When Medieval May Be More Modern Than Tudor
Many migrants know the experience of returning to your homeplace after months or years away and being struck by some change, large or small, that’s …
Medieval Ireland
Walking the Medieval Mile Museum
Very few medieval buildings have survived the centuries without major changes, and the former church of St Mary’s in Kilkenny is not one of them. …
Public Talk: St Brigit Abroad
Next Wednesday, July 27, at 4pm I will be giving a talk at the Solas Bhríde Centre in Kildare, entitled “Brigit Abroad: The Reception of …
Helen Maybury Roe—A Pioneering Historian of Medieval Ireland
I can claim a certain kinship with Helen Maybury Roe: not only was she a medieval historian, as I am, but she was also from …
Family and Finances in Fifteenth-Century Dublin
I first came across the marvellously named Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin in the Time of Archbishops Tregury and Walton, …
Coolbanagher Castle
We’re only a couple of months into 2014 and it’s already been a tough year for archaeological sites in Ireland. First we had the loss …