‘battle of tory island’
(1798)
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(skirmish between brits and french off the coast of ireland)
the frenchmen had come in support of irish rebels
(just as they had done for us americans a couple decades earlier).
the irish weren’t so lucky.
it would mark the final time the french would mount an attack on the british isles.
it’d take another 150 years before the germans gathered up the collective courage to take on the brits.
a tragic irish hero emerged from the french/irish defeat.
theobald wolfe tone, the leader of the irish rebels, was captured and sentenced to death. but he committed suicide before he was to be executed.
good for him.
(ireland was never invaded by the Roman Empire, the island remained a warring collection of separate kingdoms throughout its early history)
Although it is known that the Romans traded with the Irish kingdoms, historically it was thought that the Romans never established a military presence in Ireland. In recent times the find of ruins of a possibly Roman fort in Drumanagh near Dublin has questioned this belief.
In the 5th century, Irish tribes known to the Romans as the Scoti invaded northern Britain, displacing the native Picts and establishing the kingdom of Dál Riata.
As this kingdom expanded in size and influence, the name of the tribe was applied to all its subjects – hence the modern terms Scot, Scottish and Scotland.
The English annal writer, Bede, wrote how the Scoti harassed the Romano-British in piratical and border raids.
The Vikings pillaged monasteries on Ireland’s west coast in 795, and then spread out to cover the rest of the coastline.
The north and east of the island were most affected. During the first 40 years, the raids were conducted by small, mobile Viking groups. From 830 on, the groups consisted of large fleets of Viking ships. From 840, the Vikings began establishing permanent bases at the coasts. Dublin was the most significant settlement in the long term. The Irish became accustomed to the Viking presence and culture and in many cases became allies, with intermarriage common throughout Ireland. A major Irish battle involving Vikings was fought at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, in which a large force of Vikings and their Irish allies were defeated by the gathered Irish forces of Brian Boru, then the High King of Ireland along with a small contingent of Viking defectors. After this date Viking activity was sporadic with various Kings and nobles attempting to extend their power base. In 1099, Magnus Barefoot, the King of Norway, and his Viking army had successfully campaigned alongside their Irish allies against opposing Irish warbands. On his return his force was ambushed and killed on the north coast of Ireland.
on 1 may 1169, an expedition of cambro-norman knights with an army of about six hundred landed at Bannow Strand in present-day County Wexford.
It was led by Richard de Clare, called Strongbow due to his prowess as an archer.[35]
The invasion, which coincided with a period of renewed Norman expansion, was at the invitation of Dermot Mac Murrough, the king of leinster
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“giving up”
the ulster defence association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, is confirmed by the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning to have decommissioned all of its weapons
(a ‘commission on decommissioning’?
(brave new world here we come!)
(this probably just means that the IRA’s grown complacent in its old age)
i’m with paul mccartney on this one:
GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH!
(don’t make them have to take it away)
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