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.
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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.
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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.
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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":"129 1","pages":"199 - 217"},"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}
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":"22 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"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.2017.117.05
Ruairí Cullen
Abstract:A star graduate of the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) history honours programme, John Wardell, a young man from County Limerick, was appointed lecturer in history at his alma mater in 1902 and promoted to full professor two years later. Until illness forced his resignation in 1911, Wardell attempted to modernise and expand the history programme—and pioneered the introduction of Irish content—at the college with the help of a handful of colleagues. His vision of what constituted valuable Irish history was informed by his background: generations of ancestors had fought for the Crown throughout the Empire and he was obsessed with his family history. By rediscovering Wardell, we are offered a revealing glimpse into the mindset of a young Irish Protestant from a landholding background during a tumultuous period for his class. In doing so, we also gain insight into a formative period in Irish historiography when debates surrounding ‘national’ history and what to consider valuable source material intensified.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2009.109.195
Eric G. Haywood
Abstract:The description of Ireland in the Anglica historia by Polydore Vergil (c. 1470-1555), is possibly one of its most original passages, yet nowadays it is little known or studied. This article seeks to remedy that deficiency by (a) providing an edition of the original Latin text, together with a modern English translation, and (b) explaining how the description came to be constructed. It argues that Vergil, writing as an Italian, aimed on the one hand to abide by humanist precedent and respect the (nascent) rules regarding historiography and chorography, and on the other to satisfy the imperialising demands of his patrons, the Tudors. As a result, the work is anything but 'modern', as some critics have suggested. On the contrary it is very much of its time, recording deeds done (in war) for the sake of deeds-to-be-done, and thus portraying the Irish as inevitable losers.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2011.112.09
Diarmuid Ó Riain
Abstract:A combination of the crusades and the related upsurge in pilgrimages to the Holy Land led to western European interest in the city of Jerusalem reaching a high point during the twelfth century. This increased awareness of Jerusalem and its sacred sites found one expression in the foundation of a Benedictine monastery at Eichstätt in southern Germany, which was dedicated to the Holy Cross and Holy Sepulchre and whose church was modelled on the most famous of all the Holy City's monuments. Adding to the singularity of the Eichstätt establishment was the fact that the monks who peopled it were Irish, this being one of the so-called Schottenklöster, a group of Irish Benedictine monasteries founded in Germany and Austria between the late eleventh and early thirteenth centuries. This paper examines the circumstances surrounding the Irish monastery's foundation, gives a detailed account of its extraordinary architecture and considers the place of the latter within the wider context of the medieval architectural copy.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2011.112.05
Steffi Hamann
Abstract:The Irish saint Fursa (d. 649) is renowned for his visions of the otherworld, transmitted in a near-contemporary Vita. He also appears in the Irish martyrologies and genealogies, the latter attributing to him a variety of pedigrees on his father's as well as his mother's side. This paper aims to show that by combining evidence from different types of sources; biographies, genealogies (Corpis genealogiarum Sanctorum Hiberniae and Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae), martyrologies (Félire Óengusso, Martyrology of Donegal and Martyrology of Cashel), and several Irish saints' Lives, it is possible to single out the most probable strand of tradition for the saint's origins. As it turns out, Fursa's differing genealogical affiliations mirror the subsequent shifts in political and ecclesiastical developments in Irish medieval history. Viewed from this perspective, the genealogies can supply valuable source material necessary for a biographical approach to a personality of the early Middle Ages.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3318/PRIAC.2013.113.08
A. Bryson
Abstract:Henry VIII's death in 1547 did not affect politics in Ireland as dramatically as once thought. Sir Anthony St Leger remained lord deputy for the first fourteen months of Edward VI's reign, even if preoccupied with the Midland Rebellion. This originated in southern Leinster in April 1547, and escalated under the Gaelic Irish chieftains Brian O'Connor of Offaly and Patrick O'More of Leix. It was a serious uprising and St Leger's failure to quell it swiftly, combined with local (as opposed to court) faction, led to his dismissal in 1548. Angry with what he saw as appeasement of the Gaelic Irish, Vice-Treasurer Sir William Brabazon turned on the lord deputy and advocated the appointment of Sir Edward Bellingham as his successor. The English government backed Bellingham, regarding him as less partisan and more capable of defeating the rebels, which he did in autumn 1548.
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