The Battle of Ath-an-Chip and The Life of the Rebel King Aodh O'Connor.
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In 1270 the battle of Ath-an-Chip saw a major Gaelic Army take on the forces of the powerful Norman Lord of Connacht Walter de Burgh on the upper reaches of the river Shannon. This decisive battle would shape the history of medieval Ireland in Connacht for decades if not centuries to come...
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| 0:58.9 | Hello and welcome to the Irish history podcast. My name is Finn Dwyer and this is the Battle of O'Hunkip and the life of the rebel king A O'Connor. |
| 1:00.8 | This show looks at one of the key turning points in the history of the West of Ireland in the medieval period, |
| 1:07.0 | the Battle of Ahankit in 1270. |
| 1:10.0 | Fought along the banks of the upper reaches of the Shannon River, the origins of this conflict |
| 1:16.0 | was borne out in the resentment and disillusionment felt by a generation of Gaelic Irish people who watched their society destroyed by the Norman |
| 1:26.1 | invasion of Ireland. Chief among this generation in the west of Ireland was A. O'Connor. His deeds and actions came to represent those of an |
| 1:36.4 | entire generation so much so that the backstory to the Battle of O'Hunkip is one and the same as the life story of A. O'Connor. |
| 1:50.0 | When A. O'Connor, the King of Conacht in 1270, received the ominous news that a large |
| 1:57.4 | Norman army was making its way west to confront him, he had two choices. He could round up his family's vast but easily |
| 2:06.2 | transported wealth, their cattle herds and drive them to safety, or he could stay and fight. This must have been a difficult choice. Not only was the |
| 2:17.8 | Norman Lord of Connacht, Walter de Bourg on the way, but he was also supported by Richard of Exeter, the deputy just this year, |
| 2:26.2 | as well as major Norman landowners from the west of Ireland, men such as the intriguingly |
| 2:31.8 | named Knight Richard of the Wood. |
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