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Climate and society in modern Ireland: past and future vulnerabilities

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

In 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.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Reconstructing hydrological drought in Irish catchments (1850–2015)

Wednesday, 17 November 2021

In 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.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Seeing the natural world: Comhbhá an Dúlra

Wednesday, 10 November 2021

In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Máire Ní Annracháin examines the ecocritical spirit of modern Gaelic poetry.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Poetry and climate change in Ireland 1600–1820

Wednesday, 3 November 2021

In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, Lucy Collins explores what poetry reveals about the evolving relationship between humans and their environment.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Climate, weather and society in Ireland in the long eighteenth century

Wednesday, 27 October 2021

In today's blog on Climate and Society in Ireland, James Kelly describes the experience of the later phases of the Little Ice Age.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Climate, weather and social change in seventeenth-century Ireland

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

In 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.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

In 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. 

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in Ireland

To what extent did climate change steer the trajectories of early societies?

Wednesday, 6 October 2021

In 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.

Publications, Publications Blog, Climate and Society in 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 2021

In 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.

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Human rights in a united Ireland

Monday, 27 September 2021

In 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?

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