Dr Hiram Morgan

If the Wild Atlantic Way is not just about tourist marketing…

Mick Fealty on April 15, 2015, 12:12 am

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To close the evening, this important if not quite urgent message from Irish historian Hiram Morgan, telllng it like it is: Even though the Armada had failed in the English Channel, its terrible end on the Irish coast had ironic consequences as it had destabilised the North-West and helped usher in the Nine Years War (1594-1603) during which the Irish leaders sought Spanish assistance against England. And: Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam, who made a looping march through Connacht and Ulster in …

Essex, Bacon and the early treachery of (Irish) politicians…

Mick Fealty on October 19, 2012, 9:45 am

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I used Google Plus to interview an old friend from schooldays to talk about a series of lectures he’s holding next week in the Linen Hall Library on one of the least considered and probably most pivotal moments in the history of Ulster. Dr Hiram Morgan looks at that critical period that led under the Scots King James the Sixth (First of England) to the thorough plantation of Ulster. It coincides with the rise (and establishment) of a professional political …