Articles and Papers - Ancient Ireland

Knowth Articles

• Knowth - A Virtual Tour - Bryn Coldrick.

• Spirals within Spirals: Stones have Stories to Tell - James Nemec.

• Knowth - Secrets from the grave - an article from The Irish Times.

• Knowth by Jeffrey May - an article from Current Archaeology.

• Megalithic Art at Knowth - from Minds or Moons? - Laurie Darcus.

Newgrange Articles

• Incest uncovered at the elite prehistoric Newgrange monument - Alison Sheridan.

• Rediscovering the Winter Solstice Alignment at Newgrange - Robert Hensey.

• A Passage to the Afterworld - the story of New Grange adapted from an article first published in the The World Of Hibernia magazine.

• Newgrange: Ireland's ancient answer to the pyramids - Laura Harrison McBride

• Prof. Michael J. O'Kelly who excavated and restored Newgrange.

• Newgrange: empowering the salmon of wisdom - Philip Coppens.

• The Bull of Newgrange: a metaphor for Halley's Comet? - Gilbert de Jong.

• Newgrange Excavation Report Critique - Alan Marshall.

• Aspects of Ritual Deposition in the Late Neolithic & Beaker Periods - Charles Mount.

• Brú na Bóinne - Heritage Tourism Sustainability - Bettina Graham.

• Ireland's burial mounds hold many mysteries - Jim Sajo.

• Computing the Winter Solstice at Newgrange - Rick Doble.

• The Ritual Origins of the Roof-Box at Newgrange - Laura E. Freeman Marr.

Loughcrew Articles

• Reflections on Loughcrew and Newgrange - Tim O'Brien.

• An archaeoastronomical assessment of Tomb L by Dr Frank Prendergast
  

• Loughcrew Equinox Reflection - Sally McKenna.

• A taste of the unexpected: subverting mentalités through the motifs and settings of Irish passage tombs.

General Articles

• Stonelight Archives - Pioneering research of Martin Brennan.

• Ireland in prehistory - A concise account - Desmond Johnston.

• Some Thoughts on the Celts - Origin, Religion and Language - Desmond Johnston.

• Aspects of the Megalithic Era - Desmond Johnston.

• Fourknocks - An interpretation - Martin Dier.

• Messages from the Monuments - How Neolithic Monuments Communicate About Religion and Status - Paul K. Wason.

• We Have Never Been Material - Andrew Cochrane.

• Monuments and Access - The interpretation of Neolithic Monuments - Dr. Liam Kilmurray.

• Cairnpapple Prehistoric Site - Scotland - Jackie Queally.

• Vale of the Boyne and Royal Meath - published in 1898 for the Great Northern Railway Company.

• The Valley of the Boyne - from 'The Charm of Ireland' by Burton E. Stevenson, published in 1914.

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