Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology

Tahdg O'Keeffe's lively and wide-ranging study addresses the need for a fresh archaeological study of medieval Ireland. Individual chapters re-examine such familiar themes as urban and rural settlement, military, domestic and ecclesiastical architecture, agriculture and craft, and trade and industry. Other topics discussed include diet, dress, burial rites, and entertainment. The cultural relations between the Gaelic Irish and English populations of medieval Ireland are explored throughout the book, as are Ireland's relations with her European neighbors. With its elegantly written text and numerous illustrations, this portrait of medieval Ireland will appeal to general readers as well as to students and professionals in the fields of archaeology, history, and historical geography.

History

O'Keeffe, Tadhg

Europe

Tempus

Tahdg O'Keeffe's lively and wide-ranging study addresses the need for a fresh archaeological study of medieval Ireland. Individual chapters re-examine such familiar themes as urban and rural settlement, military, domestic and ecclesiastical architecture, agriculture and craft, and trade and industry. Other topics discussed include diet, dress, burial rites, and entertainment. The cultural relations between the Gaelic Irish and English populations of medieval Ireland are explored throughout the book, as are Ireland's relations with her European neighbors. With its elegantly written text and numerous illustrations, this portrait of medieval Ireland will appeal to general readers as well as to students and professionals in the fields of archaeology, history, and historical geography.

The round tower is Ireland’s most distinctive medieval monument. This book explores the towers’ qualities as works of architecture as well as examining their relationships with other buildings at the sites on which they stand. The author suggests how the towers were employed in ceremonies and other ritualised activities of the Viking Age church in Ireland. They prove to be crucial evidence in a new history of Irish Christianity between the Viking raids and the late 12th-century invasion.

Ireland's Round Towers

Medieval Ireland: The Barryscourt Lectures I-X

O'Connor, Kieran

Rynne, Colin

Gandon Editions / The Barryscourt Trust

The Irish Historic Towns Atlas records the topographical development of a representative selection of Irish towns and cities. Each atlas focuses on a particular town or city and comprises a variety of maps, an essay explaining historical development, and a body of classified topographical information covering the urban area as a whole and its component parts. This atlas traces the development of Fethard to 1900 and includes: a large color reconstruction of the town in 1840; two early eighteenth-century maps by Redmond Grace followed by Steile and Swiney from 1752 and 1763, respectively tracing the town's growth for that period; an attractive estate map based on the Ordnance Survey, 1845; and two Ordnance Survey maps showing Fethard in its surroundings and the modern town. It also includes a topographical information section that lists historical and archaeological details of over 380 sites and an essay, all tracing the development of the town to 1900.

Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 13: Fethard (13)

Royal Irish Academy

This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as "Romanesque".Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque is a new and original study of medieval architectural culture in Ireland. The book's central premise is that the concept of a "Romanesque" style in eleventh- and twelfth-century architecture across western Europe, including Ireland, is problematic, and that the analysis of building traditions of that period is not well served by the assumption that there was a common style. Detailed discussion of important buildings in Ireland, a place marginalised within the "Romanesque" model, reveals the Irish evidence to be intrinsically interesting to students of medieval European architecture, for it is evidence which illuminates how architectural traditions of the middle ages were shaped by balancing native and imported needs and aesthetics, often without reference to Romanitas.This book is for specialists and students in the fields of Romanesque, medieval archaeology, medieval architectural history, and medieval Irish studies.

Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque: Building Traditions in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe

Routledge

Ireland's landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. These are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval Ireland and its people, provided one knows how to read the evidence of their architecture. This book helps the reader make full use of that evidence. It presents a comprehensive and fully referenced account of the cultures of medieval architectural endeavor in Ireland, and it describes and explains in detail the types of medieval buildings that have survived. The book is replete with photographs, plans, and elevation drawings.

A Guide to Medieval Irish Architecture for Local Historians (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History)

Four Courts Pr Ltd

The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval Ireland and its people, provided one knows how to read the evidence of their architecture. This book helps the reader make full use of that evidence. It presents a comprehensive and fully referenced account of the cultures of medieval architectural endeavor in Ireland, and it describes and explains in detail the types of medieval building that survive. The book is replete with photographs, plans, and elevation drawings. (Series: Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History - Vol. 18) [Subject: History, Medieval Studies, Irish Studies, Archaeology, Architecture]

Medieval Irish Buildings, 1100-1600 (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History)

Four Courts Press

Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non-Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for dating the first castles in Ireland to the tenth century in line with the revised chronology of castle-building on the Continent? Are castles in Ireland typical of their periods by contemporary standards in England and France in particular? Are any castles in Ireland genuinely innovative or radical by those contemporary standards? What inferences about Ireland's place in medieval Europe can be drawn from the evidence of its castles and their forms?

Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550: Insular castle-building in its European contect

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Romanesque Ireland: Architecture, Sculpture and Ideology in the Twelfth Century

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

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Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology

Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology

Ireland's Round Towers

Medieval Ireland: The Barryscourt Lectures I-X

Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 13: Fethard (13)

Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque: Building Traditions in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe

A Guide to Medieval Irish Architecture for Local Historians (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History)

Medieval Irish Buildings, 1100-1600 (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History)

Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550: Insular castle-building in its European contect

Romanesque Ireland: Architecture, Sculpture and Ideology in the Twelfth Century