Argloe-Noremen

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  • Anglo-Normans: in 1169 Ireland was invaded by Norman-French knights from England (which had been conquered by the Normans under William the Conqueror in 1066) → the Anglo-Normans were eventually assimilated, becoming "more Irish than the Irish themselves"
  • Norsemen: the modern-day city of Dublin traces its roots to a Viking settlement, established in 988 and controlled by the Vikings until the Norman invasion in 1169.
  • Arklow: a town on the coast of County Wicklow with a lighthouse
  • Nore:: a river in Ireland → Strongbow (Richard de Clare the Earl of Pembroke), the leader of the Anglo-Norman invaders, had a castle on the Nore, as Stephen Dedalus recalls in the Proteus episode of Ulysses