This
collection of studies on the history of Gaelic Ireland is the product of four
years of an essay competition, sponsored jointly by the Standing Council of
Irish Chiefs and Chieftains (Buanchomhairle Thaoisigh Éireann) and
Clans of Ireland (Finte na hÉireann).
The works represent the winning entries and superior quality essays from 2013
to 2016, and cover the period ranging from the twelfth to the seventeenth
centuries. The study themes range from political and social history to kinship
and culture, relating to a selection of Gaelic Irish, Anglo-Norman and Scottish
population groups who shared the island.
The first volume in this series, Gaelic
Ireland (c.600-c.1700): politics, culture and landscapes,
ed. Katharine Simms (Wordwell Press,
2013), was the fruit of a competition initiated by the Standing Council of
Irish Chiefs and Chieftains, with the object of both encouraging research into
Gaelic Ireland among budding postgraduate historians, and reaping the harvest
of independent researchers, while always requiring a full academic apparatus of
footnotes and bibliography.
The continuance of the competition, and the appearance of this second
anthology under the joint sponsorship of Clans of Ireland and the Standing
Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains, testifies to the success of the
original project. The essay competition continues to this day and will
hopefully go on to achieve its joint aims of spurring the interest of a rising
generation of Irish researchers, and disseminating information about a somewhat
understudied but vital part of our nation’s past.
Part I: Political and social history
1. An introduction to the free Gaelic people in English Ireland,
c. 1250–1307
Stephen Hewer (2015 prize)
2. An Irish context to a Scottish disaster: James IV, the O’Donnells of
Tyrconnell and the road to Flodden
Simon Egan (2016 prize)
3. ‘It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend’: Barnaby
FitzPatrick and Gaelic collaboration with the Tudor crown, c. 1535–1581
Diarmuid Wheeler
4. Burning their bridges: the opposition of the Gabhal Raghnaill and
Feagh Mac Hugh O’Byrne to the process of Anglicisation during the long
sixteenth century
Chris Lawlor (2013 prize)
5. Russell’s grudge: the demise of Feagh McHugh O’Byrne
Stephen Kestell
6. The strange tale of Mary Bux: ethnicity and identity in 1641
Gordon Bond
Part II: Chiefs and clans
7. A gallowglass clan: the Mac Cabes in Ireland
Brian McCabe
8. ‘Sr Richard Burk of the Newtowne knight otherwise called MacWilliam
Eighter’
Declan Keenan
9. Resurrecting an ancient chief
Gerry Moloney (2014 prize)
10. The unravelling of a Gaelic dynasty, 1446–1690
Eugene McMahon
Part III: Church, culture and craftwork
11. ‘From the cattle run to the Woods of Cluain’: a king’s circuit and the
birth of an archdiocese
Ruairí Ó hAodha
12. A legacy of the munificence of Cathal Crubh Dearg O’Conor
(1153?–1224) towards the Irish church: a women’s story forgotten
Gerard Beggan
13. The Trinity College harp: the most exotic musical instrument in the
world!
Brian Manners
14. A woman’s place: the functions of Queen Medb in Gaelic literature
Lora O’Brien
15. The Tallaght hills: a landscape of kingship and assembly
Colette Allen
16. In the footsteps of the noble Gael
Con Connor
ISBN: 978-1-9997909-2-9
160 pages illustrated
Paperback
€25
Publication date 10 April 2018
Size 235 x 155mm
Dr Joseph Mannion holds a PhD from NUI Galway, where his research interests focused on medieval and early modern Irish history.
Dr Katharine Simms is a Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin, where she was a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History.
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Author | Joseph Mannion and Katharine Simms (eds) |
Publication Data | April 2018 |
Subjects | History |
Politics, kinship and culture in Gaelic Ireland, c. 1100–c. 1690. Essays for the Irish Chiefs’ and Clans’ Prize in History
- ISBN: 978-1-9997909-2-9
- Author(s): Joseph Mannion and Katharine Simms (eds)
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