I have recently been appointed Articles Editor of Comparative Legal History. I am really excited to start this role (and I already have work to do!). So I will keep this brief. It is a great opportunity to influence scholarship (beware any normanisers, you will be desk rejected! ha ha haha ha) and to stay […]
This month, June 2022, is the 100-year anniversary of the gelignite explosion at the Record Treasury in the Four Courts, Dublin during the Irish Civil War. Thousands of manuscripts and documents from seven centuries of Irish history were destroyed. A very few survived on the day. But others survived by being held in other locations.
The Institute of Irish Studies’ Leverhulme Fellow, Dr Stephen Hewer, recently published a book on the legal status of different groups in medieval Ireland. The Institute hosted a book launch on 16 March. Here, he details the processes of making the book and some of the major findings. The book is a thorough re-examination of
Discount and free shipping (expired 16 April 2022) on my book ‘Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland’
Trying to discover the possible ethnicities of people named ‘Fagan’ in the medieval records of the English Court in Ireland made me hungry.
Myagh, Miagh, Myath, Myach – Was this name Anglicised in the records of the English Court in Ireland, or not?
Is Candelan an obscure English name or an Anglicisation of Uí Caíndelbháin?