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Medieval Irish political and economic divisions

Medieval Irish political and economic divisions



Paul MacCotter investigates the origins and development of Ireland’s counties and baronies.

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Ireland's time-space revolution: improvements to pre-Famine travel
Ireland's time-space revolution: improvements to pre-Famine travel

Geographer Arnold Horner explores the wide-ranging changes in time and space relationships that transformed Ireland over the period 1730–1860.

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Brotherhood among Irishmen? The Battle of Wijtschate-Messines Ridge, June 1917
Brotherhood among Irishmen? The Battle of Wijtschate-Messines Ridge, June 1917

At 3.10am on 7 June 1917, 90 years ago this year, Irishmen from North and South re-took the German-occupied Flemish village of Wijtschate. Tom Burke examines the Battle of Wijtschate-Mesen (Messines) Ridge, when loyal Ulstermen and Irish nationalists fought side by side for the last time against a common enemy.

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Celluloid Menace, art or the essential habit of the age?
Celluloid Menace, art or the essential habit of the age?

Celluloid Menace, art or the essential habit of the age?

Gavin Finlay assesses cinema culture in 1930s Ireland.

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Two bishops and a football: Ireland and the Balkans in the 1940s and ’50s
Two bishops and a football: Ireland and the Balkans in the 1940s and ’50s

Lynda Slattery looks at the background to, and the controversy caused by, the Ireland v. Yugoslavia soccer international of October 1955.

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Dublin Castle and the first Home Rule bill: the Jenkinson–Spencer correspondence
Dublin Castle and the first Home Rule bill: the Jenkinson–Spencer correspondence

Why did Gladstone—a declared opponent of Irish legislative independence, who had suppressed the Land League and suspended habeas corpus to imprison Irish nationalists—suddenly convert to Home Rule in January 1886? Owen McGee looks at a collection of papers recently discovered in the British Library that throws new light on the degree to which security considerations underpinned his decision.

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