[00:17.31]The Banshee [00:26.51]爱尔兰女妖 [00:36.91]My mom's side of the family is Irish. [00:40.48]So my grandma would tell me stories [00:42.90]about my great-grandpa who was from Ireland. [00:48.52]Just small stories, [00:50.00]such as the fact t

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[00:23.25]The Banshee [00:27.38]爱尔兰女妖 [00:40.77]So then my great grandpa [00:42.60]would feel the coldness of ghosts [00:45.07]and would hear the banshee's wail, [00:48.04]and my Aunt Mary recalled him saying that [00:51.19]the banshee's wail is

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What is his practical impact on Christianitys development? He in chance says that he went where no men went before. Its a famous expression that survives down to the present day, and he clearly did go where no other Christian missionary had gone befo

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His memory would be obliterated by events which would create Ireland's first and most enduring cult of personality. It is the story of a spiritual revolution born in an age of imperial collapse. Since the beginning of the fifth century, barbarian att

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This type of inscribed stone is usually found only in Ireland or the far western fringes of Britain. These lines represent the oldest form of the Irish language. Michael, what is this stone? Well, it is a small Roman column, but what's very different

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-You always ask me difficult questions. -Well, that's my job. -Well, this does at least tell us somebody comes from Northern Europe here with this material in quite considerable amounts. -Well, somebody may not have come. Somebody may have been handi

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-We can see he has this very unusual hairstyle. The front of the forehead was shaved, and then the rest of hair was bundled up a bit like a Mohawk. And that was held in place with a hair gel, which was made using resin imported from the Pyrenees. -Th

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-Why would they build something like this? What were they trying to say? -I think for early farmers, the notion of ancestry, that's really the central focus of this world. The monuments themselves contain selected bones of the ancestors. This is the

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The Vikings who would eventually descend on Ireland had their ancestral roots here in Norway. From these fjords, they created a maritime empire that stretched from the shores of America in the west to central Russia in the east. The Viking world of t

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Tell me what happens when the monks arrive. Well, they would have, first of all, made their way to the local king, the local lord, or something like that, because you couldnt just arrive off the next available flight and announce, hi, Im your new loc

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And this is the great settlement of Clonmacnoise. As you sweep around this turn in the river Shannon, you get the round towers, the churches and everything. You get the first idea that this is a really substantial monastic foundation. How did we arri

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What it says is that the Irish are the centre of the world. Theyre not a small insignificant people. It was woven together in the 11th century from earlier sources as a statement of Irish uniqueness. They didnt want to be seen as peripheral people li

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Irish monks would carry their Gospel across the seas. Men like Brendan the Voyager, Colum Cille in the Irish kingdom of Dal Riata in Scotland, or Aidain at Lindisfarne in Northumbria. Now, the Lord had said, Get thee out of thy country and from thy k

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But Columbanus was deeply loyal to the idea of church led by the pope from Rome. He was a decentrer, not a revolutionary. He looked beyond the monastery walls, imagining a Europe united in faith and culture. Is the narration spoken in the language of

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For the monasteries were still producing great works of art. He might have been less enamoured at the political maneuvering. The status of clergy could have much to do with their alliances and family ties with the local aristocracy. Indeed, from the

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In 795, monks on an island near Dublin saw a fleet of ships approaching. The long ships with a dragons head carved on the bow carried a force of warriors who would plunder the treasures accumulated by the monastery over 2 centuries. A monk wrote late

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For over 40 years, the Vikings raided Irelands coastal villages and monasteries, carrying off plunder and slaves in their long boats. They struck suddenly and caught the Irish unawares. So the Vikings became bolder and began to sail down the rivers o

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By the 11th century, the Vikings who had settled in Ireland, the Hiberno-Norse, had been here for over a century and a half. Theyd intermarried, become Christian and formed local alliances. Theyd founded thriving port cities like Waterford, Wexford,

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Brian did not see himself as a king among equals but as high king of all Ireland, and with a mighty army he set about trying to control the island. In the only statement of his that we know about, he describes himself as Imperator Scottorum, Emperor

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On Good Friday 1014, the opposing forces faced each other at Clontarf, outside Dublin. There were two Irish armies, but both with their Viking allies. Of these Vikings it was said they carried arrows anointed and browned in the blood of dragons. The

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