Book Reviews

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Book Reviews: 2010

John F. Potter, Patterns in Stonework: The Early Church in Britain and Ireland, reviewed by Conleth Manning.

Benedict O’Sullivan OP (edited by Hugh Fenning OP), Medieval Irish Dominican Studies, reviewed by Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB.

Elizabeth Byrne et al, (compiled), Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry Volume !: South-West Kerry, reviewed by Michael Connolly.

Reviews published in Journal Vol.138, 2008


Con Manning (ed), From Ringforts to Fortified Houses, reviewed by Michael Fewer.

Bob Quinn, The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage, reviewed by Richard Warner.

Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin, Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Lanscape, reviewed by Rachel Moss.

Brian Scott, Ruth Rhynas Brown, Alan Gordon Leacock & Chris Salter, The Great Guns Like Thunder: The Cannon from the City of Derry, reviewed by Damian Shiels.

John R. Kenyon, Castles, Town Defences and Artillery Fortifications in the United Kingdom and Ireland: A Bibliography 1945-2006, reviewed by Conleth Manning.

Reviews published in Journal Vol.137, 2007


Rupert Bruce-Mitford, The Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls: With an account of the bowls found in Scandinavia by Sheila Raven, reviewed by Griffin Murray.

Linda Doran and James Lyttleton (Eds), Lordship in Medieval Ireland: Image and Reality, reviewed by Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh.

Susan A. Johnston and Bernard Wailes, Dún Ailinne: Excavation at an Irish Royal Site, reviewed by Kerri Cleary.

Séamas Ó Catháin, Formation of a Folklorist, reviewed by Kelly Fitzgerald.

Paul Gosling, Conleth Manning and John Waddell (Eds), New Survey of Clare Island Volume 5: Archaeology, reviewed by Andy Halpin.

Thomas McErlean and Norman Crothers, Harnessing the Tides: The Early Medieval Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough, reviewed by Conleth Manning.

George Cunningham (ed), The Roscrea Conference. Commemorating Forty Conferences 1987-2007 at Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, reviewed by Dr Niamh Whitfield.

Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton (eds), Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660, reviewed by Felix Handschuh & Nina Vodstrup Andersen.

Reviews published in Journal Vol.136, 2006


Charles E. Orser, Unearthing Hidden Ireland:Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon, reviewed by Robin Turk.

Rosemary Cramp, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture: Vol.VII: South-west England, reviewed by Dr. Rachel Moss.

John Waddell, Foundation myths, the beginnings of Irish archaeology, reviewed by Aideen Ireland.

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick & Raymond Gillespie, (eds) The parish in medieval and modern Ireland: Community, territory and building, reviewed by Dr Michael O'Neill.

Clare McCutcheon, Medieval Pottery from Wood Quay, Dublin, reviewed by Rosanne Meenan.

Damian Bracken & Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, (eds) Ireland and Europe in the twelfth century: Reform and Renewal, reviewed by Dr Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh.

Michael Potterton, Medieval Trim: History and Archaeology, reviewed by Conleth Manning.

Muiris O'Sullivan, Duma na nGiall: The Mound of the Hostages, Tara, reviewed by Dr Elizabeth Shee Twohig, UCC.

Brian Lacey, Cenél Conaill and the Donegal Kingdoms, AD 500-800, reviewed by Tomás G. Ó Canann.

Pádraig Ó Riain, Feastdays of the Saints: A History of Irish Martyrologies, reviewed by Brian Lacey.

Mary Timoney, Had me made: A study of the grave memorials of Co. Sligo from c.1650 to the present, reviewed by Richard Henchion.

Caimin O'Brien, Stories from a sacred landscape: Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise, reviewed by James Lyttleton.