Difference between revisions of "Argloe-Noremen"

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* '''Arklow:''' a town on the coast of County Wicklow with a lighthouse
 
* '''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 he Nore, as Stephen Dedalus recalls in the Proteus episode of ''Ulysses''
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* '''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''

Revision as of 08:52, 17 July 2015

  • 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"
  • 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