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🗓️ 8 September 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The show picks up the story of the de Burgh family in August 1316 as the biggest battle in medieval Irish history approaches. The De Burghs have paid an huge ransom to free their best battle commander William 'Liath' de Burgh. He will lead the Norman forces against the might of the O'Connors and their king Felim. This battle fought beneath the walls of Athenry will decide the fate of a generation.
This episode also continues the story of the Bruce Invasion and Dublin's earliest popular revolt.
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0:47.0 | little big thing at every mind matters. My name is Finn Duar and this is Fatal Feud's 4, the fall of the Red Earl. |
1:06.4 | This show opens as Ireland stands on the brink of one of the biggest battles in our medieval |
1:11.2 | history, the Battle of Athens, Roy. Previous installments of the |
1:15.2 | fatal feud series have seen the Deberg family emerge as a superpower in |
1:20.0 | medieval Ireland, that is until 1315 when the Scots invaded Ulster. |
1:26.0 | In part 3 we saw how the Scott Edward Bruce enjoyed a stunning victory over Richard |
1:31.0 | de Berg, the Red Earl of Ulster at the Battle of Connor, where he also took |
1:36.0 | William Lea de Berg prisoner. |
1:38.4 | Shattered by that defeat and the loss of William Lea, the de Berg family faced an uprising in their lordship of conduct as their |
1:45.7 | one-time allies the O'Connor's attacked them. |
1:48.6 | At the end of the last installment of fatal feuds, the Red Earl paid an enormous ransom for his cousin William's freedom |
1:56.0 | as he needed him to fight the O'Connor's. |
1:58.0 | This show opens as William Lea de Bourg arrives back in Ireland. |
2:05.0 | Whether it birthed it in Dublin or Jrejoda, |
2:11.0 | when the shit carrying William Lea de Bourg reached Ireland, it can only have been greeted |
2:15.9 | with mixed emotions. While a man undoubtedly was the best battle commander the Normans in Ireland |
2:21.9 | had, the ransom paid for his freedom was staggering. |
2:26.3 | The Red Earl of Ulster Richard de Bourg had betrayed the garrison of Karig Fergus Castle |
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