EDIT: 32 not 33:
Dublin - 10 Mayo - 9 Kerry - 7 Tyrone - 6 Donegal - 2 Tipperary - 2 Cork - 1 Monaghan - 1 Galway - 1 Cavan - 1
And with the possible exception of a competitive Ulster Championship, this doesn't look like changing anytime soon.
Donegal, despite winning it all and making another Final, haven't actually made a Semi-Final since 2014, despite being a lot of people's Dark-Horses every year.
You will always have under-performers in stats like these, but Tipperary, predominantly a hurling county, have done themselves proud the last 10 years.
A lot has been made about this being all about Dublin for the last 10 years or so, but when you break it down even further, Mayo obviously haven't won a Final since 1951 and Tyrone hadn't beaten Dublin, Kerry or Mayo in the last 10 years before this year.
In 2018 both Kerry and Mayo failed to make the Semi-Final, but that year is just looking like more and more of an anomaly now. EDIT: Kerry also failed to make it to the Semi-Final in 2012 and 2020.
Can anybody see any team(s) breaking the status quo? I'm sick of predicting Donegal every year so if I had to pick a team then it would be Monaghan (if McManus stays on) who ran Tyrone close this year although so did Donegal. Is it wishful thinking to say that Meath are nearly there? Hard to look beyond them two for me. Maybe Offaly in 10 years or so.
Relevant passages from "Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Book III"
> EGHERT, A HOLY MAN OF THE ENGLISH NATION, LED A MONASTIC LIFE IN IRELAND. [A.D. 664.] IN the same year of our Lord's incarnation, 664, there happened an eclipse of the sun, on the third of May, about ten o'clock in the morning. In the same year, a sudden pestilence also depopulated the southern coasts of Britain and afterwards extending into the province of the Northumbrians, ravaged the country far and near, and destroyed a great multitude of men. To which plague the aforesaid priest Tuda fell a victim, and was honorably buried in the monastery of Pegnaleth. This pestilence did no less harm in the island of Ireland. Many of the nobility, and of the lower ranks of the English nation, were there at that time, who, in the days of the Bishops Finan and Colman, forsaking their native island, retired thither, either for the sake of Divine studies, or of a more continent life; and some of them presently devoted themselves to a monastical life, others chose rather to apply themselves to study, going about from one master's cell to another. The Scots willingly received them all, and took care to supply them with food, as also to furnish them with books to read, and their teaching, gratis.
> But when Coinwalch was restored to his kingdom, there came into that province out of Ireland, a certain bishop called Agilbert, by nation a Frenchman, but who had then lived a long time in Ireland, for the purpose of reading the Scriptures.
Hey all, I'm trying to find recommendations for novels/fiction set in Gaelic Ireland. Preferably something pre-Norman invasion but anything up to the 17th century as well. I'm very interested especially in learning about life under the tuatha system.
GRMA
The attack on the Irish language was already well under way in 1366 when these acts were passed, from Article 3:
>Also, it is ordained and established, that every Englishman do use the English language, and be named by an English name, leaving off entirely the manner of naming used by the Irish...
Though it's odd that riding a horse in the wrong manner could also get you imprisoned:
>And that no Englishman who shall have the value of one hundred pounds of land or of rent by the year, shall ride otherwise than on a saddle in the English fashion; and he that shall do to the contrary, and shall be thereof attainted, his horse shall be forfeited to our lord the king, and his body shall be committed to prison, until he pay a fine according to the king's pleasure for the contempt aforesaid."
It seems like hurling posed enough of a threat to English customs to warrant its own ban (bolding mine):
>Article 6 - "Also, whereas a land, which is at war, requires that every person do render himself able to defend himself, it is ordained, and established, that the commons of the said land of Ireland, who are in the different marches at war, do not, henceforth, use the plays which men call horlings, with great sticks and a ball upon the ground, from which great evils and maims have arisen, to the weakening, of the defence of the said land, and other plays which men call coiting; but that they do apply and accustom themselves to use and draw bows, and throw lances, and other gentlemanlike games, whereby the Irish enemies may be the better checked by the liege people and commons of these parts; and if any do or practise the contrary, and of this be attainted, they shall be taken and imprisoned, and fined at the will of our lord the king." (does anyone know what 'coiting' refers to?)
It's interesting that they wanted to make the Church in Ireland loyal to the English too, Article 14:
>Also, it is ordained and established that no religious house which is situate amongst the English be it exempt or not,, shall henceforth receive any Irishmen to their profession, but may receive Englishmen without taking into consideration whether they be born in England or in Ireland; and that any that shall act otherwise, and thereof shall be attainted, their temporalties shall be seized into the hands of our lord the king, so to remain at his pleasure; and that no prelates of holy Church shall receive any . . . to any orders without the assent and testimo
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I always see people use Irish phrases that are in Gaelic, but how many people speak the language?
Were they mistrusted for not being English?
Were they given the same opportunities and roles?
Did the feel equal or inferior to English aristocracy?
How did compare in wealth, holdings, education, military power?
Who were the individuals or families who commanded the most respect and prestige?
How did they fit in, did they commit faux pas and embarrassments at court? Did they all adapt to English fashions and customs?
Did any of this change over time?
Was lack of central government beneficial for national defense of ancient/medieval Irishmen? If yes, then was the same phenomenon responsible for such a long neutrality of Swiss Confederation?
About the Frislandic titles mentioned in the book Dei commentarii del viaggio in Persia di m. Caterino Zeno il K. & delle guerre fatte nell'imperio Persiano, dal tempo di Ussuncassano in quà. Libri due. Et dello scoprimemnto dell'isole Frislanda, Eslanda, Engrouelanda, Estotilandia, & Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo Artico, da due fratelli Zeni, m. Nicolò il K. e m. Antonio. Libro uno. Con un disegno particolare di tutte le dette parte di tramontana da lor scoperte, usually referred to as the Zeno narrative:
The use of titles by Zeno when referring to Zichmni is somewhat confusing; he talks about a "Prince named Zichmni", who was a great lord (In Italian original text signore), lord of a duchy (It: duchea) of Sorano (in his map a town in SE Frisland) and the lord of Porlanda [Podalida] islands. Zeno states that he had wrested F. from the King of Norway in the previous year, but he never styles Zichmni as <insert title> of F. Later writers sometimes called Zichmni king, started by an Italian whose name I don't remember, and in English by Richard Hakluyt in his collection of voyages as 'Zicno, King of F.'
-In sources talking about Frisland -Duke: Zichmni [Henry I Sinclair], Duke of Sorand/-i/-o/-y [also called Solanda in some pre-Zenian Fixlanda/Stillanda map (s?); I've adopted the form Soland]; currently Duke of Soland is a royal dukedom bestowed upon the heir apparent of the Frislandic Crown upon him/her reaching majority
-"Lord" (signor) of Porlanda [Portland] Islands; Z. so styled in the Zeno narrative
- Knight [banneret]]?¹, bestowed to Antonio Zeno by Z. (H. I S.)
¹ Presumably A.Z. was made a knight banneret due to valiance in battle; in F. the honour is still granted today unlike in England, it being hereditary to heirs general, meaning that regardless of gender, the eldest child inherits the title; a female holder being styled banneress. The title of Knight Banneret is reserved to such persons who have performed extraordinary public service, both military and civil. They are eligible to become members of the Council of Nobles if elected there by their fellow titled nobles, since in F. knights are included in the nobility as the lower nobility below the peerage (upper nobility).
-The dignity of Knight Bachelor also exists, it being a lower non-hereditary rank, awarded also to merited persons in the fields of arts, culture and sports and to ordin
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