(1177) The Norman Invasion XV - The Invasion of Munster

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

Ireland, Irish History, Norman Invasion, Great Hunger, Vikings, Interviews, History, War Of Independence, Great Famine

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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So far in the story of the invasion the kingdoms of Munster - Desmond and Thomond have escaped relatively unscathed. That is until this episode. In this show we see a fresh Norman army land in Waterford bent on conquering Munster. They are however stepping into a minefield of bloody feuds that stretch back centuries. In this episode I take a different approach, focusing on experience of the Gaelic Irish rather than the Normans. This takes us into a bitter world of dynastic feuds and bloody struggles for domination in the world of Gaelic Munster. Add a Norman army into the mix and the results are explosive.

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0:48.2	podcasts. Hello and this is the Irish History Podcast. My name is Finn Dwer and this is the Norman Invasion Part 15, The Conquest of Munster.
1:09.6	By May 1177, the Normans had already conquered Lensster, Mead and Eastern Ulster, when King Henry
1:16.2	II further granted the kingdoms of Desmond and Thomond in Munster to some of his liegemen. This signaled the beginning of a new wave of conquest
1:26.3	in Ireland and what became the enthralling Norman conquest of the southwest of Ireland. In telling this story this episode is going to take a slightly different approach from previous shows
1:38.0	many of you have pointed out in feedback that the series of the invasion heavily focuses on the Norman perspective.
1:46.1	This is true and is largely reflective of the sources available to me.
1:50.2	In this show I have tried to make some address and look at the events from a Gaelic perspective.
1:55.2	The Gaelic reaction to the invasion of Munster is pretty unusual and definitely not what we might expect.
2:01.8	To understand this we need to look back at
2:04.5	life in Munster in the previous decades to see what made people tick and why they
2:10.0	reacted to the Normans in the way they did. This brings us deep into the world of blood
2:15.8	feuds in medieval Ireland, a story that is not for the faint-hearted. By May 1177, Deermont, Deermuth McCarthy, the King of South Munster, known in the
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