Another medieval Irish quiz

1. In the context of the Irish church, what was a paruchia?

2. What was original about the ordination of Gilla Patraic of Dublin in the eleventh century?

3. Who offered Ruaidhrí Ua Conchobhair the kingship of Ireland according to the Chronicon Scottorum? On what condition was the offer made?

4. What was a sét?

5. Who was the next king after Ruaidhrí Ua Conchobair to be offered the kingship of Ireland?


6. Name the three main Cruithin(Pictish) tribes of Ireland?

7. Where was 'new ireland'? Where is it currently located? What name does it bear?


8 Where was Ireland the Great supposedly?


9. Which spanish knight has left an account of life in Ireland in the 14th century? What was his purpose in ireland? Who's territory did he visit? Which other spanish soldier also left an account of his experience in Gaelic Ireland? Why was he in Ireland?



10. Which political manoeuvre at the expense of the eoghanacht, did Muircheartach Ua Briain pull off at a synod on church reform in 1101?

11. Which high king of Ireland, was said to have taken part in the Battle of Clontarf when he was only 15?

12. What was the Cáin Adamhnáin?

13. Which famous Irish saint was said to have died in the arms of Bernard of Clairvaux?

14. What did Muircheartach Ua Briain make his army do to the Grianán of Ailech. What was this in response to?

15. Which site the the main highways of Ireland meet?

16. What was traditionally regarded as the geographical centre of Ireland?

17. Which 16th century Irish lord wrote a life of colmcille as well as poetry in the amour courteois style? Who has been credited, though perhaps unduly, with the introduction of that genre to Ireland?

18. The comharbs of armagh claimed that churches having a certain word before their name were institutions founded by St Patrick. What was this word? Why did they wish to prove this?

19. What was Flann Fina's, who composed many proverbs in Irish, real name. Of which Kingdom was he king?

20 What were the three chief places of the Laigin?

21. What is so unusual about Norse-based place names in Irish, as opposed to Gaelic?

22 Which three place names in English are indicative of a norse-gaelic creole language?

23. From which population group did the Dál gCais claim to be descended, and from which group did they actually descend? What did these two groups have in common? (Think cashel).

24. Of which 13th century Connacht king was it foretold that he would save Ireland. What was it about the king that connected him to the prophesy?

25. What did Toirdhealbhach Ua Conchobair receive as a result of the Lateran Council? What did he do with it that still survives till this day?

26. What was unusual about Irish beggars?

Hey!!! What have I started with these quizzes!!!

Nothing much, at least people answer yours lol

I'd help out except that it is 22 years since I last did mediaeval history and even then the last bit I did was on Montaillou! I keep meaning to get back to reading it. It fascinated me, but I got stuck into 19th century and 20th century history, though Margaret MacCurtain used to try to get me to return to the mediaeval stuff.

That's always been the one I loved. In modern history one has to filter through massive amounts of material to find the truly surreal, in medieval you open the book and there it is. I also find it interesting to reconstruct an extinct society, as opposed to merely regressing the modern one.

A parish?

Took place in Canterbury?

Atholl in Perthshire? Ath-Fhodhla

Getting someone from the Dál gCáis appointed as Archbishop of Cashel?

Malachy.

Burnt it.

Áth Cliath?

Uisneach?

Domhnach?

That there are so few of them, I suppose, though I expect that's not the answer

Dalkey would be one. Deilg-inis half-translated to Deilg-ey, replacing an Irish word for island with the Norse equivalent.

That they weren't maimed?

some right there observer.

Can't answer any. But enjoying the google expeditions the questions have encouraged and look forward to answers.

26. What was unusual about Irish beggars?

They rode on horseback, to the annoyance of the English sense of propriety?

It is believed by many to have been somewhere in the Carolinas, though this is contested as the location of 'Vinland' itself hasnt even been properly identified. Referred to in a couple of the Icelandic Sagas.

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