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Hello and welcome back to the 12th installment of my series on what’s interesting and worth a read in (mostly) Irish archaeology. But first, go check out Stuart Rathbone’s new book Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks. It’s brilliant and I think it’s one of the most important books on Irish archaeology ever published. Go take a look and then come back for a gander at these!


Philip Macdonald The Road From Drumclay

Clare Downham The break up of Dál Riata and the rise of Gallgoídil

Jessica Smyth Tides of Change? The House through the Irish Neolithic

Eamonn Kelly Objects Found in the Vicinity of a Holy Well at Bellewstown, Co. Meath
Eamonn Kelly Antiquities from Irish holy wells and their wider context

Catherine Swift John O'Donovan and Thomas le Keu - preliminary comments on processes of Anglicisation of Irish surnames
Catherine Swift Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature

Marion Dowd, Linda Fibiger, & Linda G. Lynch Human Remains from Irish Caves Project
Marion Dowd Caves on the Blarney Castle estate, Co. Cork, and the association between caves and castles in medieval Ireland

Paul Gosling Conference Report: The Living Táin - a stakeholders conference

Sophie Bergerbrant, Christina Fredengren, Petra Molnar, & Camilla Löfqvist Violent Death and Wetlands: Sketal Remains from Gotland

Philip Rance Attacotti, Déisi and Magnus Maximus: the Case for Irish Federates in Late Roman Britain

Alexandra Sanmark Fast and Feast - Christianization through the Regulation of Everyday Life

Thomas O'Loughlin The significanse of burial for the monks of Iona in the seventh century

Killian Driscoll The role of quartz in Neolithic lithic traditions: a case study from the Thornhill Early Neolithic palisaded enclosure, Co. Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Alison Sheridan The Neolithization of Britain and Ireland: The ‘Big Picture’

Russell Ó Ríagáin The Round Towers of Ireland: Date, Origins, Functions and Symbolism

Sharon Greene Killeen Cormac - the archaeology and history of a significant early Christian foundation

Richard O'Brien, Heather Gimson, & James Bonsall Revealing Royal Rathnadrinna: An ancient seat of Irish power

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