By Damian Murphy Erasmus Smith (1611–91) was granted extensive lands under the Settlement of Ireland Act of 1652 as repayment for his support for the suppression of the 1641 Rebellion, […]
Read More →By Michael Gibbons The recently published Coastal atlas of Ireland suggests that the Lisbon earthquake and subsequent tsunami on All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1755, caused significant changes to the […]
Read More →By Martin Green In Finnegans Wake, the main ingredient in Shaun’s ‘stockpot dinner’ is a ‘round steak, very rare, Blong’s best from Portarlington’s Butchery’. The reference is to a butchery […]
Read More →By Gonzalo Franco-Ordovás On 16 March 1545, the Valladolid court of justice resolved a dispute between the inhabitants of the Castilian coastal village of Castro de Urdiales. The conflict had […]
Read More →By Meredith Cutrer The 7th of September 1170 marked a momentous occasion in Bergen, Norway: the relics of the Irish martyr-queen Sunniva were transferred from the island of Selja, off […]
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