Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Accompanied by original illustrations from Louis le Broquy and Imogen Stuart, this book honors Peter Harbison, archaeologist and historian, on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Synopsis
The essays in this book are accompanied by original illustrations from Louis le Brocquy and Imogen Stuart in honour of Peter Harbison on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Contents:
Alan Borg (independent scholar, London) Theodore Jacobsen: a gentleman well versed in the science of architecture
John Bradley (NUIM) St Canice's cathedral, Kilkenny in the sixteenth century
Mary Cahill (NMI), Raghnall O Floinn (NMI) & Aideen M. Ireland (NAI) James Carruthers: a Belfast antiquarian collector
Otto-Herman Frey (Philipps-Universitat Marburg) The concept of the Gods for the Celts
Heather King (National Monuments Heritage Services) Excavation at the North Cross, Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare
Paul Mullarkey (NMI) Some observations on the form and date of the Soisceal Molaise book shrine
Grifin Murray (UCC) St Lachtin's arm-shaped reliquary and its place in late 11th and early 12th-century art in Ireland
Lawrence Nees (U Delaware) Words and images, texts and commentaries
Michael Ryan (Chester Beatty Museum) The Loughan Brooch
Roger Stalley (TCD) Petra Fertilis: the uncertain history of the Cistercian church at Corcomroe
Patrick Wallace (NMI) The restoration of the Tower House at Ballyportry, Corofin, Co. Clare
Niamh Whitfield (Independent Scholar, London) More thoughts on the wearing of brooches in early medieval Ireland
Margaret McEnchroe (Columbia U) Dublin's industrial exhibition of 1851