Lug or Lugh / luɣ /; modern Irish: Lú / lu :/) is an Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past.

The word rime, derived from Old Frankish language * rīm, a Germanic term meaning " series, sequence " attested in Old English ( Old English rīm-" enumeration, series, numeral ") and Old High German rīm, ultimately cognate to Old Irish rím, Greek arithmos " number ".

The Irish even crowned Edward Bruce as High King of Ireland in 1316.

It has cognates in several other Germanic languages including Gothic wair, Old High German wer, and Old Norse verr, as well as in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit ' vira ', Latin vir, Irish fear, Lithuanian vyras, and Welsh gŵr, which have the same meaning.

* 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.

** Maynard Sinton, Irish industrialist and High Sheriff ( d. 1942 )

Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig ( c. 941 – 23 April 1014 ) (,, ), was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill.

), son of Fedlimid Rechtmar, was, according to medieval Irish legendary and annalistic sources, a High King of Ireland, and the ancestor of the Connachta, and, through his descendant Niall Noígiallach, the Uí Néill dynasties, which dominated Ireland in the early Middle Ages, and their descendants.

Cormac mac Airt ( son of Art ), also known as Cormac ua Cuinn ( grandson of Conn ) or Cormac Ulfada ( long beard ), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

Art mac Cuinn (" son of Conn "), also known as Art Óenfer ( literally " one man ", used in the sense of " lone ", " solitary ", or " only son "), was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland.

In Irish mythology, Fiacha (, sometimes Fiachu, Fiachra or Fiachna ), son of Delbáeth, of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was a legendary High King of Ireland.

Matholwch, King of Ireland, sails across the Irish Sea to ask the British High King, Brân, for the hand of his sister Branwen in marriage.

: For the legendary Irish High King, see Bres Rí ; for the Marvel Comics character, see Bres ( comics )

High crosses may exist from the 7th century in Northumbria, which then included much of south-west Scotland, and Ireland, though Irish dates are being moved later.

Most Irish High crosses have the distinctive shape of the ringed Celtic cross, and they are generally larger and more massive, and feature more figural decoration than those elsewhere.

The three secondary schools are all located along the same stretch of road ( Ballyquin Road and Irish Green Street ), with Limegrove Special School opposite Limavady Grammar School, Termoncanice Primary opposite Limavady High School and St. Mary's High School.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, presided as Secretary-General.

The City of Shamrock is served by the Shamrock Independent School District and home to the Shamrock High School Irish.

Farley's family are traditionally Irish American, and Farley attended numerous Catholic schools in his hometown, including Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart.

In the Irish Civil War which followed Lemass was adjutant and second in command to Rory O ' Connor when the group seized the Four Courts, the home of the High Court of Ireland.

To the Irish annals which recorded his death, Máel Coluim was ard rí Alban, High King of Scotland.

He was at different points offered the Imperial Crown by the Pope, the Irish High Kingship by a delegation of Irish kings, and the command of the French crusader fleet by the French king.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

The Irish Free State, whose consent to the Abdication Act was also required, neither gave it nor allowed the British legislation to take effect in the Free State's jurisdiction ; instead, the Irish parliament passed its own Act — the Executive Authority ( External Relations ) Act — the day after the Declaration of Abdication Act took force elsewhere, meaning Edward VIII, for one day, remained King of Ireland while George VI was king of all the other realms.

In 1437, King James I of Scotland was approached by an Irish seer who was later identified as a banshee who foretold his murder at the instigation of the Earl of Atholl.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

The Irish Catholic supporters of James II referred to these northern Protestant supporters of " King Billy ", as " Billy Boys ".

Loomis traced a number of parallels between Medieval Welsh literature and Irish material and the Grail romances, including similarities between the Mabinogions Bran the Blessed and the Arthurian Fisher King, and between Bran's life-restoring cauldron and the Grail.

* Anne Boleyn, Queen consort to King Henry VIII of England ; Irish paternal grandmother Margaret Butler

An unexpected olive branch came from King George V, who, in a speech in Belfast called for reconciliation on all sides, changed the mood and enabled the British and Irish Republican governments to agree to a truce.

King John of England, in about 1210 presented an Irish hound, Gelert to Llewellyn, a prince of Wales.

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

The Irish Rebellion which started in October 1641 brought the control of the army back into the discussions between King and Parliament.

The counter claim was that the King had an Irish army set to reduce the kingdom.

The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, who had been sent from Iona off the west coast of Scotland to Northumbria at the request of King Oswald ca.

They are said to be descendants of the ancient Irish King Heremon, who, along with his brother Herber, conquered Ireland.

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

Between 612 and 615, the Irish missionary Saint Columban, then living at Bobbio in Italy, was persuaded by Agilulf, King of the Lombards, to address a letter on the condemnation of the " Three Chapters " to Boniface IV.

During the period of 1937 to 1949 it was unclear whether the Irish head of state was actually the President of Ireland or George VI, the King of Ireland.

Hunky Dorys and King crisps are other popular Irish brands.