The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

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Oh, you know. Oh, you know. Hello everyone. Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine and we are going to be resuming our look at unlikely military victories.

So this week I've got four more battles to present to you that involve people or involve

armies or nations winning battles against the odds.

Now our first visit back in history takes us to the year 1014 and the island of Ireland and the location is

Clontaff now the island of Ireland had been settled by North Vikings, I beg your pardon, who established colonies at several key ports on the island.

So therefore the Vikings had established a political dominance in Ireland.

They were calling the shots at the time. The hiking of Ireland was a man

called Brian Baru and he had battled his way to a position of power throughout his adult life

and had become a very important part of Irish politics.

Despite being the hiking of Ireland, Brian Baru did not rule over all of the kingdoms of Ireland directly. Instead the various kings recognised Brian as their overlord and acted as tributary kings. Brian would find himself required

to deal with various rebellions but essentially he maintained good

order until a more serious rebellion took place in 1013 involving Lenster and Dublin, who had never been wholly comfortable bowing down to anyone.

The King of Lensster was Moil-Mohrha Macmirtter, who was the same king, who was also the king of Lenster, when they rebelled in

999 leading to the Battle of Glen Mama.

The North Gale King of Dublin was a man called Citric Silkbeard,

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