Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Readers of my little scribblings in The Echo will see the first part of my story about the life and death of Pilip dubh O Raghallaigh. There will be some “early modernists” – those claiming to be experts on sixteenth and seventeenth century history – who will bristle with indignation that their “patch” has been invaded by a mere late medieval ignoramus. “Isn’t he ashamed? His father isn’t even a town councillor.” But then Fortune favours the bold, if not the bald.