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Hosted by Dr. Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engaging chats with leading experts, it explores aspects of a largely ignored, but commonly evoked, period, and shares new and exciting research on medieval Ireland.
medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, and the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
Music: Lexin_Music

The Medieval Irish History Podcast The Medieval Irish History Podcast

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Hosted by Dr. Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engaging chats with leading experts, it explores aspects of a largely ignored, but commonly evoked, period, and shares new and exciting research on medieval Ireland.
medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, and the Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
Music: Lexin_Music

    St Columba (Part 1) with Prof. Thomas Owen Clancy

    St Columba (Part 1) with Prof. Thomas Owen Clancy

    Part 2 out June 28th.


    In this episode, Dr Niamh Wycherley invites Prof. Thomas Owen Clancy (University of Glasgow) to discuss St Columba (aka Colum Cille aka Columbkille), the so-called warrior saint of medieval Ireland. St Columba is considered one of the main patron saints of Ireland together with St Brigit and St Patrick. Part of a noble family, the saint sought exile and founded what is now one of the most well-known monasteries of medieval Ireland, Iona, which is actually located in present day Scotland. The power of Iona later developed into what historians call the 'Columban Federation', a group of monasteries under Iona's central influence.

    Join us in this two-part episode accompanying the life of St. Columba, his monastery and Adomnán, his most famous hagiographer.

    Suggested reading:

    Adomnán of Iona, Life of St Columba, translated by Richard Sharpe (London, Penguin Classics, 1995)

    Thomas Owen Clancy and Gilbert Márkus, Iona: the earliest poetry of a Celtic monastery (Edinburgh, 1995)

    Thomas Owen Clancy and Dauvit Broun (eds), Spes Scotorum / Hope of Scots: St. Columba, Iona and Scotland (Edinburgh, 1999)


    Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).
    Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
    Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
    Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Science Foundation Ireland/The Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
    Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
    Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
    Music: Lexin_Music


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    • 55 мин.
    1066! The Battle of Hastings — An Irish Perspective with Dr Caitlin Ellis

    1066! The Battle of Hastings — An Irish Perspective with Dr Caitlin Ellis

    In 1066 Edward the Confessor died, an event that set in motion a tripartite dispute for the throne of England, ultimately won by William of Normandy. After the Battle of Hastings, forever immortalized in the Bayeux Tapestry, William acquired the epithet 'The Conqueror' and the fate of England and surrounding territories was forever changed.

    The battle of Hastings in 1066 was certainly important, but was it decisive? Who were the Normans? What happened to the losers? How did the Irish react to this event? Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, King of Leinster, was allied with Harold Godwinson, who defeated famed 'Last Viking' Harald, King of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge only three weeks before he was killed by the Normans at Hastings. Godwinson's sons sought refuge with Diarmait in the aftermath. Diarmait is later mentioned in the Irish annals as possessing the standard or banner of the king of England, but how did it get in Ireland in the first place?

    These are some of the questions tackled by today's episode with Dr Caitlin Ellis (University of Oslo) and Dr Niamh Wycherley, who are looking at England from an Irish perspective and placing the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings in a wider context bridged by the Irish Sea.

    Suggested reading:

    Caitlin Ellis, ‘“Brian’s sword” and the “standard of the king of the Saxons” in the Irish annals: the Godwinsons, Hastings and Leinster–Munster relations’, Ériu 73 (2023), 43–62

    Caitlin Ellis, ‘Ireland and the Anglo-Normans within the Irish Sea World: Rebels, Mercenaries, Allies 1066–1169’, Borders and the Norman World, ed. Daniel Armstrong, Áron Kecskés with Charlie Rozier and Leonie Hicks (Boydell & Brewer, 2023), 17–42

    Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).
    Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
    Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
    Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Science Foundation Ireland/The Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
    Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
    Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
    Music: Lexin_Music


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    • 57 мин.
    Sitric Silkenbeard, King of Dublin, with Dr Alex Woolf

    Sitric Silkenbeard, King of Dublin, with Dr Alex Woolf

    In this episode, Dr Niamh Wycherley interviews Dr Alex Woolf (University of St. Andrews) on Sitric Silkenbeard, arguably one of the best Dubliners of all time. How did he end up being the king of Dublin? What was he doing during the Battle of Clontarf? What happened to him afterwards? These questions are at the core of this week's episode of The Medieval Irish History podcast.



    Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).

    Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com

    Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod

    Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Science Foundation Ireland/The Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.

    Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.

    Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa

    Music: Lexin_Music


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    • 53 мин.
    Queenship in the Irish Sea World with Dr Charles Insley

    Queenship in the Irish Sea World with Dr Charles Insley

    Special bonus episode! An extra treat as part of our mini series on Irish Queens. In this episode Niamh and Dr Charles Insley (The University of Manchester) chat all about what Queens Aethelflaed (Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians), Emma of Normandy and Gormlaith of Dublin have in common. Dr Insley tells us about an overarching framework of queenship which applied across the Irish Sea regions and how it can help us to understand better how the Irish conceptualised queenship and power.



    Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).
    Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
    Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
    Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Science Foundation Ireland/The Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
    Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
    Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
    Music: Lexin_Music


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    • 33 мин.
    The Book of Kells with Dr Donncha MacGabhann

    The Book of Kells with Dr Donncha MacGabhann

    In today's episode, Dr Niamh Wycherley and Dr Donncha MacGabhann explore The Book of Kells, one of Ireland's most famous medieval manuscripts. This Irish treasure now exhibited at Trinity College Dublin, displays a carefully crafted script and astonishing miniatures, which showcase the expertise of medieval Irish artistic expression.

    Where was it made? When? How? By whom? Why? Those are some of the questions that lead today's episode into an in-depth examination of one of the most important objects of medieval Ireland, an object that to this day makes up part of Irish identity itself.


    Suggested reading:

    Donncha MacGabhann, The Book of Kells A Masterwork Revealed: Creators, Collaboration, and Campaigns (Sidestone, 2022)

    Bernard Meehan, The Book of Kells (London, 2012)

    Jennifer OʼReilly, Early medieval text and image II: the Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells and Anglo-Saxon art, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 1080 (New York, 2019).

    Richard Sharpe (ed. & trans.) Adomnán of Iona: Life of St Columba (London: Penguin, 1995)

    Máire Herbert, Iona, Kells, and Derry: the history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba (Oxford, 1988)


    Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).
    Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
    Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
    Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Science Foundation Ireland/The Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
    Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
    Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
    Music: Lexin_Music


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    • 54 мин.
    Winners and Losers at the Battle of Clontarf with Dr Denis Casey

    Winners and Losers at the Battle of Clontarf with Dr Denis Casey

    The Battle of Clontarf (1014) was one of those unique and dividing moments in Irish History, but how much do we know about it?

    The traditional narrative of this event places the Irish fighting against the Norse invaders who held Dublin. Still, in this episode, Dr Denis Casey https://deniscasey.com/ shows us that this hypothesis is not entirely true.

    Brian Boru, king of Ireland and killed at the battle, achieved heroic status in the Irish imaginary, but how did this story come to be? Join Niamh and Dr Denis Casey in this investigation.



    Resources:
    https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/boru/index.php

    Seán Duffy, Brian Boru and the battle of Clontarf (Dublin, 2013).

    Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Brian Boru: Ireland's greatest king? (Stroud, 2007).



    The various annalistic compilations can be found on the Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) website: https://celt.ucc.ie//publishd.html

    James Henthorn Todd (tr., ed.) Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh (The war of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, or, The invasions of Ireland by the Danes and other Norsemen (London, 1867).

    Magnus Magnusson & Hermann Pálsson (trs.). Njal’s Saga (Harmondsworth, 1971).


    Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday).
    Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com
    Twitter X: @EarlyIrishPod
    Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University, & Science Foundation Ireland/The Irish Research Council. Views expressed are the speakers' own.
    Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
    Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa
    Music: Lexin_Music


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    • 49 мин.

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