These prelates were followed by the kings of Cork, Limerick, Ossory, Meath, and by Reginald of Waterford.

Roderick O'Connor, King of Connaught, joined them in 1175.

All these accepted Henry the Second of England as their Lord and King, swearing to be loyal to him and his successors forever.
Such was England's brutal and unjustifiable conquest of Ireland.
Ireland was not a nation, it was a tribal chaos.

The Irish nation of that day is a legend, a myth, built by poetic imagination.

During the centuries succeeding Henry the Second, were many eras of violence and bloodshed.