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By John Marsden

Galloglas have been mercenary warriors from the Hebrides and West Highlands who settled in eire within the later thirteenth century and accomplished a unprecedented prominence on Irish battlefields through the 300 years following. scuffling with as heavy infantry - highly-disciplined, mail-armoured and wielding their attribute weapon of the long-staved war-axe - they have been the decisive army part within the Gaelic Irish resurgence of the 14th century and represented the state-of-the-art of resistance to Tudor reconquest 2 hundred years later. came upon first within the provider of local Irish lords in Ulster and Connacht, they have been later introduced into Munster and Leinster by way of the gaelicised Anglo-Irish earls. by way of the fifteenth century they have been confirmed as Ireland's first specialist warrior classification and, like different specialist sessions within the Gaelic global, they have been prepared at the foundation of kin-group. The names of hereditary commanders of galloglas entered within the Irish annals establish those mercenary warrior kindreds because the MacCabes, MacDonnels, MacDowells, MacRorys, MacSheehys and MacSweeneys, them all households descended from the Gaelic-Norse aristocracy of Argyll and the Isles - and but their tale has been known as "a forgotten bankruptcy of West Highland history". This account of the galloglas is written from a decidedly Scottish point of view, tracing the origins of six kindreds and investigating the situations which led to their relocation to eire. It is going directly to study the galloglas as warriors, pointing to their surprisingly Norse personality and offering their battle-fury as "the final unmistakable echo of the Scandinavian effect at the Celtic west".

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