All September’s #ExtinctinIreland posts in one handy page
As demanded by absolutely no-one, here are all the posts I have done this month on species extinct in Ireland since the coming of humanity…. Extinct in Ireland: September 1st,…
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Extinct in Ireland, September 29th, the Lynx
So far in my Extinct in Ireland blog series I have generally avoided the extinctions of prehistory. Of course prehistory does not mean pre-human. From Whittled Away there is a…
“The Forgotten Beasts in Medieval Britain: a study of extinct fauna in medieval sources” Ph.D thesis by Lee Raye
Over the course of my September posts on extinct species in Ireland, the importance of archaeology and literary scholarship in determining which species have been extant in Ireland is striking.…
Séamus Sweeney 