Ulster Unionist Propaganda against Home Rule 1912-14

We live in an age of media gurus, spin doctors and soundbites, when advertising agencies have been invested with almost divine powers to sell policies, transform images and win elections. […]

Frowning Ruins: The Tower Houses of Medieval Ireland

A tower house is a fortified medieval residence of stone, usually four or more stories in height. Like most of the surviving monuments of our medieval past, the majority of […]

Irish Suffragettes at the time of the Home Rule Crisis

Irishmen do not need to have indicated to them the hardship of being governed by those alien to them in temperament, ideals and traditions. An Englishmen they say can never […]

The Story of the National Anthem

The Irish national anthem is a source of some tension and confusion. At frequent intervals over the past seventy-five years, its text has been attacked as inappropriate. The same objections […]

Irish Language Sources for Early Modern Ireland

A variety of source material survives from which the history of Gaelic society in the early modern period can be reconstructed. Rather than focusing too narrowly on bardic poetry as […]