📖 Ancient Restoration

The Old Irish word 'rígdomna' means heir-apparent (lit. 'material of a king'). However this title was not a guarantee of election as king, hence the superior title of 'tánaise ríg': "one whom the whole tribe looks forward for the kingship without dispute."

#OnThisDay 1916 Thomas Ashe & his Volunteers from the Fingal Battalion attack the RIC barracks in Ashbourne. After a five hour firefight the police finally surrendered. Ashe lost 2 men while the RIC lost 8. Ashe took roughly 70 RIC men prisoner.

14th of April 1920: British soldiers & RIC in Miltown Malbay Clare, fire into a crowd of civilians celebrating the release of Republican hunger strikers from Mountjoy. Three men are killed & several more were wounded including a 14 year old boy & a teenage girl.

To secure peace, stability, the fertility of land & women, to abstain from pointless bloodshed - Advice for Irish kings, Morann's Testament:

Morann macMáin was a legendary judge who instructed ancient Irish kings. He taught that a king's justice brought abundance, truth, morality.

The Irish king was expected to have fir flathemon (truth of the ruler); to be righteous, come from high ancestry & capable of heroic action.

Irish Kingship ritual - Shows the sacrifice of a white mare & preparation of stew by a tribe of Ulstermen, c. 1220.

Irish Kingship ritual - Shows the sacrifice of a white mare & preparation of stew by a tribe of Ulstermen, c. 1220.

Up to 3 million men could be descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages, medieval Irish king of the O'Neill dynasty: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8600-medieval-irish-warlord-boasts-three-million-descendants/

Niall of the Nine was Ireland's Alexander the Great - Nine hostages from Scots, Saxons, Brits & Franks were paid to him, such was his power.

Monastic ruins of Clonmacnoise - Ireland's 'Valley of the Kings'. The historical burial place of the high kings of Tara and Connacht.

High king Cormac Mac Airt on the governance of a true nation. Family, tradition, moral virtue, defense of the people are central: