Muiredach ( Old Irish), Muireadhach or Muireach, anglicized variously to Murdoch, Murtagh, Murray, Murdac, Mordacq and other forms, is a Goidelic name (meaning "chieftain") popular in Scotland and Ireland in the Middle Ages: * Muiredach Bolgrach, mythological Irish king *

Muiredach Tirech Muiredach Tirech son of Fiacha Sraibhtine, was a semi-legendary High King of Ireland of the fourth century. He gained power by exiling the three Collas, who had killed his father. The Collas later returned and tried to provoke him into trying to ...

, legendary high-king of Ireland * Muiredach mac Eógain (died 489), legendary early king of Ailech *

Muiredach Muinderg Muiredach Muinderg mac Forggo (died 489) was a king of Ulaid from the Dál Fiatach. He was the son of Forgg mac Dalláin. His sobriquet means ''red-necked''. His death date is given in the ''Annals of Tigernach'' in 489. The ''Book of Leinster'' ...

(died 489), legendary king of the Ulaid * Muiredach of Killala, reputed early Irish saint * Muiredach Muillethan (died 702), king of Connaught * Muiredach mac Ainbcellaig (died c. 770), king of Dál Riata * Muiredach mac Murchado (died 760), king of Leinster * Muiredach mac Brain (died 818) (8th-century–818), king of Leinster * Muiredach mac Ruadrach (8th-century–829), king of Leinster * Muiredach mac Eochada (died 839), king of the Ulaid * Muiredach mac Brain (died 885), king of Munster *

Muiredach mac Eochocáin Muiredach mac Eochocáin (died 895) or Muiredach mac Eochucáin was a Dál Fiatach king of Ulaid, which is now Ulster, Ireland. He was the son of Eochocán mac Áedo (died 883), a previous king of Ulaid. He ruled as leth-rí (half-king or co-ruler ...

(died 895), king of the Ulaid *

Muireadhach Ua Carthaigh Muiredach (Old Irish), Muireadhach or Muireach, anglicized variously to Murdoch, Murtagh, Murray, Murdac, Mordacq and other forms, is a Goidelic name (meaning "chieftain") popular in Scotland and Ireland in the Middle Ages: * Muiredach Bolgrach, m ...

(died 1067), Chief Poet of Connacht *

Muireadhach Ua Dubhthaigh Muireadhach Ua Dubhthaigh (fl. c. 1075–1150) was an Archbishop of Connacht, in Ireland. Background A member of a Connacht ecclesiastical family, Ua Dubhthaigh was born during the reign of King Áed Ua Ruairc (r. 1067–1087). His family were n ...

, Archbishop of Connacht *

Muireadhach Ua Flaithbheartaigh Muireadhach Ua Flaithbheartaigh (died 1121) was King of Iar Connacht. Biography According to the Annals of the Four Masters, ''sub anno'' 1121: '' A hosting by Toirdhealbhach, son of Ruaidhrí into Munster, and he burned Ciarraighe Luachra a ...

(died 1121), King of Iar Connacht * Muiredach (ealdorman) (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

958–963), ealdorman * Muireadhach I, Earl of Menteith (

12th-century–13th-century), Scottish mormaer * Muireadhach Albanach (

early 12th-century–13th-century), Gaelic poet and crusader * Muireadhach II, Earl of Menteith (died c. 1230), Scottish mormaer * Muireadhach III, Earl of Menteith (died 1332), Scottish mormaer * Muireadhach of Inchaffray (died 1340s), Scottish abbot *

Muireadhach Sdíbhard Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany ( gd, Muireadhach Stiubhart) (136224 May 1425) was a leading Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, and the grandson of King Robert II of Scotland, who founded the Stewart dynasty. In 1389, he ...

or Muireadhach IV, Earl of Menteith (died 1425), Scottish prince *

Muredach Dynan Muredach Benedict Camillas Dynan (1938–2021) was a university professor and senior academic administrator. Career Dynan was born in Belfast in 1938 where he attended St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast. He then proceeded to Qu ...

(1938-2021), educationalist

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