Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Dr Gillian Kenny
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I visited the monastery at Monasterboice this week and was struck by how the quietness of its ruins can be misleading.
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I visited the monastery at Monasterboice this week and was struck by how the quietness of its ruins can be misleading.
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Great listen, Dr Gillian Kenny (@medievalgill.bsky.social) talks about Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile: her life, Brehon Law, her engagement with the Tudors, dispels the myths where possible ...Tudors and hankies!!Gráinne is the subject of her forthcoming book.
#SpéirGhorm
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Strabo wrote in the first century AD that Ireland was “at the very edge of the habitable world” and was home to “completely wild people [who] live a wretched existence on account of the cold”
As I type it’s June and I have just put a jumper on as the rain lashes down. Little wonder we went wild
The view today
Loving the artwork for my Seed Talk on the Banshee.
It’s on next month in Cork and should be good craic. Link for tickets is below if you are interested in coming along.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989391634...
