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Tomás Mac Uchtraigh
Thomas of Galloway, known in Goidelic languages, Gaelic sources as Tomás Mac Uchtraigh (died 1231), was a Galwegian Gaelic, Gall-Gaidhil prince and adventurer. The son of Lochlann of Galloway, Lochlann, king of Galloway, Thomas was an active agent of his brother Alan of Galloway as well as the English and Scottish kings. When John, King of England, King John, the English monarch, decided that central and western Ulster were to be added to his dominions (with the earldom of Ulster already created by John de Courcy), he conscripted Thomas and Alan of Galloway to his aid, offering them much of later counties County Antrim, Antrim, County Londonderry, Londonderry and County Tyrone, Tyrone as incentive. Thomas had begun his recorded career as a mercenary in Angevin kings of England, Angevin service, and obtained much land in Ireland while gaining several victories with his fleet. In Scotland he obtained from William the Lion marriage to Isabella of Atholl, heiress to the province o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Gaelic
Early Modern Irish () represented a transition between Middle Irish and Irish language, Modern Irish. Its literary form, Classical Gaelic, was used in Ireland and Scotland from the 13th to the 18th century. Classical Gaelic Classical Gaelic or Classical Irish () was a shared Gaelic literature, literary form of Gaelic that was in use by poets in Scotland and Ireland from the 13th century to the 18th century. Although the first written signs of Scottish Gaelic having diverged from Irish language, Irish appear as far back as the 12th century annotations of the Book of Deer, Scottish Gaelic did not have a separate standardised form and did not appear in print on a significant scale until the 1767 translation of the New Testament into Scottish Gaelic;Thomson (ed.), ''The Companion to Gaelic Scotland'' however, in the 16th century, Séon Carsuel, John Carswell's ', an adaptation of John Knox's ''Book of Common Order'', was the first book printed in either Scottish or Irish Gaelic. Bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
