Fiachra Finn, 3rd king of
Uí Maine
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, fl. 5th-century.
John O'Donovan remarked that ''"Fiachra Finn, the son of Bresal (No. 2), seventeen years, when he was treacherously slain by his brother Maine Mall. Fiachra Finn is styled in the poem, ‘a tower in conflict and battle.’ He is the ancestor of the O'Naghtens and O'Mullallys or Lallys."''
References
* http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/uimaine.htm
* ''Annals of Ulster'' a
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University College Cork* ''Annals of Tigernach'' a
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University College Corkof McCarthy's synchronisms at
Trinity College Dublin
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* ''Irish Kings and High-Kings'',
Francis John Byrne
Francis John Byrne (1934 – 30 December 2017) was an Irish historian.
Born in Shanghai where his father, a Dundalk man, captained a ship on the Yellow River, Byrne was evacuated with his mother to Australia on the outbreak of World War II. Af ...
, Dublin (1971; 2003) Four Courts Press,
* ''History of the O'Maddens of Hy-Many'',
Gerard Madden
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References
*Holy Island, Jewel of the Lough, 1990, reprinted 19 ...
, 2004. .
* ''The Life, Legends and Legacy of Saint Kerrill: A Fifth-Century East Galway Evangelist'' by
Joseph Mannion
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, 2004.
The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country
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People from County Galway
People from County Roscommon
5th-century Irish monarchs
Kings of Uí Maine