Celts
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Ancient Roads
Read more: Ancient RoadsHighways of Ancient Ireland Earlier this summer I watched the road outside my home slowly broken up and resurfaced. The many weeks of hard labour (granted they took far longer than needed), disruption and chaos created, and the army of trucks carrying materials, all got me thinking about how such roads were built and used…
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Gods of Ireland
Read more: Gods of IrelandThe Tuatha De Dannan If I were to list out the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Norse cultures, I can almost guarantee that their respective pantheons will come to mind. But if I now add the Irish to this list, I wonder how many would be able to list even one of their gods. Even as…
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Fashion in Iron Age Ireland
Read more: Fashion in Iron Age IrelandEvery morning all of us share in a ritual that dates back as far history itself. For, without exception, each of us will decide what we will wear for the day ahead. The questions we will ask to form our choices are the same questions our ancestors would have asked some 2,000 years ago: ‘What…
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The History of Dunseverick Castle
Read more: The History of Dunseverick CastleUlster’s hidden treasure There are few more iconic sites than the lone, solitary stones of a once great castle standing tall above the sea. Dunseverick, as it is known today, is but a shadow of its former glory. Now a National Trust site, all that remains are but a few stone walls displaced along a…
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Dún Ailinne
Read more: Dún AilinneLeinster’s Ancient Hillfort Even from a young age, we have an in-built desire to outdo one-another. We view the greatness of our homes relative to those of our neighbour’s. When one upgrades their driveway, everyone else will publicly praise yet inwardly resent it. You only have to look at the great skyscrapers which line our…
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Hillforts
Read more: HillfortsIrish Hillforts – What do we know? As you walk around any modern city, nearly always your eyes will be drawn to the architecture. The style, scale, and shape of the buildings captures our attention, eliciting emotions and leaving an enduring impression. I have had the privilege of visiting many cities around the world and…
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Mythology and History of Rathcroghan
Read more: Mythology and History of RathcroghanIreland’s Ancient Metropolis Little inspires the imagination as vividly as walking through the ruined remains of a once thriving metropolis. Seeing the great stones of buildings, the hills and walkways where our ancestors would have stepped, or just the sense of scale of a place which has fallen so far from its place of greatness.…
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Navan Fort
Read more: Navan FortUlster’s Ancient Capital Few today ever question the choice of Belfast as Northern Ireland’s capital. But this is a very recent phenomenon; for Belfast is one of the most recent cities in the world to become a nation’s capital, having only claimed this status with the partition of Ireland in 1920. In fact, while Belfast…
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Book Review: The Celts, Barry Cunliffe
Read more: Book Review: The Celts, Barry CunliffeSome historians are born academics, their work is thorough, detailed, and completely incomprehensible. But there are a rare few, of whom we will have all heard of (e.g. Tom Holland, Anthony Beevor), who manage to bridge that great divide, turning facts into narrative, bringing history to life through a colourful string of characters. Barry Cunliffe’s…
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Book Review: Ancient Ireland, Laurence Flanagan
Read more: Book Review: Ancient Ireland, Laurence FlanaganArchaeology can often feel as dry and dead as the very artifacts it unearths. Debates around dating methodologies, discoveries of inane objects of little to no importance, or merely terminology so densely formulated in ‘isms’ and ‘tions’ that no lay-person has a hope of understanding it. Thankfully, Ancient Ireland by Laurence Flanagan can be accused…
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