People, Prehistory and the Past

Essays in honour of John Waddell

Kieran O'Conor, Michelle Comber

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781801512510
• Subtopic: Historical Theory & Criticism
• Index: History

Dedicated to John Waddell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Galway, an internationally renowned and popular scholar whose long career and research changed the direction of prehistoric studies in Ireland, this collection of essays, authored by a number of his colleagues, continues John' s work by examining aspects of Irish prehistory and the interaction of people with the past.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyrights
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: John Waddell — a man for all seasons
• 2. Capital fellows: capstones and potential capstones at the Carrowmore megalithic complex
• 3. Going to sea in a lunula
• 4. From prehistory to medieval: living among the ancestors in the Burren, Co. Clare
• 5. Leaving their mark on the land: evidence for the heroic narratives as seen in the archaeology and toponymy of Machaire Connacht
• 6. Unravelling the spiral: passage tomb alignment, related kerbstone art and cycles of monumental contruction at Brú na Bóinne
• 7. Identity in Early Bronze Age western Ireland: a study of pottery and landscape
• 8. Throwing the king out with the bath water: a contribution to the debate concerning archaeology and early vernacular literature
• 9. The Mac Diarmada inauguration site at Croghan (Cruachán), County Roscommon
• 10. Ogham stones, souterrains and ancestral memory in early medieval Ireland
• 11. 'An indefatigable field-worker': Lady Dorothy Lowry-Corry (1885-1967)
• The publications of John Waddell
• Index