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Gathering Time: Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and Ireland
by Alasdair Whittle, Frances Healy and Alex Bayliss
Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and deposition. The project has combined hundreds of new radiocarbon dates with hundreds of existing dates, using a Bayesian statistical framework. Such formal chronological modelling is ...
Environmental Archaeology in Ireland
edited by Eileen M Murphy and Nicki J Whitehouse
This edited volume of 16 papers provides an introduction to the techniques and methodologies, approaches and potential of environmental archaeology within Ireland. Each of the 16 invited contributions focus on a particular aspect of environmental archaeology and include such specialist areas as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, palaeoentomology, human osteoarchaeology, palynology and geoarchaeology, thereby providing a comprehensive overview ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00
Ireland and the Grail
by John Carey
This is the first book-length study of the origins of the Grail legend to have been undertaken by a specialist in medieval Irish literature. Drawing on a detailed reexamination of the relevant texts in Irish, Welsh, Latin and French, extensive sections of which are presented in new translations, the author argues that the roots of the Grail legend are to be sought in the lost Old Irish manuscript known as the Book of Druimm Snechtai. ...
Paperback. Price US$29.95
West Cork Inspires
by Alison Ospina
During the 1960s and the following decades, a significant number of artists and craftspeople began moving to West Cork, Ireland, following their dream of a simple life in an unspoiled landscape. They were attracted to West Cork in particular by the stunning landscapes and low property prices, but as the creative community grew, it became an attraction in its own right.
For a brief period, a rare combination of circumstances existed in the ...
Limerick and South-West Ireland: Medieval Art and Architecture
by Roger Stalley
This volume consists of seventeen papers delivered at the British Archaeological Associations annual conference held in Limerick in 2008, with questions of piety, patronage and the reception of European cultural practices well to the fore. In addition to studies of Irish cathedrals, monasteries, castles and tower houses, this pioneering volume includes investigations of crosiers, misericords, tomb monuments and stained glass. VIII Colour ...
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Hardback. Price US$130.00
Maritime Ireland: Coastal Archaeology of an Island People
by Aidan O'Sullivan & Colin Breen
Ireland is an island set in the north Atlantic, surrounded by seas that link it to a wider world. From earliest times, its peoples have lived besides its shorelines, bays and estuaries, navigating maritime seaways and gathering diverse resources. Since Ireland's first peoples arrived-Mesolithic hunter-gathers who came by boat about 10,000 years ago-the sea has been of enormous cultural, economic and ideological significance in this island's long ...
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A Single Ray of the Sun
by John Carey
This small volume aims to present the main themes of the early Irish church in an accessible manner to the scholar and the uninitiated alike. Carey avoids technical terms and effectively illustrates how the peculiarities and mysteries of Irish ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$16.50
Dun Ailinne: Excavations at an Irish Royal Site 1968-1975
by Susan A. Johnston and Bernard Wailes
The site of Dún Ailinne is one of four major ritual sites from the Irish Iron Age, each said to form the center of a political kingdom and thus described as "royal." Excavation has produced artifacts ranging from the Neolithic (about 5,000 years ago) ...
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Brian Boru: Ireland's Greatest King?
by Maire Ni Mhaonaigh
The first-ever biography of the most famous of Ireland's High Kings. Brian Boru king of Munster, was among the most successful of all medieval Irish monarchs. Succeeding to the kingship of Dal Cais on the death of his brother Mathgamain in 976, he managed ...
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Ross Island: Mining, Metal and Society in Early Ireland
edited by William O'Brien
Archaeological excavations at Ross Island Mine in Killarney, Co. Kerry reveal importantant evidence for the beginnnings of the Bronze Age. New discoveries suggest that this was the first place where copper was produced in Ireland. Mining began here around ...
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