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Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring. For over a thousand years, this area was the focus of intense funerary ritual seemingly designed to send the dead to their ancestors and secure the land for the living. Scattered through the fields to the north and west of the Ring are flat cemeteries, standing stones, tombs, cists, and ring barrows – ancient monuments that were leveled by the plough when the land was enclosed in the 18th and 19th centuries. A great 90 m long timber enclosure with an elaborate entrance and inner ‘temple’ was f...
Written for those with a seroius interest in the archaeology of Ireland, this catalogue presents a comprehensive listing of objects found in County Fermanagh relating to the earliest Mesolithic and Neolithic settlers, through the Bronze and Iron Ages to the Early Christian and medieval periods. Thousands of objects are listed, with provenance and present location clearly indicated, from jewellry and pottery to logboats and weapons.
Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends from 1980-2000.
An appreciation of the British artist who revitalized the human figure in sculpture.
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