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Like early gallowglasses, they were supporting Mael Sechnaill, king of Tara, against the Scandinavians of Dublin and his Irish rivals.
Dermot O'Conor Don, a valiant man, had, with a body of 1,500 kerns and gallowglasses, entered his service.
For over three centuries, up to the final defeat of the seventeenth century, they fought as gallowglasses in the struggles of Ulster, mainly on behalf of the O'Donnells.
In the search for sporting success, the Qatari authorities began handing out passports to a horde of gallowglasses from across the world of athletics.
Several texts in the first section focus on or mention kerns and gallowglasses, which reflect the state of conflict in Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century.
