All of Daniel Kirkpatrick’s blog posts will show here organised by date published. These cover mostly topics on Iron Age Ireland, but can include book reviews, fiction writing, overviews of historical sites in Ireland, to basically anything else.
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Book Review: Ancient Ireland, Laurence Flanagan
Archaeology can often feel as dry and dead as the very artifacts it unearths. Debates around dating methodologies, discoveries of inane objects of little to no importance, or merely terminology so densely formulated in ‘isms’ and ‘tions’ that no lay-person has a hope of understanding it. Thankfully, Ancient Ireland by Laurence Flanagan can be accused…
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Book Review: The Oldest Irish Tradition, Kenneth Jackson
I can’t count the times I’ve prayed for the dull, droning monotony of a lecture to end. We will all be able to remember a talk we wished we could escape, a pointless meeting, or a seemingly unending work presentation. I resent how much of my life has been stolen away by such moments. So…
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The Freedom of Peace
Short story written by Daniel Kirkpatrick published June 2020 “This – ahem – this is the most important challenge we face in our century. The most important. Without the freedom to say what we believe, what have we? However, if left unguarded, we risk losing everything. Is that what you want? To lose everything? No.…