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The Lock
Originally published August 2016 Dublin’s Westmoreland Lock Hospital served as the city’s center for the treatment of venereal...
In the News March 2020
Recent news on Celtic history or archaeology around the world. Archaeologists bogged down in Ceide Fields row. A...
Irish Dogs
Originally published June 2016 Ever wonder where man’s best friend comes from? When did these tame beasts become...
St. Paddy’s Hunger Strike
Originally published November 2015 The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, or Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii, is a bilingual...
The First Female Irish Freemason
While mainstream Freemasonry is traditionally exclusively a male organization, historically, there do seem to have been occasional exceptions....
Kissing your Thumb
Kissing your Thumb Originally published May 2016 The oath traditionally given in court to “tell the truth, the...
Molly Maguires in Dresses
Molly Maguires in Dresses originally published April 2016 The Molly Maguires were a secret society that actually had...
Mortuary evidence of Early Christianity in Scotland
Unfortunately Scotland does not have the stories of conversion that we see in other parts for the British...
In the News January 2020
Celtic history and archeology recently in the news Padlock among finds made at Lair of Glenshee Pictish homestead...
King Arthur’s Origins
Arthur Originally Published February 2016 I’m in the middle of re-reading The Crystal Cave the first book of...