Dáire Ó Lochlainn

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Dáire Ó Lochlainn; The Plague Years

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Resides:	Avacal
Date Started:	February 2021
Awards:	Avacal Order of Precedence

Heraldry

Or, a boar's head erased proper atop a mount vert, a chief azure

Pronounced Darah O Lockluhn (He, Him)

Dáire Ó Lochlainn is late-10^th century Hiberno-Norse, born 966. Living in the northwest of Ireland, he is one of the many famuli in service to the Columban monastery at Derry. His primary roles are as a labourer in the adjacent monastic holdings, and to care for the pack animals of the Brothers when they travel. Being orphaned into the monastic community at an early age, Dáire can read some Gaelic and Latin, but has neither the knowledge nor skills to write. As an agricultural labourer; he is as likely to be laying a live-hedge, or taking the pigs for pannage, one day, as he is to be helping the Brother apiarist with his bees, the next.

Dáire lives in the Royal Lands between the Barony of Montengarde and the Shire of Ayresgarde, 'guarding' the Pass of the Kicking Horse against incursion from Tir Righ. Of late, he has been adopted by the bonny crew in Ayresgarde!

Still finding his feet within the SCA, Dáire very much enjoys partaking in, and delivering, classes as he explores the offerings of the Kingdom and the Known World.

Interests

History of the Hiberno-Norse period of Ireland
Travels by boat and on foot in the North Atlantic and on the Continent
Current Middle Ages forester activity
History of European forestry
SCA-period medical and disability studies
Reading, writing, teaching

Classes Taught

Dubgaill, Finngaill or Laithlinn? Who (and when) were the Hiberno-Norse?
The Loch Glashan 'Crannog Bag'
The Sacred and the Profane: trees of Early Ireland
Of Hunters, Heralds and Honours: The Boke of St Albans (1486)
Accessorize your Garb on a Budget
Silvopasture: a medieval forest management practice? (2x)
Beekeeping in Early Ireland (2x)
The Celtic Calendar
Rituals of Power: Feasting in Early Ireland
Teaching: Shoulda, woulda, coulda
Documentation: Frankenstein's Monster, only prettier
Personas, narratives and roles
Trading Secrets: SCA-period codes, ciphers and concealments
St Brendan's Voyage: echtrai or imramma?
Columbus was not First: European exploration in the Atlantic and the 'Americas', pre-1492 (2x)
Agriculture in Early Ireland (4x)
Two mummies . . . and three big toes
Ambroise Paré: the new breed of barber-surgeon
Archery in Early and Medieval Ireland (4x)
Improving Mobility: walking aids and prostheses in the Middle Ages (2x)
The Irish Mether: a ritual drinking vessel

Twenty-one different classes, twenty-six sessions, thirty-one total presentations, across ten different kingdoms

Projects

Promotion of Forestry in Avacal

Company of the Hurst and Hounds - Household name and badge (LoAR August 2025)

The Æthelmearc Royal Foresters Guild

Forester - in progress
Underforester - in progress
Novice (June 17^th, 2025)

Avacal Sergeantry

'Five-year plan' studying for (Courtier - A&S)
'Five-year plan' studying for (Warden - A&S)

Roles

Æthelmearc Royal Foresters Guild Chronicler (February 17^th, 2026 - ongoing)
Shire of Ayresgarde Web Minister (June 11^th, 2025 - ongoing)
Shire of Ayresgarde Deputy A&S (2023-2025)

Awards

Champion of Arts and Sciences, Emerald Rose (Montengarde, January 17^th, 2026)
Masters Degree, University of Atlantia (Atlantia, June 14^th, 2025)
Bachelors Degree, University of Atlantia (Atlantia, September 21^st, 2024)
Fellow of the University of Atlantia (Atlantia, September 22^nd, 2022)
Award of Arms (Avacal, September 3^rd, 2022)
Order of the Sable Cinquefoil (Montengarde, November 6^th, 2021)
Defender of Arts and Sciences (Sigelhundas, September 27^th, 2021)

Further Armory


Dáire Ó Lochlainn	Dáire Ó Lochlainn	Dubnus Lugotorix	Derewyn Wodeward (pending)

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