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In the mid to late nineteenth century, the publication of Irish manuscript sources that “corrected” Cambrensis’s version of 1152–1172 fractured the causal narrative of Ireland’s colonial origin story in ways that allow later writers to challenge that history and alter its legacy. 1 Nearly a century later, in their A Short History of the Irish People (1927), Mary Hayden and George A. Moonan would look back upon this mid to late nineteenth century period from the other side of the Irish Literary Revival, acknowledging the crucial impact of “the publication of a number of works which had lain in manuscript for many centuries” on shaping the understanding of Irish history and fostering its international study (Hayden and Moonan 575).
Was banished from out of the province of Leinster by king Rory, Tyernan O’Royrck, and their partakers in the year of our Lord 1166 for the unjustly taking and keeping of Deruorgill daughter of Murrogh O’Melaghlyn king of Meath, and wife of the said Tyernan O’Royrck, being before for his pride, tyrany, and badd government hated of the Leinstermen themselves, and at last being thereunto compelled by necessity went for England and brought with him from thence ... a great armye. (Murphy 206) 28 Medieval Invasions in Modern Irish Literature By contrast, Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland simply records the 1166 banishment as follows: “An army, composed of the men of Breifne and Meath ...
While no account of Dervorgilla’s abduction survives in The Annals of Loch Cé, the fact that her death is recorded in 1193 suggests that she may have been noted earlier. As for her death, we are told simply that she “mortua est in pilgrimage, in the monastery of Droichet-atha” (Hennessy 187). 8 From such brief entries, later writers construct a woman whose generous giving to churches and monasteries emerges out of remorse for the sin of eloping with Diarmuid and facilitating the invasion of Ireland.