Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Invented Past Chapter 2. The Mythic Past Chapter 3. Sacral Kingship—the mythology Chapter 4. Kings in Archaeology Chapter 5. The Otherworld Chapter 6. The Sacred Tree Chapter 7. The Ancestors of Epona Epilogue Notes References
John Waddell is a former Professor of Archaeology in the National University of Ireland Galway and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. His publications include Foundation Myths: the beginnings of Irish archaeology (2005), Rathcroghan: archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual landscape (with J. Fenwick and K. Barton in 2009), Archaeology and Celtic Myth (2014), and Myth and Materiality (2018). A revised fourth edition of The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland is in press.
I salute Myth and Materiality as a valuable study.
*Folklore Society*
Not just the scholar but also the general reader will find this
book of interest, shedding as it does new light on our
interpretation of Ireland’s mythic past.
*Books Ireland*
There is much for the archaeologist to unpack in this ambitious
text…
*Current Archaeology*
...the scope of the book is impressive and Waddell demonstrates
convincingly that it is important to explore the themes covered in
this book at such a scale.
*The Archaeological Journal*
...an important contribution on the potential of myth to support
archaeological evidence, bringing together symbols and ritual
practices intended to convince the specialist and laymen alike.
*Journal of Folklore Research*
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