Bibliography SS106/107/108

SS106: Introduction to the Archaeology of Ireland

Core texts

• Duffy, P.J. Edwards, D. & Fitzpatrick, E. (eds.). 2001.  Gaelic Ireland: Land, lordship and settlement c.1250-1650. Four Courts Press.
• Horning, A., Ó Baoil, R., Donnelly, C. & Logue, P. (eds.). 2007. The Post Medieval archaeology of Ireland 1550-1850. Wordwell.
• O’Keeffe, T. 2000. Medieval Ireland: An archaeology. Tempus.
• O’Sullivan, et al. 2016. Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. Royal Irish Academy.
• Waddell, J. 2000. The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland. Wordwell. 

Mesolithic and Neolithic Ireland

• Collins, T. and Coyne, F. 2006. As Old as We Felt… Archaeology Ireland 20(4), 21.
• Collins, T. and Coyne, F. 2003. Fire and Water… Early Mesolithic Cremations at Castleconnell, Co. Limerick. Archaeology Ireland 12 (2), 24-27.
• Cooney, G. and Grogan, E. 1994. Irish prehistory: A social perspective. Wordwell.
• Dowd, M. 2016. A remarkable cave discovery, Archaeology Ireland 30 (2), 21-25.
• Hensey, R. 2015. First Light: The origins of Newgrange. Oxbow.
• Jones, C. 2007. Temples of stone: Exploring the megalithic tombs of Ireland. The Collins Press.
• O’Kelly, C. and O’Kelly, M. 1982. Newgrange: Archaeology, art and legend. Thames and Hudson.
• Smyth, J. 2013. Tides of change? The house through the Irish Neolithic. In: Hofmann, D; Smyth, J (eds.), Tracking the Neolithic house in Europe: Sedentism, architecture and practice. Springer.
• Walsh, F. 2006. Neolithic Monanny, County Monaghan. In O’Sullivan, J. and Stanley, M. (eds.), Settlement, industry and ritual (Archaeology and the National Roads Authority, Monograph Series 3), Wordwell.
• Woodman, P.C. 2015. Ireland’s first settlers: time and the Mesolithic. Oxbow.

Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age Ireland

• Cahill, M. 2015. Here comes the sun… Archaeology Ireland 29 (1), 26-33.
• Cooney, G. and Grogan, E. 1994. Irish prehistory: A social perspective. Wordwell.
• Cotter, C. 2013. The Western stone forts project: Excavations at Dún Aonghasa and Dún Eoghanachta. Wordwell.
• Doody, M. 2000. Bronze Age houses in Ireland. In Desmond, A. et al (eds), New agendas in Irish prehistory, 135-59. Wordwell.
• Hawkes, A. 2015. Fulachtaί fia and Bronze Age cooking in Ireland: Reappraising the evidence. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 115C, 47-77.
• Jones C. and Gilmer, A. 1999. Roughan Hill, a Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age landscape revealed. Archaeology Ireland 13 (1), 30-32.
• O’Brien, W. 2012. The Chalcolithic in Ireland: A chronological and cultural framework . In Allen, M.J. et al (eds.), The British Chalcolithic: Place and polity in the later 3rd Millennium BC. Oxbow, 211-225.
• O’Brien, W. and Comber, M. 2008. Archaeological investigations at Ross Island cave, Killarney, Co. Kerry. Journal of Irish Archaeology 17, 19-56.
• O’Sullivan, M. and Downey, L. Rock art. Archaeology Ireland 25 (4), 15-18.
• Rathbone, S. 2013. A Consideration of villages in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 79, 39–60.
• Suddaby, I. 2003. The Excavation of two Late Bronze Age roundhouses at Ballyprior Beg, Island Magee, County Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 62, 45-91.
• Waddell, J. 2000. The Prehistoric archaeology of Ireland.Wordwell.

Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Ireland

• Becker, K., Ó Néill, J. and O’Flynn, L. 2008. Iron Age Ireland: Finding an invisible people. Report to the Heritage Council.
• Cahill, M. 2001. Unspooling the mystery. Archaeology Ireland 15 (3), 8-15.
• Cahill, M. 2005. Cuirass to gorget? An interpretation of the structure and decorative elements of some gold ornaments from the Irish Late Bronze Age. Archaeology Ireland 19 (4), 26-30.
• Cahill Wilson, J. 2014. Late Iron Age and ‘Roman’ Ireland: Discovery Programme Reports 8. Wordwell.
• Champion, T. 1982. The myth of Iron Age invasions in Ireland. In B.G. Scott (ed.), Studies on Early Ireland: essays in honour of M.V. Duignan, Belfast, 39-44.
• Downey, L. Synnott, C., Kelly E.P. and Stanton, C. 2006. Bog butter: Dating profile and location. Archaeology Ireland 20 (1), 32-34.
• Kelly, E.P. 2006. Kingship and sacrifice: Iron Age bog bodies and boundaries. Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide No. 35.
• Mallory, J. 1984. The origins of the Irish. Journal of Irish Archaeology 2, 65-9.
• McDermott, and Moore, C. 2010. Corlea Trackway: Iron Age roads in the County Longford peatlands. Archaeology Ireland, Heritage Guide No. 50.
• Newman, C. et al. 1998. Reflections on the making of a royal site in early Ireland. World Archaeology 30, 127-141.
• O’Brien, W. 2016. Clashanimud and the Bronze Age hillforts of Munster. Emania 23, 5-30.
• O’Sullivan, M. and Downey, L. 2013. Hilltop forts and enclosures. Archaeology Ireland 27 (1), 2-25.
• Raftery, B. 1994. Pagan Celtic Ireland: The enigma of the Irish Iron Age. Thames & Hudson.
• Schot, R., Newman, C. andBhreathnach, E. (eds.) 2011. Landscapes of cult and kingship. Four Courts Press.
• Waddell, J. 2000.The prehistoric archaeology of Ireland. Wordwell.

Early Medieval Ireland

• Doherty, C. 1985. The monastic town in early medieval Ireland. In Clarke, H.B. and Simms, A. (eds.), The comparative history of urban origins in non-Roman Europe, B.A.R. Brit. Ser. 255, 45-75.
• Early Medieval Archaeology Project reports page: http://www.emap.ie/emap_reports.html
• Edwards, N. 1998. The archaeology of early medieval Ireland. Routledge.
• Fredengren, C. 2002. Crannogs: A study of people’s interaction with lakes, with particular reference to Lough Gara in the north-west of Ireland. Wordwell.
• Hencken, H., Price L. and Start L.E. 1950/1951. Lagore Crannog: An Irish royal residence of the 7th to 10th centuries A.D. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 53C, 1-247.
• Henry, F. 1965. Irish art in the early Christian period to AD 800. Meuthen.
• Hughes, K. and Hamlin, A. 1977. The modern traveller to the early Irish church. S.P.C.K.
• Kelly, F. 1995. A guide to early Irish law. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Leask, H. G. 1977. Irish churches and monastic buildings: the first phases and the Romanesque. Vol. 1. Dún Dalgan Press.
• McManus, D. 1991. A guide to Ogham. Maynooth Monographs 4.
• Ó Carragáin, T. 2003. The architectural setting of the cult of relics in early medieval Ireland. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 133, 130-176.
• Ó Carragáin, T. 2010. Churches in early medieval Ireland: Architecture, ritual and memory. Yale University Press.
• Ó Cróinín, D. 1995. Early medieval Ireland 400-1200. Pearson Longman.
• O’Sullivan, et al. 2016. Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. Royal Irish Academy.
• Wallace, P.F. 2015. Viking Dublin: The Wood Quay excavations. Irish Academic Press.

Later Medieval Ireland

• Barry. T. 1987. The archaeology of medieval Ireland. Routledge, London.
• Brady, N. and O‘Conor, K.D. 2005. The later medieval use of crannogs in Ireland. Ruralia V, 127-136. 
• Duffy, P.J. Edwards, D. & Fitzpatrick, E. (eds.) Gaelic Ireland: land, lordship and settlement c.1250-1650. Four Courts Press, Dublin.
• Murphy M. and Potterton, M. 2010. The Dublin region in the middle age: Settlement, land-use and economy. Four Courts Press.
• O’Conor, K.D. 2002. Housing in later medieval Gaelic Ireland. Ruralia IV, 201-210. 
• O’Conor, K.D. 1998. The archaeology of medieval rural settlement in Ireland. Discovery Programme Monograph.
• O’Keeffe, T. 2000. Medieval Ireland: an archaeology. Tempus.
• O’Keeffe, T. 2015. Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600. Four Courts Press.

Post-Medieval Ireland

• Aalen, F.H.A. 1966. The evolution of the traditional house in western Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 96 (1), 47-58.
• Forsythe, W. 2013. The measures and materiality of Improvement in Ireland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 17 (1), 72-93.
• Horning, A., Ó Baoil, R., Donnelly, C. & Logue, P. (eds). 2007. The Post Medieval archaeology of Ireland 1550-1850. Wordwell.
• Horning, A. & Brannon, N. (eds.) 2009. Ireland and Britain in the Atlantic World. Wordwell.
• Horning, A. 2007. Materiality and mutable landscapes: rethinking seasonality and marginality in rural Ireland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 11, 358-78. 
• McDonald, T. 1991. Achill Island – Archaeology History and Folklore. I.A.S. Publications.
• Myles, F. 2013. In small things remembered; the sponge decorated ceramics from Inishark, Galway. With apologies to Jim Deetz. Wasted on Archaeology [blog]. 
• Ó hÓgáin, D. 1990. Myth, Legend & Romance: An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition. Ryan Publishing.
• Ó Moghráin, P. and Ó Duilearga, S. 1943. Some Mayo traditions of the buaile. Béaloideas 13 (1/2), 161-172.
• O’Reilly, B. 2011. Hearth and home: the vernacular house in Ireland from c. 1800. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 111C, 193-215.
• Orser, C.E. Jr. (ed.) 2006. Unearthing Hidden Ireland. Wordwell.
• Whelan, K. (2012) Clachans: landscape and life in Ireland before and after the Famine. In Duff, P.J. and Nolan, W. (eds) At the anvil: essays in honour of William J. Smyth. Geography Publications.