster, Ulster - Geography and demographics, Ulster - History and politics, Ulster - Early history, Ulster - Plantations and civil wars, Ulster - Republicanism rebellion and communal strife, Ulster - Industrialisation home rule and partition, Ulster - Current politics, Ulster - Sport

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Ulster Cycle - Main Characters. Conchobar mac Nessa (also Conor mac Nessa), king of Ulster Cúchulainn, Ulster hero Deirdre, tragic heroine Medb, queen of Connacht and Conchobar's enemy Ailill mac Máta, king of Connacht Fergus mac Róich, former king of Ulster who goes into exile in Connacht The Mórrígan, goddess of wa ...

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Ulster Cycle, Ulster Cycle - Characters, Ulster Cycle - Main Characters, Ulster Cycle - Important Characters, Ulster Cycle - Minor characters, Ulster Cycle - Narratives, Ulster Cycle - Sources

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The term Uí Néill denotes "grandsons/descendants of Niall", the ancestor noted being Niall of the Nine Hostages (Niall Noigíallach), an Connacht king active in the first half of the 5th century. His sons, grandsons and great-grandsons attacked the kingdoms of In Tuisceairt, Airgialla, Ulaid, Cenel Maine, Tethba, Mide and Leinster in the generations after his death, either ruling directly or via vassal kings. The dynasty subsequently divided into two main divisions: the Clann Cholman Kings of Mide, who later adopted th ...

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Flag of Ulster, Flag of Ulster - The Uí Néill, Flag of Ulster - Origin Legend, Flag of Ulster - Present Forms and Uses

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The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th/early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 (Rawl.), housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Despite the dates of these sources, most of the material they contain predates their composition. The earliest of the prose can be dated on linguistic grounds to the 8th century, and some ...

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Irish mythology, Irish mythology - The sources, Irish mythology - Mythological cycle, Irish mythology - Other important Tuatha Dé Danann figures, Irish mythology - Ulster cycle, Irish mythology - Fenian cycle, Irish mythology - Historical cycle, Irish mythology - Other tales, Irish mythology - Adventures, Irish mythology - Voyages, Irish mythology - Folk tales

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Wide: May 2005" Wide: May 2005 8/10 TrackSounds Review Their first album, Unearthed, was made available online through CDBaby in January 2001. It went on to become the third biggest selling album in CDBaby's history. The success of the album prompted the wide release to retail in May 2005 through 33rd Street Records/Bayside Distribution. In keeping with the theme of "all things past" each of the thirteen tracks on the album is named for an ancient or long-standing city. They are: Antissa, Tikal, Harappa, Ulaid, Ebla, Nara, Cuzco, Nineveh, Lepcis Magn ...

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Tuathal was the son of a former High King deposed by an uprising of "subject peoples" who returned at the head of an army to reclaim his father's throne. The oldest source for Tuathal's story, a 9th century poem by Mael Mura of Othain, says that his father, Fiacha Finnfolaidh, was overthrown by the four provincial kings, Éllim of Ulster, Sanb (son of Cet mac Mágach) of Connacht, Foirbre of Munster and Eochaid Ainchenn of Leinster, and that it was Éllim who took the High Kingship. During his rule Ireland suffered famine as God punis ...

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The Neolithic saw the introduction of farming and pottery, and the use of more advanced stone implements. It was once thought that these innovations were introduced by a new wave of settlers, but there is no compelling evidence for a large-scale invasion at this point in Irish history. It is much more likely that the Neolithic revolution was a long and slow process resulting from trade and overseas contacts with agricultural communities in Britain and on the continent. Agriculture began around 4500 BC. Sheep, goats, cattle and cereals ...

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Early history of Ireland, Early history of Ireland - The Mesolithic 8000 BC - 4500 BC, Early history of Ireland - The Neolithic 4500 BC - 2500 BC, Early history of Ireland - The Bronze Age 2500 BC - 700 BC, Early history of Ireland - The Celts, Early history of Ireland - O'Rahilly's historical model, Early history of Ireland - The Gaelic conquest of Ulster

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