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Might be Scottish Gaelic, had the look up the last word and it translates to “conai” in Irish or to live

Someone might have a better translation, my interpretation takes a religious slant: there is a place (for you) in the house of my father

Direct translation: in the house of my father there are many places to live

Edit: cross post it to r/gaidhlig

I actually know an older gentleman by the name of Ruaidhrí Mac Bláin who literally "wrote the book" on this subject, specifically the book Presbyterians and the Irish Language , which deals with the linguistic history of Presbyterian Ulster Scots and Irish, and attempts to contextualise how the Irish language would have been perceived historically.

If you can pick a copy up, I'd recommend it.

>The families of the victims and survivors fought in the courts for compensation, accountability, and, in their eyes, justice. The owners, the Butterly family, were nevertheless free to pursue their own claim for compensation against the city because of the arson finding - and were eventually awarded IR£580,000.

This is a disgrace. Edit: Source

Here's the intersection.

Is there a particular area or subject you're curious about? Two good ones, the first one is the easier read:

Early medieval Ireland, 400-1200 by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100 : the evidence from archaeological excavations by O'sullivan and others. This one is more academic I'd say. But they're both very readable.

It is indeed. I guess it comes down to opinion really.

On the Egyptians, I believe they in particular have begun to call for the repatriation of their artifacts (well up until the recent revolt they were). However even Zahi Hawass himself has been accused of smuggling (although i don't know if that was political or not). Should we not also at least make the same effort?

I was trying to find information on the acquisitions myself, but didn't find anything (other than the crozier was found in a in London solicitor's office). Then i wondered if anyone has ever cataloged Irish artifacts in British collections. Can't find one.

Didn't know that about the mirror, interesting, but i'm not surprised!

I remember a historian telling me once about the number of very important artifacts sitting in private British collections also. This, I think is easier to call, i.e. I have no qualms in calling it plunder!

Also try a subject search for Connaught Rangers on Worldcat:

http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch

You can use Worldcat to find library books in your area. Stop by your local library's refrerence desk too.

I checked both of those and they're both priced in the hundreds on Amazon, seems like I'll need to save up!

I also saw The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland by James Charles Roy, which is praised to high heaven by historians (including Canny) in the blurb, but the Amazon reviews tear it apart.

Pity such a pivotal time in Irish history doesn't seem to get much modern attention (James O'Neill's The Nine Years War excepted, although that doesn't stray too far outside the war itself).

Eve Morrison of TCD has actually done some excellent work in supporting Hart's conclusions regarding the Kilmichael Ambush. Sadly she's yet to publish any of it, so all I can do is give my notes from the seminar, but much of what Hart wrote matched up with some veteran interviews. And she even played them for us - not much you can attack regarding that. I believe Niall Meehan was actually at that seminar and spent quite a bit of time ranting of the evils of Hart's followers.

Of all the criticisms I've found, I really liked this one that appeared in The Irish Story. The author focuses more on the content of the rest of the book, which has been largely neglected.

Still, Hart was needlessly combative in this book AND I don't completely agree with his conclusions regarding sectarian violence in Cork, as you pointed out. You can't help but feel for the poor guy though - dead so early, and there are plenty of historians trying to make a name for themselves by tearing him a new one.

They were headed for Spain, actually. This is a free online version of "The Flight of the Earls" by Tadgh O Cianain, a "chronicler of the Maguires" who was part of the group that left. It details what happened.

https://archive.org/stream/flightofearls00ci#page/n7/mode/2up

It includes a timeline at the beginning.

This is unrelated, but it's interesting that the current O'Donnell "Chief of the Name" is a Spaniard whose line has been in Spain since the Middle Ages. The Prime Minister of Spain at one point was an O'Donnell.

I haven't read much of either of them. I read Greers book On her Dad which should be an inspirational book about a good man but instead is a mean spirited tome. It's like her value system is skewed.

Edit Alternative early Greer bio. Look out for the nuns.

the film 'black 47' is an embarrassment. I wouldn't typify it as a film about the famine, it is more like a spaghetti western revenge movie that happens to be set during the famine.
The director himself said, and i'm paraphrasing, that he essentially buckled under the pressure of making such a film and the project morphed into something else. Our schindlers list it is not, by a country mile. Arracht (monster) is a much better film.
as far as books go definitely read the famine plot. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Famine-Plot-Englands-Irelands-Greatest/dp/1137278838

I'm largely going by Diarmuid O'Connor's assessment in his memoirs. He fought in Dublin and Tipperary during the CW as part of the FS army, and pointed to December/January as the nadir of the FS's fortunes, and that only the executions avoided its ruin.

Similarly, Ernest Blythe talked at length in his BMH Statement about the strategy behind the executions, as well as how close the TDs and senators were to abandoning the government en masse with Seán Hales' death (and even afterwards).

Also, compare the discipline of IRA prisoners in the WoI, which largely remained intact, compared to those during the CW, many of whom signed documents forswearing further resistance (much to the consternation of Liam Lynch and other senior officers).

Sure, the FS took all the population centres in the opening months, but the CW continued on, just this time in guerilla form, which is notoriously hard to beat in itself. The British had started the WoI with all the towns under the Crown and were still floundering by the time of mid-1921 - and they at least had a world-class army. In contrast, much of the FS army consisted of dregs (with high levels of alcohol abuse), was frequently mutinous, seriously short of critical equipment, with the officers largely amateurs at conventional warfare - and this is going by the army's own internal documents (much of which can be found in the Mulcahy papers in UCD).

My impression is that he’s mainly “controversial” for being an unapologetic Marxist in America.

But I’m not sure I’d agree that it “fails basic logic” in terms of the core argument, it is certainly polemical and simplistic in parts, especially as regards class reductionism, but as provocative pop history and as an opening to a much longer conversation I think it’s a useful read, at least for someone coming in cold. There’s plenty of other more nuanced subsequent work to pick up from there, e.g.

https://www.amazon.com/Invention-White-Race-Oppression-Control/dp/1844677699

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mistaken-Identity-Race-Class-Trump/dp/1786637375

Etc., etc. But I don’t think it can be seriously argued that he wasn’t fundamentally correct that the social category or “whiteness” was constructed in the US context to support the British racialised colonial system, and that it initially was designed to exclude non-WASP immigrants to the US, especially Irish and Italians, but much later expanded to encompass them.

> There’s been a lot written about how the category of “whiteness” was constructed in the Anglo-Saxon imaginary, primarily in the US, and how Irish people eventually became accepted as part of the “white race” - this is one of the more famous examples:

> https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095

> It’s not an uncontroversial argument,

Ignatiev is seen as controversial and somewhat of a pseudo-historian in academic circles.

Have you read the book? His argument fails some fairly basic logic.

Oh yeah, it’s a common trope in Extremely Online American racist apologetics “the Irish were slaves too therefore racism and the consequences of slavery aren’t actually a big deal”. The worst kind of intellectual dishonesty.

There’s been a lot written about how the category of “whiteness” was constructed in the Anglo-Saxon imaginary, primarily in the US, and how Irish people became accepted as part of the “white race” - this is one of the more famous examples:

https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095

It’s not an uncontroversial argument, but I think it’s pretty clear that the anti-Irish racism that was prevalent until even the early 20th century eventually pretty much disappeared - Italians and other non-WASP European immigrant groups had a similar process.

Although many of the Crown forces involved were of Special Ulster Constabulary and there technically already 'home'. Pettigo was likewise overwhelmingly Protestant and 'Orange', and celebrated the evacuation of Free State/IRA forces. One witness, a schoolgirl at the time, would write two years later of how:

>You can imagine our delight to behold British Military armoured cars, etc. filling the streets. All rebels got 15 minutes to clear out while Loyalists were ordered to keep to their homes. The exodus which then commenced was amusing. Men who had been looking so many but a short time before could be seen running helter skelter in all directions. In about 10 minutes the marauders had been cleared out. Our fervent prayers for the morning were answered. The Tommies were entertained, praised and cheered for the great and timely help which they had brought to the unfortunate loyal population.

From Dan Dowling, Neighbours in Pettigo: Living With Conflict and Division in a Border Village (2018), p. 126

A good chunk of Angus' Ireland and Celtic illustrations actually come from a series of non-Osprey books written by Tim Newark, for example this one

Decline and Fall of the Dukes of Leinster, 1872-1948: Love, War, Debt and Madness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846825334/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_PXXS2NW38BHADFFRK66N

This book by Terence Dooley covers Gerald Fitzgerald and other dukes of leinster. It has a list of sources which you may find useful.

Personally I like RF Fosters 2 volume work WB Yeats; A Life which is pretty widely available. Here's an account of 'The Battle of Blythe Road' which was one of Crowley's many clashes with Yeats. I'd give a lot to have been a fly on the wall at that particular scrap.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/aleister-crowley-william-butler-yeats-get-into-an-occult-battle.html

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dress-Ireland-History-Mairead-Dunlevy/dp/1898256845

Seems to be out of print, but you might be able to find it second-hand.

Were you able to watch the BBC documentary "Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History"? If you haven't seen it I'd try and get hold of it as it was excellent. It's on BBC iPlayer for another 7 months for people with access to that.

Ancestry seems to have decent enough results from what I've seen. Maybe this is useful to you?

One suggestion. It's been a while since I picked it up but the first several poems are from the pre-Christian and medieval eras if I recall correctly. The more modern material is also worth owning of course. =)

Printing in Gaelic languages in Ireland and Scotland seems to have been all Protestant Reformation inspired, 1571 John O’Kearney’s Aibidil Gaoidheilgh & Caiticiosma (Gaelic Alphabet and Cathecism) and John Knox' Foirm na nUrrnuidheadh (Forms of Prayer) printed in 1567, using regular latin characters. Meanwhile on the continent in Louvain they printed Catholic Reformation stuff in a Gaelic type.

• http://www.historyireland.com/uncategorized/printing-in-the-vernacular-the-louvain-project/

• https://www.academia.edu/1033308/Trojan_Horses_and_Friendly_Faces_Irish_Gaelic_Typography_as_Propaganda?auto=download

http://hubpages.com/hub/Magdalene-Laundries-in-Ireland-and-Across-the-Western-World

It isn't as simple as that.

There were Magdalens worldwide and not just irish and Catholic either.

They were in the US too.

Not on audible but available in a lot of online library collections like Libby

A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes. Excellent breakdown of the journey of Ireland and her people from the Stone Age up to WWII

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0717146499/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_ZNZ0E7ZMPT472TTFEB2R

Eh, I read somewhere in Stephen Clarke's book on Anglo-French relations that Churchill probably cribbed his speech from a French politician during WWI. Can't remember the details, though, and it wasn't as if the book was rigorously academic (however fun).

I really enjoyed Carson's Táin obviously there's the Epic, but there's also lots of storytelling footnotes into other stories within and ajoint the cycle. So you can be tracing down elements of the stories that you find interesting

Another thing to bear in mind if that there's no true telling, there was always lots of versions of each story so there will be contradictions, it's not that there's a right version, and other wrong ones there's very different versions of the tales (just as you'd find in Greek/Romans or biblical mythologies)

It looks like there may be a typo in that link. Here's the listing on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908448555/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_rKjbEb93BDX5Z

I found this book to be a good read, you might find it useful.

>I don't think that the squad were IRB. Lemass ?

Leon O'Broin in his (sadly hard to find) book on the IRB describes them as members.

Dunno if he knew that for a fact or was just assuming. Plenty of IRA members signed up to the IRB and then forgot about it if their Circles weren't particularly active or were defunct, and it's not as if the IRB was anything too special by the WoI - what was the IRB preaching that the IRA wasn't already doing?

I'd recommend the book below for a better picture (not sure they'd appreciate me linking amazon but that's life), but the OIRA did run a paramilitary campaign at the start of the Troubles. They were responsible for the Aldershot bombing in response to Bloody Sunday.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Revolution-Story-Official-Workers/dp/0141028459

For Irish history I’ve been reading “The Course of Irish History”, seems to give a pretty detailed overview of pre-historic Ireland until modern times. Amazon link for reference: https://www.amazon.com/Course-Irish-History-T-Moody/dp/1570984492

As a general intro I think "A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes" is one of the better ones:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/all-of-irish-history-in-250-episodes-1.906533
https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Ireland-250-Episodes-Fascinating-ebook/dp/B00BQG7W4Y

If you are looking for a good book to the present, this is hard to beat .

https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/course_of_irish_history/

If you are looking for a book that pulls everything together on modern ireland , the Rising pre and post , Ireland Since the Famine by FSL Lyons is one I'd go for.

https://www.amazon.com/Ireland-Since-Famine-F-S-L-Lyons/dp/0006860052

It's been around since I was in short pants at least and it goes from 1850 onto about 1970 . It won't have the latest scholarship as Professor Lyons has been dead since the early 1980's . To understand the Rising you need to go back to the Fenians. Lyons set the bar for Irish historians and the book is a textbook for Irish second and 3rd level students. Readable and scholarly. Don't be put of by its length as it's heavily referenced and has footnotes.

Dublin: The Making of a Capital City by David Dickson is great. Obviously it focuses on Dublin specifically, but it does help to provide a sense of what was going on throughout Ireland and how things were different (or not) in Dublin. The book covers the last 1000 years, but the bulk of that centres on the last 500.

I was looking for a book like the one you're asking for and found this one instead. Was not at all disappointed.

The Grass Arena is a brilliant book. It is about a first generation Irish person living in London. So not quite what you asked. Imagine one of the characters in a grimmer Pogues song, the old main drag say, wrote a book.

Here you go http://www.amazon.com/Northern-Ireland-Very-Short-Introduction/dp/0192801562/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423642149&sr=8-1&keywords=A+short+introduction+to+Northern+ireland

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Troubles-Conflict-Northern/dp/1561310700/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423642228&sr=1-1&keywords=the+troubles