HIST 290 Lecture Notes - List Of Irish Kings, Battlement, Dál Gcais
28 Nov 2012
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The christian church in ireland became very strong, powerful, and rich. It became very important for a family dynasty to have a member in the church hierarchy. Intellectual superiority produced the greatest vernacular literature at the time. Great flowering of ireland, but at the same time was extremely unstable politically: tuah"s (these had kings, over kings (power over many tuah"s, kings of leinster, munster, connaught, ulster, meath (southern ui. Neill: three essentials to be a king: Have a king within four generations of your lineage. Within a couple generations there would be many people with a claim to the throne this requirement was put in place to cut down the number of eligible people. Those who had a claim to the throne otherwise spent most of their lives trying to find a way to lay claim to the throne would physically maim those who were within.
