The principality of Dol and Dinan was in the old French Province of Bretagne and extended from Alet (St. Malo) by way of the towns of Dol (Dol-de-Bretagne), Dinan in Cotes-du-nord, and Combourg to the central hills of Bretagne over a tract of ninety by sixty miles. Its chiefs on whom many Barons were depended. They represented the patriarchal sovereigns of the Diablintes-the nation who held that part of Bretagne in the time of 57-56 B.C. Julius Caesar. Iona and Rome were products of the second Roman invasion and after these commotions the three nations—the Northumbrians, the Picts, and the Scots—settled in tranquillity. The Caledonian Confederacy. The Picts had recovered their corn lands on the south of the Forth. The Priteni (P-celtic) and The Cruithne (Q-Celtic) of Uladh held Pictland. The Picts, Gaels and many Britons were freed from Northumbrian overlordship. After the Roman Invasion, the south was based north of London. The Roman Empire was divided in 395. Later the Croats entered the Western Roman Empire.

NIALL MOR; "Niall of The Nine Hostages"; took royal hostages from nine countries which he subdued and made tributary. They were four Ireland provinces plus Britain, the Picts, the Dalriads, the Saxons, and the Morini, a people of France. He marched deep into France to aid the native Celts in expelling the Roman Eagles, and thus conquer that portion of the Roman Empire. Niall ordained that "Alba" be forever known as "Scotia Minor", (Scotland). His grandfather led the expedition against the three Collas. Monarchs of Connacht had converted from the Old High Kingdom of Tara to those of Heremon divided from the followers of an adnorning Heber Fionn. About 560, in consequence of a quarrel with the ardri Diarmuid about the right of sanctuary, Saint Columba and Rhodanus (Reudan) of Lorrha publicly cursed Tara, an unpatriotic act which dealt a fatal blow at the prospect of a strong central government by blighting with maledictions its acknowledged seat. Nearly thirty years later the National Convention of Drumceat restrained the insolence and curtailed the privileges of the bards. In 684 Ireland was invaded by the King of Northumbria, though no permanent conquest followed. And in 697 the last Feis of Tara was held, at which, through the influence of Adamnan, women were interdicted from taking part in actual battle. At the same time the ardri Finactha, at the instance of St. Moling, renounced for himself and his successors the Boru tribute.

IONA had so prospered that its abbot, St. Adamnan of Derry, wrote in excellent Latin the "Life of Saint Columba", the best biography of which the Middle Ages can boast. From Iona had gone south the Irish Aidan and his Irish companions to compete with and even exceed in zeal the Roman missionaries under St. Augustine, and to evangelize Northumbria, Mercia, and Essex; and if Irish zeal had already been displayed in Iona, equal zeal was now displayed on the desolate isle of Lindisfarne. Celtic influence comes to bear on English where an indigenous Celtic people mixed with English - as in Wales and Cornwall. Kernewek was a Celtic language which "faded out" according to our expert over 800 years. In Ireland, the Irish or Gaelic language was active much longer and the structure, vocabulary and syntax of Hiberno English and Derry dialect as those telling who came to it rather from it.

The Scots of Dalraida were no longer struck at through the side of Galloway with the Northumbrian spear; and the Cymric Britons were allowed to possess in peace the vale of Strathclyde... and later Bangor. According to the Irish chronicler Abbot Tighernac, Fergus Mor Mac Erc, King of the Dal Riata, transferred his throne from Antrim in North Ireland across the channel in 500 AD to join other Riatans living near Loch Linnhe in Scotland. Dunadd became the capital of the Dalriadic kingdom, which came to encompass the areas of Argyll, Kintyre and the Inner Hebrides. Columba intervened and proclaimed Aedan as king over his elder brother Eoganan. Then came the Saxons of Berneicia and Deira, which were later joined to form Northumbria. In 658 the Saxons captured the Celtic eastern Somerset (Somerton) near Circenster and Dorset.

Oswy's heir Egfrid ascended to the Northumbrian throne in 670 AD and mounted campaigns in the north to consolidate his hold over the Scots and Picts. The Romano-British Parisii tribe of East Yorkshire and Humberside in Britain is traditionally seen as being comprised of emigrants from the tribe of the same name based in Gaul. Egfrid, who had fallen in the great battle with the Picts, was succeeded by his brother Alfred the Great. It was under this king that Bede—the venerable Bede—the father of English ecclesiastical history, flourished. He speaks lovingly of the Columban missionaries who came to enlighten the pagans of Northumbria. Bede thought, nor has he a word of condemnation for the cruel slaughter by the pagan Ethelfrith, instigated by the Romanising party of the twelve hundred clergy of Bangor who had stood up for the independence of the British church by refusing to have their heads shorn by the agent of Pope Gregory’s missionary. Alfred the Great was for those times, a learned prince, being educated under Adamnan, abbot of Icolm-Kill, trained in the Monastery of Iona. The Gothic nations had brought night with them into Europe, extinguishing the lamps of ancient learning, it owed its light to its possession of a Book of all others the most powerful in quickening and enriching the mind and expanding the soul. In the southern region the light was scientific and artistic solely, built around the first Roman to occupy Britain.

Finan, Coman, and their brethren disappeared as the Latin pale was extended to Edinburgh and the Forth, the farthest limit of the old empire. At the 8th century, The Columban clergy from this time forward to take their instructions, not from Iona, but from Rome. In the days of druidism, the Picts and Scots hardly battled- the ancient Caledonians were from Iona and the Columban Clery were driven to Dalriada. There the vacancies were filled by priests from the kingdom of Northumbria and the south of Ireland. The flight of the pastors of the old faith across the Drumalban into Dalriada had been subjected in the Pictish realm, had also inflamed the wrath of the Scots. The Britons of Strathclyde and the Angles of the kingdom of Northumbria meet as the Picts and Scots make peace. Another Alfred, (Alfred of Fougeres, grandson of Caroling and Saxon) Alfred of the ninth century, whose name has come down to us across the ten intervening ages in the pure gold of leader in the Divine work of Bible translation. Swabia, Burgundy, Lorraine 4 generations from the Merovingan emperors. Devon was called Dunan in Cork by the Cornish Britons; Deuffneynt by the Welsh; and Devnascyre by the Anglo-Saxons.