Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific fisheries history
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)Until recently very little had been published on the history of Asian fisheries. This sorry state of neglect changed at one stroke with the publication of Butcher's 2004 study of South East Asian fisheries. The present ... -
'The Lecky Professors'
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Like the end of a beautiful world: eco-critical perceptions of landscape in the works of Francis Ledwidge and Lord Dunsany
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The lost fragment of Claudius of Turin's Chronicle rediscovered, and the relation between Paris BnF Lat. 5001 and Lat. 7400B
(2020)In 1657, Pierre Labbe published two fragments of Claudius of Turin’s Chronicle. The first was subsequently identified with Paris BnF Lat. 5001, 1r-8v, while the second was believed to be lost. This article announces the ... -
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
(Routledge, 2023)Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies ... -
Magna Carta at Christ Church Cathedral
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Managing Marine Ecosystem Services: A review of the Ecosystem Approach
(Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018) -
The mechanics of lunar calendars and the modes of calculating Easter, AD 400-1100: contexts and perspectives
(Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 2020)Perspectives on historical periods and their watersheds change according to the lens employed. The medieval period may be considered to have started politically in Gibbon’s terms with the Fall of Rome and the formation of ... -
Moulding the future: Na Fianna Eireann and its members, 1909-23
(2011)This article provides a snapshot of the membership of the Irish nationalist youth organisation Na Fianna Eireann from its foundation in 1909 to the end of the Irish Civil War in 1923. The article argues that membership in ... -
The myth of the 'five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland
(2018)This paper examines two issues: misconceptions concerning English law in high medieval Ireland; and the invention and mutation of an exceptio (objection) in court which was based on a fabrication. The plea, or defensive ... -
'Negotiating Authority in a Colonial Capital: Dublin and the Windsor Crisis, c.1369-78'
(Four Courts Press, 2009)