• The term Kingship of Tara (/ˈtærə/) was a title of authority in ancient Ireland - the title is closely associated with the archaeological complex at the...
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    historic residence of Swedish kings of the legendary Yngling dynasty Kingship of Tara – List of Kings of Tara (sometimes also High Kings of Ireland) Stonehenge –...
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    of powerful dynasties, and intended to justify their status by projecting it far into the past. John T. Koch explains: "Although the kingship of Tara...
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    purported to trace the line of High Kings. John T. Koch explains: "Although the kingship of Tara was a special kingship whose occupants had aspirations...
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    Diarmait mac Cerbaill (category Cycles of the Kings)
    last to hold the sacral kingship of Tara. He has also some title to be ranked as the first Christian high-king of Ireland. Two of his sons bore the specifically...
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  • title Baron Tara, an Irish title Kingship of Tara, a title in ancient Ireland Viscount Tara, an Irish title Tara Air, a Nepalese airline Tara, an oceanic...
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    Flann Sinna (category Year of birth uncertain)
    as kings of Ireland, that are exceptional. Flann may have had the intention of abandoning the traditional succession to the kingship of Tara, whereby...
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    reign of Domnall mac Áedo, the kingship of Tara was a title which was strongly associated with the high kingship of Ireland and was held by members of the...
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  • ISBN 978-1-136-34941-6. Warntjes, Immo (January 2003). "The alternation of the kingship of Tara 734–944". Peritia. 17–18: 394–432. doi:10.1484/J.Peri.3.542. ISSN 0332-1592...
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  • Congal out of the kingship of Tara. No later sources make Congal a High King of Ireland, which is largely the same as the kingship of Tara, but the Cath Maige...
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    In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, Tārā, lit. 'star') is the Queen of Kishkindha and the wife of the monkey (vanara) King Vali. After being...
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  • uile, king of all Ireland. That was a title that would never be used to refer to Áed Findliath, even though he assumed the kingship of Tara following Máel...
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  • certain forms of monarchy are: Extant monarchies are listed in bold type. Trigarta (c. BC – c. 1946) Egypt (c. 3500 BC – 30 BC) Kingship of Tara (c. 3400 BC...
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    Cuilén (redirect from Culen I of Scotland)
    branches of the Uí Néill, a dominant Irish kindred that monopolised the kingship of Tara between the eighth and tenth centuries. This alternation amongst the...
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  • Máel Sechnaill mac Máele Ruanaid (category High Kings of Ireland)
    Clann Cholmáin were dominant from the time of Máel Sechnaill's great-grandfather Domnall Midi. The Kingship of Tara, a largely symbolic title, alternated between...
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    Ulster (redirect from Province of Ulster)
    bid for the kingship of Tara. In 637, the Battle of Moira, known archaically as the Battle of Magh Rath, was fought by the Gaelic High King of Ireland Domhnall...
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    and claiming the kingship of Tara, beginning to be conceptualised as the High Kingship of Ireland. This led to a new division of the country into two...
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    child and returned with an army to claim the kingship of Tara in the 1st century. Tacitus also says that most of the harbours and approaches to Ireland were...
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    (1994), pp. 45–47. Kings and kingship in Early Medieval Ireland, pp. 63–84, Daibhi O Croinin, 1995. The Kingship of Tara in Early Christian Ireland, Thomas...
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    again attain the status of over-king of the Uí Néill. It was from this point that the lengthy rotation of the kingship of Tara between the Cenél nEógain...
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    a bid for the kingship of Tara. Tuath Inbir and Tráig Indbir Colpa are listed as the southern boundary points of the forest and lands of Conall Cernach...
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  • Lóegaire mac Néill (category High Kings of Ireland)
    annals and king lists include him as a King of Tara or High King of Ireland. He appears as an adversary of Saint Patrick in several hagiographies. His...
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  • Flann Mainistrech (category Year of birth unknown)
    ttain, which together comprise an Uí Néill-orientated history of the kingship of Tara. Among his other poems, some apparently composed much later in...
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    called the Act of Annexation. The pope in 1171 abolished the High Kingship of Ireland (of 9th-century origin, successor to the Kingship of Tara) and devalued...
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    High Kings of Ireland and Kings of Tara. Their ascent to hegemony in Ireland was associated with the decline in influence of their Ulster-based Heremonian...
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  • Báetán mac Ninneda (category High Kings of Ireland)
    He was a member of the Cenél nDuach branch of the Cenél Conaill. He is counted as King of Tara in some sources. The kingship of Tara rotated between the...
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    Ubba (category Year of birth unknown)
     41–83. ISBN 978-1-84383-322-2. Jaski, B (1995). "The Vikings and the Kingship of Tara". Peritia. 9: 310–353. doi:10.1484/J.Peri.3.254. eISSN 2034-6506. ISSN 0332-1592...
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  • Cathal mac Finguine (category Kings of Munster)
    Connon, Anne, "A Prosopography of the Early Queens of Tara", in Edel Bhreathnach (ed.), The Kingship and Landscape of Tara. Dublin: Four Courts Press for...
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  • Cairbre and Diarmait Mac cerbaill who had wrested the kingship at Tara from them after the death of Tuathal Maelgarb. Story: St Columba and modern copyright;...
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  • Congal Cáech of the Cruthin of Dál nAraidi made a bid for the kingship of Tara. Conaille Muirtheimne once formed part of the over-kingdom of the Ulaid,...
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