A fact from The Expulsion of the Déisi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 December 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that one version of the 8th-century Irish text The Expulsion of the Déisi contains a passage claiming the Irish group known as the Déisi founded the royal dynasty of Dyfed, Wales?
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Okay, I've just moved this article into the mainspace. I think it's mostly ready for a start, but it will benefit review and expansion by editors with a deeper knowledge than myself. Most importantly, i was hamstrung in writing about the B version because I seem to have lost access to the source I was using, Vernam Hull's "The Later Version Of The Expulsion Of The Déssi", which I had been reading on de Gruyter's Reference-global.com. This may be something I can sort out with a trip to my library, but I can't be arsed to go all the way over there right now, and I'm certainly not shelling out the forty bucks de Gruyters wants to read it. Fortunately, maryjones.us had a translation of the B version online, which I used for the summary. This is hardly optimal, but says it's a copy of another edition by Hull, and I don't see any particular reason to doubt it. It does not have any notes or page numbers, so if anyone else has access to Hull's edition (or some other of the B version) that would good to have.
Additionally, the "Background" section could be easily expanded with information on the historical Deisi as well as 8th-century Ireland. It would also be good to have cited material on the relationship between the Expulsion and Harleian versions of the Dyfed genealogy; I mostly took this from the Deisi article. At some point it would be good to have a section on Expulsion's relationship to other texts. Cheers and happy editing.--Cúchullaint/c16:56, 11 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
you make no reference to the barony of deise in county meath between dunboyne and carton, this is where they originally fled from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.89.84.88 (talk) 09:25, 21 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
