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Berminghan's Dinner.
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| Piers
or Peter Peter's fame or perhaps more correctly infamy comes from an anonymous poem written in middle English, one of the sixteen so called 'Kildare Poems', in it he is praised for his action in entertaining thirty prominent members of the O'Connor clan to a feast on palm Sunday 1306. With his guests wined and dined to excess, de Bermingham ordered his men to attack them, all thirty were murdered. Bermingham's own death is recorded in 1308 |
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Bermingham was a Anglo Norman lord who lived on land granted to his
family by Strongbow at Tethmony in County Offaly. One of his relations
was archbishop of Tuam, another lived at Athenry county Galway. |
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