Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the end. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the end of the post - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue**] George Carew, Earl of Totnes  via Wikimedia Commons In the last part of this post, I looked at the Irish annals  and posted links to those available online. In this post I wanted to do something pretty similar with the Calendar of State Papers for Ireland. The CSP are ‘calendars’ in the sense that they are chronological lists of documents or manuscripts. They contain a wealth of information from the perspective of the English involvement in Ireland throughout the period from 1509 to 1670. This is from the ascension of Henry VIII, through the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I (House of Tudor), James, ...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the PIPS charity using the secure button at the end. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. **] for Simon 1970-2008 Preface | Sunday 10th November 2013 (3 Days After) I had never intended to be the author of such a ‘confessional’ blog post. Actually, for much of the gestation of this piece, I hadn’t even intended it to be a blog post – just notes for my own amusement, to track my mental and physical responses to this task I have set myself. Whatever its genesis, I think there may be some slight merit in presenting it to public view. I’m reminded of a colleague – one of my kinder, wittier detractors – who announced to an assembled crew that my mind was an interesting place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there. Well here’s your chance to have a short break inside my head – at least you get to go home afterwards! In so far as it goes, I’ve treated the experience ...