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 O'Keeffe & Sinead 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 Herron (East Carolina U), Early modern Irish settlement and the poetry of Edmund Spenser
• Toby Barnard (Hertford College), Last stages of Plantation.