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This Ímar was the first of the Uí Ímair, that is the grandsons of Ímar, to be reported ; three more grandsons of Ímar appear later in Constantín's reign.
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Ímar and was
Among those noted by the Irish annals, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are Ívarr — Ímar in Irish sources — who was active from East Anglia to Ireland, Halfdán — Albdann in Irish, Healfdene in Old English — and Amlaíb or Óláfr.
His reign, like those of his predecessors, was dominated by the actions of Viking rulers in the British Isles, particularly the Uí Ímair (" the grandsons of Ímar ", or Ivar the Boneless ).
By 916 fleets under Sihtric Cáech and Ragnall, said to be grandsons of Ímar ( that is, they belonged to the same Uí Ímair kindred as the Ímar who was killed in 904 ), were very active in Ireland.
Amlaíb Cuarán was probably a great-grandson of Ímar.
In 870 Dumbarton was besieged by Amlaíb Conung and Ímar, " the two kings of the Northmen ", who " returned to Dublin from Britain " the following year with numerous captives.
In 902 the Vikings were expelled from Dublin for up to a dozen years, and a year later Ímar, the " grandson of Ímar " was killed in battle with the forces of Constantine II in mainland Scotland.
In the original 11th-century manuscript the subject of the entry was simply called righ Lochlann (" the king of Lochlainn "), which more than likely referred to Ímar, whose death is not otherwise noted in the Fragmentary Annals.
Amlaibh and Ímar was, however, very active in Ireland during the following years and did not in any way seem to be seriously weakened, neither in ambition nor in strength.
While it is just possible that his father was Ragnall ( d. 980 ), son of Amlaíb Cuarán, a more likely possibility may be that he was a member of the Waterford branch of the Uí Ímair — either a son of Ragnall ( d. 1015 or 1018 ), son of Ímar of Waterford ; or else a son of this Ragnall's like-named son, who died in 1035.
As a result, it has been suggested that Godred was a son, or nephew, of the Norse-Gael king Ímar mac Arailt who ruled Dublin from 1038 to 1046, who was in turn a nephew of Sigtrygg Silkbeard and grandson of Amlaíb Cuarán.
Ímar and Uí
The Ímar from whom the Uí Ímair were descended is generally presumed to be that Ímar ( English pronunciation Ivar ): " king of the Northmen of all Britain and Ireland ", whose death is reported by the Annals of Ulster in 873.
It is possible that Ivar may be identical to the Ímar, apparent ancestor of the Uí Ímair dynasty, whose death appears in the Annals of Ulster in 873:
Ímar and is
The Chronicle states that the Northmen were killed in Srath Erenn, which is confirmed by the Annals of Ulster which records the death of Ímar grandson of Ímar and many others at the hands of the men of Fortriu in 904.
Whether this Ímar is to be identified with Ivar the Boneless, the leader of the Great Heathen Army, is rather less certain, although at the same time not unlikely.
There is no contemporary evidence setting out the descent from Ímar to his grandsons, but it may be that the grandsons of Ímar recorded between 896 and 934 — Amlaíb Cuarán's father Sitriuc ( d. 927 ), Ragnall ( d. 921 ), Gofraid ( d. 934 ), Ímar ( d. 904 ) and Amlaíb ( d. 896 )— were brothers rather than cousins.
The death of Ímar is also recorded in the Fragmentary Annals of Ireland under the year 873:
The main figure in the revenge tales is Ivar, who is sometimes associated with the Viking leader Ímar, brother of Amlaíb Conung, found in the Irish annals.
Ímar and later
Some Viking individuals of note mentioned in the annals with parallels in other historical sources are the foreign chieftain Turgeis, beginning in 845, Ímar and Amlaíb, the later progenitors of the
Ímar and .
In 870 an army led by the Viking chiefs known in Irish as Amlaíb Conung and Ímar laid siege to Alt Clut, a siege which lasted some four months and led to the destruction of the citadel and the taking of a very large number of captives.
was and first
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The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.
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For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.
It was her first smile.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
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was and Uí
For example, the kingdom of Uí Maine was split to form south County Roscommon and most of east County Galway.
Congalach was the grandson of High King Flann Sinna of Clann Cholmáin and succeeded to the Uí Néill High Kingship in unusual circumstances on the death of his mother's half-brother Donnchad Donn.
However Dál Riata came to form, the period in which it arose was one of great instability in Ulster, following the loss of territory by the kingdom of Ulaid, including the ancient centre of Emain Macha, to the Airgíalla and the Uí Néill.
This alliance was likely precipitated by the conquests of the Dál Fiatach king Báetán mac Cairill, one of the very few High Kings of Ireland not of the Connachta or the Uí Néill, who had sought to subjugate all of Dál Riata, and the Isle of Man as well.
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.
In the decade that followed, Brian campaigned against the northern Uí Néill, who refused to accept his claims, against Leinster, where resistance was frequent, and against the Norse Gaelic Kingdom of Dublin.
That they belonged to the Uí Briúin Seóla may explain why he received the name Brian, which was rare among the Dál Cais.
Brian's first wife was Mór, daughter of the king of Uí Fiachrach Aidne of Connacht.
Echrad daughter of the king of Uí Áeda Odba, an obscure branch of the southern Uí Néill, was the mother of Tadc, whose son Toirdelbach and grandson Muirchertach rivalled Brian in power and fame.
Bé Binn was married to the northern Uí Néill king Flaithbertach Ua 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.
In historical times the town of Tailtiu was where the principal assembly of the early Uí Néill dynasties was held.
During the Early Middle Ages the area was part of the Kingdom of Connacht ruled by the Uí Fiachrach Aidhne, until it was annexed to the Kingdom of Munster to be settled by the Dalcassians in the mid-10th century.
It was the homeland of the Connachta dynasty, and included such kingdoms as Uí Maine, Delbhna Nuadat, Síol Muirdeach, and Moylurg.
From the 4th to the 12th century, the ancient kingdom of the Uí Fidgenti was approximately co-extensive with what is now County Limerick, with some of the easternmost part the domain of the Eóganacht Áine.
He was the last of the Uí Ímair to play a major part in the politics of Britain and Ireland.
Born when the Uí Ímair ruled over large areas of Britain and Ireland, by his death the kingdom of Dublin was a minor power in Irish politics.
The Uí Ímair in Ireland had also suffered in 944 as Dublin was sacked that year by the High King of Ireland Congalach Cnogba, whose power base lay in Brega, north of Dublin on the lower reaches of the River Boyne.
Up to around 1000 it was included in Uí Briúin Seóla.
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