Ireland in the Middle Ages

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Melion and the Wolves of Ireland

“…946. 24 Major contributions to the study of this period are Orpen (2005;originally 1911-1920, Otway-Ruthven (1980), Cosgrove (1987), Flanagan (1989), Duffy (1997), Frame (1998), and Davies (1990Davies ( , 2000. 25 On Hiberno-Norman literature, see Cosgrove (1987: 708-736) and Mullally (1988Mullally ( , 2002; on other Francophone literature, see Mullally (2006) and Busby (2007); on Irish literature, see Ó Néill (1997). position to transmit Irish stories to receptive Francophone and, later, Anglophone colonists, however little they may actually have done so in the early years of the conquest.…”

Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland

“…147 Further problems were created by the bitter feud that broke out between the earls of Kildare and Ulster. 148 These were also crisis years in England, when, on both sides of the Irish Sea, depressed temperatures and elevated rainfall resulted in a succession of inferior harvests. 149 Thus, the six consecutive years 1290-95 stand out as persistently wet in the OWDA springsummer soil-moisture reconstruction for Ireland (Appendix 2), more so than in dearth-bound England, with 1292 the wettest in more than a hundred years.…”

Medieval Irish history at the end of the twentieth century: unfinished work

“…Robert Bruce wrote letters to the Irish and to the Welsh in terms of nostra natio. 36 Almost a century later Owain Glyn Dwr wrote letters to Irish kings, reminding them of their common kinship, and seeking their assistance against the oppression and tyranny of their common enemy, the Saxons. 37 At an earlier remove, Duffy also demonstrates how the advance of the Anglo-Normans affected the relationship between Ireland and Wales: 'certain cross-channel links were disrupted, if not ended, but others were greatly reinforced'.…”