Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf /
By: Duffy, Seán [author.].
Publisher: Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2013Description: xvi, 349 pages : illustrations (some col.), plates, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text $2 rdacontent | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediat ed $2 rdamedia | unmediated Carrier type: volume $2 rdacarrier | volumeISBN: 9780717157785; 9780717157785:; 0717157784.Subject(s): Brian, King of Ireland, 926-1014
| Clontarf, Battle of, Clontarf, Ireland, 1014DDC classification: 941.501 Summary: Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index.
Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf.