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Limerick After the Civil War, 1923-1930: a documentary history
(Limerick City & County Council, 2025-01-28) Gannon, Seán William; Hughes, Brian
This volume by Seán William Gannon (Limerick Local Studies) and Brian Hughes (Department of History, Mary Immaculate College) comprises a series of previously unpublished documents selected from a variety of national and local archives, together with short introductions, which illuminate aspects of political, religious, socioeconomic, sporting, cultural, and educational life in Limerick city and county in the early years of the Irish Free State.
Studying revolution: accounts of Mary Immaculate College, 1918-1923
(Limerick City and County Council, 2022-04-28) Hughes, Brian (ed); Ni Bhroiméil, Úna (ed); Ragan, Benjamin (ed); Mary Immaculate College (eds)
In 1921 the War of Independence entered its most violent phase and this has been reflected in Limerick City and County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme this year. But against the backdrop of ambushes such as Dromkeen and atrocities like the Curfew Murders, everyday life in Limerick city and county proceeded with a surprising degree of normality. We believe that this aspect of Limerick’s revolutionary experience too deserves commemorative attention and this volume is the result. Produced in collaboration with Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Studying Revolution comprises edited transcripts of a selection of documents, most sourced from MIC’s archive and previously unpublished, accompanied by insightful, introductory essays by staff. These documents (which include contemporary teaching reports, diary entries, and a retrospective account by a former student) provide a fascinating window on MIC during the Irish revolutionary years. Taken together, they demonstrate that the training of primary teachers, which had commenced in 1901, continued throughout the War of Independence and subsequent Civil War, the routines of college life essentially uninterrupted by the surrounding local and national turmoil. The extent to which MIC was representative of other Limerick institutions in this regard is at present unknown, opening an interesting avenue for further research.
Brian Boru’s origins and the kingdom of North Munster (Pre-published version)
(History Publications Ltd., 2014) Swift, Catherine
Cathy Swift examines the tradition that Cormac Cas was buried at Duntryleague Hill, near Galbally, Co. Limerick, and what it tells us about the rise of his descendent, Brian Boru.
History and identity in the Irish primary school classroom in 2016
(Education Matters, 2017) Swift, Catherine
Dr Swift discusses the tension between Irish identity/culture and multiculturalism in the history curriculum in primary schools and poses important questions about how we define ‘Irishness’
Viking settlement in south east Ireland (Pre-published version)
(TUI [Teachers' Union of Ireland], 2012) Swift, Catherine
A "square earthen church of clay" in seventh-century Mayo
(The Archaeological Society, UCD, 1993) Swift, Catherine
This paper sets out to explore the historical context behind the description of a Mayo church which is to be found in a 7th century tract, claiming to deal with the last miraculous deeds of St. Patrick’s life. It is hoped that this will prove helpful in constructing archaeological models about church form, in Ireland during this period.
Celtic monasticism- a discipline's search for romance?
(The Archaeological Society, UCD, 1994) Swift, Catherine
Beneath the mud-encrusted exterior of the average archaeologist, there beats the heart of a romantic. As a profession, we are attracted by the lure of lost tribes and societies, the life- style enjoyed by unknown civilisations, the worship and cults of forgotten gods. This fantastical element in our thinking is a fundamental part of the discipline; it provides the tension which keeps archaeology in its rightful position, linked to the outskirts of the humanities. Without it, we become the poor relations of the physical scientists, our suppositions unprovable and our data sets irretrievably corrupted through time. An integral element in the romance of archaeology lies in the distinction between the intensely local nature of the primary evidence and the distant cultures which may have provided the impetus for regional development. Here the distinction between the measurable data and the overall interpretation is at its most clear-cut. The former can be analysed with all the necessary tools of systematic enquiry, the latter remains a matter for impressionistic assessment and the exercise of judgement. The long-standing arguments about diffusion versus independent discovery lie at the very heart of all archaeological studies.
Christian communities in fifth and sixth century Ireland
(The Archaeological Society, UCD, 1996) Swift, Catherine
It has often been assumed that, following Palladius’ mission of AD 431, Ireland became entirely or at the very least predominantly, Christian in the course of the remainder of the 5th and 6th centuries (see amongst others Hughes 1966, 39-56, Ó Corrain 1994, 3). Other historians have abandoned the 6th century altogether, taking the view that we simply do not have enough sources to discuss the period (Sharpe 1984, 239-43; Etchingham 1994, 38). The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the archaeological evidence for the existence of Christianity in Ireland during this two hundred year period and to discover whether the material remains can add to our knowledge of this era.

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