Thomas D'Arcy McGee

CHAPTER II. KINGS OF THE NINTH CENTURY (CONTINUED) - NIAL III. - MALACHY I. - HUGH VII.

 

When, in the year 833, Nial III. received the usual homage and hostages, which ratified his title of Ard-Righ, the northern invasion had clearly become the greatest danger that ever yet had threatened the institutions of Erin. Attacks at first predatory and provincial had so encouraged the Gentile leaders of the second generation that they began to concert measures and combine plans for conquest and colonization.

Syndicate content