* 1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.

Such a cry was reported to be heard at the crowning of Brian Boru.

Three pre-16th century examples survive today ; the Brian Boru Harp in Trinity College, Dublin, and the Queen Mary and Lamont Harps, both in Scotland.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

The kings that are included range from the almost entirely mythological Labraid Loingsech, who allegedly became High King of Ireland around 431 BC, to the entirely historical Brian Boru.

Bruce's Irish ancestors included Eva of Leinster ( d. 1188 ), whose ancestors included Brian Boru of Munster and the kings of Leinster.

* Brodir of Man, a Danish Viking who killed the High King of Ireland, Brian Boru.

* 1014: the Gaelic forces of Munster and most other Irish kingdoms under High King Brian Boru defeat a combined Leinster-Viking force in the Battle of Clontarf but Brian Boru gets killed at the end of the battle.

* Brian Boru, High king of Ireland

* Brian Boru

* Brian Boru, King of Leinster and Munster, becomes High King of Ireland, breaking the Uí Néill monopoly on the title.

Not satisfied with the submission of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, Brian Boru makes an expedition to the north to take hostages from the northern states.

* Brian Boru makes a second expedition to the north to take hostages from the northern states: during this expeidion, he visited Armagh, making an offering of twenty ounces of gold to the church and confirming to the apostolic see of Saint Patrick, ecclesiastical supremacy over the whole of Ireland ( as recorded in the Book of Armagh ).

* April 23 – Battle of Clontarf: Gaelic Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland, ending their power there but losing Brian in the battle.

* April 23 – Brian Boru, high king of Ireland

* Mael Morda starts a rebellion against Brian Boru in Ireland, which eventually ends in 1014 at the Battle of Clontarf.

* Brian Boru is inaugurated as King of Munster.

* Black barathea jacket with silver buttons — Regulation Doublet, Prince Charlie, Brian Boru, Braemar, Argyll, and black mess jackets are suitable.

* Gormlaith of Lienster, wife of Olaf Cuarran, Malachy II and Brian Boru

* Brian Boru, high king of Ireland

Irish euro coins all share the same design by Jarlath Hayes, that of the harp, a traditional symbol for Ireland since the Middle Ages, based on that of the Brian Boru harp, housed in Trinity College, Dublin.

The BFI declared Life of Brian to be the 28th best British film of all time, in their equivalent of the AFI's original 100 Years ... 100 Movies list.

Brian's advisor, Maelsuthain O ' Carroll, documented in the ' Book of Armagh ' that, in the year 1005, Brian donated twenty-two ounces of gold to the monastery and declared that Armagh was the religious capital of Ireland to which all other monasteries should send the funds they collected.

It is interesting that Brian is not referred to in the passage from the ' Book of Armagh ' as the ' Ard Ri ' — that is, High-King — but rather he is declared " Imperator Scottorum ," or " Emperor of the Irish " (" Scottorum " then being the common Late Latin term for the Irish: Ireland was usually referred to in Latin as " Scotia Major " while Scotland was referred to as " Scotia Minor ").

When the ' Eurosceptic ' Party Chairman, Brian Mawhinney, ( allegedly ) briefed against him, on one occasion, Clarke memorably declared: " Tell your kids to get their scooters off my lawn " – an allusion to Harold Wilson's rebuke of trade union leader Hugh Scanlon in the late 1960s.

" But possibly the most famous of these radio sketches was the ultimate showdown between Anne and Brian Perkins, which results in Anne being declared the weakest link by the " Daddy of the BBC ".

Brian May has declared himself to be great admirer of Berkoff.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney declared he was opposed to " abortion on demand ," but gave no details on what that meant legally.

Riconosciuto was under suspicion at the time for illegally modifying a people-tracking, case-management, software program that had been developed for the Department of Justice by Washington, D. C .- based Inslaw Inc .. Riconosciuto declared that he had been under the direction of Earl Brian, who was then a controlling shareholder and director of Hadron, Inc ..

Riconosciuto further declared that Peter Videnieks, the contract manager overseeing the Inslaw contract for the management division of the DoJ, had stolen the Promis software and had given it to Earl Brian who " spearheaded " a plan for the " implementation of Promis in law

In a 1993 lecture on Merriman's life and work, Seamus Heaney declared, " Perhaps I can convey the ongoing reality of the poem's life more simply by recollecting a Saturday evening last August when I had the privilege of unveiling a memorial to Brian Merriman on the shore of Lough Graney in Co. Clare, where the opening scene of ' The Midnight Court ' is set.

In response to questions over why the new post-Frank Herbert Dune novels conflicted with The Dune Encyclopedia, the book was declared non-canon on the official Dune website in a letter credited to McNelly, Brian Herbert, and Anderson:

Coach Brian Billick declared McNair the starter instead of having the two compete for the job, citing McNair's credentials, including 2003 NFL Co-MVP, and Boller's propensity to turn over the ball.

The 3 Count team then declared that they were hardcore, leading to numerous fights with the Hardcore Champion, " Nasty Boy ” Brian Knobbs.

At a B & H Cup group game at Worcester on May 24, 1979, the Somerset captain Brian Rose declared after one over with the score at 1 for 0.

In a May 7, 2003 Microsoft online chat, Brian Countryman, Internet Explorer Program Manager, declared that Internet Explorer would cease to be distributed separately from Windows ( IE 6 would be the last standalone version ); it would, however, be continued as a part of the evolution of Windows, with updates coming only bundled in Windows upgrades.

In late summer 2011 a major feature in leading international dance music publication DJ Mag declared " Electro iconoclast IDC isn't your typical DJ / producer-he's more like a multi-instrumentalist mix between Brian Wilson and DFA's James Murphy "

Moto's Operations Director Brian Larkin was quoted as saying: " To be declared as having the best loos in Britain is quite an achievement in an industry like ours where around 100 million people a year use our toilets.

By three games to one, Brian Cappelletto was declared World Scrabble Champion 2001.

Brian Mulligan from Richmond. com declared the album a " mixed bag " saying " Gone is the free-spirited vibe of past OLP offerings, as the band has infused " Healthy " with a continual political undercurrent that leaked in through the hiatus.

Muircheartach Ua Briain ( old spelling: Muirchertach Ua Briain ) ( c. 1050 – c. 10 March 1119 ), son of Toirdelbach Ua Briain and great-grandson of Brian Bóruma, was King of Munster and later self declared High King of Ireland.