He started life as an illiterate barrow-boy and died a viscount, having taken three wives on the way. This is the incredible story of Matthew Barnewall. ‘Never without an idiot […]
Read More →Steven G. Ellis is Associate Professor of History at University College Galway; Oliver P. Rafferty is Director of Studies at Campion Hall, Oxford; Patrick Maume lectures in history at Queen’s […]
Read More →In the Kenneth Nicholls’ article, ‘Worlds Apart?: the Ellis Two-NationTheory on Late Medieval Ireland’, in the last issue an extraneous ‘and’(not the author’s) garbled the meaning of the last complete […]
Read More →Under the sponsorship of History Ireland and the Keough-Notre DameCentre, the fifth annual Byrne/Perry Summer School convened in Gorey,County Wexford this June. Director Dáire Keogh and the local committeechaired by […]
Read More →On the weekend of 9-11 April 1999, the Irish Studies Centre at Bath Spa University College was pleased to host the annual conference of the Society for the Study of […]
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