People, Issue #3 of INSIGHT Online Journal of Irish Heritage Studies is now being readied for publication later this month. We are now accepting submissions...
When Rinucinni arrived in Ireland in 1645 he brought with him a sum of money -20,000 pound stetling- to support the Confederates. How much money would this be...
Its difficult to make an analogy for several reasons. 1) Armies were much smaller back then, and so funding for the army for a period of time required less...
TED MEEHAN
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Apr 28, 2006 1:58 pm
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With apologies for cross-posting... Issue #3 of Insight Journal, the free online Irish Heritage Studies publication is now available: www.irishinsight.net This...
I am not sure this is the proper forum, but here goes. Does anyone know anythig about a missing "Book of Sligo"? According to the few references I have managed...
[note: please take the 2.4 seconds required to snip non-essential material when replying... Thanks, Stiof] Have a look at http://eh.net/hmit/ For info about...
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Hello there; I was wondering at what point was it in Irish history that a majority of the population of Ireland could understand English?. I suspect that it...
Oh that is a very good question. I to would also like to know. Thank you very much Carol...
Carol Schnipke
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Jun 30, 2006 3:54 am
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Hi pre 20th century figures are not terribly reliable but... By about 1800 the percentage of Irish speakers on the island as a whole was probably less than...
It is a good question. The English language was legally imposed on the Irish as early as the Statutes of Kilkenny in 1367. That law stated, in part, that it...
TED MEEHAN
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Jul 1, 2006 6:19 pm
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I thought that England forced their languge into the school system. The native American Indians were made to stop using their languge. Their languge was used...
I read that the Greeks came into Ireland and brought their Christianity and language. This was before Saint Patrick. The church of Rome had the information...
Linda, ... It'd help to know where you read this. The only source I can think of at all like this is a book written a couple of decades ago by a non-expert who...
... I don't think others have read your question quite as I have, and though the information relating to *use* of Irish is correct, it seems to me that you are...
... Yep, but the question is... *who* got schooling? Very few in some areas, at least during the first half of the 1800s. ... Well, the majority of Irish who...
Very interesting response, Stiof. I wonder to what extent people needed to interact with officialdom back then. By that I mean Ireland must still have been a...
And as another aside when you start talking about 100% English speaking parents etc. There were people on mainlnd Ireland in the 60s and 70s who couldn´t...
Stiof describes my family's history. In 1847 my ggf Patrick Burns and his sister Margaret, both in their early 20s, sailed from Sligo and found their way from...
... There is evidence of occasional commerce with the near east (including Greece) in both prehistoric and historic eras, but I've never heard of any Greek...
... From: Stiof MacAmhalghaidh Date: 07/03/06 17:00:58 Linda, ... It'd help to know where you read this. The only source I can think of at all like this is a...
Thank you for those interesting responses. I guess it would be impossible to get a concrete answer on this question; I suspected this when I asked the question...
Does anyone know where I can find details about the old Irish Book found in the bog recently?. I read about it in the paper today. Thanks for your attention....
... It is too recent to have anything much written about it. What's in the papers (check the Irish Times, Examiner, Irish Independent, Reuters online services)...
People, We are now accepting FINAL submissions for INSIGHT Online Journal #4 which will be released at the end of August, and initial submissions for #5, due...
