Seventeenth-century Ireland—making Ireland modern New Gill History of Ireland, 3 Raymond Gillespie (Gill and Macmillan, €18.99/£14.99) ISBN 0717139468 The Open University once offered a course entitled ‘Conflict and Stability in the Development of Modern Europe’. Students were required to focus their attention on the long years of peace in Europe as much as on those … Read more
O’Donnell histories: Donegal and the Annals of the Four Masters Bernadette Cunningham (Rathmullan & District Historical Society, E12) ISBN 97809540888423 This new account of the compilers, compilation and concepts that shaped the Annals of the Four Masters (or, to give the collection its proper Anglicised title, The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland) sees Bernadette … Read more
The centre is housed in an old gun battery on Lough Swilly.Flight of the Earls/Rathmullan Heritage Centre Rathmullan, Co. Donegal www.rathmullanflightoftheearls.ie Mon.–Sat. 10am–1pm, 2–5pm; Sun. noon–4pm by Tony Canavan The Flight of the Earls Centre is housed in the evocative location of an old gun battery on Lough Swilly. The battery, a solid granite structure, … Read more
The Flight of the Earls BBC 1 & 2, Jan./Feb. 2007 (scheduled to be rebroadcast in September 2007, dates not yet available) BBC Northern Ireland Presented and produced by Antaíne Ó Donnaile by John Gibney A few years ago RTÉ commemorated the quatercentenary of the Battle of Kinsale with, shall we say, a somewhat thrifty … Read more
Making History is set in Ulster before and after the Battle of Kinsale and in Rome. The plot is centred on O’Neill’s relationships with those around him—with Peter Lombard, the archbishop of Armagh and his putative biographer; with Mabel Bagenal, his New English wife; with Red Hugh O’Donnell, his son-in-law and principal ally; and with … Read more