Irish Art Historical Studies in Honour of Peter Harbison

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).