Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Between Apathy and Antipathy: The Vikings in Irish and Scandinavian History
(1995)"Neither apathy nor antipathy can ever bring out the truth of history" (Eoin MacNeill, Phases of Irish History, Dublin, 1919, vi). Around 1970 the subject of "the Vikings in Ireland" was seen, historiographically, as a ... -
Beyond the Cartesian Imagination: Placing Beckett
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'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction
(2019)This conversation with the Irish author Emma Donoghue is focused on her relationship with history and fiction. Topics discussed include the relationship between scholarly research and the writing of historical fiction, ... -
'The "Calculus of Faction" and Richard II's Duchy of Ireland'
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Categorizing Dicuil's 'De cursu solis lunaeque'
(Brepols, 2022)Dicuil’s so-called Liber de astronomia has confused many modern scholars. Based on an analysis of its structure, this paper argues that the very nature of the work has often been misunderstood. It was never meant to be a ... -
Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
Climatic and Societal Impacts of a "Forgotten" Cluster of Volcanic Eruptions in 1108-1110 CE
(2020)Recently revised ice core chronologies for Greenland have newly identified one of the largest sulfate deposition signals of the last millennium as occurring between 1108 and 1113 CE. Long considered the product of the 1104 ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
(Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
Coming to Terms With the Village: Stalin's Death and the Reassessment of Rural-Urban Relations in the Soviet Union
(2017)In August 1953, the Soviet writer Tikhon Semushkin was sent by Pravda to the countryside to report on the current state of the kolkhoz village. In this article, we use Semushkin’s unpublished travel diaries to study elite ... -
The continuation of the Alexandrian Easter table in seventh-century Iberia and its transmission to ninth-century Francia
(2018)The question of how to calculate the date of Easter was a hotly debated issue in early Christianity. The matter was ultimately decided by around AD 800 in favour of the Alexandrian / Dionysian reckoning, which remained the ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
(Routledge, 2022)The DEH can be seen as an academic response to three major interwoven changes and challenges: the digital revolution; global warming and global warming and social-political agency related to environmental change. In the ... -
The Dark Side of Independence: Paramilitary Violence in Ireland and Poland after the First World War
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)This article analyses excesses carried out against civilians in Ireland and Poland after the First World War. It shows how the absence of a centralised state authority with a monopoly on violence allowed for new, less ... -
Deep History: Deeper Waters
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Defiant Mourning: Public Funerals as Funeral Demonstrations in the Chartist Movement
(2018)The popular radical movement that developed in Great Britain after the Napoleonic wars under the leadership of Henry Hunt made the mass-platform its main – and most striking – means of action in the fight for parliamentary ... -
Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre-Modern Societies
(2020)Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, ...