Diarmait Mac Murchada's expulsion from Leinster in 1166 set in motion a chain of events that would drastically alter the political map of medieval Ireland.
Diarmait Mac Murchada's expulsion from Leinster in 1166 set in motion a chain of events that would drastically alter the political map of medieval Ireland. Ireland, unlike the comparatively centralized Angevin kingdom of England, was, on the eve of invasion, a land of many kings. This lecture traces the development of kingship in Ireland in the centuries preceding the invasion; explores Irish responses to the English invasion; and examines the ways in which Irish kingship was conceptualized both by the Irish kings themselves and by English and foreign chroniclers.
Speaker: Dr Ronan Mulhaire works in Hibernia College and holds a PhD in medieval history from Trinity College Dublin. His first monograph, Irish kingship in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Approaches to the study of power was published by Routledge in 2025. Ronan has also published articles on violence and regicide in eleventh- and twelfth-century Ireland, and on the history and development of wrestling in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland.
