The essays represent the winning entries and superior-quality submissions from 2018–20 and cover the early and medieval period from c.600 to c.1700. The topics under study are diverse and range from early medieval saints to Gaelic lordship in the high middle-ages, and from archaeology to the custodians of Gaelic scholarship and learning, the Aos Dána class. Other themes throw new light on towerhouses, medieval literary texts, as well as on aspects of kinship and culture. The central focus is upon the Gaelic-Irish and Anglo-Norman population groups who were settled in Ireland during the period under study.
Featuring essays from Martin Breen, Vinicius Marino Carvalho, Anthony Cronin, Daniel Curley, Simon Egan, Sally Finn-Kelcey, Declan Keenan, Jesse P. Harrington, Cormac T. Hickey, Breege Hyland, Chris Lawlor, Matthew McGinty, Patrick McDonagh, Robert O’Halloran, Aogán Ó hIarlaithe and Caroline Smiddy.
