The essays in this book are accompanied by original illustrations from Louis le Brocquy and Imogen Stuart in honour of Peter Harbison on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Contents: The Celtic Concept of the Gods: Some Preliminary Remarks (Otto-Herman Frey); Words and Images, Texts and Commentaries (Lawrence Nees); More thoughts on the Wearing of Brooches in Early Medieval Ireland (Niamh Whitfield); The Loughan Brooch (Michael Ryan); Some Observations on the Form and Date of the Soisceal Molaise Book Shrine (Paul Mullarkey); The Arm Shaped Reliquary of St Lachtin: Technique, Style and Significance (Griffin Murray); Excavation at the North Cross, Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare (Heather King); Petra Fertilis: The Uncertain History of the Cistercian Church at Corcomroe (Roger Stalley); The Restoration of the Tower House at Ballyportry, Corofin, Co. Clare (Patrick F. Wallace); Death, Art and Burial: St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, in the Sixteenth Century (John Bradley); James Carruthers, a Belfast Antiquarian Collector (Mary Cahill, Aiden M. Ireland, Raghnall O Floinn); The ‘Temple of Industry’, Dublin’s Industrial Exhibition 1853 (Margaret McEnchroe Williams); Theodore Jacobson: A Gentleman Well Versed in the Science of Architecture (Alan Borg).