The Sacred Isle: Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland

Boydell Press

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UPC:
9780851158563
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10/4/2001
Release Date:
10/4/2001
Author:
hOgain, Dith O
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Pages:
272
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The first modern study of prehistoric religion in Ireland to draw on the combined evidence of archaeology, literature and folklore to illuminate practice and belief from the earliest human habitation in the island down to the advent of Christianity in the fifth century AD. An excellent book... a highly accessible and lively assessment of continuity and change in belief and religion from pre-Celtic times through to the arrival of St Patrick. ...Afine book and to be recommended to a wide readership, especially to all those who think that Irish history started in 1601. IRISH STUDIES REVIEW DAITHI O HOGAIN was Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin.