This irish king invited the english king over to help against some other irish kings. The major subclan of this king were the Kavanaugh's who embraced english customs more than any other irish family. Then the clan got pushed off their lands by the english plantation known as THE PALE. They petitioned the king without redress. So the Kavanaughs became Gallowglass and the worst of the worst BEYOND THE PALE. They eventually annihilated the english family that took their lands. There was a Kavanaugh with Jeremiah O'Donafin-Rossa and one in the GPO on easter 1916. The first PROVO casualty was a Kavanaugh. I suppose I should have some deep bred, almost genetic aversion to things english. But I don't. That survivor of the GPO told me it wasn't the enlisted tommie he feared in the long run of events, but the potential traitor bicycling next to him in their flying column. When somebody holds up 1000 bloody corpses as reason to surrender my freedom without question I ask if they are descended from any irish kings. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />