No God and two St Patricks: the national day and the national saint

Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” ‘Master’ Tommy Graham conducts a History Ireland Hedge School at the National […]

From Jacobitism to Jacobinism: a reconsideration

Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” with Billy Kelly, Éamonn Ó Cíardha, Richard Doherty and Hiram Morgan. 21 […]

The harp that once on Ireland’s coins

It is supposed that Pope Leo X gave a harp or cláirseach to Henry VIII at the same period as Fidei Defensor during that honeyed pre-Reformation period. The symbol was […]

The Old Countess, the Geraldine knight and the lady antiquarian: a conspiracy theory revisited

In the nineteenth century, Katherine Fitzgerald, the ‘Old’ Countess of Desmond, was one of the most familiar characters from early modern Ireland. Her story was romantic and remarkable. Assumed to […]

Richard Cantillon —the father of economics

Kerryman Richard Cantillon was born in the 1680s to a Hiberno-Norman landowning family from Ballyheigue. The family fought alongside James II, to whom they were related, during the Williamite War […]