CONTENTS

Preface (pp. vii-ix)

Elizabeth FitzPatrick and James Kelly

Introduction (pp. xi-xxvii)

Toby Barnard

The house and group identity in the Irish Neolithic (pp. 1-31)

Jessica Smyth

Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare (pp. 33-58)

Carleton Jones, Olive Carey and Clare Hennigar

Early medieval settlement enclosures in Ireland: dwellings, daily life and social identity (pp. 59-90)

Aidan O'Sullivan and Tríona Nicholl

Pots on the hearth: domestic pottery in historic Ireland (pp. 91–113)

Clare McCutcheon and Rosanne Meenan

The evolution of the Irish tower-house as a domestic space (pp. 115–140)

Rory Sherlock

Moving towards the formal house: room usage in early modern Ireland (pp. 141-168)

Jane Fenlon

Keeping up appearances: redecorating the domestic interior in late eighteenth-century Dublin (pp.169-192)

Conor Lucey

Hearth and home: the vernacular house in Ireland from c. 1800 (pp. 193-215)

Barry O'Reilly

The provision of working- and lower-middle-class housing in late nineteenth-century urban Ireland (pp. 217-251)

Frank Cullen

Suburban and urban housing in the twentieth century (pp. 253-286)

Ruth McManus

The provision of rural local-authority housing and domestic space: a comparative North-South study, 1942–60 (pp. 287-309)

Mary McCarthy

Habitus: a social anthropology of the contemporary Dublin house extension (pp. 311-336)

Michael Pike and Emmett Scanlon