Product Description: This book explores domestic life in Ireland from the earliest Neolithic settlements through to the tailored housing extensions of the 21st century. Current research, new ideas, and discoveries are brought together with a clear and compelling introduction by historian Toby Barnard...read more

Product Description: Contents: Charles Doherty (UCD) The idea of the parish - Patrick J. Duffy (NUI Maynooth) The shape of the parish - Elizabeth FitzPatrick (NUI, Galway) The buildings and settlement of the parish - Colmán Etchingham (NUI Maynooth) Pastoral provision in the first millennium: a two-tier service? - Tomás Ó Carragáin (NUI Cork) Church buildings and pastoral care in early medieval Ireland - Tadhg O'Keeffe (UCD) The built environment of local community worship between the late eleventh and early thirteenth centuries - Sinéad Ní Ghabhláin (Archaeologist) Late twelfth-century church construction: evidence of parish formation? - Helen Bermingham (Archaeologist) Priest's residences in later medieval Ireland - Patrick Nugent (Archaeologist) The dynamics of parish formation in high medieval and late˜medieval Clare - Henry A...read more

Product Description: Few scholars realize that the first work written about Ireland by an American was an historical study composed by John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States. The work - an epic poem about the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1170 - was meant as a pensee on Irish history as well an allegorical work aimed at individuals and forces that were undermining the new American republic...read more

Product Description: This investigation considers the places on the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held in the period c. 1100-1600. Specially designated inauguration sites played an important role in the political life of Gaelic lordships in later medieval Ireland...read more

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