High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Medieval Irish historical tradition held that Ireland had been ruled by an Ard Ri or High King since ancient times, and compilations like the Lebor Gabala Erenn, followed by early modern works like the Annals of the Four Masters and Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Eirinn, purported to trace the line of High Kings. The corpus of early Irish law does not support the existence of such an institution, and scholars now believe it is a pseudohistorical construct of the eighth century AD, a projection into the distant past of a political entity which did not become a reality till the Normans. Rulers like Mael Sechnaill mac Maele Ruanaid declared themselves as King of All Ireland but such claims did not gain the political support of other kingdoms (i.e. Munster), the Norse and Norse-Gaels and was unable to maintain peace with his own Ui Neill kinsmen. The traditional list of High Kings of Ireland is thus a mixture of fact, legend, fiction, and...

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