Episode 168: Beyond the Pale (ad-free)

Hope is a powerful emotion, and it has driven humans to do great things over the centuries. It’s also a key element of folklore, but the stories it gives rise to there are more than just inspiring—some of them can also be terrifying.

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Further Reading

1. Vincent Carey, Surviving the Tudors: The ‘Wizard’ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537–1586 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002).
2. Vincent Carey, “‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’: Gender and Geraldine Power on the Pale Border,” Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c. 1540–1660, edited by Michael Potterton & Thomas Herron (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).
3. Vincent Carey, “A ‘Dubious Loyalty’: Richard Stanyhurst, the ‘wizard’ earl of Kildare, and English-Irish Identity,” Taking Sides?: Colonial and Confessional Mentalités in Early Modern Ireland, edited by Vincent P. Carey & Ute Lotz-Heumann (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003).
4. Richard Stanyhurst, A plaine and perfect description of Ireland, The Holinshed Chronicle, volume 3, 1587.
5. Mackenzie Cooley, “Marketing Nobility: Horsemanship in Renaissance Italy,” Animals and Courts: Europe, c. 1200–1800 edited by Mark Hegerer and Nadir Weber (De Gruyter, 2019).
6. Aisling Byrne, “Family, Locality, and Nationality: Vernacular Adaptations of ‘Expugnatio Hibernica’ in Late Medieval Ireland,” Medium Aevum 82.1 (2013), pp. 101–118.
7. Laurence McCorristine, The Revolt of Silken Thomas: A Challenge to Henry VIII (Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1997).
8. Brian FitzGerald, The Geraldines: An Experiment in Irish Government, 1169–1601 (London: Staples Press, 1951).
9. Elizabeth Tobey, “The Palio Horse in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy,” The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World, edited by Karen Raber and Treva Tucker (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2005), pp. 63–90.
10. Elizabeth Tobey, “The Palio in Italian Renaissance Art, Thought, and Culture,” Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2005, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/2458.
11. John Edwards, Mary I: England’s Catholic Queen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 2011).
12. The Chronicle of Queen Jane, and of Two Years of Queen Mary, and Especially of the Rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyat, edited by John Gough Nichols (London: J.B. Nichols, 1850).
13. David Finnegan, “Fitzgerald, Gerald [Garret, Gearóid], eleventh earl of Kildare,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 23 September 2004, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9557.
14. F.X. Martin, “The Crowning of a King at Dublin, 24 May 1487,” Hermathena 144 (Summer 1988), pp. 7–34.
15. Charles William Fitzgerald, The Earls of Kildare and Their Ancestors from 1057 to 1773 (Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co. 1858).
16. Brendan Farrell, “The Wizard Earl of Kilkea Castle,” Irish Central, 19 October 2018, https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/the-wizard-earl-of-kilkea-castle.
17. William Eamon, “Spanish Science in the Age of the New,” A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance, edited by Hilaire Kallendorf (Boston: Brill, 2019).
18. Juan Pablo Bubello, “Apologetica de la Alquimia en la Corte de Felipe II. Richard Stanihurst y Su ‘El Toque de Alquimia’” (1593), Magallanica, Revista de Historia Moderna 2/4 (June 2016).
19. Marcos Martinón-Torres, “Some Recent Developments in the Historiography of Alchemy,” Ambix 58.3 (November 2011), pp. 215–237.
20. Constance Louisa Adams, Castles of Ireland: Some Fortress Histories and Legends (London: Elliot Stock, 1904).
21. Lord Walter Fitzgerald, “Kilkea Castle,” Co. Kildare Acheological Society Journal Vol. II, pp. 3–33.
22. J. F. M. Ffrench, “The Legend of the Wizard Earl of Kildare,” Journal of the County Kildare Archeological Society 6.5 (Jan 1911), pp. 407–409.
23. Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, “Desmond, Earl of” and “Kildare, Earl of,” The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend, and Romance (London: Boydell Press 2006).
24. Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, “‘Has the Time Come?’ (MLSIT 8009): The Barbarossa Legend in Ireland and its Historical Context,” Béaloideas 59 (1991), pp 197–207.
25. Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (London: Macmillan and Company, 1866), pp. 172-74.