ABSTRACT
Scholars of the trial of the Templars have tended to overlook Ireland. The trial was considered in two articles published early in the twentieth century by Anglo-Irish scholars, an M.Phil. thesis from University College Dublin in the 1980s, and a Ph.D. thesis from Evanston, Illinois, in the early twenty-first century. In addition, the inventories of the Templars’ lands, taken when the brothers were arrested early in February 1308, were published in the 1960s. 1 The trial in Britain has not received much more attention from scholars, but it is surprising (although gratifying) that conspiracy theorists have not spent more time considering the trial in Ireland.
