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8 unusual facts about Irish annals


Auisle

Whether brothers or not, the evidence of the Irish annals associates Auisle, Amlaíb and Ímar.

Auisle is first noticed in the Irish annals in 863 when, along with Amlaíb and Ímar, he led an army to plunder the pre-historic tombs of Brú na Bóinne.

Beornhæth

Beorhtred's paternity is known from the notice of his death in the Irish annals, where he is called the son of Beornhæth.

Ciannachta

They are first recorded in the Irish annals sub anno 535 when they were defeated in battle at Luachair Mor (between the rivers Nanny and Boyne), near Duleek, by Túathal Máelgarb.

Der-Ilei

There are no explicit mentions of Der-Ilei in the Irish annals or other sources, and her existence and parentage are thus based on the implication of the surviving records.

Flaithbertach mac Inmainén

Flaithbertach is first mentioned by the Irish annals in 907, when he is recorded, along with the then-King of Munster Cormac mac Cuilennáin, leading an expedition by the Munstermen against Connacht and the Uí Néill.

Godred Crovan

Irish annals record that this Gofraid was subject to the Irish King of Dublin, Murchad son of Diarmait mac Maíl na mBó of the Uí Cheinnselaig.

Gofraid mac Sitriuc

The Annals of Ulster say that some two thousand of the Dublin force were killed, while other, less reliable Irish annals claim as many as six thousand.


Annals of Nenagh

The Annals of Nenagh are a set of Irish annals composed in Latin at the Franciscan convent of Nenagh, County Tipperary, founded c.

Causantín mac Fergusa

Causantín's reign falls in a period when Irish annals have relatively few notices of events in Scotland, possibly due to the failing of the annals believed to have been kept in Scotland at Iona and Applecross.

Flann Mainistreach

Eoin MacNeill considered Flann the first of the synthetic historians; this synthesis of biblical history and foreign world chronicles with Irish annals, myths and genealogical records was to be much emulated by subsequent writers.


see also

Bartholomew MacCarthy

On the death of William M. Hennessey, Dr. MacCarthy was asked by the Government to continue the editing of this collection of Irish Annals in the Rolls Series.

These include discussions of the ancient Paschal cycle of 84 years and other Paschal computations in vogue in Ireland, the origin of A.D. dating in Irish annals, the methods of rectifying errors in the same, and the history of the various British or Irish falsifications which appeared during the disputes regarding Easter in the insular churches of the West, such as the Acts of Caesarea, the Athanasian Tractate, the Book of Anatolius, and the "Epistle" of Cyril of Alexandria.

Cath Maige Tuired

It expands on references to the battle in Lebor Gabála Érenn and the Irish Annals, and is one of the richest sources of tales of the former Irish gods.

Dartraighe

There are references in Irish annals in the 11th and 12th century AD to the Ui Bhaoigheallán (O'Boylans) as chiefs of Dartraige (see below).