Medieval Ireland - Was There Ever Any Good Old Days?
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Most of the podcasts I make focus on the darker aspects of medieval life. War is a common theme and famine is never far away. However in this podcast I am asking the question was life in medieval Ireland ever anything other than an endless struggle for survival. The show starts in the Vale of Dublin in 1326 when the region was an apocalyptic wasteland before looking back to 1234 when the region enjoyed better days.
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| 0:37.0 | Some shows may have ads. Hello and welcome to the Irish History any good times in medieval Ireland. |
| 0:57.0 | Most of the podcasts I have made to date focus on the darker aspects of medieval life. |
| 1:06.0 | War is a common theme and famine is never far away. |
| 1:09.8 | So in this show I am asking and hopefully answering the question was life in medieval Ireland ever better than |
| 1:15.9 | this. |
| 1:16.9 | Now I think a good place to begin is to imagine if a historian from the future travelled to Ireland in 2014 inquiring was life ever better than it is today. |
| 1:27.0 | Before we could even begin to answer the question, we would need to know better in comparison to what. |
| 1:34.0 | Likewise, to make any judgment about life in the past, |
| 1:38.0 | we need to compare it to another period. |
| 1:41.0 | In this show, I'm going to compare life in and around medieval Dublin in the 1320s to life a century earlier. |
| 1:49.0 | To compare medieval society to modern life would not be fair as the two are completely different. |
| 1:55.6 | We will begin with a look at some bleak times in Ireland's medieval past and then look at what |
| 2:00.5 | I think were definitely better times. So to start we need to go to the year 1326. |
| 2:17.8 | One of the major scandals in medieval Dublin in the mid-1320s was the conviction of the Archbishop of Dublin Alexander de Bignor for forgery. This was big news. It also had massive ramifications for thousands of people who were |
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