Plantation Ireland Settlement and Material Culture, c.1550-c.1700

This book explores the concept of plantation as a means for explaining change in cultural and economic behaviour. Contents: Rolf Loeber (U Pittsburgh), Biblical and foreign signposts to the Ulster Plantation Raymond Gillespie (NUIM), The problems of plantations Sharon Weadick (TCD), How popular were fortified houses in Irish castle building history? Tadhg OKeeffe Sinad Quirke (UCD), Ightermurragh Castle, Co. Cork, in context Colin Rynne (UCC), Social archaeology of Plantation period ironworks Audrey Horning (U Leicester), Cultural role of the alehouse in the~Ulster Plantation Colin Breen (UU), Famine and displacement in plantation period Munster Annaleigh Margey (U Aberdeen), Representing Plantation landscapes Harold Mytum (U Liverpool), Perspectives on external mortuary monuments of Plantation Ireland James Lyttleton (Memorial U Newfoundland), The Gaelic aristocracy in Co. Offaly and the Counter-Reformation Clodagh Tait (U Essex), Relics and the past Tom Herr