Brian Boru
Americannoun
noun
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If a small state is on the losing side," said the spiritual descendant of the great warriors Cuchulainn and Brian Boru, "it can be utterly annihilated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides, said another, the traditional harp of the great Brian Boru had 30 strings, and this heraldic harp had only 15, for all that they were silver.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Good Friday, 1014, King Brian Boru lost his life smashing the Vikings, who for two centuries had raided Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brian Boru they sang of yore, But when her goal she reaches, Erin will sing, from shore to shore, O'Brien—and his breeches!
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various
The man who killed Brian Boru was no slaumeen, by all accounts.
From The Whale and the Grasshopper And other Fables by O'Brien, Seumas
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