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Brian Boru's Women: Gormlaith and the Emain Macha
In this episode, Lucas and Luna step away from the battlefields to explore the women who shaped Ireland's most dramatic centuries. Gormlaith ingen Murchada — daughter of a king, wife of two more, mother of the Viking king of Dublin — is the thread that ties Clontarf to the politics of a divided island. Across the centuries, they follow the trail of a different kind of power: the royal abbesses of early Christian Ireland, women like St. Brigid and St. Samthann who ran monasteries, negotiated with kings, and preserved learning. They also look at the legal status of women under the Brehon…
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