ANNALS OF CONNACHT


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Edward Bruce, he who was the common ruin of the Gaels and Foreigners of Ireland, was by the Foreigners … killed at Dundalk by dint of fierce fighting …. And never was there a better deed done for the Irish than this … For in Bruce’s time, for three years and a half, falsehood and famine and homicide filled the country, and undoubtedly men ate each other.
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The graphic is of Edward Bruce. The Foreigners who were victorious at Dundalk were the English. Edward Bruce, Younger Brother of the Scottish King Robert Bruce, had invaded Ireland 3 years earlier {639440} and had crowned himself King of Ireland the next year. Irish opinion was divided. Clearly, the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin had little use for him.

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The Annals of Connacht, covering the years 1224 to 1544, are drawn from a manuscript compiled in the 15th and 16th centuries by at least three scribes, all believed to be members of the Clan Ó Duibhgeannáin.