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33: 216:, and the battle rages for four days. Nuada encounters Sreng, and with one swing of his sword Sreng cuts off Nuada's right hand. However, the Tuatha DĂ© Danann gain the ascendancy. A truce is called, and the Fir Bolg are given three options: leave Ireland, share the land with the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, or continue the battle. They choose to fight. Sreng challenges Nuada to single combat. Nuada accepts on the condition that Sreng ties up one arm to make the combat fair, but Sreng rejects this condition. The Tuatha DĂ© Danann then decide to offer the Fir Bolg one of the provinces of Ireland. Sreng chooses 315:, another product of a Tuatha DĂ© Danann and Fomorian union, arrives at Nuada's court, and, after impressing the king with his many talents, is given command of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann. Nuada is killed by Balor in the battle, but Lugh, Balor's grandson, kills the Fomorian leader with his sling, smashing his deadly eye through the back of his head where it wreaks havoc on the Fomorian ranks. Bres is found alive in the aftermath of the battle, and is spared on the condition that he teach the Tuatha DĂ© Danann how to plough, sow and reap. Finally, Lugh, the 294:
of the Fomorians. Because of his ancestry Bres oppressed the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, making the noblest of them do menial work, imposing heavy tribute, and failing to show the level of hospitality expected of a king. He is deposed as king, and Nuada, who has had his arm replaced with one of silver by the
265:("The Battle of Northern Mag Tuired"), tells how the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, having conquered Ireland, fall under the oppression of the Fomorians, and then fight a battle to free themselves from this oppression. It expands on references to the battle in 571: 555: 197:. A group of Nemed's descendants, the Fir Bolg, return to Ireland and conquer it, occupying it for thirty years until the coming of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, another group of Nemed's descendants. 212:
of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, and Bres demands that the Fir Bolg either give battle or cede half of Ireland to them. The Fir Bolg choose battle. After a delay to prepare weapons, they met at the
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The Tuatha DĂ© Danann, led by their king, Nuada, come to Ireland in three hundred ships from the islands of the north. Their arrival is foreseen in a dream by the Fir Bolg king,
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had told the Tuatha DĂ© Danann that no-one with a blemish can rule them, and, having lost a hand, the Tuatha DĂ© Danann had to choose another king. They chose Bres, son of
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caused flesh to grow over it), is restored. Bres appeals for assistance from the Fomorians to take back the kingship, and although his father
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The First Battle is distinguished from the Second as the Battle of Muigh Tuiredh Conga or the Battle of Southern Moytura.
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It begins with a brief account of the first battle, the loss of Nuada's arm, and his replacement as king by
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Ambassadors of the Fir Bolg and Tuath DĂ© meeting before the Battle of Moytura, an illustration by
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in modern spelling) means "pillars" or "towers", but the Royal Irish Academy's
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of the Evil Eye, agrees to help him and raises a huge army. Meanwhile,
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Either of two texts in the Mythological Cycle of Irish mythology
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Mac Neill, Eoin (1932). "The Vita Tripartita of St. Patrick".
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Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society
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Walsh, Paul (1940). "Connacht in the Book of Rights".
541:Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired 509: 248: 625:Fraser, J (1916). "The First Battle of Moytura". 362: 156: 1451: 94:. The two texts tell of battles fought by the 661: 1485:Battles involving the Conmaicne Cuile Toladh 437:The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends 253:The second text of this name, also known as 565: 431: 429: 427: 668: 654: 590: 408: 398: 261:("The Second Battle of Mag Tuired"), and 472: 470: 424: 31: 584: 137:, meaning "plain". Ellis suggests that 74:. 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Index

Moytura

Stephen Reid
Mythological Cycle
Irish mythology
Connacht
ConmhaĂ­cne CĂșile Tuireadh
Cong, County Mayo
Lough Arrow
County Sligo
Tuatha DĂ© Danann
Fir Bolg
Fomorians
anglicised
Old Irish
Tuatha DĂ© Danann
Ireland
Fir Bolg
Nemed
Greece
Fomorians
Eochaid mac Eirc
Sreng
Bres
Pass of Balgatan
CĂłiced Ol nEchmacht
Dian Cecht
Nuada AirgetlĂĄm
Brigid
Elatha

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