Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Tom Jones Hughes
  • Preface / The editorial board
  • 1. The end of prehistory / Barry Raftery
  • 2. The big picture : mapping Hiberno-Norse Dublin / Patrick F. Wallace
  • 3. Angliores ipsis Anglis : the place of medieval Dubliners in English history / Howard B. Clarke
  • 4. Space, place, habitus, geographies of practice in an Anglo-Norman landscape / Tadbg O'Keeffe
  • 5. Manorial agriculture and settlement in early fourteenth-century Co. Tipperary / Mark Hennessy
  • 6. Tower houses and terror : the archaeology of late medieval Munster / Terry Barry
  • 7. Late medieval nunneries of the Irish pale / Margaret Mac Curtain
  • 8. References to landscape and economy in Irish bardic poetry / Katharine Simms
  • 9. The mythical isles and North Atlantic discovery / F. H. A. Aalen
  • 10. Small worlds : settlement and society in the royal manors of sixteenth-century Dublin / Raymond Gillespie
  • 11. Classifying early Irish town plans / J. H. Andrews
  • 12. Excavating, mapping and interrogating ancestral terrains : towards a cultural geography of first names and second names in Ireland / William J. Smyth
  • 13. Germanic place-names in East Ulster / Philip S. Robinson
  • 14. Reading the ruins : the presence of absence in the Irish landscape / Kevin Whelan
  • 15. The documentation of architecture and sites in Irish gazetteers and road-books, 1647-1875 / Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
  • 16. The Irish community at Cadiz during the late eighteenth century / Patrick O'Flanagan and Julian Walton
  • 17. Church of Ireland sources for the historical geographer : a case-study of the Meath diocesan archive / Susan Hood
  • 18. 'A public benefit' : Sir Vere Hunt, Bart and the town of New Birmingham, Co. Tipperary, 1800-18 / William Nolan
  • 19. Londonderry c. 1856 : a city mapped in unusual detail / Avril Thomas
  • 20. Military barracks and mapping in the nineteenth century : sources and issues for Irish urban history / Jacinta Prunty
  • 21. Small towns in Ireland, 1841-1951 / Stephen A. Royle
  • 22. Dublin the restored capital : civic identity in an independent Ireland / Mary E. Daly
  • 23. Written in space and stone : aspects of the iconography of Dublin after independence / Yvonne Whelan
  • 24. The role of public utility societies in Ireland, 1919-40 / Ruth McManus
  • 25. Reconstructing Dublin city centre in the late 1920s / Joseph Brady
  • 26. Reinventing the city : the changing fortunes of places of worship in inner-city Dublin / Arnold Horner
  • 27. Unwritten landscapes : reflections on minor place-names and sense of place in the Irish countryside / Patrick J. Duffy
  • 28. Illuminating Irish towns : the Irish historic towns atlas comes of age / K. Mary Davies
  • 29. The Irish historic towns atlas as a source for urban history / John Bradley
  • 30. Design and change : reflections on expectations and experience / Loughlin Kealy
  • 31. On geographical knowledges : retrospect and prospect / Anne Buttimer
  • Bibliography of the works of Anngret Simms / Edel Sheridan-Quantz