Gaelic lands and their battle cars. Since ancient times, unthrough the Christian era and up until the total conquest of Ireland by the British, which culminated with the flight of the Eurles in 1607, Ireland was not seen as one nation of people, with one voice on the one centrally controlled government. Rather, the island was comprised of many clan-based groups, each occupying traditionally held territories and each exercising limited power and sovereignty over their familial domains. There was no concept of the nation of Ireland or the state or the republic in the sense we are used to today. Unlike with the monarchical systems found on the European continent, Dominion and the writer Reuben Ireland was not confined to the soul over arting ruler, but rather it was conceptually decentralized into smaller portions of influence amongst individual members of a tribe or a family group. This was symbolized in part by the holding of portions of family land. The concept of individual or divided sovereignty can be found throughout Irish historical identity, where a free man was once seen to be Lord of his own portion. His home was his castle, his personal property was his to dispose of, his lands were his domain, and while occupied by him he is king. Early Irish medieval society was structured around and advanced in intricate social order, where an individual's grade of status was carefully defined. Though individuals were always seen to be part of their wider clan group and retreated as such under the laws, in light fashion to the tribal structure of the Native Americans, each family group and collection of families occupying a territory were seen to be their own, sovereign and independent nation. Each family and their line of descent were seen to be a people of their own. Managing family affairs internally, electing their own clan leaders as representatives, sharing the duty of raising good mannered and honorable children, and each bearing the honor and the burden of the family name on their shoulders. There is no doubt therefore that the Irish organized themselves into independent factions, which were primarily based on ties of blood and marriage, often influenced by proximity of geographical location, mutual interest in common defence, access to resources, and to respect or forge long time familial allegiances. And as they lived, so too did they fight. This faction based self-image and deep connection with defending the family name, the stock and the lands meant the Irish clans were much too prone to engage in common fused, wars of vengeance and family rivalries. And it is this sad fact that bears Ireland's greatest historical weakness when it came to defence against the invasion of the Anglo-Normons. Each of these family-based factions had their own schlu-garm, or battle cry, associated to their family line or tribe. Usually derived by the followers of great families or chieftains to act as a a human cry, a rallying call, to all able-bodied kinsmen, a cry of war from which it hearers to an almost supernatural and ancestral strength and courage to fight on. Literally speaking, the word schlu-garm is derived from a combination of the old Irish word slew, meaning an army, a host, or an assembled force, and garm, meaning to cry to shout out or proclaim. As such, we get the combined meaning of the cry or proclamation of an assembled force. Interestingly, it is from schlu-garm that the English word slogan is derived, and this gives us a good idea of what it really was. It was the slogan, the motto or the catchphrase that identified and marked out one family faction from another on the fields of battle. By the time of the reign of King Henry VIII of England, these family battle cries had become a common feature of Irish society and could be heard ringing out across the land during every pitched battle. So prolific, Rade, that during the tenth year of his reign, Henry enacted a statute to proclaim that no person, regardless of their estate, their condition or degree, should use the words quote, cramaboo, botleraboo, or other words like, put the call only on St. George or the name of his sovereign lord, the king of England. End quote. The cry of aboo is the most common exclamation found among the Irish clans. It derives from the old Irish bueh meaning victory, and its use can still be found in the modern Gaelic valediction bueh meaning grab victory. Other forms of this common cry are hubub, hububub, lulalu, and even hula baloo, a word that has spitefully found its way into the English language to mean a confused uproar, or a ruckus caused by a large group of people. Hula baloo, along with the word hubub and hurrah, are also said to derive from this same source. Aboo was seldom used alone but rather found connected to some deity, a family name and ancestral hero and ancestral headquarters a traditional occupation, or some special symbol associated with the family faction. So let's take a look at a few examples of these cries. The schnugartum of the warriors of the great O'Neil clan was love dergaboo, proclaiming the red hand to victory, an honor of the ancient family symbol still found on the flag of the Oldster Mente this day. The O'Hanlands, who held the traditional honor of bearing the Oldster standard, made the cry of art koliaboo from art kula meaning high forest, taught to be in reference to the family's customary gathering grounds. In the neighboring Tirkallal, Countitoni Gael, the leading family would call on their ancestral name, shouting O'Donnell Aboo. Similarly, the O'Morres cried Conlon Aboo after their own famous ancestor Connell Kerenok. The O'Hanlands used quote the right of the scholars to victory, which an Irish, Kjart Nassua Aboo. The shout of the O'Brien's, the descendents of King Brian Baroo, was love la der Aboo, meaning strong hand to victory. The O'Sullivan's of Monster used love forced an O'Hanaboo, meaning restful hand, while the McGillapardrix used Gaelar La der Aboo, or the Sharpen's strong. The descendants of the Fitzgeralds of the Sudden Desmond line, originally Anglo-Normons who had adopted Irish ways, becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves, would call out Shandida Aboo, in glory of the Old Place, their fortified Round Hill Base, located in the Limit Mountains. If you want to find out more about these sorts of topics, visit the site, www.brennilockhydemy.ie, where you will find the number of blog posts and useful resources, covering all sorts of information related to early Ireland. 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