Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
(European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
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, 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 ... -
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, ... -
Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century England: William Mason and the Literature of Lay Evangelical Anglicanism
(2019)William Mason (1719–1791), an Anglican evangelical layman of Bermondsey, London, published extensively on theological issues to educate the Anglican laity in the Church of England’s Reformed tradition. Despite the ... -
''The Faithful Remnant of the True Church of England': Susanna Hopton and the Politico-Theology of the Nonjuring Schism'
(2021)Susanna Hopton (1627-1709) is best known for her devotional literature, and her association with the Anglican clergyman and poet, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674). Significantly less scholarly attention, however, has been devoted ... -
Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People's Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
(2022)History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people's understanding of their nation's modern ... -
Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds
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Ireland, 1686-1825
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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 ... -
The Reception of Thomas Delaune's Plea for the Non-Conformists in England and America, 1684-1870
(2022)In a 1683 sermon, Benjamin Calamy, an Anglican priest, claimed that the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England was unjustifiable. Thomas Delaune, a London Baptist schoolmaster, responded in A Plea for the ... -
'The Scum of Controversy': Recantation Sermons in the Churches of England and Ireland, 1673-1779
(2022)Recent studies of Anglicanism during the “long” eighteenth century have illuminated the fundamental role played by sermons, both as evangelistic and political tools. Virtually no scholarly attention, however, has been ... -
A Visigothic Computus of AD 722 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11, 26r?27r)
(Brepols, 2023)Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11 contains a short text (26r–27r) overlooked by scholars of early medieval computus. This short note demonstrates its Visigothic origin and AD 722 as the year of composition. The text ...