Irish & Scottish Reads of the Week: October 23, 2026
Four rewarding reads connect a medieval mystery at Stirling Castle, a Roman Scotland reconstruction, Irish landscape watercolors, and Brian Friel’s international archive.
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Irish & Scottish Reads of the Week: October 16, 2026
Five Irish and Scottish heritage selections: a new 1926 Census search tool, Crow Hill’s mysterious bones, Drumcree history, Scotland’s high places, and Northern Ireland’s heritage network.
Irish & Scottish Reads of the Week: October 9, 2026
Four Irish and Scottish heritage selections: Dublin census lives, women in Chancery records, Hilton of Cadboll archaeology, and a Burns portrait podcast.
Irish & Scottish Reads of the Week: October 2, 2026
Four fresh Irish and Scottish heritage reads: Lismore's early monastery, a revived Offaly song, Eriskay's ponies, and a Belfast parish at fifty.
Battle of Dunbar 1650: Cromwell’s Victory in Scotland
On September 3, 1650, exactly 426 years before this article was published, the Battle of Dunbar changed the course of Scotland’s seventeenth-century history. Fought near Dunbar in East Lothian, the battle ended with Oliver Cromwell’s English Parliamentarian army defeating the…