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Climate and society in modern Ireland: past and future vulnerabilities
Wednesday, 24 November 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, John Sweeney considers the challenging interaction between climate and society from the nineteenth century to the present.

Reconstructing hydrological drought in Irish catchments (1850–2015)
Wednesday, 17 November 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Simon Noone and Conor Murphy provide a first attempt to reconstruct historical river flows to examine hydrological drought in Ireland.

Seeing the natural world: Comhbhá an Dúlra
Wednesday, 10 November 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Máire Ní Annracháin examines the ecocritical spirit of modern Gaelic poetry.

Poetry and climate change in Ireland 1600–1820
Wednesday, 3 November 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Lucy Collins explores what poetry reveals about the evolving relationship between humans and their environment.

Climate, weather and society in Ireland in the long eighteenth century
Wednesday, 27 October 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, James Kelly describes the experience of the later phases of the Little Ice Age.

Climate, weather and social change in seventeenth-century Ireland
Wednesday, 20 October 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Raymond Gillespie focuses on how local societies reacted to the changing weather patterns and adapted to them.

Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
Wednesday, 13 October 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Bruce Campbell and Francis Ludlow reflect on climate change as a major but neglected grand theme of late medieval Irish history.

To what extent did climate change steer the trajectories of early societies?
Wednesday, 6 October 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Lisa Coyle McClung and Gill Plunkett review cultural change and the climate record in final prehistoric and early medieval Ireland.

On the brink of Armageddon? Climate change, the archaeological record and human activity across the Bronze Age–Iron Age transition in Ireland
Wednesday, 29 September 2021In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Benjamin Gearey et al. consider the cultural and climatic changes that took place in Ireland during the transition between Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Human rights in a united Ireland
Monday, 27 September 2021In today’s ARINS blog, Brice Dickson considers the protection of human rights in the north and south of Ireland, and asks what might change after a referendum?