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NEW publication:

Ireland and Britain in the Atlantic World.

Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Proceedings 2.

 

Edited by Audrey Horning and Nick Brannon

 

This book is the result of a joint collaboration between the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group and the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and derives from the various papers presented at the fourth annual IPMAG conference, held in the Tower Hotel, Derry in February 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreword: Transatlantic perspectives on Ireland and Britain- Audrey Horning and Nick Brannon

 

PART ONE: Landscapes and Seascapes of Conflict

Introduction

1. The battlefield archaeology of the Yellow Ford- Paul Logue and James O’Neill

2. Acculturation in the Irish midland plantations of the seventeenth century: an archaeological perspective- James Lyttleton

3. Connections and conflict by sea- Connie Kelleher

 

PART TWO: Change or Continuity? Rural and Urban Landscapes in Ireland and Britain

Introduction

4. The Campbell takeover of Islay—the archaeological evidence-David H. Caldwell

5. Booley houses, hafods and sheilings: a comparative study of

transhumant settlements from around the Northern Basin of the Irish Sea-

Stuart Rathbone

6. Peripheral people and places: an archaeology of isolation- Emma Dwyer

7. A brief overview of the formative years of Kenmare, Co. Kerry- Frank Coyne

 

PART THREE: Material culture, Trade and Manufacturing

 Introduction

8. From the mines to the colonies: archaeological evidence for the exchange and metallurgical usage of English copper in early seventeenth-century Ireland and Virginia- Carter C. Hudgins, Marcos Martinón-Torres and Thilo Rehren

9. The seventeenth-century clay pipe industry in Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic world- Peter Davey

10. The nineteenth-century Scottish pottery industry and its transatlantic exports- George Dalgleish

 

PART FOUR: Leaving Home: Archaeologies of Identity in the Irish Diaspora

Introduction

11. The English and the Irish in Newfoundland: historical archaeology and the myth of illegal settlement- Peter Pope

12. Scotland, Ireland and America: the construction of identities through mortuary monuments by Ulster Scots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries- Harold Mytum

13. Echoes of a tragedy: Grosse-Île, summer of 1847- Geneviève Duguay

 

Published by Wordwell Books in 2010.

Paperback, 302 pages, colour and b/w illustrations. ISBN: 978 1 905569 38 0

 

Plantation Ireland: Settlement and Material Culture, c.1550-c.1700.

 

Edited by James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne

 

This book is the result of a joint collaboration between the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group and the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement and derives from the various papers presented at the sixth annual IPMAG conference, held at University College Cork in February 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1. Introduction: new approaches to plantation-period Ireland- James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne

2. ‘Certyn notes’: biblical and foreign signposts to the Ulster Plantation- Rolf Loeber

3. The problems of plantations: material culture and social change in early modern Ireland- Raymond Gillespie

4. How popular were fortified houses in Irish castle building history?  A look at their numbers in the archaeological record and distribution patterns- Sharon Weadick

5. A house at the birth of modernity: Ightermurragh Castle, Co. Cork in context- Tadgh O’Keeffe & Sinéad Quirke

6. ‘The root of all vice and bestiality’: exploring the cultural role of the alehouse in the Ulster plantation- Audrey Horning

7. Famine and displacement in plantation-period Munster- Colin Breen

8. Representing Plantation landscapes: the mapping of Ulster, c. 1560-1640- Annaleigh Margey

9. Archaeological perspectives on external mortuary monuments of plantation Ireland- Harold Mytum

10. Faith of our fathers: the Gaelic aristocracy in Co. Offaly and the Counter-Reformation- James Lyttleton

11. Relics and the past: the material culture of Catholic martyrdom in Ireland- Clodagh Tait

12. Irish archaeology and the poetry of Edmund Spenser: content and context- Tom Herron

13. The social archaeology of plantation-period ironworks in Ireland: immigrant industrial communities and technology transfer, c. 1560-1640- Colin Rynne

14. Last stages of plantation- Toby Barnard

 

Published by Four Courts Press in 2009.

Hardback, 336pp, colour & b/w illustrations.  ISBN: 978-1-84682-186-8

 

Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks?  Future directions in the archaeological study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland.

 

Edited by Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer

 

 

The chapters in this volume derive from a conference held at the University of Leicester in April 2008 and sponsored by the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group, the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Association for Industrial Archaeology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

Foreword

General Introduction- Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer

Foreword: Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks?- Mathew Johnson

 

Section One: Of Practice and Paradigm

Introduction- Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer

1. The Dialectics of Scale in the Historical Archaeology of the Modern World-

Charles E. Orser

2. An Amorphous Farrago? The Contribution of Industrial Archaeology- David Gwyn

3. People Versus Machines or People and Machines? Current Research Directions within British Post-medieval and Industrial Archaeology- Mike Nevell

4. A Review of the Archaeological Contribution to the Understanding of the Industrial Past- Shane Gould

5. Twenty Years A'growing: University-based Teaching and Research of Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland- Colin Breen

6. Irish 'Post-medieval' archaeology: Time to Lose our Innocence?- Tadhg O'Keeffe

7. Encouraging Interest in the Recent Past- Tony Crosby

8. Post-Medieval Archaeology: A Personal Perspective- Paul Courtney

9. An Archaeological Avant-Garde- James Dixon

 

Section Two: Analytical Approaches

Introduction- Marilyn Palmer and Audrey Horning

10. Science for Historic Industries - Glass and Glassworking- Sarah Paynter and David Dungworth and Justine Bayley

11. Bones of Contention: Why Later Post-Medieval Faunal Assemblages in Britain Matter- Richard Thomas

12. Finds, Deposits, and Assigned Status: New Approaches to Defined Relationships- Michael Berry

13. Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour, Ireland, c. 1816-1832: A new Archaeological Perspective on Ireland's 'Coloniality'- Colin Rynne

14. English Industrial Landscapes - Divergence, Convergence and Perceptions of Identity- Paul Belford

15. Historic Landscape Characterisation, More Than a Management Tool?- Caron Newman

16. The Whitehaven Coast 1500-2000 - Post-Medieval, Industrial, and Historical Archaeology?- David Cranstone

18. The Changing Countryside: The Impact of Industrialisation on Rural Settlement in the 18th and 19th Centuries- Richard Newman

19. Understanding Landscape: Inter-disciplinary Dialogue and the Post-Medieval Countryside- Chris Dalglish

 

Section Three: Of People and Things

Introduction- Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer

20. Lancashire Cotton Mills and Power- R N Holden

21. Material Concerns: The State of Post-Medieval Finds Studies

Geoff Egan

22. The View From Afar: International Perspectives on the Analysis of Post-1750 Ceramics in Britain and Ireland- Alasdair Brooks

23. Post-1550 Urban Archaeology in a Developer-funded Context: An Example from Grand Arcade, Cambridge- Craig Cessford

24. Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, Places and Things in Modern London- Nigel Jeffries, Alastair Owens, Dan Hicks, Rupert Featherby and Karen Wehner

25. Underneath the Arches: The Afterlife of a Railway Viaduct- Emma Dwyer

26. 'You knew where you were:' An Archaeology of Working Households in Turn-of-century Cheshire- Eleanor Casella

27. Pulling the Threads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World- Stephen Mrozowski

 

Conclusion: The Way Forward?- Marilyn Palmer and Audrey Horning

 

Published by Boydell Press in 2009.

Hardback, 438pp, 80 b/w illustrations.   ISBN: 9781843834342

 

 

The Post-Medieval Archaeology of Ireland, 1550–1850.

Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Proceedings 1.

 

Edited by Audrey Horning, Ruairí Ó Baoill, Colm Donnelly and Paul Logue

 

 

This book has its roots in the various papers presented at the inaugural IPMAG conference, held at Queen’s University Belfast in February 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

Foreword: Post-medieval archaeology in and out of Ireland- Audrey Horning, Ruairí Ó Baoill, Colm Donnelly and Paul Logue

 

Part 1: Of Time, Place and Landscape

Introduction- Audrey Horning

1. Where should we place the boundary between the medieval and post-medieval periods in Ireland? – Tom McNeill

2. The development of post-medieval archaeology in Northern Ireland

Nick Brannon

3. The Archaeology of the Munster Plantation – Denis Power

4. The Archaeology of the Ulster Plantation – Colm Donnelly

5. The Archaeology of British expansion: Ireland and North America in the seventeenth century – Audrey Horning

6. Post-medieval archaeology in Dublin – Linzi Simpson

7. Archaeology of post-medieval Carrickfergus and Belfast, 1550-1750 – Ruairí Ó Baoill

8. Post-medieval archaeology in Cork City – Maurice Hurley

9. Archaeology of post-medieval Derry and Londonderry, 1550–1850 – Paul Logue

10. The post-medieval archaeology of Galway, 1550-1850: a historical outline – Paul Walsh

11. Ireland’s fortress: Limerick 1550–1691 – Kenneth Wiggins

12. English settlement and change in Roscommon during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – Kieran O’Conor

13. The post-medieval coastal landscape of Bantry and Beara, 1580–1850 – Colin Breen

14. Post-medieval marshland reclamation in Ireland-a case-study from the Shannon estuary – James Lyttleton and Aidan O’Sullivan

 

Part 2: Of Process and Product

Introduction- Audrey Horning

15. The archaeology of power and industry – Colin Rynne

16. Post-medieval shipwreck in Irish waters – Wes Forsythe

17. The archaeology of parks and gardens, 1600–1900: an introduction to Irish garden archaeology- Thomas McErlean

18. Community to privacy: late Tudor and Jacobean manorial architecture in Ireland, 1560-1640 – Terence Reeves-Smyth

19. Domestic architecture in Ireland, 1640–1740 – William Roulston

20. Church buildings in Ireland, 1550–1850 – Richard Oram

21. Reformation, privatisation and the rise of the headstone – Finbar McCormick

22. An overview of livestock husbandry and economic practises in the urban environments of post-medieval Ireland- Eileen Murphy

23. Post-medieval pottery in Ireland – Rosanne Meenan

24. The manufacture and use of glass in post-medieval Ireland – Nessa Roche

25. Using coins in the post-medieval context – Robert Heslip

26. Clay tobacco-pipes in Ireland, c. 1600–1850 – Joe Norton and Sheila Lane

27. Town and country: an overview of Irish archaeological cloth and clothing, 1550–1850 – Elizabeth Wincott Heckett

28. An introduction to firearms in post-medieval Ireland: 1550–1798 – James O’Neill

 

Published by Wordwell Books in 2007. 

Paperback, 498pp, 96 colour and b/w illustrations.  ISBN: 978-1-905569-13-7