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A renewed programme of discovery at Tara
(Wordwell, 2016)
[No abstract available]
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
(2015)
This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland.
The late prehistoric 'Royal Site' of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon: An enduring paradigm of enclosed sacred space
(Navan Research Group, 2018)
Rathcroghan (Cruácha), like the other late prehistoric royal sites of Tara (Temair), Co. Meath, Navan Fort (Emain Macha), Co. Armagh, and Knockaulin (Dún Ailinne), Co. Kildare features prominently in the literary imagination ...
Beyond the martial façade: gender, heritage and medieval castles
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-02)
Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage ...
Aran Islands, western Ireland: farming history and environmental change reconstructed from field surveys, historical sources, and pollen analyses
(Eagle Hill Institute, 2019)
The Aran Islands are exceptional cultural landscapes at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. They are strongly influenced
by human settlement and small-scale farming that is still pursued according to traditional practices. ...
Understanding 'Hall-Houses': Debating Seigneurial buildings in Ireland in the 13th century
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)
THE SEIGNURIAL HALL and chamber have been assumed, in both Britain and Ireland, to be typically located in the only building to generally survive on medieval residential sites. In England this idea has seen some revision, ...
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-17)
Despite more than three decades of feminist critique, archaeological scholarship remains predominantly focused on the exploration of patriarchal narratives and is, therefore, complicit in reinforcing structural inequalities. ...
Lea Castle: looking outwards
(Brepols Publishers, 2018)
Lea Castle, Co. Laois, is located on the River Barrow where it occupied an important position at the borders of three medieval territories. The castle and landscape are currently neglected and in a poor state of repair. ...
Book Review: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-18)
[No abstract available]
Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A reinterpretation of the chronological evidence from Céide Fields in north-western Ireland
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01-09)
It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Céide Fields, County Mayo, are a phenomenon
of the Irish Early Neolithic analogous to later prehistoric Celtic fields in all but age. This study argues ...