Gallowglass: The Viking-Scot Mercenaries of Ireland

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“Heartless” Viking-Scot warriors leave the Hebrides for Ireland in the 13th century. The ax-wielding champions form an elite mercenary class called the “gallowglass” or “galloglass,” which will radically alter medieval Irish warfare. Chieftains and lords hire the brutal and fearsome warriors to wage war against each other and against the encroaching forces of England. Driving out medieval knights and earning a mention from Shakespeare (in MacBeth), the gallowglass are a special class of warrior that deserves to be noted in the historical record.
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Cannan, Fergus, and Brógáin Seán Ó. Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior. Osprey Publishing, 2010.
Dorney, John. “The Desmond Rebellions Part II, the Second Rebellion, 1579-83.” The Desmond Rebellions Part II, The Second Rebellion, 1579-83 - The Irish Story, 30 Sept. 2015, www.theirishstory.com/2015/09....
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Scottish and irish built different. Celtic barbarian roots or something.

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Did my honours dissertation on the Gael-Norse and later gallowglass. Viking cowboys that spoke Gaelic. Thank you so much for highlighting how awesome this group is. Can’t wait to watch the always high quality video. And thanks so much again

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Extremely interesting. This history is very relevant to where I live in Donegal. O’Donnell, Sweeney and O’Neill are very common names in the county and there are still castles built by them here such as Dough castle which belonged to the Sweeneys, and Grianán Aileach which belonged to the O’Neills, which could also be easily seen by the O’Donnells on their land. There are many more structures but those are two that come to mind that I’ve visited. I only clicked on this video after watching about what people with bad eyesight before glasses, and I ended up finding a video that relates massively to my local area! Super cool

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Fantastic work! My father is from Limerick and we can trace our lineage very clearly up to our Gallowglass beginnings (Mac Sithig). One of our ancestors was even a mercenary aide de camp to Napoleon (Though died at Austerlitz). Gallowglass are severely slept on when it comes to any historical spotlight, thank you for taking the time to put this together so others can learn!

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Excellent video, the Secret of Kells is a terrific animatied movie that has a scene where the vikings march on Kells. The image of the big haunting looking men marching black on red always impresses me. It's fitting of the Gallowglass. Nice to see the O'Neills get a mention too!

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I descend from these proud people the gallowglass heart still beats strong my grandfather is the purest example of that! Rawleigh s. Mcsweeney 1914-1999 rest in peace Gramp 5 bronze star's in WW2 a Man among men thanks for your video really great and had me thinking of my Grandfather God bless

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I've actually written a feature film script called the gallowglass so it's cool to see more videos on them.

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