Archaeological sites and artefacts represent the only available sources for the pre-Celtic tradition of Ireland, and interpretation of these is a complex and generally risky task. It is generally held that the origins of the Celtic culture in the country lie in or about the fifth century BC, and the nature and import of our … Read more
In 1924, the Caledonian Society of Calcutta honoured one of the most prominent local servants of the British Raj, Charles Augustus Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta. Tegart, later acclaimed as the most famous policeman of British India, was already a hero to the local Anglo-Indian community and a hated villain to Bengali revolutionary … Read more
Charles Doherty lectures in early Irish history at University College Dublin; Dermot Keogh is professor history at University College Cork Neil Fleming is a research student at the Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast; Terence McCaughey lectures in Scots Gaelic at Trinity College, Dublin.
Seven Ages was one of the most ambitious television history projects ever undertaken in Ireland—ambitious not just in terms of its length, but also in its subject matter. The series offered itself as an authoritative interpretation of the history of the modern Irish state since 1920 to the present. Each decade was dealt with by … Read more
VC: Did your background contribute to your interest in history? MPM: Yes. My father had a deep interest in the history of Ireland and my family had been involved in one way or another in the country’s history since the seventeenth century. We had a very good library and there were historic books all over … Read more