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A New History of Ireland
Prehistoric and Early Ireland
Volume I

Edited by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Price: £162.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-821737-4
Publication date: 24 February 2005
1302 pages, 140 b/w plates, 12 maps & 50 line illus., 234x156 mm
 Series: New History of Ireland number Vol. 1
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  • 'this publication is important for Irish literary scholarship and scholarly history' - Kevin Murray, Classics Ireland

Description
  • Definitive, scholarly history of Ireland in the prehistoric and early period covering a wide range of topics
  • Authoritative survey by leading scholars in the fields
  • Comprehensive bibliography of Early Irish History & Prehistory
A New History of Ireland, Volume I marks the culmination of the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. It consists of nine volumes, by over a hundred contributors, mainly historians but including also historical geographers and specialists in other disciplines, such as language and literature, the visual arts, and music. Seven of the volumes are text, and deal not only with politics but also with economic, social, and cultural history. The other volumes contain maps and reference material.

As the final volume to appear in this multi-volume series, A New History of Ireland Volume I brings to a close the project initiated by T. W. Moody and R. Dudley-Edwards in the 1960s, to provide a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, and down to the present day.

Volume I begins by looking at geography and the physical environment. Chapters follow which examine pre-3000, neolithic, bronze-age and iron-age Ireland and Ireland up to 800. Society, laws, church and politics are all analysed separately as are architecture, literature, manuscripts, language, coins and music. The volume is brought up to 1166 with chapters, amongst others, on the Vikings, Ireland and its neighbours, and opposition to the High-Kings. A final chapter moves further on in time, examining Latin learning and literature in Ireland to 1500.


Readership: Scholars and students of all aspects of prehistoric and early Ireland; social, political, and economic historians of Ireland; those interested in Irish language, literature, culture, geography and geology.

Contents
Introduction: Prehistoric and Early Ireland , T. M. Charles-Edwards
1. The Geographical Element in Irish History , J. H. Andrews
2. The Physical Environment , J. P. Haughton
3. Ireland before 3000 B.C. , M. J. O'Kelly
4. Neolithic Ireland , M. J. O'Kelly
5. Bronze-Age Ireland , M. J. O'Kelly
6. Iron-Age Ireland , Barry Raftery
7. Ireland, 400-800 , Daibhi O Croinin
8. The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland, c.400-1169: Settlement and Economy , Nancy Edwards
9. Early Irish Hermitages, Pilgrimage Sites, and their Ecclesiastical Buildings and Movements , Michael Herity
10. The Church in Irish Society, 400-800 , Kathleen Hughes
11. Early Irish Law , T. M. Charles-Edwards
12. Hiberno-Latin Literature to 1169 , Daibhi O Croinin
13. 'What Was Best of Every Language': The Early History of the Irish Language , Paul Russell
14. Language and Literature to 1169 , James Carney
15. Manuscripts and Palaeography , William O'Sullivan
16. Ireland c.800: Aspects of Society , Donnchadh O Corrain
17. The Viking Age , F. J. Byrne
18. The Irish Church, 800-c.1050 , Kathleen Hughes
19. Church and Politics, c.750-c.1100 , F. J. Byrne
20. Visual Arts and Society , Hilary Richardson
21. Ecclesiastical Architecture Before 1169 , Roger Stalley
22. Music in Prehistoric and Medieval Ireland , Ann Buckley
23. The Archaeology of Ireland's Viking-Age Towns , Patrick F. Wallace
24. Coins and Coinage in Pre-Norman Ireland , Michael Kenny
25. Ireland Before the Battle of Clontarf , F. J. Byrne
26. Ireland and her Neighbours, c.1014-c.1072 , F. J. Byrne
27. High-Kings with Opposition, 1072-1166 , Marie Therese Flanagan
28. Latin Learning and Literature in Ireland, 1169-1500 , A. B. Scott
Bibliography , F. J. Byrne, Peter Harbison, and Daibhi O Croinin
Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Associate Professor of History, National University of Ireland, Galway


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British & Irish history: BCE to c 500 CE
British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000
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History of religion
Politics & government
Music
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