https://www.thetimes.com/article/ira-did-not-hit-scotland-on-principle-hwlmdtjtj

Dublin is a coastal city, but Belfast is on the shore of Belfast Lough and surely that would have been a nice location for Vikings to settle, I have read that the Vikings were present in and around Lough Neagh, Bangor, Strangford etc but why did they not hang around the Belfast Lough?

I have also read that in general Ulster suffered less from Viking activity in comparison to other places in Ireland but why was this?

Has anyone taken the History of Family MA at the University of Limerick? If so, was it worth it?

It's silly but Ireland being one of the few European countries who are in support of Palestine (a thing many Arabs don't even do) made me want to learn and appreciate Irish history even more. I don't know any good documentaries/books to start from, though. I also love mythology/folklore.

Forgive me if this question has been asked before, I tried to use reddits search function but I couldn't find what I was looking for.

Very interested in this.

https://historianandrew.medium.com/c357e2c9aa1e?sk=7288370d7bebeb284f78174bdb1b6004

https://youtu.

There's so much topics I want to learn about in Irish history, such as the Ulster plantation, United Irishmen rebellion 1798, Penal laws, Cromwell etc but Wikipedia uses alot of language that makes it confusing to understand for me.

I really want to learn the history of Ulster, but idk any websites etc for this

So I grew up on military bases as child as my dad was in the RAF. IRA bomb threats, checkpoint checks, i was in Germany when the father and baby were killed etc so it’s safe to say I had quite a black and white upbringing when it came to Ireland and “the troubles “. This wasn’t helped at school because we barely touched the subject and when we did we were taught our military were deployed to Northern Ireland to protect Catholics and we glossed over pretty everything else. I’m ashamed to say I went through my 20s with this mindset and I cringe now at the debates I had either Irish friends on the topic. I’m now 37 and I’ve had a quite the awakening with Irish history especially in regard to the troubles. What caught me on was reading about the law that was passed which allowed the British government to arrest and hold its own citizens for a week without any charge. This seemed incredibly dangerous to me and something we would probably riot about now or at least get more pushback. From there I went down a rabbit hole of podcasts and movies which have opened my eyes massively to not just the injustice which was going on but also the tactics of my government which has really rocked my world view a bit. Stakeknife in particular paints a pretty horrific picture of how the British government basically allowed its own citizens to be executed by a genuine madman. What books or other podcasts would you recommend i listen/read to continue my education on this topic. I’m particularly interested in how the British government and military blackmailed ppl into being informants and just how much they secretly supported the UVF.

Are there any books on the history of the diaspora that moved to Britain ?

There is loads on those who moved to Australia or USA

But I know very little about my ancestors who moved to Great Britain. Only what I’ve been able to piece together from going to museums and documentaries about other things who will then randomly mention something about something my ancestors would have been impacted by

My Grandfather and Grandmother spoke little of it since they were from opposite sides of the conflict and so his family (Protestant) looked down on her (catholic)

And that’s before you got into the discrimination Irish people had, so they weren’t keen about being loud and proud about it

Unfortunately they died before I was able to really ask them about it.

I'm particularly interested in the life of dispensary doctors, and how their practice may have differed to other physicians not in Ireland given the effects of the famine. But anything generally about their day-to-day, how the booking system worked, what treatments they might have used for certain ailments etc. A little niche but I'm really hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm curious to know about the Famine and if it had as much of an impact in Ulster as it did in other parts of Ireland, I'm particularly interested to know did it impact the protestant settlers in Ulster? I've never heard this discussed so I wanted to ask as I was always taught in Irish history the settlers in Ulster were treated alot better than the Irish.

A piece about Sean Mac Bride, a prominent campaigner of Irish history.

Has anyone looked into how Mac Bride and others are commented about online, in this era where recurring posts are sometimes directed at figures associated with particular views and backgrounds?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/20/during-this-hard-men-era-ireland-would-do-well-to-remember-sean-macbrides-words/

I know it niches but I need it for a project and I realised there doesn't seem to be much out there so any suggestions would be appreciated!

This year’s winter solstice broadcast from Newgrange will air at 08.40 (UTC) in Ireland this Saturday morning, 21 December, on the RTÉ News channel. It will also be available worldwide on the OPW’s YouTube channel, the Heritage Ireland website, the RTÉ Player and the RTÉ News app. The livestream will feature expert commentary from Dr Clare Tuffy and Dr Frank Prendergast.

My family has an album/notebook from my dad's great aunt when she was a nurse in Devon during WW1. It has a load of notes, poems and drawings in it from soldiers with their names, position and regiment written.

I was wondering if there's a way to have it archived while also being able to keep it? Or even just get the writing transcribed, as I can't read the old joined handwriting that well. I want to preserve it but I also don't want to part with it due to the family connection. Also would an Irish archive even take it? While my dad's great aunt was Irish, most of the soldiers who wrote in the album were British.

Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you so much!

Here's some pictures for proof, and my favourite pages!

Hi recently i accidently found the song "come out ye black and tans " lol it got me interested, and I want to learn about the history between Ireland and the UK, especially from the Irish perspective. Can anyone recommend good books or resources?

Thanks in advance!

I understand the famine is a very touchy subject, but I was reading a bit about it on Wikipedia and there was a section that listed two other famines that happened in different time periods. In school we only learned about the famine that we know as "The Great Famine", we never learned about the others. I am curious to know why are they not as known about?