Irish summers have a certain reputation, so a manuscript telling of “heavy rain and bad weather in the summer and autumn” of 1109 might not seem…
What’s your image of the Vikings who invaded Ireland? A ferocious and merciless people, intent on taking whatever they could at any cost? According to Neil…
In many ways, stone age people are a mystery to us. We know so little about them. However, recent investigations into the megaliths built by our…
Ireland has long been recognised as a farming nation. Even way back in the Bronze Age, we were producing more than we needed, with the surplus…
These days, Christmas can make us feel like we have reached “peak stuff.” A modern Christmas is made up of awful crowds, getting trapped in shopping…
