Ancient Ireland

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Ancient Ireland

• Dewey E. McLaughlin
• Week 10 Winter Quarter 2005
• 900s

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Ancient Ireland

• NUC WaSKC
• Call 941.5 OBR
• Author Jacqueline OBrien Peter Harbison.
• Title Ancient Ireland From prehistory to the
  middle ages.

• Place New York
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Currency 1996
• Format Hardbound book

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Arrangement Chronological

• Ireland Before History.
• The stone age
• 2. The bronze age
• 3. The arrival of the Celts
• The Early Middle Ages
• The political scene
• Romanization the spread of Christianity
• Early churches of wood stone
• High crosses
• Memorials Mystery sculptures.
• Round Towers

• 11th 12th Centuries
• The political scene
• Church reform
• Romanesque churches decoration
• The Anglo-Normans 1169-1400
• The political scene
• Norman mottes castles
• The Norman church new monastic orders
• Gothic cathedrals and Parish churches
• The Cistercians
• The Augustinians the school of the west
• The Benedictines Fore Abby Co. Weatmeath
• The Dominicans
• The Carmelites and Loughrea Friary, Co. Galway

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Arrangement Cont.

• Late Medieval Ireland
• The political scene
• Castles and tower-houses
• The church
• The Franciscans
• Craftmanship
• The 7th Century
• The political scene
• Tudor, Stuart and Plantation architecture

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Indexing Features

• Table of contents
• Index
• Bibliography
• Map of Illustrated Sites

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Scope

• Ancient Ireland is the Third book of a Trilogy of
  books, 1.Great Irish Houses Castles 2.Dublin a
  Grand Tour 3.Ancient Ireland. In this book the
  Author take the reader back in time and explains
  Irelands past before History. History is defined
  by what has been recorded and written down. This
  book takes you beyond what is truly known.

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Intended Purpose

• This work is for Historians, Scholars, Students
  and Curious individuals who want to know about
  Ireland history

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Jacqueline OBrien

• Jacqueline specializes in Architectural
  Landscape photography. Her work has been
  exhibited widely on both sides of the Atlantic
  has been reproduced in many books Magazines.
  Director of the Architectural Archive of Ireland
  has lectured internationally on historical
  subjects. She is also Patron of the Irish
  Australian Association.

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Peter Harbison

• Was Editor of Ireland of the Welcomes, an
  internationally acclaimed magazine devoted to
  aspects of Irish culture. Currently Honorary
  Academic Editor of the Royal Irish Academy, of
  which he has also been Vice-President. From 1986
  to 1990 Dr. Harbison was Chairman of the National
  Monument Advisory Council.

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Personal Impression

• Frankly I think this is a hard book to make a
  report on. If I so much as flip a page beyond the
  table of contents I get stuck, looking at the
  beautiful pictures and descriptive text that go
  over Irelands histories, then forget to jot down
  information on this report P

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How Old is Newgrange, Co. Meath?

• A Carbon dating on the remains closest to the
  roof came it about 3100 BC, it suggests that
  Newgrange is 500 years older then the pyramids,
  making it one of the worlds first great pieces of
  Architecture

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Fin