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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Volume 118, 2018 (Print Copy)

by James Kelly
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Journal Details

Published date

15 November 2018

Frequency: 1 Annually

ISSN: 0035-8991

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Edited by: James Kelly and Tomás Ó Carragáin

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research papers primarily in the fields of archaeology and history, but also welcomes submissions on aspects of culture, including material culture, from the perspectives of other disciplines, as well as submissions in Celtic Studies and literature.

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CONTENTS

  1. Editorial (pp. vii-x)

    James Kelly

  2. Carrowkeel to Cambridge: resolving the origins of a Neolithic bone assemblage (pp. 1-36)

    Pádraig Meehan and Robert Hensey

  3. Technological change in the agrarian economy of early medieval Ireland: new archaeological evidence for the introduction of the coulter plough (pp. 37-66)

    Colin Rynne

  4. From blefed to scamach: pestilence in early medieval Ireland (pp. 67-93)

    Pierce A. Grace

  5. The communities of St Columbanus: Irish monasteries on the continent? (pp. 95-122)

    Emmet Marron

  6. Old Testament prefigurations of New Testament events on Irish high crosses (pp. 123-139)

    Peter Harbison

  7. Ireland's fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records (pp. 141-165)

    Fiona Beglane, Karis Baker, Ruth F. Carden, A. Rus Hoelzel, Angela L. Lamb, Rita Mhig Fhionnghaile, Holly Miller and Naomi Sykes

  8. The myth of the ‘five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland (pp. 167-200)

    S.G. Hewer

  9. The case of Ireland (1698) in context: William Molyneux and his critics (pp. 201-230)

    Ian McBride

  10. Irish horn spoons: their design history and social significance (pp. 231-269)

    Claudia Kinmonth

  11. George Victor Du Noyer's career in the Ordnance and Geological Surveys (1835–69): geologist by profession, artist by temperament (pp. 271-298)

    Susan Hegarty

  12. An Irishwoman of letters between Newman and Wagner: Geraldine Penrose Fitzgerald (1846–1939), her literary, religious and political career (pp. 299-305)

    Patrick Maume

About the author

James Kelly

James Kelly, MRIA, is Cregan Professor of History, and head of the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University. He was previously head of the History Department at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He has written extensively on eighteenth-century Irish history. His publications include Prelude to Unions: Anglo-Irish politics in the 1780s (Cork University Press, 1992); That damn's thing called Honour: Duelling in Ireland, 1570-1860 (Cork University Press, 1995); Henry Flood: patriots and politics in eighteenth-century Ireland (University f Notre Dame Press, 1998); Poynings’ law and the making of Law in Ireland, 1660-1800 (Irish Legal History Society, 2007); Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818,ultra-Protestant  ideologue (Four Courts Press, 2009); Poynings' Law and the making of law in Ireland, 1660-1800 (Dublin, 2006) and Proceedings of the Irish House of Lords, 1771-1800 (3 vols, Dublin, 2008). Clubs and societies in eighteenth century Ireland (edited with M.J. Powell) (Four Courts Press, 2010); Sport in Ireland 1600-1840 (Four Courts Press, 2014), and The proclamations of Ireland, 1660-1820 (5 vols, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014). He is currently president of the Irish Economic and Social History Society, and a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. He has served as co-editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, section C since 2008.