Myles Dillon spent fifty years arguing that early Ireland and ancient India shared more than a distant ancestor — this is his story, and his...
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“King and Hermit”—A 10th-century poem translated by Kuno Meyer
What follows is a 10th-century poem describing events set in the seventh century. It records an imagined conversation between King Guaire (Guare) of Connacht and...
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Ask most people, even most Irish people, to name a famine, and they’ll give you one answer: the Great Hunger of the 1840s (or An...
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Read MoreHow Old Is The World? | The Age of the World (According to the Irish Annals)
OR, A Hypothetical Timeline of Irish History Note – Anno mundi, (Latin: “in the year of the world”), abbreviation A.M, the year dating from the year of creation...
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