Questions tagged [ireland]
An island on the Atlantic, in western Europe, divided by the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The questions may refer to both the island itself and Ireland as a country.
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Irish politicians in the British Empire [closed]
Looking back over centuries of British rule in Ireland: Has any Irish person ever served as British prime minister, or foreign minister, or General in the Army, or Admiral in the navy, or Governor ...
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Is there any historical evidence of Picts originating from Scythia? [closed]
I am reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles which states early on, this passage:
The island Britain (1) is 800 miles long, and 200 miles broad. And there are in the island five nations; English, Welsh (...
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Did the IRA attempt to point out the innocence of the Guildford 4 or Birmingham 6?
While the Guildford Four or Birmingham Six were wrongfully imprisoned for bombings carried out by the IRA, did the IRA themselves try to tell anyone - (e.g. the authorities or the media) - that the ...
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Is the history of relations between Ukraine and Russia similar to what was between Ireland and Uk? [closed]
Ukraine vs Russia:
similar or same language, but cultural distance
national resistance against imperial project, famine
long shared history (neighbors), cultural influence
UK vs Ireland:
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Has a hereditary peer ever been promoted or demoted to a higher or lower rank?
The hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom consists of dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons. The same is more or less true of the peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Great ...
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Why were monasteries built in obscure places around Ireland?
I remember reading that monks built many monasteries around very obscure parts of medieval Ireland. Does anyone know why? Is it because they didn't want many people to know/join about their order?
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What could be the uses of a pike, other than for fighting, circa 1833 Ireland
I am reading more about the 'Kanturk Massacre' in old newspapers, and one of the points brought up on a few occasions during the coroner's inquest is that a pike was found with the victims, and the ...
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What was the Kanturk Massacre/Thernagree Affray?
I found brief mention of 5 people killed in Kanturk, Ireland in this 22 March 1833 edition of the Brookville Inquirer and wanted to know more, and now that I do, I thought I'd share an interesting ...
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What was a turf rick in Ireland, circa 1833?
I was reading old newspapers when I came across this:
The bit I am wondering about is the part that says "was at a turf rick for some turf". Googling "turf rick", brings up a ...
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What was typical of Ireland England court system in the 1700’s?
In the 1700’s there were Court proceedings called ExChequer Court of Equity Bill Books (e.g) in Ireland. I found records of one of my ancestors in the early 1700’s who was a defendant several times ...
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Why was wearing an orange lily so offensive as to warrant assault in Ireland in 1845?
So, I came across this article in the 03 July 1845 edition of the Freeman's Journal, a newspaper out of Dublin Ireland. The article talks about an incident in which Thomas Short was assaulted by a 14-...
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Why did the Jacobites lose the Battle of Aughrim?
Accounts of the Battle of Aughrim, the decisive action of the Jacobite uprisings, suggest the two armies were at roughly equal strength. The Williamite army was said to be better trained and equipped ...
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When did Robert Briscoe die?
Robert Briscoe was a teachta Dála (member of parliament) in Ireland for many years, and briefly was lord mayor of Dublin. English Wikipedia and Irish Wikipedia give his date of death as March 11, 1969....
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In light of genetic genealogy, are there any new theories for the introduction of Goidelic to Britain and Ireland
There is DNA evidence of two major waves of Indo-European migration to Britain and Ireland.
The first wave of migration occurred in the early Bronze Age.
The second wave of migration occurred in the ...
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Where did the South Dublin/"D4" accent come from?
I've lived in Ireland for a decade in Dublin and outside Co. Dublin. I've noticed that many of the accents sound similar with the exception of the South Dublin accent. It sounds entirely different ...
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Was Ireland really England's first colony? [closed]
I have a vaguely decent knowledge of Irish history, but I know relatively little of the history of England.
I've often heard Ireland spoken of as England's first colony, but surely that 'title' would ...
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Is there a Welsh or Irish equivalent to the Declaration of Arbroath or Magna Carta?
Are there any pre-modern documents (or were there any, if they didn't survive) in Welsh or Irish history, which are broadly equivalent in intention and purpose to the Declaration of Arbroath or the ...
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What is my ancestor wearing, and what is the purpose?
This is a photo of my ancestor from Donegal, Ireland, sometime in the 1800's. What is she wearing, and what is the significance, especially of the headpiece?
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What was the likely death toll of the Tudor invasion of ireland?
Ben Kiernan uses the Tudor Conquest of Ireland as an example of an early modern genocidal campaign in his book Blood and Soil. While he quotes extensive contemporary description of depopulated ...
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What was the military background of the Irish company at the Siege of Jadotville?
During the Siege of Jadotville, the Irish "A" company under Quinlan's command and UN mandate seems to have fought pretty well.
It is especially mentioned in the linked article a good capacity in ...
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How many people died in the British Isles from religious persecution between 1532 and 1791?
The English Reformation was "a series of events in 16th-century England by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church". It involved the ...
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Why did Western Christian monasticism really take off in Ireland?
I'm reading this wikipedia article and it seems like Western Christian monasticism came originally from Egypt, and then had small followings in Italy and northeastern France before somehow skipping ...
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When did the round house fall out of vernacular use throughout Britain and Ireland?
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When did roundhouses fall out of vernacular use?
The time frame we have is full of gaps:
They fell out of use in South-West Britain in the 8th Century.
Wales may have had them potentially for ...
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How did Irish defeat Norse at Battle of Tara in 980 CE.?
At the Battle of Tara in 980 C.E. the Norse were (apparently) heavily defeated by the Irish. There is not much material or sources on this battle. Does anyone have ideas on how the Irish were able to ...
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Was the mortality rate among Irish emigrants to Canada really ten times those to America? If so, why?
In a Reddit AMA with an Irish historian, he made this claim about emigration during the Great Famine:
In 1847 around 20% of emigrants on the Canadian route died at sea or just after arrival. They ...
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On what basis do some historians accuse the British government of genocide during the great Irish famine?
Been reading a bit around the great famine of late. It's something that seems to have slipped from public consciousness in Britain, although the suffering it engendered seems horrific almost beyond ...
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ut and et in the third Dicta Patricii of the Book of Armagh
I am doing research on the motto of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome (Italian: Pontificio Collegio Irlandese) which reads "Ut Christiani Ita et Romani Sitis" (Book of Armagh Folio 9).
Most ...
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Why are Vikings singled out for raids in Britain and Ireland when records may indicate most raids were by local rulers?
The main (original) sources for the evidence cited here were written by monks and priests who have usually been cited by modern historians as being biased against Vikings.
However, recent research ...
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How frequently did monasteries attack other monasteries in Early Medieval Western Europe?
Recently, I saw this passage in M & H. Whittock, ‘The Viking Blitzkrieg’ (referring to Ireland)
of the 113 attacks on monasteries between 795 and 820, only twenty-six
were carried out by ...
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Probation time in marriage?
So I am sitting in a musical right now (The Pirate Queen, by an amateur theatre group) and it is about Ireland in the 16th century. They showed a marriage where they got something like a probation ...
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How have terms of English governance of Ireland been viewed in history?
The following Treaty of Mellifont, made with Hugh O'Neill, England's most hard-core opponent, is reasonably representative. Under the treaty, after the Irish lost a war, were the following key terms:
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Why were the Irish exempt from conscription during WWI?
During the first world war all of Ireland was within the United Kingdom.
In C. S. Lewis's autobiographical book Surprised by Joy he says that as an Irishman (from Belfast) he was exempt from ...
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Irish Nationalist Party in Liverpool
From 1885 to 1929, the Irish Parliamentary Party held the seat Liverpool Scotland in England.
Why did the Irish Parliamentary Party choose to contest a seat in England, and what factors contributed ...
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Did IRA bombings in Great Britain lead to Hibernophobia?
Terrorist attacks by (Salafi) Islamists in Europe may lead to an increase in Islamophobia.
Did terrorist attacks by IRA (as well as Provisional IRA, Continuity IRA, Real IRA) lead to an increase in ...
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What numerals did the people of Ireland use before Roman Numerals? (aka, did Ogham include numbers?)
I would like to know if any writing system of Ireland had a system of writing numerals prior to the Romans introducing Roman numerals. There are lots of sites online that show the Ogham writing system ...
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Sources on St. Patrick
Do any writings about Saint Patrick written while he lived survive, other than what he wrote himself? Is he actually known to have died on the 17th of March? (I'm guessing he didn't write that himself....
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When did Ireland become majority English-speaking
It seems to me it was around the time of the Famine of the 1840s, given that it was particularly deadly to poorer, more rural Gaelic-speaking areas. But the best I can find are vague statements like "...
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When did furniture become common in the homes of most people in the British Isles?
When did they (regular people, rich people, etc.) start using stools and benches in the British Isles? My question is about daily life, not just the earliest archaeological finds. Specifically, I'm ...
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What made the English the dominant power of the British Isles?
Recently, I've been searching a lot about Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England. One after the other, England vassalized its neighbors and became the head of Great Britain.
I can understand that ...
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Non Altered European Castles
I recently paid a visit to Leed's castle, and was disappointed by the extent to which the manor had been refurbished and modernized.
Importantly:
What castles in Europe are accessible to the public ...
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Did the Romans ever deploy troops to, or try to conquer, Ireland?
The Romans obviously conquered Ireland's nearest neighbor, Britain (at least the southern part of it), but they seem to have stayed away from Ireland, at least as far as I am aware.
Is this the ...
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What was the contemporary popular opinion of the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
After the Irish War of Independence (also known as The [Black and] Tan War), the Irish and British signed a treaty in 1921, which created the Irish Free State and started the process of gradual ...
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What is the labelling system for artefacts?
I have no practical or academic experience with archaeology.
Some well-known archaeological sites have colloquial names. For example Newgrange or its Kerbstone 52. They can be unambiguously referred ...
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Why does Northern Ireland not include the counties Donegal, Monaghan and Cavan?
Did not the entire province of Ulster vote to stay in the Union? If so, why was it partitioned? Esepecially Donegal which relied heavily on Belfast for its economy, I don't see a good reason why they'...
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Why was Northern Ireland mostly peaceful from the late 1920s to the mid 1960s?
After a bloody civil war and partition in the 1920s, Northern Ireland had about 40 years of peace. This was despite the many grievances that the Catholics had at that time. This resulted in violence ...
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Did the biblical apostle James visit Ireland?
I remember reading in a magazine that the biblical apostle James the Greater visited Ireland 400 years before Saint Patrick.
Is it true that he went on a mission to Northern Ireland? Forgive me if I ...
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How common was banditry in 16th & 17th century Great Britain and Ireland?
I want to know about highwaymen and thieves and brigands who preyed on travellers. so, I am not interested in other organised criminal gangs such as smugglers or urban thieves.
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Which side of the Atlantic does the jack-o'-lantern come from?
There is an often-repeated 'fact' that although the pumpkin is an American plant, the Jack-o-Lantern tradition is an older Irish tradition (e.g., in today's Washington Post) in which turnips were ...
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Why was there an autumn recess in Britain in 1641?
Was it because the government just wanted to take a break in recess? Or was it because of conflicts?
Wikipedia mentions that in October 1641, the Irish rebellion occurred, but it doesn’t mention that ...
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Wales and Ireland in medieval times [closed]
There is a very interesting article on wikipedia on Welsh Law. Though it defines the structure of the Court in Wales in the late medieval period, it says nothing of the status of other nobles and ...
