Fíachu Finnolach

Fíachu Finnolach

Fiacha Finnolach, [Also Fiacha, Fiachaidh Finnolaidh, Finnfolaidh, Findfholaidh. He is sometimes known as Fíachu Findoilches, the name of an earlier High King.] son of Feradach Finnfechtnach, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. He took power after killing his predecessor, Fíatach Finn. He ruled for fifteen, seventeen, or twenty-seven years, depending on the source consulted, after which he, and the freemen of Ireland, were killed in an uprising of "aithech-tuatha" or "subject peoples", led, according to the "Lebor Gabála Érenn" and the "Annals of the Four Masters", by Elim mac Conrach, or by Cairbre Cinnchait according to Geoffrey Keating. His wife Eithne, daughter of the king of Alba (Scotland), who was pregnant, fled home to Alba, where she gave birth to Fíachu's son, Tuathal Techtmar, who would ultimately return to Ireland to claim the throne. The "Lebor Gabála Érenn" synchronises his reign with that of the Roman emperor Nerva (AD 96-98). [R. A. Stewart Macalister (ed. & trans.), "Lebor Gabála Érenn: The Book of the Taking of Ireland Part V", Irish Texts Society, 1956, p. 307] The chronology of Geoffrey Keating's "Foras Feasa ar Éirinn" dates his reign to AD 28-55, [Geoffrey Keating, "Foras Feasa ar Éirinn" [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100054/text048.html 1.38] ] that of the "Annals of the Four Masters" to AD 39-56. ["Annals of the Four Masters" [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text025.html M39] - [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005A/text026.html 56] ]

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