* Domhnall Ua Buachalla: Governor-General of the Irish Free State

Domhnall Ua Buachalla (; 5 February 1866 – 30 October 1963 ) was an Irish politician, shopkeeper and member of the First Dáil who served as third and final Governor-General of the Irish Free State and later served as a member of the Council of State.

Ua Buachalla was from Maynooth in County Kildare and ran a combined grocery, bicycle shop and pub in the town.

In 1907, he was arrested and had his groceries seized when he refused to pay a fine for having his grocery wagon painted with Domhnall Ua Buachalla ( his name in the Irish language ), as the law required grocery wagons to be registered only in the English language.

Ua Buachalla was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Kildare North at the 1918 general election.

De Valera explicitly instructed Ua Buachalla as governor-general to keep a low public profile, and not to fulfil any public engagements.

( One of the few other occasions Ua Buachalla was mentioned at all in public was when, in the aftermath of the death of King George V in January 1936, he had to reply to messages of condolence sent to the Irish people by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

On de Valera's instruction, Ua Buachalla did not reside in the official residence of the Governor-General, the Viceregal Lodge ( now called Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland ).

Having done so, he faced a threat of a court case from Ua Buachalla, who had been left personally liable for the remaining one year's expensive private lease on his residence, following the sudden abolition of his office.

In practice, between 1933 and December 1936, the Irish government had paid Ua Buachalla expenses from which he paid the rent on his expensive residence, one which they even picked for him.

Ua Buachalla had in 1932, on de Valera's explicit advice, leased the residence for a full five years which was his expected term of office.

Eventually de Valera was forced to grant Ua Buachalla a large pension and pay his outstanding rent and expenses to stop a potentially embarrassing court case going ahead.

Ua Buachalla attended the inauguration of the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, in Dublin Castle in June 1938.

Ua Buachalla and de Valera subsequently patched up their differences, and in a symbolic act of apology, de Valera, when elected President of Ireland in 1959 appointed Ua Buachalla to his advisory Council of State.

Domhnall Ua Buachalla died, aged 97, in a nursing home in Dublin.

The Ua Buachalla hardware store closed in October 2005.

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It remained the residence of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State until 1932, when the new Governor-General, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, was installed in a specially hired private mansion in the southside of Dublin.

According to Cowan, the slaughter temporarily weakened the new confidence in Pai-marire, but chief prophet Te Ua had a satisfying explanation: that those who fell were to blame because they did not repose absolute faith in the karakia, or incantation.

The battle of Turlach Adhnaigh, between Aedh of the Broken Spear Ua Conchobhair, King of Connaught, and Aedh, the son of Art Uallach Ua Ruairc, and the men of Breifne along with him ; where fell Aedh Ua Conchobhair, King of the province of Connaught, the helmsman of the valour of Leath-Chuinn ; and the chiefs of Connaught fell along with him, and, among the rest, Aedh Ua Concheanainn, lord of Ui-Diarmada, and many others.

According to Cowan, the slaughter temporarily weakened the new confidence in Pai-marire, but Te Ua had a satisfying explanation: that those who fell were to blame because they did not repose absolute faith in the karakia, or incantation.

Domnall Ua Lochlainn, on his coming to power in 1084, was left undisturbed by Ua Briain, who fell ill the following year and died in 1086, aged 77.

The ancient tradition among the O ' Kellys is that they have borne this fabulous animal since the days of King Tadhg Mór Ua Cellaigh who fell " fighting like a wolf dog " on the side of the High King of Ireland, Brian Boru, at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014.

* AI1026. 7 Conall Ua Cillíne, coarb of Crónán of Tuaim Gréine, fell asleep.

One was led out of Connacht by Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and his ally, the King of Connacht, Felim mac Aedh Ua Conchobair.

All of William's brothers inherited the title successively, but as Ua Maíl Mhuaidh predicted, none had children and the male line of the family died out on the death of Anslem Marshall in 1245.

War broke out in 1084 between Toirdelbach and the Ua Ruairc, joined by Cennétig Ua Briain.

In 1094 Godred was driven out of Dublin by Muircheartach Ua Briain.

In The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne – one of the most famous stories of the cycle – the High King Cormac mac Airt promises the now aging Fionn his daughter Gráinne as his bride, but Gráinne falls instead for one of the Fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and the pair runs away together with Fionn in pursuit.

Brian's hard-won authority was seriously challenged in 1013 when his ally Máel Sechnaill was attacked by the Cenél nEógain king Flaithbertach Ua Néill, with the Ulstermen as his allies.

In the well-known story " The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne ", Gráinne was betrothed to Fionn, but instead ran off with a young warrior of the fianna, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

* Diarmuid Ua Duibhne: a warrior of the Fianna who ran off with Fionn's intended bride Grainne and was finally killed by a giant boar on the heath of Benn Gulbain.

In 1260 Brian O ' Neill ( Brian Ua Néill ), King of Tír Eoghain ( Tyrone ) and who had been acknowledged as High King of Ireland by Hugh O ' Conor of Connacht and Tadhg O ' Brien of Thomond marched to Downpatrick, a centre of English settlement, and, allied with a Connacht force under Hugh O ' Conor, fought the foreigners in the Battle of Down.

Between 846-1022, and again from 1042 – 1166, kings from the leading Irish kingdoms made greater attempts to compel the rest of the island's polity to their rule, with varying degrees of success, until the inauguration of Ruaidri Ua Conchobair ( Rory O ' Connor ) in 1166,

Through the intercession of Archbishop Lorcán Ua Tuathail ( Lawrence O ' Toole ), Ruaidrí and Henry came to terms with the Treaty of Windsor in 1175.

The main challenge must have been to reach an accommodation with Dublin, and Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair, then the most powerful king in Ireland, was eager to increase Connacht influence on the church.

In a 1920 interview with historian James Cowan, Te Kahu-Pukoro, a fighter who took part in the attack, explained: " The Pai-marire religion was then new, and we were all completely under its influence and firmly believed in the teaching of Te Ua and his apostles.

Shortly afterwards he met up with the prophet Te Ua Haumene and converted to the Pai Marire.

He made an alliance with the powerful Munster king and self-proclaimed High King of Ireland, Muirchertach Ua Briain, whose young daughter married Magnus's young son, Sigurd I Magnusson.

He sent a message with a small group of his men to Muirchertach Ua Briain, who had returned to Connacht, requesting provisions for the sea journey ahead of them.

In the 1920s, the town was the unofficial home to the King of England's representative in Ireland, Domhnall Ua Buachalla, who declined to take up official residence in the Viceregal Lodge in the Phoenix Park, and whose family operated a hardware store in the town until 2005, the only store with an Irish language name in the town for many years.

The modern parish of Kinvara is roughly with coextensive with the slightly larger late medieval territory of the Ó hEidhin clan Coill Ua bhFhiachrach (" forest of the descendents of Fiachrach ") which was an ancient sub-district of Aidhne stretching from Garryland to Doorus.

She is one of the central figures in the Middle Irish text Finn and Gráinne and most famously, in the 17th-century tale The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne, which tells of her betrothal to Fionn mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna, and her subsequent elopement with Fionn's warrior Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.

In 2000, after two more albums, Ametora and Turbo, Ua took a hiatus from her solo work and formed the band Ajico with Kenichi Asai.

In 2006, Ua collaborated with renowned jazz musician Naruyoshi Kikuchi on the album Cure Jazz.

Mac Murchada also is said to have " abducted " Ua Ruairc's wife Derbforgaill ( English: Dervorgilla ) along with all her furniture and goods, with the aid of Derbforgaill's brother, a future pretender to the kingship of Meath.

Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair ( newer spelling: Ruaidhrí Ua Conchobhair ), often anglicised Rory O ' Connor / O ' Conor, reigned as King of Connacht from 1156 to 1186, and from 1166 to 1198 was the last High King before the Norman invasion of Ireland ( Brian Ua Néill and Edubard a Briuis both claimed the title with opposition in later years ).