2007-09-10 10:29:29 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Ireland#Kingdom_of_Ireland_.281542.E2.80.931801.29
2007-09-10 10:36:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be honest even the English didn't speak what we would recognise as english until relatively recently. After 1066 a form of English, Saxon English, was spoken by the common people and Norman French by the ruling classes. All written language, other than place and personal names would have been in Latin. English as it is spoken today owes a great deal to a mass of languages reflecting the invaders of England, which would have included the Irish, Scots and Welsh from time to time as well as the Romans, Germans (Angles and Saxons), Norse people (Scandinavian and Norman French). It also includes the languages of those countries Britain had a hand in conquering like India. Modern English as a world wide language owes its acceptance to two phenomena I think. First of all the influence of English during the British Empire and most of all to the language of diplomacy switching from French to English because of the influence of the USA, particularly Hollywood.
2016-05-21 07:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOOGLE FOR IRISH KINGS AND QUEENS. THEY'RE ALL THERE INCLUDING BRIAN BORU.
2007-09-14 08:24:02 · answer #3 · answered by Loren S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋