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Diarmaid (Irish: [ˈdʲiəɾˠmˠədʲ]) is a masculine given name in the Irish language, which has historically been anglicized as Jeremiah or Jeremy, names with ...
Diarmuid is a scion of the Fianna in both the paternal and the maternal line. His father's name is usually given as Donn, sometimes Corc; Duibhne of the Fianna is his paternal grandfather.
Diarmait was born around 1090 [3] or 1110, [4] [5] a son of Donnchadh mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Dublin.His father's paternal grandmother, Derbforgaill, was a daughter of Donnchad, King of Munster and thus a granddaughter of Brian Boru.
Of the death of Diarmaid was said:" [7] Two, seven times ten above one thousand, From the birth of Christ is reckoned, To this year, in which Diarmaid, First man in Leinster, fell. Diarmaid, of the ruddy-coloured aspect, A king who maintained the standard of war, Whose death brought scarcity of peace, The loss of the heroes of Ladhrann, with ...
Diarmaid, son of Ruaidhri, son of Toirdhelbhach Mór O'Conchobhair, was slain by Thomas Mac Uchtraigh as he was coming from Insi-Gall, whilst collecting a fleet for the purpose of acquiring the sovereignty of Connacht; and this was a great pity, viz.:—the materies of a king of Erinn to fall so before his time.
Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch Kt FSA FRHistS FBA (/ ˈ d ɜːr m ə d /; born 31 October 1951) is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor.
Diarmait Ua Briain (c. 1060 –1118) was an 11th-century Irish king who ruled Munster from 1114 to 1118.. One of three sons of Toirdelbach Ua Briain, he was banished from Munster by his brother Muirchertach Ua Briain shortly after the death of their father in 1086.
In 1115, Donnchad mac Murchada and Conchobar Ua Conchobair Failge, co-kings of Leinster, [1] seized upon the faltering power of the Uí Briain controlled Kingdom of Munster, and launched an attack upon the Kingdom of Dublin.