Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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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'
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New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
(2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. AD 1500
(2019)We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod (Gadus morhua) catch volumes and likely a tripling of ... -
Of Ruin and Archaism: Kate O’Brien and the Polemics of Place in 1930s Ireland
(2007)Kate O’Brien’s 1938 novel Pray for the Wanderer illustrates the polemics of place operating in bourgeois Ireland in 1937, the year of the Irish Constitutional referendum. O’Brien’s subtle and audacious literary technique ...