The circuit of the ‘Maiden City’ is perhaps the best preserved of all the 52 walled towns or cities in Ireland. Although the walls have lost a number of their original features, it is nevertheless still possible to get a clear picture of the dispositions made by the planners and to understand their intentions. Preserved … Read more
What are they? The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies by mainly Protestant men and women, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. The testimonies document losses of goods and chattels, military activity and the alleged crimes of the Catholic Irish rebels, including assault, imprisonment, the stripping of clothes and murder. This body … Read more
Flúirseacht agus éagsúlacht na bhfoinsí Bíodh go raibh brú mór tubaisteach ar achan ghné de chóras na nGael sa chéad leath den tseachtú haois déag, tháinig blathú ar chúrsaí litríochta agus léinn. Bhí litríocht don scoth á cumadh sa tréimhse sin sna réimeanna éagsúla. Tá Annála Ríochta na hÉireann, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, Cín … Read more
Anniversaries invite us to explore ‘who we are’. In fact, they usually tell us a great deal more about those who commemorate than about what is commemorated. The year 2007 was a case in point. The planting of Jamestown and the Flight of the Earls transformed America, Ireland and England. Each of these events is … Read more
The archives An estimated 370 manuscript maps of Ulster survive, dating from roughly 1567 through to 1636, in fifteen repositories throughout Britain and Ireland. In Britain these include the National Archives, the British Library, the National Maritime Museum, the Guildhall Library, Drapers’ Hall, Goldsmiths’ Hall and Lambeth Palace Library (all in London); Longleat House, Wiltshire; … Read more