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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 ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

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 focuses 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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

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 GB £19.95

Hidden History Below Our Feet: The Archaeological Story of Belfast
by Ruari O Baoill
Magnificently produced and generously priced, this book offers an accessible synthesis of archaeological work in the Belfast area, tracing human activity from the Mesolithic to the present day. The most important sites in the city and surrounding area are described, and following an examination of the plentiful evidence for prehistoric activity four main phases of nucleated settlement identified, beginning with the Anglo-Norman settlement in the ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.99

Antiquities of Old Fingal: The Archaeology of North County Dublin
by Christine Baker
Written with the general reader in mind, this is a concise, well-illustrated account of the archaeology of Fingal, the northern part of County Dublin. Baker first provides a summary of the region's history from traces of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers to the present day, outlining interactions with the landscape, agriculture and settlement, as well as the importance of fishing to the regional economy. Links further afield are also stressed, ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Antiquities of the Ring of Kerry
by Jason Bolton
An gazetteer of the many archaeological sites to be found along the Ring of Kerry peninsula in western Ireland. With plentiful illustrations Bolton describes the sites and outlines their history from stone circles, standing stones and rock art, to early medieval stone forts, medieval abbeys and castles and to Cromwellian forts. 55p b/w illus (Wordwell 2008)
Paperback. Price GB £12.00

Maritime Ireland: Coastal Archaeology of an Island People
by Aidan O'Sullivan & Colin Breen
Since Ireland's first peoples arrived the sea has been of enormous cultural, economic and ideological significance in its long story. In this book, two of Ireland's leading maritime archaeologists explore rich and intriguing evidence for its past maritime resources and traditions and how these changed through prehistory, the Middle Ages and up until the present day. Using archaeological discoveries, linked with historical and environmental ...
Paperback. Price GB £21.99

500 Years of Irish Silver
by Ida Delamer and Conor O'Brien
A fully illustrated catalogue by two of Ireland's foremost specialists in Irish silver, of the permanent exhibition of some 500 pieces of Irish silver, dating from c.1500 to the present day. The exhibition is on display at the Museum of Decorative Arts and History, Collins Barracks. In addition to the catalogue, there is explanatory text looking at such topics as the organisation and control of the goldsmith's craft and silversmithing techniques. ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Above and Beyond: essays in memory of Leo Swan
edited by Tom Condit and Chris Corlett
A collection of original essays that not only celebrate the contribution of the late Leo Swan to aerial photography in archaeology, but also provide important contributions to local Irish studies, in particular counties Meath, Sligo, Kerry, Westmeath, Wicklow and Dublin. The book also contains contributions to other study areas including; crafts in the form of blacksmithing, Early Christian studies, the Vikings, and Archaeological survey. ...
Hardback. Price GB £52.99

The Irish Pearl
by John Lucey
Pearl fishing was once a widespread activity in Ireland, and have been a feature of its past since the ancient Irish began trading with the Phoenicians in exchange for the secrets of producing purple dye, and the Tuatha Dé Danann used them as elixirs. Like any commodity of arbitrary value, the price of pearls has varied greatly depending on when, where and to whom they were sold. It is the poor who have fished for pearls in Ireland's rivers, ...
Price GB £15.99