In every sixteenth century campaign in Ireland as elsewhere disease was a greater killer than battle wounds. Field hospitals and army surgeons tried to cope with both. For English survivors welfare measures were often taken back home on their return but efforts to rehabilitate the sick and wounded were also made in Ireland. However, information … Read more
Archaeological Inventory of County Cork, Vol.1 (West Cork), Vol.2 (East and South Cork) Denis Power (comp.) (Stationary Office, £20 each) Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works Rena Lohan (Stationary Office) Irish Archives Journal (Spring 1995) (Irish Society of Archives, £4.95) Reviewed by Kevin Whelan In recent years, there has been a … Read more
Reviewed by Sean Connolly Protestant Dissent and Controversy in Ireland 1660-1714, Phil Kilroy (Cork University Press, £27.50) Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society 1740-1890, David Hempton and Myrtle Hill (Routledge, £40) Catholicism in Ulster 1603-1983: An Interpretative History, Oliver P. Rafferty (Gill and Macmillan, £12.99) Catholicism in a Protestant Kingdom: A Study of the Irish Ancien … Read more
Reviewed by Trevor Parkhill The Irish Diaspora: A Primer, Donald Harman Akenson (Meany & Co., Toronto; Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast, £22.50) ‘The Irish Diaspora’ L.M Cullen in Europeans on the Move: Studies on European Migration 1500-1800 Nicholas Canny (ed.) (Clarendon Press, £35) Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia, David Fitzpatrick … Read more
Excavations at Essex Street West and Isolde’s tower on Essex Quay have unearthed rich archaeological deposits, including a thirteenth-century sapphire ring and a decapitated cranium. Human remains, animal bones, combs, pins, flint stones, medieval and post-medieval pottery, clay pipes and footwear were also discovered.The severed head was found in organic refuse not far from the … Read more