Irish hospitality was no myth but a warm and living tradition that went back to pagan times and lasted through to the 20th century. Perhaps the greatest dishonour a person could bring upon himself in pre-Christian Ireland was to be accused of miserliness or refusal to give hospitality. Christian thinking […]

Seán Ó Coileáin had definitely settled here by 1977 because he states in a manuscript that he was “in Castle Ire House” in that year when he was writing the genealogy of the O’Donovan Clan. It is almost certain that he spent most of the rest of his life in […]

Daniel Corkery refers to ‘Irish’ Ireland in the eighteenth century, that is the country outside of Dublin and the larger towns, as the “hidden Ireland” in his book of the same title. He refers to it as that “dreadful century during which our forefathers were tested as never before. He […]