People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell

Edited by Michelle Comber, and Kieran O'Conor
Published by Four Courts Press Ltd, January 2025.
ISBN: 978-1-80151-164-3
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Abstract

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.

Chapters

• Capstones and potential capstones at the Carrowmore megalithic complex

  By Stefan Bergh, and Robert Hensey
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• Going to sea in a lunula

  By Mary Cahill
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• From prehistory to medieval: living among the ancestors in the Burren, Co. Clare

  By Michelle Comber, and Noel McCarthy
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• Evidence for the heroic narratives as seen in Machaire Connacht

  By Daniel Curley
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• An exploration of passage tomb alignment, related kerbstone art and cycles of monumental construction at Brú na Bóinne

  By Joseph Fenwick
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• Carleton Jones Identity in Early Bronze Age western Ireland – a study of pottery and landscape

  By Carleton Jones
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• A contribution to the debate concerning archaeology and early vernacular literature

  By Conor Newman
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• The Mac Diarmada inauguration site at Croghan (Cruachán), County Roscommon

  By Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• Ogham stones, souterrains and ancestral memory in Early Medieval Ireland

  By William O’Brien
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link
  

• Lady Dorothy Lowry-Corry (1885–1967)

  By Kieran O’Conor
  In People, Prehistory and the Past: essays in honour of John Waddell Link