Venturing where wise men fear to tread Englishman Robert Stedall, educated at Marlborough College and McGill University, opines in the preface to his new book:
"It may seem unfathomable that tempers have continued to run so deep with friction remaining stubbornly close to the surface. Yet the protagonists have been slow to forgive and forget, jeopardizing continuing efforts to secure a lasting peace."
As I write the shooting death of journalist Lyra McKee by dissident republicans in the Creggan area of Londonderry is just the latest episode in that long history.
If like me your knowledge of Irish history had been previously informed by Flanders and Swann "blame it on Cromwell and William the Third" and the famine of the 1840s this lengthy book aims to give a perspective on the deeper historical roots.
Read the rest of the review [link=https://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com] hre [/link]
John D. Reid, Anglo-Celtic Connections blog
Venturing where wise men fear to tread Englishman Robert Stedall, educated at Marlborough College and McGill University, opines in the preface to his new book:
"It may seem unfathomable that tempers have continued to run so deep with friction remaining stubbornly close to the surface. Yet the protagonists have been slow to forgive and forget, jeopardizing continuing efforts to secure a lasting peace."
As I write the shooting death of journalist Lyra McKee by dissident republicans in the Creggan area of Londonderry is just the latest episode in that long history.
If like me your knowledge of Irish history had been previously informed by Flanders and Swann "blame it on Cromwell and William the Third" and the famine of the 1840s this lengthy book aims to give a perspective on the deeper historical roots.
Read the rest of the review [link=https://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com] hre [/link]
John D. Reid, Anglo-Celtic Connections blog
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This selection of essays, edited by John Gibney, is the first instalment of a collaboration between Pen and Sword History and the History Ireland magazine. Its focus is the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s but it very successfully provides a much wider perspective. There is a tendency in Britain to see the crisis in Ireland as being a result of an underclass having been compelled to consume a less than satisfactory food source which, by the natural intervention of potato blight, suddenly became unavailable. However it becomes clear that, since the introduction of the potato to Europe over two centuries earlier, the potato had been widely regarded as a very nutritious, flexible and acceptable food source. Indeed it is argued that the potato was such a valuable source of nutrition that babies were weaned on it at a very early age and the early cessation of extended lactation amongst women removed the inherent benefits of associated contraception, thereby being a factor in the rapid population.. Read more
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This selection of essays, edited by John Gibney, is the first instalment of a collaboration between Pen and Sword History and the History Ireland magazine. Its focus is the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s but it very successfully provides a much wider perspective. There is a tendency in Britain to see the crisis in Ireland as being a result of an underclass having been compelled to consume a less than satisfactory food source which, by the natural intervention of potato blight, suddenly became unavailable. However it becomes clear that, since the introduction of the potato to Europe over two centuries earlier, the potato had been widely regarded as a very nutritious, flexible and acceptable food source. Indeed it is argued that the potato was such a valuable source of nutrition that babies were weaned on it at a very early age and the early cessation of extended lactation amongst women removed the inherent benefits of associated contraception, thereby being a factor in the rapid population.. Read more
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Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet
Ireland has probably experienced more tragedy when it comes to the preservation of resources for family historians than any other region of the British Isles. Many of the nation's primary records were lost during the civil war in 1922 and through other equally tragic means. But in this new book Chris Paton, the Northern-Irish-born author of the best-selling… Read more...
