Like the Ulster Cycle, the Fenian Cycle is concerned with the deeds of Irish heroes. The stories of the Fenian Cycle appear to be set around the 3rd century and mainly in the provinces of Leinster and Munster. They differ from the other cycles in the strength of their links with the Irish-speaking community in Scotland and there are many extant Fenian texts from that country. They also differ from the Ulster Cycle in that the stories are told mainly in verse and that in tone they are nearer to the tradition of romance than the tradition of epic. The stories concern the doings of Fionn m ...

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It was part of the duty of the medieval Irish bards, or court poets, to record the history of the family and the genealogy of the king they served. This they did in poems that blended the mythological and the historical to a greater or lesser degree. The resulting stories form what has come to be known as the Historical Cycle, or more correctly Cycles, as there are a number of independent groupings. The kings that are covered range from the almost entirely mythological Labraid Loingsech, who became High King of Ireland around 431 BC t ...

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Main article Norman Ireland History of Ireland - The Coming of the Normans 1167–1185. By the 12th century, Ireland was divided politically into a shifting hierarchy of petty kingdoms and over-kingdoms. Power was concentrated into the hands of a few regional dynasties contending against each other for control of the whole island. One of their number, the King of Leinster Diarmait Mac Murchada (anglicised as Diarmuid MacMorrough) was forcibly exiled from his kingdom by the new High King, Ruai ...

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Main Article Early Modern Ireland 1536-1691 The Reformation, before which, in 1536, Henry VIII broke with Papal authority, fundamentally changed Ireland. While Henry VIII broke English Catholicism from Rome, his son Edward VI of England moved further, breaking with Papal doctrine completely. While the English, the Welsh and, later, the Scots accepted Protestantism, the Irish remained Catholic. This fact determined their relationship with the British state for the next four hundred years, as the Reformation coincided with a dete ...

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Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times. Gangani or Concani in Counties Limerick and Clare; also lived in Wales - Ptolemy calls the Lleyn Peninsula the "Promontory of the Gangani" Iverni in County Cork, later known as the Érainn Luceni in Counties Kerry and Limerick Usdiae, Udiae or Vodiae in Counties Waterford and Cork, possibly related to the later Osraige Uterni in County Co ...

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Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times. Auteini in County Galway, identified with the later Uaithne Nagnatae in County Mayo, possibly linked with the Ol nÉcmacht; Cóiced Ol nEchmacht was an ancient name for Connacht. Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian. Aidhne or Ui Fiachrach Aidhne Breifne Conmaicne Mara Connachta Corco Moga Delbhna Delbhna Nuadat Delbhna ...

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Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Earliest times. Ebdani, Eblani or Blanii (probably variants of the same name) Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Early Christian. Cianachta Southern Uí Néill ...

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The Irish diaspora consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa and nations of the Caribbean. The diaspora contains over 80 million people. There are also large Irish communities in some mainland European countries, notably in France and Germany, as well as Japan, Brazil and other South American countries. The classic image of an Irish immigrant is led occasionally by racist and anti-Catholic stereotypes. Irish American ...

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It is common for some Irish surnames to be anglicised, meaning that they were changed to sound more English. This usually occurred with Irish immigrants arriving in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is also very common for people of Gaelic origin to have surnames beginning with "O" or "Mc" (less frequently "Mac" and occasionally shortened to just "Ma" at the beginning of the name). "O" comes from Ua (originally hUa), which means "grandson", or "descendant" of a named person. For example, the descendants of ...

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Personal names in modern Ireland are derived from traditional Gaelic names, anglicised Gaelic names and, more recently, popular American names. The recent years have seen a major decline in most Irish names for babies being born in the Republic. While in the past names such as Patrick, John, Michael, Seamus and others were almost ubiquitous in any family, today they are among the rarer names for children and the same goes for most other Irish names, although there are a few notable exceptions. Jack and Sean, both Irish derivatives of ...

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In Northern Ireland almost half of the population are Protestant, whilst a large minority are Roman Catholic at approximately 43.8% (2001). After Ireland became subdued by England in 1603 the English – under James I of England (reigned 1603–25), Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell (term 1653–58), William III of England (reigned 1689–1702) and their successors – began the settling of Protestant English and later Scottish colonists into Ireland, where they settled most heavily in the northern province of Ulster. However, they did not intermarry heavily or integrate with the nativ ...

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