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This Field Was Full of Words
The scholars of Monasterboice
Jun 7 • Gillian Kenny

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Looking for the Loud Centuries
How the silence of today hides a much louder past at Monasterboice
Jun 6 • Gillian Kenny
The King’s Question
How a high king solved a same-sex paternity case with good manners in medieval Ireland
May 31 • Gillian Kenny
His Own Rope
In December 1640, a crowd gathered in Dublin to watch a bishop hang. John Atherton had been one of the men who pushed for Ireland's first buggery law…
May 29 • Gillian Kenny
The Bone in the Bed
How to improve your own sex life and destroy others' using magic in medieval Ireland. Medieval Irish people who couldn't get what they wanted from love…
May 24 • Gillian Kenny
Unruly Ireland
Unruly Ireland
Unruly Ireland explores the strange, unsettled, and deeply human sides of Irish history and folklore, from the medieval period to the modern world.
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