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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Volume 109, 2009 (Print Copy)

by Elizabeth FitzPatrick
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Published date

25 December 2015

Frequency: 1 Annually

ISSN: 0035-8991

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Edited by: Elizabeth Fitzpatrick and James Kelly

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)

    Elizabeth FitzPatrick

  2. A late Mesolithic lithic scatter from Corralanna, Co. Westmeath, and its place in the Mesolithic landscape of the Irish Midlands (pp. 1-35)

    Graeme Warren, Aimée Little, Michael Stanley, Conor McDermott and Emmett O'Keeffe

  3. Five Irish psalter texts (pp. 37-104)

    Martin McNamara

  4. The excavation of an Early Christian rath with later medieval occupation at Drumadoon, Co. Antrim (pp. 105-164)

    Cormac McSparron, Brian Williams and Cormac Bourke

  5. A question of timing: Walter de Lacy's seisin of Meath 1189-94 (pp. 165-194)

    Colin T. Veach

  6. Humanism's priorities and empire's prerogatives: Polydore Vergil's description of Ireland (pp. 195-237)

    Eric Haywood

  7. 'My body to be buried in my owne monument' : the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600-1700 (pp. 239-365)

    Paul Cockerham

  8. '114 commissions and 60 committees': phantom figures from a surveillance state (pp. 367-385)

    Niall Ó Ciosáin

  9. Moore's centenary: music and politics in Dublin, 1879 (pp. 387-408)

    Maria McHale

  10. In Retrospect: Charles Darwin and his Dublin critics: Samuel Haughton and William Henry Harvey (pp. 409-420)

    Peter J. Bowler

About the author

Elizabeth FitzPatrick

Elizabeth FitzPatrick is a personal professor in archaeology at the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway, a director of the Discovery Programme and a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. Her research and publications concern topographies of power, place-making, landscape and settlement, and concepts of territory, among medieval Gaelic peoples. She has a particular interest in knowledge that can be acquired at the interface of disciplines. Professor FitzPatrick also leads cross-disciplinary publication projects important to Irish identity and cultural life, among them the RIA thematic volumes (with J. Kelly) on Food and drink in Ireland 2016, and Domestic life in Ireland 2011. She was archaeology editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C, 2007-15.