I’ve been mulling over a longer post on this topic, but it’s taking a while, so I decided to write something shorter, more along the lines of a “for Dummies” or The Guardian’s Pass Notes series. So here goes: Plantations…
Roger Casement: traitor and hero
I just spotted a new article on the BBC’s website about Roger Casement, so I thought I’d link to it. The main ‘thesis’ is as follows: Author Angus Mitchell, who has written several books on Casement, believes he was not…
Irish and Northern Irish newspaper archives online
Historian Brett Holman has a list of British newspaper archives available online at his blog airminded.org. Included within it are a good number of titles from Ireland and Northern Ireland: The Anglo-Celt (Cavan) Belfast Gazette (free) Butte Independent 1910 to…
Timeline of Ireland’s History
A comprehensive timeline can be found here: http://wp.me/P2M4um-5H
The Sash by the Seaside: A Brief History of the Republic of Ireland’s Only Orange Parade | The Dustbin of History
Fascinating: The Sash by the Seaside: A Brief History of the Republic of Ireland’s Only Orange Parade | The Dustbin of History.
Common Irish surnames and their derivations
There’s a long and interesting article about common Irish surnames and their derivations on the Irish Medieval History page on facebook. It’s got some snippets of information I wasn’t aware of either. I’d always assumed anyone Irish with a French-sounding…