A History of #Ireland in 10 Words

The educational resources available on this site are based on the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words (https://www.ria.ie/history-ireland-100-words), which was written by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Gregory Toner, illustrated by Joe McLaren, and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2019.

These resources are divided into ten units, each headed by an Irish word which acts as a springboard into glimpses of life in Ireland in previous centuries which are often absent from history books.

The topics of the ten units are:

1. ceol ‘music’
2. ráth ‘a ringfort’
3. leabhar ‘a book’
4. dalta ‘a pupil’
5. réalta ‘a star’
6. bróg ‘a shoe’
7. mac tíre ‘a wolf’
8. forc ‘a fork’
9. gruaig ‘hair’
10. bó ‘a cow’

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https://spreadingthewords.ie/