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Yes Mad as Fish, you see in practice the historian is only as good as his sources and since the Irish of that time nearly always wrote in Latin, which modern Irish academic scholars generally ignore, then they blank out so much of the Irish Catholic experience. Also of course nearly all...

1653 Fr John Dalton OFM (Cap.) and two nuns were held in captivity in Kilkenny in August 1653, alongwith a Capuchin lay brother called Brother John Verdon. The former was executed and the nuns exiled to Spain, before that the circumstances of their imprisonment is mentioned here by the...

c.1630 An account from Commentarius Rinuccinianus of what appears to be an early tradition of the Irish slaves in the Caribbean: 1649-1654 The Commentarius authors here describe the state of the country from the fall of the Confederacy in 1649 to 1654, with respect to the transportations:

In the early years of the Irish state they did fine work in publishing some of the great texts of Irish history, in many cases for the first time. One great example is the first time publication, from 1932-1949 by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, of the Latin text of Commentarius Rinuccinianus...