Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2010.110.239
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
Abstract:The transcription and teaching career of the Gaelic scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin spanned three-quarters of the eighteenth century. From the 1750s onwards he became one of the most sought after scribes as he was employed by many of the leading Irish antiquarians, both Protestant and Catholic, to copy and translate Gaelic manuscripts. During the 1760s and 1770s he compiled detailed catalogues of the contents of books and manuscripts in his possession, together with his estimation of their value. Not only do these catalogues provide an important insight into the type of material he considered worth collecting but they also point towards the fact that he functioned as a book-dealer. The bilingual nature of these catalogues, and the large number of books in the English language they contained, challenge the argument first put forward by Daniel Corkery in the 1920s that the worlds of the Gaelic-speaking Irish and the English-speaking Protestant élite were divided from one another with little interaction between them, and Joep Leerssen's contention more recently that Gaelic Ireland was isolated from print culture in English.
摘要:盖尔语抄写员Muiris Ó Gormáin的抄写和教学生涯跨越了18世纪的四分之三。从18世纪50年代开始，他成为最受欢迎的抄写员之一，因为他被许多爱尔兰主要的古物学家雇用，包括新教徒和天主教徒，复制和翻译盖尔语手稿。在18世纪60年代和70年代，他编制了他所拥有的书籍和手稿内容的详细目录，并对它们的价值进行了估计。这些目录不仅为他认为值得收藏的材料类型提供了重要的见解，而且还指出了他作为书商的事实。这些目录的双语性质，以及其中包含的大量英语书籍，挑战了Daniel Corkery在20世纪20年代首次提出的论点，即讲盖尔语的爱尔兰人和讲英语的新教教徒的世界彼此分离，彼此之间几乎没有互动，以及Joep Leerssen最近的论点，即盖尔语爱尔兰与英语印刷文化是隔离的。
{"title":"An eighteenth-century Gaelic scribe's private library: Muiris Ó Gormáin's books","authors":"Lesa Ní Mhunghaile","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2010.110.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2010.110.239","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The transcription and teaching career of the Gaelic scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin spanned three-quarters of the eighteenth century. From the 1750s onwards he became one of the most sought after scribes as he was employed by many of the leading Irish antiquarians, both Protestant and Catholic, to copy and translate Gaelic manuscripts. During the 1760s and 1770s he compiled detailed catalogues of the contents of books and manuscripts in his possession, together with his estimation of their value. Not only do these catalogues provide an important insight into the type of material he considered worth collecting but they also point towards the fact that he functioned as a book-dealer. The bilingual nature of these catalogues, and the large number of books in the English language they contained, challenge the argument first put forward by Daniel Corkery in the 1920s that the worlds of the Gaelic-speaking Irish and the English-speaking Protestant élite were divided from one another with little interaction between them, and Joep Leerssen's contention more recently that Gaelic Ireland was isolated from print culture in English.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74723605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIC.2004.104.1.37
M. O’Callaghan
Abstract:This essay seeks to contextualise the intelligence work of the Royal Irish Constabulary, particularly in the 1880s, in terms of the wider British and imperial practice and, as a corollary, to reflect upon aspects of the structure of the state apparatus and the state archive in Ireland since the Union. The author contrasts Irish and British police and bureaucratic work and suggests parallels between Ireland and other imperial locations, especially India. This paper also defines the narrowly political, indeed partisan, uses to which this intelligence was put, particularly during the Special Commission of 1888 on 'Parnellism and crime', when government-held police records were made available to counsel for The Times. By reflecting on the structure of the state apparatus and its use in this instance, the author aims to further the debate on the governance of nineteenth-century Ireland and to explore issues of colonial identity and practice. The line of argument proposed in this essay is prefigured in Margaret O'Callaghan, British high politics and a nationalist Ireland: criminality, land and the law under Forster and Balfour (Cork, 1994).
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIC.2007.107.205
P. Harbison
{"title":"In Retrospect: The Royal Irish Academy's only archaeological excavation: Dowth in the Boyne Valley","authors":"P. Harbison","doi":"10.3318/PRIC.2007.107.205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIC.2007.107.205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83455966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIC.2002.102.1.199
E. Magennis
Abstract:Thıs article outlines the work of the Physico-Historical Society (1744-52) in collecting and publıshing Irish county surveys. Only five surveys were eventually published, but the manuscript materials left by the society (listed in an appendix to this article) are a treasure trove of information about the state of Ireland ın the mid-eıghteenth century and the attıtudes of the society's almost exclusively Church of Ireland members. The precedents from the seventeenth century are noted here, as are the new directions taken by the Physico-Historical Society. The article also examines dıfferences in emphasis among the activists of the society, between those driven by the need to show ımprovements and replicate these elsewhere, those who were interested in recording the natural or civil history, and some who were moving in more 'romantic' directions.
{"title":"'A Land of Milk and Honey': The Physico-Historical Society, Improvement and the Surveys of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ireland","authors":"E. Magennis","doi":"10.3318/PRIC.2002.102.1.199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIC.2002.102.1.199","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Thıs article outlines the work of the Physico-Historical Society (1744-52) in collecting and publıshing Irish county surveys. Only five surveys were eventually published, but the manuscript materials left by the society (listed in an appendix to this article) are a treasure trove of information about the state of Ireland ın the mid-eıghteenth century and the attıtudes of the society's almost exclusively Church of Ireland members. The precedents from the seventeenth century are noted here, as are the new directions taken by the Physico-Historical Society. The article also examines dıfferences in emphasis among the activists of the society, between those driven by the need to show ımprovements and replicate these elsewhere, those who were interested in recording the natural or civil history, and some who were moving in more 'romantic' directions.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85508208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/priac.2017.117.03
Á. Foley
Abstract:The objective of this paper is to investigate how the sheriffs and seneschals of late medieval Ireland employed violence to enforce their authority, the consequences of this behaviour on society, and how and why violence was directed at these officials. The sheriff was the most important Crown official within the county and the seneschal was his counterpart within the liberty. Both the Crown and the lords of liberties required men who could uphold their rights and who were prepared, if necessary, to use aggression in defence of these rights. It was not uncommon for these men to have military backgrounds, or even violent, criminal pasts. Sheriffs could sometimes be the source of conflict, but usually they were responsible for controlling the worst excesses of the county community. Often when they had recourse to violence it was because they understood it played a key role in maintaining power.
{"title":"Violence and authority: the sheriff and seneschal in late medieval Ireland","authors":"Á. Foley","doi":"10.3318/priac.2017.117.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2017.117.03","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The objective of this paper is to investigate how the sheriffs and seneschals of late medieval Ireland employed violence to enforce their authority, the consequences of this behaviour on society, and how and why violence was directed at these officials. The sheriff was the most important Crown official within the county and the seneschal was his counterpart within the liberty. Both the Crown and the lords of liberties required men who could uphold their rights and who were prepared, if necessary, to use aggression in defence of these rights. It was not uncommon for these men to have military backgrounds, or even violent, criminal pasts. Sheriffs could sometimes be the source of conflict, but usually they were responsible for controlling the worst excesses of the county community. Often when they had recourse to violence it was because they understood it played a key role in maintaining power.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88774341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2015.115.02
F. Beglane
Abstract:AbstractWhile the vast majority of the meat consumed in later medieval Ireland (c. 1100–1600) was from domesticates such as cattle, sheep and pig, the hunting of game was important as a social marker. Access to game varied depending on social status, occupation and geographical location, and could be used to mediate social relationships. This paper focuses mainly on the zooarchaeological evidence from eastern Ireland, examining castles, and urban, rural and ecclesiastical sites of mainly Anglo–Norman origin. It will review this evidence for both truly wild mammal species such as red deer, wild pig and hare as well as for species such as fallow deer and rabbits, which were maintained in a managed environment before being hunted for food.
{"title":"The social significance of game in the diet of later medieval Ireland","authors":"F. Beglane","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2015.115.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2015.115.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:AbstractWhile the vast majority of the meat consumed in later medieval Ireland (c. 1100–1600) was from domesticates such as cattle, sheep and pig, the hunting of game was important as a social marker. Access to game varied depending on social status, occupation and geographical location, and could be used to mediate social relationships. This paper focuses mainly on the zooarchaeological evidence from eastern Ireland, examining castles, and urban, rural and ecclesiastical sites of mainly Anglo–Norman origin. It will review this evidence for both truly wild mammal species such as red deer, wild pig and hare as well as for species such as fallow deer and rabbits, which were maintained in a managed environment before being hunted for food.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81778486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2016.116.02
Killian Driscoll
Abstract:Vein quartz as a raw material for prehistoric stone tools is a much maligned material, very often treated to a cursory analysis only, if it is analysed at all. This paper examines the role of quartz in Neolithic stone tool traditions through the typo-technological analysis based on experimental archaeology of a Neolithic quartz assemblage from Thornhill, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and a comparison with a Mesolithic quartz assemblage from Belderrig, Co. Mayo, Ireland. The analysis shows that the Neolithic quartz tradition is distinctly different from the preceding Mesolithic and appears geared towards the production and use of smaller, thinner flakes knapped using a wider range of techniques, combinations of techniques and technical procedures than in the Later Mesolithic. The use of the bipolar technique is interpreted as a social choice based on the lithic traditions of the Neolithic community and not directly related to the use of quartz cobbles or the knapping of small cores. Differences and similarities were noted between the manufacture techniques and treatment of quartz and flint by the community at Thornhill. Moreover, a complex pattern of deposition of both artefactual and natural quartz was identified in the pits and structures, suggesting that quartz played a complex dual role for the inhabitants of the site.
{"title":"The role of quartz in Neolithic lithic traditions: a case study from the Thornhill Early Neolithic palisaded enclosure, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland","authors":"Killian Driscoll","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2016.116.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2016.116.02","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Vein quartz as a raw material for prehistoric stone tools is a much maligned material, very often treated to a cursory analysis only, if it is analysed at all. This paper examines the role of quartz in Neolithic stone tool traditions through the typo-technological analysis based on experimental archaeology of a Neolithic quartz assemblage from Thornhill, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and a comparison with a Mesolithic quartz assemblage from Belderrig, Co. Mayo, Ireland. The analysis shows that the Neolithic quartz tradition is distinctly different from the preceding Mesolithic and appears geared towards the production and use of smaller, thinner flakes knapped using a wider range of techniques, combinations of techniques and technical procedures than in the Later Mesolithic. The use of the bipolar technique is interpreted as a social choice based on the lithic traditions of the Neolithic community and not directly related to the use of quartz cobbles or the knapping of small cores. Differences and similarities were noted between the manufacture techniques and treatment of quartz and flint by the community at Thornhill. Moreover, a complex pattern of deposition of both artefactual and natural quartz was identified in the pits and structures, suggesting that quartz played a complex dual role for the inhabitants of the site.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86774590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Although some limited consideration has been given to the possibility of links between the early medieval ceramic traditions of the Western Isles and the souterrain ware of north-east Ireland, these have tended to be framed in the context of supposed Dalriadic cultural influence flowing from Ireland to Scotland. A re-evaluation of the possible relationships between these pottery styles suggests that souterrain ware might instead be seen as part of a regional expansion of western Scottish pottery styles in the seventh-eighth centuries AD. This raises the question of what social processes might underlie the cross-regional patterning evident in what remains a vernacular, rather than a high-status, technology.
{"title":"Irish-Scottish connections in the first millennium AD: an evaluation of the links between souterrain ware and Hebridean ceramics","authors":"I. Armit","doi":"10.3318/PRIC.2008.108.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIC.2008.108.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although some limited consideration has been given to the possibility of links between the early medieval ceramic traditions of the Western Isles and the souterrain ware of north-east Ireland, these have tended to be framed in the context of supposed Dalriadic cultural influence flowing from Ireland to Scotland. A re-evaluation of the possible relationships between these pottery styles suggests that souterrain ware might instead be seen as part of a regional expansion of western Scottish pottery styles in the seventh-eighth centuries AD. This raises the question of what social processes might underlie the cross-regional patterning evident in what remains a vernacular, rather than a high-status, technology.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88985891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.06
Alan R. Hayden
Abstract:The early-medieval ecclesiastical site on Church Island was reportedly fully excavated in the 1950s (O'Kelly 1958). Conservation works on Church Island provided an opportunity to re-examine the site and procure samples for dating. The recent excavations also uncovered a previously unrecorded terraced shrine on the island. Radiocarbon dating of burials on it suggest it was built between the seventh and ninth centuries and enlarged in the tenth or eleventh century, at roughly the same time that the large stone oratory was built on the island. It was previously suggested that these shrines were not erected on sites within the ecclesiastical estates in the area but the surviving archaeological evidence may not substantiate this idea. The small number of sites excavated and the ambiguous and limited nature of the archaeological evidence uncovered allow for few definite conclusions to be drawn regarding the motives for the building of a shrine on any individual site.
{"title":"Early medieval shrines in north-west Iveragh: new perspectives from Church Island, near Valentia, Co. Kerry","authors":"Alan R. Hayden","doi":"10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.06","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The early-medieval ecclesiastical site on Church Island was reportedly fully excavated in the 1950s (O'Kelly 1958). Conservation works on Church Island provided an opportunity to re-examine the site and procure samples for dating. The recent excavations also uncovered a previously unrecorded terraced shrine on the island. Radiocarbon dating of burials on it suggest it was built between the seventh and ninth centuries and enlarged in the tenth or eleventh century, at roughly the same time that the large stone oratory was built on the island. It was previously suggested that these shrines were not erected on sites within the ecclesiastical estates in the area but the surviving archaeological evidence may not substantiate this idea. The small number of sites excavated and the ambiguous and limited nature of the archaeological evidence uncovered allow for few definite conclusions to be drawn regarding the motives for the building of a shrine on any individual site.","PeriodicalId":43075,"journal":{"name":"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80426121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/priac.2015.115.13
Alana Hawkes
Abstract:AbstractThis paper examines the technical aspects of indirect cooking using pyrolithic technology in Ireland with a particular focus on its application during the Bronze Age. The widespread distribution of burnt mounds (fulachtaί fia) is striking, suggesting that Ireland was the most prominent user of this technology in Bronze Age Europe. However, narratives related to these sites have long revolved around function, to the extent that the basic definition of this monument type has been called into question. This paper examines the use of these sites based on evidence from some 1,000 excavated examples in Ireland and provides new insights into the use of pyrolithic technology for cooking. The model proposed here is of open-air feasting/food-sharing hosted by small family groups, in a manner that was central to different types of social bonding.
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