Paor, Liam de.

Ireland and Early Europe. Essays and Occasional Writings on Art and Culture.

Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1997. 23.4cm x 15.5cm. 220 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Includes for Example: An Intimate History/ Cultural Relations/ The Elgin Marbles or the Parthenon Frieze/ The Art of the Celtic Peoples/ The Celtic Woman/ Central Europeans, Ancient and Modern/ The Painted People/ Hillforts from the Air/ Tara/ Arles and Lerins/ The Cursing of Tara/ Raths/ The Conversion of Britain/ St. Brigid’s Birthplace/ The Leek and the Shamrock/ Early Irish Writing/ ‘Gaelic’ Lettering/ St. Brendan the Navigator/ The Art of Enamelling/ Iona/ St. Aidan of Lindisfarne/ Monuments of the Dead/ The book of Durrow/ The Tara Brooch/ The Derrynaflan Altar Set/ Irish Monks and Frankish Churches/ The World of the Book of Kells/ The Church of the Irish/ The Monastic Ideal: a Poem Attributed to St. Manchan/ Domhnall Mor Ua Briain and the Normans/ Crosses and Kings/ Fauves and Peasants/ The Dressing of Stone/ The Battle of Dysert etc.

This book incorporates writings produced over a period of more than thirty years. Some have not been published before. All are concerned in one way or another with the ‘intimate history’ of Ireland’s dealings with Britain and Europe, which is the subject of the first essay. That paper covers the whole span from early prehistory until the present day, but in general the pieces gathered here deal with ancient and early medieval Ireland, and with times, therefore, when Irish prestige and influence were great in Europe; when monks and scholars, among others, went out from Ireland to embrace the needs of their English, British and Continental neighbours, and when Irish kings, artists and writers gladly absorbed the post-Roman civilization of the lands to the south and east and made it their own.

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History – Art and Architecture · Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Celtic History
• Language: English
• ISBN: 978-1851822973
• Inventory Number: 110202AB

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