Ita’s World – Page 73 – International Diplomat America

Eminent Family JOLY: Ireland and beyond

07/05/2008

On 22 September 1977 a lecture was delivered to the National Library of Ireland Society in the National Gallery on The Joly Family – Jaspar Robert Joly and the National Library. The Irish University Review, a Journal of Irish Studies, printed the substance of the lecture in The National Library of Ireland Centenary Issue 1877-1977. The historical account by Patrick Henchy (pp.184-198) highlights the lineage and wide prestige of the eminent family Joly in Ireland and their valuable contributions…

Irish Golden Age: High Crosses

05/17/2008

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The principal resources for dating events in medieval Irish history are the Annals that provide a continuous year-by-year cryptic summary of Irish political and ecclesiastical events from c.313 to A.D 1590. In the 1630s a group of four Franciscans compiled many of these texts into one enormous compendium, now known as the Annals of the Four Masters. While they sometimes modified the chronology and content of some of these records, they saved for posterity material that would otherwise have…