Medieval Scotland & Ireland: overcoming the amnesia

There is one overriding and rather obvious dissimilarity between Ireland and Scotland: Ireland is an island. Throughout its early history, at least until the arrival of the Vikings at the […]

Early Irish Farming, Fergus Kelly. (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, £16) ISBN 1855001802

While the title under review hints at a book of limited focus, suggesting a curious blend of archaeology and dilettante history, what we have is an in-depth study more comprehensive […]

The Origins of the Irish Texts Society

In the course of a review of Douglas Hyde’s The Story of Early Gaelic Literature (1895), Frederick York Powell drew attention to the dearth of published texts in the Irish […]

Donegal: History and Society, William Nolan, Liam Ronayne and Máiread Dunlevy (eds.). (Geography Publications, £40) ISBN: 0906602459

The editors have set out to place County Donegal in its local, national and European contexts by combining the work of archaeologists, medievalists, Celtic scholars, geographers, place name scholars and […]

Brehon law ‘victim-orientated’

At the second Burren Law School in Ballyvaughan, County Clare (31March-2 April 1995), on the theme Crime and punishment, Muireann NíBhrolcháin gave background information on the judicial system in theBrehon […]