Warning: Your browser doesn't support all of the features in this Web site. Please view our accessibility page for more details.

Quick Search [?]WHAT IS THIS?
Searches this and other areas of the Web site as you type. Results appear on this page.
Also searches the entire Web site (with results on a new page) if you press enter or click on 'Go'.

books published by departmental staff 1990 to 1999

	Sacred Ground: Megalithic Tombs in coastal South-West Ireland. William O'Brien. Bronze Age Studies 4. Dept. of Archaeology, NUI, Galway 1999. Pp 333, 47 plates, 108 figs. Softback. The integrated analysis of wedge tombs, this book explores their significance for the prehistoric communities that built them and succeeding generations who encountered these ancient relics on the landscape. Focussing on the Mizen peninsula in the extreme south-west of Ireland, this study combines archaeological survey and excavation with palaeoecology, social anthropology and analysis of religious beliefs. Book Sales
	The Medieval Churches of County Offaly. Elizabeth FitzPatrick and Caimin O'Brien. National Monuments Service, Dublin, 1998. Pp 186, 21 plates, 145 figs. Hardback. The first detailed study of the medieval churches of an Irish county, combining archaeology and History this study charts the development and decline of ecclesiastical sites and church buildings of Offaly over a period of some 1000 years from early Christianity to the Plantation.
	The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland. John Waddell. First edition, Galway University Press 1998. This comprehensive account of Ireland¹s prehistory from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age was first published by Galway University Press (now no more) in 1998. This edition is still a useful work of reference and the full text is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway¹s library web site (in ARAN).
	The Archaeology of Medieval Rural Settlement in Ireland. Kieran O'Conor. Discovery Programme Monographs 3 1998. Pp 144, 36 plates, 22 figs. Hardback. Ground-breaking survey of archaeological and historical source material pertaining to medieval rural settlement in Ireland. Topics considered include the role of castled as country houses and manorial centres, English peasant settlement on Anglo-Norman manors and the nature of Gaelic settlement.
	Tara: An Archaeological Survey. Conor Newman. Discovery Programme and the Royal Irish Academy 1997. Pp 376, 40 plates, 180 figs. Hardback. Definitive account of the Discovery Programme's survey of the Hill of Tara, integrating a range of survey techniques to produce a detailed archaeological assessment of the complex and its hinterland. The survey culminates in a comprehensive model of the development of the Tara complex from prehistory to the early middle ages.
	Bronze Age Copper Mining in Britain and Ireland. William O'Brien. Shire, Princes Risborough, 1996. Pp 64, 43 Illus. Softback. A concise introduction to the most important Bronze Age copper mining sites in these islands.
	Landscape of the Monuments. A study of the passage tombs in the Cúil Irra region, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Stefan Bergh. Arkeologiska undersökningar. Skrifter Nr 6. Riksantikvarieämbetet. Stockholm 1995. Pp 256, 71 figs. 23 plates. Softback. The Cúil Irra region on the Irish west coast is one of the richest areas of passage tombs in Western Europe. Landscape of the Monuments is the first modern, detailed account of this important group of monuments, seen in their local and regional setting. The book focuses on a number of aspects relating to the location of these monuments in the landscape, and discusses the nature of Neolithic people´s intentions to organise their physical and symbolic worlds. A Corpus of all passage tombs in the Cúil Irra region, based on fieldwork by the author, is included as an Appendix.
	Tara. Edel Bhreathnach and Conor Newman. Discovery Programme and Office of Public Works 1995. Pp 56. Softback. An essential guide to the Hill of Tara, lavishly illustrated.
	Ireland in the Bronze Age. John Waddell (edited with E. Shee Twohig). Government of Ireland, Dublin , 1995. Pp 169, 32 plates, 60 figs. 15 contributors. Softback. Proceedings of a conference held in Dublin Castle as part of Ireland's participation in the campaign of the Council of Europe on the theme of the Bronze Age: The First Golden Age in Europe. Papers review the major issues of the period and illustrate the wide range of archaeological work undertaken on the Bronze Age in Ireland.
	Mount Gabriel: Bronze Age Mining in Ireland. William O'Brien. Galway University Press 1994. Pp 371, 77 plates, 176 figs. Hardback and softback. Definitive account of O'Brien's investigations into Bronze Age copper mining at Mount Gabriel, West Cork, which is set in its wider European context. Book Sales
	The Funerary Bowls and Vases of the Irish Bronze Age. John Waddell (with Brendan Ó Ríordáin). Galway University Press and National Museum of Ireland 1993. Pp 289, 26 plates, 31 figs. Hardback. A comprehensive study and illustrated corpus of bowls and vases of the Irish Early Bronze Age. The full text is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN). Book Sales
	The Bronze Age Burials of Ireland. John Waddell. Galway University Press 1990. Pp 166, 3 plates, 132 figs. Hardback. A study and illustrated catalogue of Irish Early Bronze Age burials. The full text is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN). Book Sales

Archaeology Department Books
1990-1999	2000-2005	2006 to date

Department of Archaeology
National University of Ireland, Galway,
University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0) 91 492167 , Fax: +353 (0) 91 525700, E-mail Archaeology
This page was last updated Wednesday, March 30, 2011