People, Prehistory and the Past Essays in honour of John Waddell

by Comber, Michelle; O'Conor, Kieran

• ISBN13: 9781801511643
• ISBN10: 1801511640
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-05-02
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

Dedicated to John Waddell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Galway, an internationally renowned and popular scholar whose long career and research changed the direction of prehistoric studies in Ireland, this collection of essays, authored by a number of his colleagues, continues John’ s work by examining aspects of Irish prehistory and the interaction of people with the past.

Author Biography

Michelle Comber is a lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Galway. Kieran O'Conor is a senior lecturer in the School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland Galway.

Table of Contents

Stefan Bergh and Robert Hensey Capstones and potential capstones at the Carrowmore megalithic complex Mary Cahill Going to sea in a lunula Michelle Comber & Noel McCarthy From prehistory to medieval: living among the ancestors in the Burren, Co. Clare Daniel Curley Evidence for the heroic narratives as seen in Machaire Connacht Joseph Fenwick An exploration of passage tomb alignment, related kerbstone art and cycles of monumental construction at Brú na Bó inne Carleton Jones Identity in Early Bronze Age western Ireland – a study of pottery and landscape Conor Newman A contribution to the debate concerning archaeology and early vernacular literature Má irí n Ní Dhonnchadha The Mac Diarmada inauguration site at Croghan (Cruachá n), County Roscommon William O’ Brien Ogham stones, souterrains and ancestral memory in Early Medieval Ireland Kieran O’ Conor Lady Dorothy Lowry-Corry (1885– 1967)