{"title":"Sir Anthony St Leger and the outbreak of the Midland Rebellion, 1547-8","authors":"A. Bryson","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.08","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Henry VIII's death in 1547 did not affect politics in Ireland as dramatically as once thought. Sir Anthony St Leger remained lord deputy for the first fourteen months of Edward VI's reign, even if preoccupied with the Midland Rebellion. This originated in southern Leinster in April 1547, and escalated under the Gaelic Irish chieftains Brian O'Connor of Offaly and Patrick O'More of Leix. It was a serious uprising and St Leger's failure to quell it swiftly, combined with local (as opposed to court) faction, led to his dismissal in 1548. Angry with what he saw as appeasement of the Gaelic Irish, Vice-Treasurer Sir William Brabazon turned on the lord deputy and advocated the appointment of Sir Edward Bellingham as his successor. The English government backed Bellingham, regarding him as less partisan and more capable of defeating the rebels, which he did in autumn 1548.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82612076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Retrospect: Françoise Henry's published works – an overview","authors":"P. Harbison","doi":"10.3318/priac.2017.117.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2017.117.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82918674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A reconsideration of the authorship and transmission of Cogadh Gáedhel re Gallaibh","authors":"Denis Casey","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The eleventh-/twelfth-century encomiastic biography of Brian Bóroma (ob. 1014), Cogadh Gáedhel re Gallaibh ('The War of the Irish with the Foreigners'), was the most important text in cementing Brian's reputation as the medieval Irish king par excellence. Scholarly consensus considers it to have been written as a work of propaganda in favour of Brian's great-grandson, Muirchertach Ua Briain (ob. 1119), whose father, Tairdelbach, had earlier wrested the kingship of Dál Cais from his uncle, Donnchad (son of Brian). In this article it will be shown that, contrary to previous scholarly opinion, the text actually portrays Donnchad in a positive light. It will be argued that there may have been multiple versions of the text in existence but that the only surviving complete copy was written or reworked in favour of Donnchad's descendants (and not for Muirchertach) and it is this version which has influenced subsequent accounts of Brian's story, right into the modern period.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77226404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth: a study of its post-dissolution architecture 1540–1727","authors":"G. Stout, R. Loeber, O'Brien Kevin","doi":"10.3318/priac.2016.116.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2016.116.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the period after the Acts of Suppression a great number of former monasteries were converted to domestic use by leading Crown favourites who took advantage of their position to transform cloistral buildings into residential mansions. Among the privileged few was the Moore family, originally from Kent, in the south of England, who eventually became the owners of three dissolved Cistercian estates in Ireland namely, Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth; Monasterevin, Co. Kildare; and St Mary's Abbey, Dublin City. The recent discovery of an early eighteenth century plan of Mellifont House provides an opportunity to review historical, architectural, archaeological and cartographic evidence in order to determine the legacy of the Moore family at Mellifont during almost 200 years in residence. This paper also highlights the significant role played by Mellifont in the dramatic political events of that period.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73058132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Irish Jerusalem in Franconia: the Abbey of the Holy Cross and Holy Sepulchre at Eichstätt","authors":"Diarmuid Ó Riain","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2011.112.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2011.112.09","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A combination of the crusades and the related upsurge in pilgrimages to the Holy Land led to western European interest in the city of Jerusalem reaching a high point during the twelfth century. This increased awareness of Jerusalem and its sacred sites found one expression in the foundation of a Benedictine monastery at Eichstätt in southern Germany, which was dedicated to the Holy Cross and Holy Sepulchre and whose church was modelled on the most famous of all the Holy City's monuments. Adding to the singularity of the Eichstätt establishment was the fact that the monks who peopled it were Irish, this being one of the so-called Schottenklöster, a group of Irish Benedictine monasteries founded in Germany and Austria between the late eleventh and early thirteenth centuries. This paper examines the circumstances surrounding the Irish monastery's foundation, gives a detailed account of its extraordinary architecture and considers the place of the latter within the wider context of the medieval architectural copy.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76844208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professor John Wardell and university history in Ireland in the early twentieth century","authors":"Ruairí Cullen","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2017.117.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2017.117.05","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:A star graduate of the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) history honours programme, John Wardell, a young man from County Limerick, was appointed lecturer in history at his alma mater in 1902 and promoted to full professor two years later. Until illness forced his resignation in 1911, Wardell attempted to modernise and expand the history programme—and pioneered the introduction of Irish content—at the college with the help of a handful of colleagues. His vision of what constituted valuable Irish history was informed by his background: generations of ancestors had fought for the Crown throughout the Empire and he was obsessed with his family history. By rediscovering Wardell, we are offered a revealing glimpse into the mindset of a young Irish Protestant from a landholding background during a tumultuous period for his class. In doing so, we also gain insight into a formative period in Irish historiography when debates surrounding ‘national’ history and what to consider valuable source material intensified.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78049182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanism's priorities and empire's prerogatives: Polydore Vergil's description of Ireland","authors":"Eric G. Haywood","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2009.109.195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2009.109.195","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The description of Ireland in the Anglica historia by Polydore Vergil (c. 1470-1555), is possibly one of its most original passages, yet nowadays it is little known or studied. This article seeks to remedy that deficiency by (a) providing an edition of the original Latin text, together with a modern English translation, and (b) explaining how the description came to be constructed. It argues that Vergil, writing as an Italian, aimed on the one hand to abide by humanist precedent and respect the (nascent) rules regarding historiography and chorography, and on the other to satisfy the imperialising demands of his patrons, the Tudors. As a result, the work is anything but 'modern', as some critics have suggested. On the contrary it is very much of its time, recording deeds done (in war) for the sake of deeds-to-be-done, and thus portraying the Irish as inevitable losers.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75329820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Medieval Buildings in the Port of Ardglass, Co. Down","authors":"T. Mcneill","doi":"10.3318/PRIC.2005.105.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIC.2005.105.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Three buildings in what is now a small port in Ardglass, Co. Down are connected by their location on the ridge overlooking the harbour and quay. Because of the Irish vernacular style related to tower houses they have all been called castles, but analysis shows that they were originally more commercial in their purpose. The largest of the buildings is identified as a line of shops. The building adjacent to that was possibly used as a warehouse or communal hall, while the third building appears to have been used as a watch tower for the port. As such they relate to other commercial buildings found in late medieval Irish towns, notably Kilmallock, Co. Limerick.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73936021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking settlement values in Gaelic society: the case of the cathedral centres","authors":"Elizabeth Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2019.119.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2019.119.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The idea that settlements of Gaelic peoples were primarily dispersed and eschewed urban form has dominated interpretations of later medieval and early post-medieval Gaelic settlement arrangements in Ireland, but to what extent do the categories of urban and rural even apply to places where people were settled in late medieval Gaelic polities? Through an investigation of cathedral-centred communities inter Hibernicos, which were closely identified with the political territories in which they were situated, it is suggested that altogether different values from the urban–rural paradigm motivated the continuity and development of such social formations between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74176583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lambay lithics: the analysis of two surface collections from Lambay, Co. Dublin","authors":"B. Dolan, G. Cooney","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2010.110.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2010.110.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Two collections of unsystematically surface-collected lithics from the island of Lambay, Co. Dublin, were analysed using an integrated methodology focused on a Geographical Information System-based approach, incorporating a number of analytical perspectives. Analysis and mapping of this material provides an important new perspective on prehistoric human activity on the island. Assessment of the diagnostic artefacts demonstrated the presence of human activity during the Later Mesolithic and it seems very likely that people were present on Lambay from the Early Mesolithic. There were a number of significant individual assemblages and two of these are discussed in detail. Widespread activity across the island has also been revealed as well as the persistent use of key locales over long periods. The study provides an important complement to the results of the excavation at the Neolithic axe-quarry site on the island at the Eagle's Nest as well as a consideration of Lambay's context and long-distance contacts in the wider Irish Sea region.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79431468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}