As a result of the
Burke Civil War of the 1330s, the Lordship of Connacht was split between two opposing factions of the
de Burgh family: the
Burkes of
Mac William Uachtar (or
Clanricarde) in southern Connacht and the Mac William Íochtar Burkes of northern Connacht. For over three hundred years, the two families dominated the politics of the province, frequently fighting each other for supreme rule of both the
Anglo-Irish and
Gaelic-
Irish peoples.[1]
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abMoody, T. W.;
Martin, F. X.;
Byrne, F. J., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland: IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists, A Companion to Irish History, Part II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 235–36 (Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649).
^Chambers, A. (2007). Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. Dublin: Ashfield Press. pp. 65–66.
Bibliography
Chambers, Anne (2007). Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. Dublin: Ashfield Press.
ISBN978-1-90-165865-1.