This is the destruction which his own impulse gave him. That was the
night that his mother and his father and his seven brothers had been
bidden to the house of the king of his district. All of them were
destroyed by Ingcel in a single night. Then the Irish pirates put out to
sea to the land of Erin to seek a destruction as payment for that to
which Ingcel had been entitled from them.
In Conaire's reign there was perfect peace in Erin, save that in Thomond
there was a joining of battle between the two Carbres. Two
fosterbrothers of his were they. And until Conaire came it was
impossible to make peace between them. 'Twas a tabu of his to go to
separate them before they had repaired to him. He went, however,
although to do so was one of his tabus, and he made peace between them.
He remained five nights with each of the two. That also was a tabu
of his.
After settling the two quarrels, he was travelling to Tara. This is the
way they took to Tara, past Usnech of Meath; and they saw the raiding
from east and west, and from south and north, and they saw the warbands
and the hosts and the men stark-naked; and the land of the southern
O'Neills was a cloud of fire around him.
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