Professor John Waddell

Extended Selected Publication  List

• 1982. From Kermaria to Turoe, in B.G. Scott (ed.), Studies on early Ireland: Essays in honour of M.V. Duignan,
  Belfast, 21-28.
• 1983. Rathcroghan - a Royal site in Connacht, The Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. 1, 21-46.
• 1988. Excavation at 'Dathi's Mound', Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon. The Journal of Irish Archaeology Vol 4, 23-36.
• 1990. The Bronze Age Burials of Ireland, Galway University Press, 166pp. Galway. The full text is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN).  
• 1990. The Peakaun Site: M. V. Duignan's 1944 Investigations, Tipperary Historical Journal 1990, 165-186 (with P. Holland). 
• 1991. The First People. The Prehistoric Burren, in J. W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds), The Book of the Burren, Kinvara, 59-75.
• 1991. The Celticization of the West: an Irish Perspective, in C. Chevillot and A. Coffyn (eds), L' Age du Bronze Atlantique. Actes du 1er Colloque de Beynac, Beynac, 349-366.
• 1991. The Question of the Celticization of Ireland, Emania, No. 9, 5-16.
• 1992. Women in Ancient Europe, U.C.G. Womens Studies Centre Review, Vol. 1, 29-37.
• 1993. Major Barrows ... Brenig 41 and Brenig 40 ..., in F. Lynch (ed.), Excavations in the Brenig Valley. A Mesolithic and Bronze Age Landscape in North Wales. Cambrian Archaeological Monographs, Cardiff, 52-64.
• 1993. The Irish Sea in Prehistory, The Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. 6, 29-40.
• 1993. The Funerary Bowls and Vases of the Irish Bronze Age, Galway University Press, 289pp. Galway (with Breandán Ó Ríordáin). The full text is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN).  
• 1994. (editor with J. O'Connell and A. Korff), The Book of Aran, 334pp. Kinvara.
• 1994. Archaeology of Aran, in J. Waddell, J. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds), The Book of Aran, Kinvara, 75-135. The full text is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN).  
• 1995. Seeing Beneath Rathcroghan, Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 9, 38-41 (with K. Barton).
• 1995. M. V. Duignan's Excavations at Kiltiernan, Co. Galway, 1950-1953, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 47, 149-203 (with M. Clyne).
• 1995. The Cordoned Urn Tradition, in I. Kinnes and G. Varndell (eds), Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape. Essays on British and Irish Pottery for Ian Longworth, 113-122. Oxford.
• 1995. (editor with E. Shee Twohig), Ireland in the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the Dublin Conference, April 1995, 169pp. Stationery Office, Dublin.
• 1995. Celts, Celticisation and the Irish Bronze Age, in J. Waddell and E. Shee Twohig (eds), Ireland in the Bronze Age. Proceedings of the Dublin Conference, April 1995, 158-169. Dublin.
• 1997. A Tale of Two Landscapes: the Irish Sea in Prehistory, in T. Collins (ed.), Decoding the Landscape, Galway (Second revised edition), 36-47.
• 1997. Irelands Discovery Programme: Progress and Prospect, Antiquity 71, 513-518.
• 1998 The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland, First edition, 433 pp.  Galway University Press.  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).
• 1999. Celts and others: maritime contacts and linguistic change, in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds), Archaeology and Language IV. Language Change and Cultural Transformation, 125-137. Routledge, London (with J. Conroy).
• 1999. (with K. Barton, Y. Brennan and J. Fenwick) The magnetic presence of Queen Medb (Magnetic gradiometry at Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon), Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 13, no. 1, 8-11.
• 2000. The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland, Second edition, 433 pp. Wordwell, Bray.
• 2005. Foundation Myths; The beginnings of Irish archaeology, Wordwell, Bray.
• 2005 (editor with C. Manning and P. Gosling) New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 4: The Abbey, 160pp. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
• 2005. Cheques and balances, Archaeology Ireland 19, No. 1, 7-8.
• 2006 (with J. Fenwick, L. Geraghty and K. Barton) The innermost secrets of Rathcroghan Mound, Archaeology Ireland, 20, no.2, 26-29.
• 2007 (editor with C. Manning and P. Gosling) New Survey of Clare Island, Volume 5: Archaeology, 326pp. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
• 2009 (with Fenwick, J. and Barton, K.)  Rathcroghan Co. Roscommon: Archaeological and Geophysical Survey in a Ritual Landscape. Dublin.
• 2009 Boswell's 'ogam', in J. Fenwick (ed.) Lost and Found II, 237-244. Dublin.
• 2009 The elusive image, in G. Cooney et al. (eds), Relics of Old Decency: archaeological studies in later prehistory. Festschrift for Barry Raftery, 341-349. Wordwell, Dublin.
• 2009, Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon - where the Táin Bó Cúailnge began.  Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide No. 44, Wordwell, Dublin.
• 2010 The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland, Third revised edition, Wordwell, Dublin.
• 2011 Continuity, cult and contest. In R. Schot, C. Newman and E. Bhreathnach (eds), Landscapes of Cult and Kingship, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 192-212.   A proof copy of this article is available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN).
• 2012 Tal-y-Llyn and the nocturnal voyage of the sun. In W. J. Britnell and R. J. Silvester (eds), Reflections on the Past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch, 337-50. Cambrian Archaeological Association, Welshpool, 2012. A proof copy of this article in available on-line through the National University of Ireland Galway's library web site (in ARAN).

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