1st Edition
An Archaeology of Ireland in the Age of Improvement
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Irish Improvement and archaeology
Wes Forsythe & Richard Clutterbuck
Chapter 2: Improvement and Gaelic Ireland
Eve Campbell, Colin Breen & Siobhán McDermott
Chapter 3: Improvement in the Rural Landscape
Richard Clutterbuck, Ian Kuijt & Wes Forsythe
Chapter 4: Improvement in the Urban Environment
Elena Turk & Ruairí Ó Baoill
Chapter 5: Industry and transport infrastructure in Ireland, 1750-1850
Colin Rynne
Chapter 6: Social Improvement: conflicting perceptions and practices in the domestic and mortuary realms
Harold Mytum
Chapter 7: Afterword: Ireland Improved?
Audrey Horning
Index
Biography
Wes Forsythe is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Ulster University. His interests are in post-medieval economies among coastal communities in Atlantic Europe and East Africa, and contemporary maritime culture and the environment.
Ian Kuijt is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
Richard Clutterbuck is the Head of Project Archaeology with Archaeological Management Solutions Ltd (AMS). Richard is a landscape archaeologist specialising in the study of medieval and post-medieval Ireland. His doctoral research (funded by the Irish Research Council) at the University of Galway, was entitled 'Rural Landscapes of Improvement in Ireland, 1650-1850: An Archaeological Landscape Study' in 2015. (ORCID: 0009-0009-4013-7435)
