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Searc's Web Guide to 14th Century Ireland
Chronology
3000BC Megalithic tombs built throughout Ireland, most notably in the Boyne Valley.
700BC Celtic Invasion of Ireland as later recounted in the 12th century manuscript *leabhair na hUidhre*.
350AD Catholicism reaches Ireland's south east coast.
432AD St. Patrick arrives in Ireland and Catholicism spreads.
795-895AD Viking invasions occur around the Irish coast. Dublin is developed by the Vikings who assimilate into Gaelic society.
1014 Brian Boru, Ard Rí (High King) of Ireland dies defeating the Norsemen at The Battle of Clontarf, the last Gaelic-Viking Battle.
1169 Dermot MacMurrough, Rí (King) of Leinster, is expelled from Ireland for transgressing Brehon law. He submits to Henry II of England and asks him to subjugate his Irish peers.
1170 Arrivals of Normans at County Wexford, under 'Strongbow', Earl of Pembroke, at the invitation of Dermot MacMurrough.
1171 'Strongbow' becomes king of Leinster.
1172 The English Pope, Adrian IV, publishes his *Bull Laudibiliter* decreeing Henry II King of Ireland. Henry orders an Invasion of Ireland. Welsh marches invade Ireland's south east coast and establish fiefs.
1210 King John, Henry's son, visits Ireland.
From 1200-1350 the 'Old English' assimilate into Gaelic Society until the English Government, fearing loss of sovereignty, instigated the Statutes of Kilkenny in 1366. The Statues, written in French, outlawed trade and intermarriage between the Normans and the Irish. 1349 Plague reaches Ireland.
Donal O'Neill (died.1325)
Gearoid Iarla Fitzgerald (1335-1398)
Burkes, Butlers and Fitzgeralds
The Plague in Scotland and Ireland
CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent site, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English).