This is a study of the history and documentary records of one of Ireland's most important early monastic communities, the familia of St Columba, between the sixth and twelfth centuries. The federation of Columban, monasteries left three major hagiographical works: the Vita Colum…
Lady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutional and religious significance. Medievalists are familiar with the image of a queen offering a drink to a king or chief…
"In 1912, Derry was a busy port city with a thriving textile industry. An important transport hub, it was also a city divided along confessional and political lines. The unionist establishment controlled local government despite the existence of a large Catholic nationalist majo…
"In 1912, Derry was a busy port city with a thriving textile industry. An important transport hub, it was also a city divided along confessional and political lines. The unionist establishment controlled local government despite the existence of a large Catholic nationalist majo…
In the twentieth century alone, Irish men and women fought in two world wars, a revolution and civil war in Ireland itself, in the armies of Britain and the Commonwealth, the United States, and on both sides in the Boer War and Spanish Civil War, additionally they engaged in num…