Idols and Good Old Gods

The arrival of Christianity in Ireland and the unhelpful notion of ‘paganism’

Barefoot Kings?

Sifting the evidence on civilisation in Gaelic Ulster

Ireland’s Adventure in Spain

During the first few years of the seventeenth century there was a remarkable Irish migration to Spain. The migrants came principally from southwest Cork and…

Recovering Princes, Respected Prelates, Reduced Poets

There appears to be some repressive force, almost an enchantment, affecting academic thinking. The experts cannot or will not suspect, let alone address, the crucial…

HIDING IRELAND

A new history of the English-approved aristocracy of Ireland in the seventeenth century shows remarkable command of official sources but reads as if the other…

Bitter Truths

A new generation of Slovak poets has rejected the central themes of the communist and Christian past, now seen as lies or illusions. But the…

Documents of a Spiritual Resistance

Of the love poems, the two outstanding examples are by an archbishop of Tuam, Maol Mhuire Ó hUigín. One is addressed to a young man…

Fencing Ireland’s Poets