RTÉ has made a documentary, The Battle of Kinsale, as its contribution of this year’s 400th commemoration of that event. History Ireland solicited the views of the programme makers. Peter […]
Read More →The historic links between Spain and Ireland are intellectual, economic, political, religious and especially military. However there are no racial or genetic links. The Gaelic Irish we can categorically state […]
Read More →AB: What early influences contributed to your interest in history? JAM: Growing up in a strongly nationalist household in the 1930s, my first introduction to history was history as nationalism. […]
Read More →HM: Was your upbringing distinctively Irish? TK: Yes, an Irish Catholic one. It began roughly three hundred miles up the coast from Sydney in a town called Kempsey. Kempsey was […]
Read More →Foras Feasa ar Éirinn is a history of the kingdom of Ireland, written by Geoffrey Keating, an Old English Catholic priest from south County Tipperary, and completed in about 1634. […]
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