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Plato’s landscape: the quarrel over Lismullen and the Tara/Skryne valley

Pat Cooke casts a philosophical gaze on our recent heritage controversies and concludes that archaeology is a house divided between its Aristotelians and its Platonists, between its positivists and its metaphysicians.
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Featured Articles

The Sea Stallion from Glendalough
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough John Gibney reports on the ‘return’ of a Viking longboat to the place of its construction...965 years after its original outward journey. Read More >>

Dean Mahomet: travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the king
Dean Mahomet: travel writer, curry entrepreneur and shampooer to the king James Bartlett outlines the career of an Indian with Irish connections who in 1809 opened London’s first curry house. Read More >>

Mary Hayden (1862–1942), historian and feminist
Mary Hayden (1862–1942), historian and feminist Joyce Padbury outlines the career of the author of a history book described by Irish Historical Studies as ‘the most widely used school and college text in Irish history’. Read More >>

The Nazis in Irish universities
The Nazis in Irish universities Nazi Party members in Irish universities? Surely not. But, yes, Hitler’s Nazi Party machine attempted to infiltrate the Irish university system in the 1930s. David O’Donoghue reports. Read More >>

Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century: Regional, National and International Perspectives
Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century: Regional, National and International Perspectives University of Limerick and Mary Immaculate College Eighteenth-Century Research Group, 7–8 June 2007 Read More >>