Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age

The first Viking raid on Ireland is recorded in the Annals of Ulster for the year AD 795. The 1200th anniversary of this event in 1995 was marked by an […]

They came, they saw, they conquered

Limerick was treated to a rare sight when Vikings from their settlement on the banks of the Shannon at the University of Limerick campus raided Cruises Street and sacked Bewley’s […]

Titles for sale: legal action threatened over Advertising Standards Authority ruling

An Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland ruling of last October has provoked a company which offers Irish titles for sale to threaten legal action against both the Authority and two […]

The Storming of Connolly House

Over several nights during late March 1933 crowds attacked buildings in Dublin associated with the far left. Connolly House on Great Strand Street, headquarters of the Communist Party, or Revolutionary […]

Total Historian

PF:    In the preface to The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork (1975), you refer to your father’s historical career. To what extent was he an influence? JSD:    My […]