ISBN : 9781406427035 Author : Karl Brady, Charise McKeon, James Lyttleton, Ian Lawler Subjects : Underwater archaeology, shopwrecks Publication Details : 26 October 2012 Publisher : ( Department of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht ) Price: €25.00 As an island nation, Irish people are used to looking out to sea, following the ever-changing weather … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130507-HistoryIrelandShow-018-NoGodAndTwoStPatricks.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” ‘Master’ Tommy Graham conducts a History Ireland Hedge School at the National Library of Ireland on 15 March 2011. With Tommy are Elva Johnston (UCD), Canon Adrian Empey (Church of Ireland Theological College), Mike Cronin … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20130425-HistoryIrelandShow-007-FromJacobitismToJacobinismAReconsideration.mp3″] Click the Play button to listen To download file, right click this link and select “Save link as..” with Billy Kelly, Éamonn Ó Cíardha, Richard Doherty and Hiram Morgan. 21 July 2012 at the Battle of Aughrim Interpretative Centre, Aughrim, Co. Galway.
It is supposed that Pope Leo X gave a harp or cláirseach to Henry VIII at the same period as Fidei Defensor during that honeyed pre-Reformation period. The symbol was distinctive enough to separate the Irish coinage from passing into English currency. Sometimes the harp came between Henry and three of his wives, placing the … Read more
In the nineteenth century, Katherine Fitzgerald, the ‘Old’ Countess of Desmond, was one of the most familiar characters from early modern Ireland. Her story was romantic and remarkable. Assumed to have been born in the 1460s, in Dromana, Co. Waterford, she had, so legend went, married in Edward IV’s reign, and had even danced at … Read more