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Roderick O'Flaherty's Letters
Roderick O'Flaherty (in Irish, Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh), 1629-1716/18] was an Irish aristocrat whose father Hugh held the castle and manor of Moycullen, Co. Galway. He was an eminent historian and collector of Irish manuscripts and, as author of Ogygia seu rerum hibernicarum chronologia (London 1685), he enjoyed a high reputation for his learning in the profound antiquities of Ireland. For this reason, the great Welsh scholar Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709), when touring Ireland in 1700, visited O Flaithbheartaigh at his home. From this meeting, a correspondence developed, fitful at first, but regular from 1704 to 1708. During this period, O Flaithbheartaigh read and commented on the sheets of ...
The Dublin Review
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The First Scottish Enlightenment
This book argues that the 'first' Scottish Enlightenment was championed by minority groups traditionally assumed to have been backward-looking and conservative--Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics--and that it resulted in a dramatic transformation of how Scots understood their history.
The Story of Connemara
Connemara is the most western district of county Galway, co-extensive with the barony of Ballynahinch.
The Devil from Over the Sea
In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell's powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the 'Cromwellian': a term which came to elicit an entire ch...
Annals of Loch Cé
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