Roman Soldiers in Ireland? - The Bearded Historian
This year Ireland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the beginning of it's 20th century independence movement. But rather than preoccupying ourselves with this, lets dial the time-clock back a little further all the way to 80 AD and the time of the Roman Empire. Historians have long since scrutinized Rome's presence in Britain, but has the Empire ever extended its reach into Hibernia; the island we now know as Ireland? Reference & Reading Material: --D. B. Campbell: Roman Soldiers in Ireland; Ancient Warfare Vol. VIII, Issue II (2014). Available online: www.academia.edu/6781520/Did_the_Romans_invade_Ireland --V. Di Martino: Roman Ireland (2003) --D. Bateson: Roman material from Ireland: a reconsidertaion; Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy C73 (1973), pp. 21-97. --B. Raftery: Drumanagh and Roman Ireland; Archaeology Ireland 10.1 (1996), pp. 17-19. --R. Warner: De Bello Hibernico, Archaeology Ireland 10.3 (1996), pp.38-40. --P. Reinard: Arma ultra litora Iuvernae promovimus - Römer in Irland?; Marburger Beiträge zur antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 31 (2013), pp. 1-36.
