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Volume 21, Number 3

Spring 1979

Special Issue: Ireland Archaeology and History

Cover: The fragmentary psalter known as the Cathach or "Battler" of St. Columba. 6th c.(?) From folio 6r. (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, S.R.12.R.33).




Features

Introduction--Ireland and Europe
Bernard Wailes

The Megalithic Tombs of Ireland--Neolithic Tombs and their Art
Sean O Nuallain

The Arrival of the Celts in Ireland--Archaeology and Linguistics
Holly Burton

Early Bronze Age Technology and Trade--The Evidence of Irish Gold
Joan J. Taylor

Early Irish Manuscripts--The Art of the Scribes
Bella Schauman

 

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