The First Agricultural Revolution is said to have began in the 1500s’ may have in some ways explain the treatment it gave to Ireland during the 16th and 17th century. In England of that period social justice was not a priority. In England before the growth of towns as we know them to day, life [...]
This new generation of people in England became very dissatisfied about the productivity of Ireland and the Reformation became a further excuse to invade. Between 1580 and 1690 Ireland was three times devastated: first by the Elizabethan conquest; then by the rising of 1641, followed by the Cromwellian conquest and settlement; and finally by the [...]
The castle was the chief seat of the O’Donaghue Mors, hereditary rulers of this district and descendants of the ancient kings of Munster. After the Desmond rebellion their fortified lands were acquired by the MacCarthy Mors from whom they were purchased by Sir Valentine Browne, ancestor of the Earls of Kenmare. In [...]
Sir Walter Raleigh was regarded by his fellow countrymen as one of the grand scalawags of the Elizabethan Age. He made a name for himself fighting the Irish at Munster; later he was introduced at court and became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Known for his wit and womanizing, Raleigh was [...]
In the start of this website we spoke of Ireland beginnings and its land parting from America some 385 million years ago – see ‘Rock of the Hooves’. Then in 1492 Columbus ‘sailed the ocean blue’ and found America. Consequently a link was renewed not of land masses but of its peoples. Suddenly the word [...]
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