Contents

Editorial (p. vii)

Elizabeth FitzPatrick

A late Mesolithic scatter from Corralanna, Co. Westmeath, and its place in the Mesolithic landscape of the Irish Midlands (p. 1)

Graeme Warren, Aimee Little and Michael Stanley

Five Irish psalter texts (p. 37)

Martin McNamara

The excavation of an Early Christian rath with later medieval occupation at Drumadoon, Co. Antrim (p. 105)

Cormac McSparron, Brian Williams

A question of timing: Walter de Lacy’s seisin of Meath 1189–94 (p. 165)

Colin T. Veach

Humanism’s priorities and empire’s prerogatives: Polydore Vergil’s description of Ireland (p. 195)

Eric Haywood

‘My body to be buried in my owne monument’: the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600–1700 (p. 239)

Paul Cockerham

‘114 commissions and 60 committees’: phantom figures from a surveillance state (p. 367)

Niall Ó Ciosáin

Moore’s centenary: music and politics in Dublin, 1879 (p. 387)

Maria McHale

In Retrospect: Charles Darwin and his Dublin critics: Samuel Haughton and William Henry Harvey (p. 409)

Peter Bowler