Difference between revisions of "Argloe-Noremen"
From FinnegansWiki
Jump to navigationJump to searchm (typo) |
|||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
* '''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 the Nore, as Stephen Dedalus recalls in the Proteus episode of ''Ulysses'' | + | * '''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'' |
| + | |||
| + | * '''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. | ||
Revision as of 14:19, 22 August 2016
- 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
- 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.
