Affrica Founds Grey Abbey
In 1193, Ireland remained a patchwork of competing lordships rather than a country governed from...
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Hugh de Lacy’s Death
Ireland in 1186 was neither conquered nor politically united. Seventeen years after the first Anglo-Norman...
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Peace and Conquest
In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...
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Victory at Thurles
In 1174 the Anglo-Norman foothold in Ireland came close to a serious military crisis. Only...
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Ports and Power
In 1170 the struggle for Leinster became a contest over Ireland’s principal eastern ports and,...
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The Bannow Landings
In 1169 a regional struggle for the kingship of Leinster became an event of lasting...
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Ruaidrí’s Ascendant Kingship
In 1167 Ireland stood between two transformations. The sudden fall of Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn in...
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Pallia and Partitions
Two assemblies defined Ireland in 1152. One gathered churchmen to settle the island’s ecclesiastical order;...
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Tairdelbach’s Waterford Fleet
Ireland in 1137 was a land of ambitious overkings, shifting alliances and increasingly organised churches,...
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