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26 Innovators & Innovations from Past to Present Along Ireland’s Westerly Seaboard
As part of the wrap-up for our exhibition of Old Ireland in Colour images at Kylemore Abbey last weekend, I gave a presentation with 26 stories of innovators and innovations from along our westerly seaboard. For the date that’s in it (I am a bit weird with numbers: I recently…
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The Power of the Irish Small-World Network
Last evening in Galway, I was meeting with my friend Kevin O’Hara, also known as the Donkeyman after his book “Last of the Donkey Pilgrims” which describes his travels around the coast of Ireland in 1979 with Missie the donkey. It was great to catch up with Kevin since we…
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Blockchain: úsáidí, an teic, bitcoin, mí-bhuntáistí and buntáistí
San chéad alt, scríobh mé faoi cad é an blockchain go díreach, agus cén fáth go bhfuil sé tábhachtach. Táimid ag déanamh taighde faoin blockchain sna hIonaid VistaMilk agus Insight anseo in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Chonaic muid gur féidir linn blockchain a úsáid chun gach rud a rianú, ó fheithiclí…
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Céard é an blockchain agus cén fáth go bhfuil sé tábhachtach?
Déanaim féin taighde leis na hIonaid VistaMilk agus Insight in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe: is ionaid taighde iad a bhunaigh Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland le blianta anuas. Agus bímíd ag déanamh staidéir ar intleacht shaorga [AI] agus teicneolaíochtaí eile – mar shampla, an blockchain, nó blocshlabhra as Gaeilge – agus…
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An Internet Geek’s Introductory Guide to Irish Genealogy
So you want to get started with building your Irish family tree? Here are some initial tips from someone who has recently used (mostly) online tools to link back five or six generations… Software Firstly, I’d recommend getting a desktop application for storing your findings! There are various mobile apps…
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The Irishwoman Who Drained the Marsh of Marseillette
Famed soldier in the United Irishmen Miles Byrne refers in his Memoirs to a tract of wetlands bought by a Mrs Doyle Lawless near Carcassonne. In fact, he alludes to a link between her and Napoleon, when he says: “We have no Bonaparte [there in Ireland] to encourage and protect…
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The Dillons in France
Part of the Irish Brigade, Dillon’s Regiment was brought from Ireland to France in 1690 by Count Arthur Dillon (1670-1733) during the Williamite War. However, the Dillons originally came from France: Henri de Léon of Brittany arrived in Ireland some 500 years earlier with the Normans and Prince John. Dillon…
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An Irish Regiment in Carcassonne
Did you know that over 260 years ago, Caserne Laperrine, the large military barracks beside Les Jacobins and originally built from 1709 to 1735, was once host to a battalion of Irish soldiers, part of Dillon’s Regiment from 1763 to 1764? Amongst them were many famous officers in the regiment,…
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Linking Ireland and Carcassonne
Carcassonne has neolithic origins, but likely owes its original oppidum (town) name of Carsac (later Carcaso) to the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Irish journalist Seamus MacCall laments in a 1938 Irish Press article that “Carcassonne is still a Celtic city, and in Carcassonne is Tara, Cruachan, Cashel, and the…
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Astérix and the Historical Interpretation
Introduction The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well not entirely! One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium… And especially…
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