Benny Gallagher’s house is on the edge of Glenveagh National Park and just a quarter of a mile from the birthplace of St Colmcille. Last year, while he was digging […]
Read More →Parnell appears to have been happier with Katharine O’Shea than Abby was with Samuel Abbott, but he and Katharine were constantly trying to deceive her husband, Captain William O’Shea, about […]
Read More →Richard Butler, Viscount Mountgarret, Leinster Nicholas Preston, Viscount Gormanston, Leinster Nicholas Netterville, Viscount Netterville, Leinster William Fleming, baron of Slane, Leinster Barnaby Fitzpatrick, baron of Upper Ossory, Leinster David Rothe, […]
Read More →Recent scholarly interest in Confederate Ireland has created a vastly clearer picture of a traditionally murky period in Irish history. Admittedly, some five decades passed before Micheál Ó Siochrú built […]
Read More →As is the case for other early Irish laws, detailed penalties are laid down for various severities of injury: ‘If it be a life-wound any one inflicts on a woman […]
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