A Brief Guide to Irish Archaeological SitesA brief introduction to some of the many types of archaeological monuments which can be seen in Ireland. Detailed description, some sketches, pictures, and bibliography. The Boyne Valley MoundsThe Megalithic Passage Tombs of Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth, Fourknocks, Loughcrew and Tara are located in the present day County of Meath [...]
Sacred Island archaeology–Guided Tours of Ireland’s Ancient Sites Significant Unpublished Irish Archaelogical Excavations for the period 1930-1997 The Heritage Council commissioned a survey of unpublished excavations for the period 1930-1997 (Doyle et al 2001). That survey examined the Heritage Service archive of reports on archaeological excavations and categorised 81 sites as being of national importance [...]
ArchiseekArchiseek.com is an Irish architecture website covering interesting and important buildings from the past as well as latest developments and news.–Archiseek Architects an alphabetical directory of architects, planning consultants and urban designers, working within the construction industry on residential, industrial, commercial, medical, public and urban architecture. – Irish Building Industry Ireland Archive Noteworthy buildings in [...]
Buildings of Ireland The NIAH is a section within the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The work of the NIAH involves identifying and recording the architectural heritage of Ireland, from 1700 to the present day – Buildings of Ireland : National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Irish Art DecoMainly art deco architecture, with [...]
Ardmore Studios From ’60s classics like The Lion in Winter and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and recent action adventures, including The Count of Monte Cristo, Reign of Fire and King Arthur to modern day Oscar winners such as Braveheart and My Left Foot, Ardmore Studios has long been established as Ireland’s [...]
Neil JordanNeil Jordan’s website. NB it hasn’t been updated for some time. see also interview with Walter Chawsee also Jordan Biography at IFTN Paddy Breathnach Paddy Breathnach co-founded Treasure Films with Robert Walpole in 1992. In the intervening time Breathnach (director) and Walpole (producer) have completed numerous projects including shorts, TV series, documentaries and award-winning [...]
Popular Selections from O’Neill’s Dance Music of Ireland double jigs; single jigs; hop or slip jigs; reels ; hornpipes and long dances, arranged by Selena A. O’Neill. Published by Request of The Gaelic Junior Dancing Clubs of Chicago, USA. Based on the works of Captain Francis O’Neill. –archive.org The history of Irish Dance The early [...]
Design for Industry the Industrial Design Consultancy and Product Design in the Republic of Ireland, by Dr. Paul Caffrey. –Circa Art Magazine. Design History in Ireland In assessing Design History in Ireland, it is necessary to trace its origins. by Lisa Godson. A CIRCA 89 Art Education Supplement –Circa Art Magazine. Creative Ireland Creative Ireland [...]
Earliest Currency in Ireland Celtic Exchange and Ring Money, Greek and Roman Influence, Coinage for External Trade. Part of the Irish Coinage website also at Irish Coinage Irish Hammered Coinage c 960 – 1660 Hiberno-Norse Coinage (~995 AD to ~1150 AD), John, as Lord and King (1180 to ~1210), Henry III (1251 to 1254), Edward [...]
Achill Island History there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5,000 years ago. Co. Kildare Online Electronic History Journal An Electronic Journal for the publication of material relating to the history, archaeology and heritage of Co. Kildare. History and Family Research Centre (Local Studies, Genealogy and Archives) part of Kildare County Library [...]
Hand of History – Burden of Pseudo-History This book presents a Celtic Royal complex, unprecedented in Ireland for its size and layout, but similar to Belgic Centres of Power, called oppida by Caesar, in SE England and on the Continent. It was centered on Turoe in Co. Galway, site of the famous Turoe Stone. No [...]
Foundations of Irish CultureA great deal that has been written about Irish culture in the period ad 600-850 has been touched by the Romantic views of the 19th century, which saw Ireland as a lone beacon of knowledge shining out during Europe’s ‘Dark Ages’. That view has been most recently expounded in the book by [...]
Irish Hammered Coinage c.995-1660 The first locally produced Irish coinage was the so-called Hiberno-Norse coinage which was first minted in Dublin in about 995 AD under the authority of Sithric III (aka Sithric Silkbeard), the Norse king of Dublin. Irish Coinage Tales of Medieval Dublin a lunchtime lecture series exploring the lives of seven different [...]
The Irish Chancery Rolls ProjectThe Irish Chancery Project is an IRCHSS-funded thematic project that seeks to advance our understanding of the ‘making of Ireland‘ between the high Middle Ages and the dawn of the modern era – one of the most formative periods in Ireland’s past – by publishing on the web and in print [...]
Calendar of The State Papers Relating to Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth, 1 November, 1600– 31 July, 1601 The papers calendared in this volume continue the story of Mountjoy’s government for the nine months between 1 November, 1600, and 31 July, 1601. A few weeks after the latter date, the long-expected Spaniards arrived at [...]
The Williamite Penal Laws Eighty percent of the population of Ireland, owning one third of the land, were Roman Catholics. All suffered from the Penal laws of 1697-1727. From the reign of Elizabeth I when the Church of England became the Established Church, there had been attempts made to eradicate Catholicism from the British Isles. [...]
Britain and Ireland, 1789-1801 The Irish could see that religious inequality had been abolished in France and that a democratic government had been set up. Irish Roman Catholics wanted equality; Irish Protestants wanted parliamentary reform. Both groups wanted economic reform.– The Victorian Web, Dr Bloy The Origins of the Orange Order The Orange Institution, more [...]
Ireland: politics and administration, 1815–1870 * 1. The Act of Union * 2. Daniel O’Connell and emancipation * 3. Electoral reform * 4. The Orange Order and sectarian politics * 6. The Poor Law * 8. Young Ireland * 9. Government responses to the Famine * 10. Fenianism * 11. Liberal reforms. – Christine Kinealy [...]
Emancipation, Famine & Religion: Ireland under the Union, 1815–1870 Ireland: society and economy, 1815–1870. * 1. Ireland in 1815 * 2. Agriculture & living standards * 3. Agricultural crisis and industrial decline * 4. The collapse of the wool and cotton industries * 5. Pre-famine crisis? * 7. The Great Famine * 8. Did the [...]
Home Rule: Ireland: politics & administration, 1870-1914 * 1. Origins of Home Rule * 2. Home Government Association * 3. Home Rule League * 4. Obstructionism * 5. Parnellism as Politics * 6. Parnell’s Fall * 7. The Maturing of Irish Unionism * 9. More Assertive Nationalism, 1870–1914 * 10. Protestantism & Irishness * 11. [...]