Builg

The Builg are a Celtic tribe who populated to 500 BC Ireland. As a native of Great Britain tribe can the Builg the language group of the p- Celtic languages ​​assign what a culturally relevant difference to the Gaels represented, BC from Brittany to Ireland attracted about 100.

The Builg and the history of Ireland

From the 8th century BC, Ireland was the scene of a series of waves of Celtic invasions and migrations, the Builg constituted in accordance with the 1946 developed by the scholars of Thomas F. O'Rahilly model for Irish history, the second wave of Celtic invaders. Unlike the 700 BC arrived from the UK to Ireland Cruithne, which apparently relatively nonviolent assimilated with the population in the vicinity of Leinster and Ulster, conquered the Builg Ireland. Here, four strains can be distinguished:

• The Uluti, which moved into the northern part of Ireland and Ulster gave the country its name, its capital near present-day Navan planting;
• The Darini and Robogdii, who used jointly Antrim and North Down occupied and far-reaching relationship with Scotland;
• The Ebdani, which remained on the Irish coast, and of which some claim that they inhabited a tract of land on which the subsequent Dublin was founded.

The supremacy of the Builg on Ireland was around 300 BC off balance by the arrival of Lagin, Domnainn and Gálioin. In particular, the Lagin it but preferred to settle in by the Builg only sparsely populated areas in Connacht. The local rule of the Builg was overthrown by the langinischen King Cairbre in the ( Second ) Battle of Mag Tuired ( in Sligo). To have Gradually, however, seems a mode of coexistence between Lagin and Builg emerged, which, lasted until the arrival of the fourth Celtic invasion, the Gaels.

The Gaels, which can be divided into two tribes named Connachta and Eoganachta, Ireland in the 1st century BC The Connachta followed the River Boyne upriver and eventually reached Tara, the seat of the king of Leinster Builg. There they defeated the local king and ruled henceforth bolgischen over most of Leinster. The Eoganachta occupied by the Builg sparsely populated southwest Ireland, but can find evidence that there were friendly relations and Builg and Eoganachta Munster dominated together.

Source

• Cronin, Mike: Irish History for Dummies ( Chichester: John Wiley & Sons), 2006; ISBN 978-0-7645-7040-7.

• Irish history