Tag: History of Ireland

Scenes of old Ireland from ‘The Two Hemispheres’

by Bruce Gaston • 18 January 2014

The Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Still in existence (and open to visitors!) today. Illustration from The Two Hemispheres by George Goudie Chisolm, 1885.

The book The Two Hemispheres: a popular account of the countries and peoples of the world … Illustrated, etc. (1885) covers, as its title suggests, the whole world. Scans of its illustrations were among the thousands recently uploaded to Flickr by the British Library. I’ve extracted and added to the Irish History Compressed Pinterest account the ones of sights in Ireland.

Friday quiz: Can you identify this object?

by Bruce Gaston • 17 January 2014

I sent this question round on twitter to brighten up a dull Friday. Here’s the answer:

You can find many more fascinating pictures about Ireland’s history here: http://www.pinterest.com/irishhistory/

Irish History Compressed e-book January sale

by Bruce Gaston • 1 January 2014

For a limited time you can get a 50% discount on our brief history of Ireland, using the following discount code: AY22T Click here to redeem it and download the e-book at once: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/311082 All the usual formats are available: Kindle,…

My top books on Irish history

by Bruce Gaston • 13 December 2013

There are a lot of books on Irish history, and the current Decade of Commemoration has prompted a flood of new ones. Here’s my choice of a few of those that have been around for a while but are still…

A Beginner’s Guide to Plantations in Ireland

by Bruce Gaston • 4 December 2013

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…

Irish and Northern Irish newspaper archives online

by Bruce Gaston • 24 October 2013

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

by Bruce Gaston • 17 October 2013

A comprehensive timeline can be found here: http://wp.me/P2M4um-5H

Common Irish surnames and their derivations

by Bruce Gaston • 9 October 2013

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…

We’re on Twitter!

by Bruce Gaston • 7 October 2013

Irish History Compressed now has a Twitter feed under the rather squashed moniker of http://twitter.com/HistoryCompr (You’d think with over 500 million users the twelve-character limit on Twitter names would need to be lifted…) That means that from now on you…

Ireland and the World Wars on Pinterest

by Bruce Gaston • 30 September 2013

It’s all been a bit quiet around here recently as attention has been focused on back-end things such as redesigning and optimising the website. I’ve also been procrastinating a bit by playing around with Pinterest, and I decided to move…

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