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Cormac's and father
Lugaid revealed that it had been he who had killed Cormac's father in the Battle of Maigh Mucruimhe, and Cormac demanded, as éraic for Art's life, that Lugaid give him Fergus ' head.
Cormac's father was Leonard Wibberley, author of The Mouse That Roared among other books.

Cormac's and was
When Lugaid heard this, he conceded that Cormac's judgement was superior to his and abdicated the throne.
Lugaid took the head of Fergus ' brother, Fergus Foltlebair, and brought it to Cormac's attendant, who told him this was not the head of the king of Ulster.
But Fiacha in desperation turned to the powerful Munster druid Mug Ruith for aid, and his magic was too strong even for Cormac's fairy druids.
Here, he appeared at Cormac's ramparts in the guise of a warrior who told him he came from a land where old age, sickness, death, decay, and falsehood were unknown ( the Otherworld was also known as the " Land of Youth " or the " Land of the Living ").
She appears in a similar guise in Togail Bruidne Dá Choca to foretell the slaying of Cormac Condloinges, as well as taking the form of a " washer at the ford "— a woman washing Cormac's chariot and harness in a ford in what was considered an omen of death.
Most common was the Romanesque style, as seen at Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel, and at Clonfert Cathedral in Galway.
According to Cormac's Glossary, she was a goddess the pagan Irish worshipped on Samhain.
The 9th-century Irish dictionary Sanas Cormaic (" Cormac's glossary ") describes Iarnnbélrae as a recently extinct language which was " dense and difficult ", and records two words which derived from it: ond
He took the High Kingship after his predecessor, Lugaid mac Con, was expelled from Tara by Cormac mac Airt and killed in Munster by Cormac's poet Ferches mac Commáin.
He was succeeded by Cormac's son Cairbre Lifechair.

Cormac's and King
Here he defeats Cormac's druids in an elaborate magical battle in exchange for land from King Fiachu Muillethan of southern Munster, from whom Cormac had been trying to levy taxes.

Cormac's and mac
The hero Fionn mac Cumhaill is supposed to have lived in Cormac's time, and most of the stories of the Fenian Cycle are set during his reign.
The name of Isle of Man is eponymous after Manannán mac Lir, a Celtic sea god, according to an old Irish lexicon ( Cormac's glossary or Sanas Cormaic ).
** Cormac mac Cuilennáin, d. 908 ( see also Sanas Cormaic, Cormac's Glossary )
There is also a tract in TCD MS 1336 ( olim MS H 3. 17 ), col. 723 which claims that the spear survived into the reign of Cormac mac Airt, and came to be known as the Crimall of Birnbuadach causing Cormac's blinding and rendering him unfit for kingship.

Cormac's and .
" The ninth century Sanas Cormaic ( or " Cormac's Glossary ") says the "... Druids used to make fires with great incantations ," and were lit to safeguard against diseases.
Cormac's Glossary ( also 9th century ), and a gloss in the later manuscript H. 3. 18, both explain the plural word gudemain (" spectres ") with the plural form morrígna.
* Cormac's Chapel is consecrated.
However, in other traditions Eithne is the wife of Cormac's grandfather Conn Cétchathach.
Cormac's reign is recorded in some detail in the Irish annals.
The 8th-century text The Expulsion of the Déisi describes enmity between Cormac and the group known as the Déisi, descendants of Cormac's great grandfather Fedlimid Rechtmar who had been his retainers.
Cormac's son Cellach ( or Conn ) abducts Forach, the daughter of a Déisi leader.
Óengus runs Cellach through with his " dread spear ", which has three chains attached to it ; these chains wound one of Cormac's advisers and blind Cormac in one eye.
A number of these associations are attested in Cormac's Glossary.
The most prominent earthworks within are the two linked enclosures, a bivallate ring fort and a bivallete ring barrow known as Teach Chormaic ( Cormac's House ) and the Forradh or Royal Seat.
Descriptions of the practices associated with Imbas forosnai are found in Cormac's Glossary and in the mythology associated with Finn MacCumhail.
Pelter determines Cormac's location by bribing some members of the planetary army.
A protracted battle then takes place in the forest ; Cormac's crew kills Pelter's crew, the Golems Cento and Aiden take out Mr. Crane, and Cormac drills a hole through Pelter's head with his thin-gun.

father and was
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.
But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.
He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.
My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.
Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;
Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
His father was a constant visitor.

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