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M 1.2: Prehistory, cultural history: General: Ireland

8406.
Burton (Holly): The arrival of the Celts in Ireland: archaeology and linguistics.
In Expedition 21/3 (Spring, 1979), pp. 16–22.
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923.
Ó Madagáin (Breandán): Ceol an chaointe.
In Gnéithe den chaointeoireacht (1978), pp. 30–52.
With musical transcriptions.
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14788.
Jung (Edmond): Ibères en Hibernie?
In Aquitaine and Ireland in the Middle Ages (1995), pp. 221–231.
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13292.
Raftery (Barry): Ireland: a world without the Romans.
In The Celtic world (1995), pp. 636–653.
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1450.
Smyth (Alfred P.): Celtic Leinster: towards an historical geography of early Irish civilization A.D. 500–1600.
Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1982. xvi + 197 pp. illus., plts., maps, geneal. tbls.
With an Historical atlas (16 pls). Appendix: Adomnán, king Aldfrith, and the home of the Book of Durrow.

Rev. by
K. W. Nicholls, in Peritia 3 (1984), pp. 535-558.
Gerard Rice, in Ríocht na Midhe 7/2 (1982-1983), pp. 123-125.
Patrick Wormald, in The Scottish historical review 60/2 (Oct., 1981), pp. 162-163.
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Ó Madagáin (Breandán) (ed.): Gnéithe den chaointeoireacht: léachtaí a tugadh ag Scoil Gheimhridh Chumann Merriman i mBaile Uí Bheacháin, Co. an Chláir, eanáir 1978 / eagarthóir: Breandán Ó Madagáin.
Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar, 1978. 81 pp.
Rev. by
Marion Gunn, in Éigse 17/4 (Geimhreadh, 1977-1979), pp. 580.
Ó Madagáin (Breandán) (pref. auth.)
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16142.
Raftery (Barry): Pagan Celtic Ireland: the enigma of the Irish Iron Age.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 240 pp. illus.
Rev. by
Michael Herity, in JRSAI 125 (1995), pp. 139-141.
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20903.
Baillie (Mike), McCafferty (Patrick): The Celtic gods: comets in Irish mythology.
Stroud, Glos.: Tempus, 2005. 224 pp.
Argues that various elements and characters in early Irish mythology are derived from descriptions of cometary activity close to Earth.
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14470.
Evans (E. Estyn): The personality of Ireland.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. viii + 123 pp.
Based on the Wiles Lectures given at Queen’s University Belfast, 1971.

New revised and enlarged edition. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1981.

Rev. by
James J. Hourihane, in StH 16 (1976), pp. 193-195.
G. F. Mitchell, in IHS 18, nº 72 (Sep., 1973), pp. 626-627.
Brian Ó Cuív, in Éigse 15/4 (Geimhreadh, 1974), pp. 333-335.
P. O’Flanagan, in JCHAS 86, nº 244 (1981), pp. 137-138.
Diarmuid Ó Laoghaire, in Studies 63, nº 249 (Spring, 1974), pp. 93-97.
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13504.
Ó hÓgáin (Dáithí): The sacred isle: belief and religion in pre-Christian Ireland.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999. viii + 259 pp.
Rev. by
Miranda Aldhouse-Green, in ZCP 52 (2001), pp. 297-298.
Conleth Manning, in Béaloideas 67 (1999), pp. 226-229.
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934.
Kelly (Fergus): Early Irish farming: a study based mainly on the law-texts of the 7th and 8th centuries AD.
EIL, 4. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1997. xvii + 751 pp. (Early Irish law series, 4).
Repr. 1998, 2000 (with addenda & corrigenda). 9 plates, 22 figures.

Appendix A [edition of seven legal passages on topics connected with farming; with English translation and discussion]: 1. Defects of cows and sheep [CIH ii 674.37-675.17]; 2. Livestock not to be distrained [CIH iii 897.10-29]; 3. Value of cattle, sheep and pigs [CIH iii 845.22-846.14]; 4. Roads and tracks [CIH iii 893.22-35]; 5. Calves with two mothers [CIH iii 967.35-968.15 and iv 1267.17-31]; 6. Land-values [CIH iii 972.24-9]; 7. Horse-qualities [CIH iv 1235.19-27].
Appendix B: Units of measurement.

Rev. by
Niall Brady, in Archaeology Ireland 12/3 (Autumn, 1998), pp. 40-41.
T. M. Charles-Edwards, in Éigse 33 (2002), pp. 241-243.
Valerie Hall, in The Irish naturalists’ Journal 26/7-8 (1999), p. 290.
A. J. Hughes, in SAM 17/2 (1998), p. 228.
John McCullen, in JCLAHS 24/1 (1997), p. 153.
B[rian] McD[onald], in Clogher Record 16/2 (1998), p. 211.
Neil McLeod, in Peritia 12 (1998), pp. 405-409.
Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, in CMCS 39 (Summer, 2000), pp. 86-90.
Aidan O’Sullivan, in Ríocht na Midhe 10 (1999), pp. 170-173.
Nerys Patterson, in Speculum 74/2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 440-442.
Karl Horst Schmidt, in ZCP 51 (1999), pp. 290-294.
J. Beverley Smith, in StC 35 (2001), pp. 363-364.

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