The hardness of stone, the pliancy of wood, the fluidity of palm oil, the crystalline nature of
salt, and the vegetable qualities of moss–each describes a way of being in and …

The “broken arbour” in which Margaret sits despondent near the close of “The Ruined
Cottage” is highly suggestive of the long and devastating deforestation of England that …

Eighteenth-century Ireland was well-toured by many distinguished travel writers, yet many of
them remained strangely silent about language, surely one of the most significant, if …

In March 1729 an obscure Gaelic scribe called Cormac Ö Dālaigh, who was then writing
miscellaneous material into a manuscript compilation at the home of Aodh Ō Caoimh in east …

On 19 th October 1666 the Earl of Orrery, a man of staunch Protestant belief, wrote a letter to
the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In this letter Orrery complained about the …