The 28 chapters in the volume constitute revised and updated versions of papers presented at the inaugural conference of the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG), held in Belfast in 2001.
Where should we place the boundary between the medieval and post-medieval periods in Ireland? / Thomas E. McNeill
Post-medieval archaeology in Northern Ireland / Nick Brannon
Archaeology of the Munster Plantation / Denis Power
Archaeology of the Ulster Plantation / Colm Donnelly
Archaeology of British expansion : Ireland and North America in the seventeenth century / Audrey Horning
Post-medieval archaeology in Dublin / Linzi Simpson
Archaeology of post-medieval Carrickfergus and Belfast, 1550-1750 / RuairĂ Ă“ Baoill
Post-medieval archaeology in Cork City / Maurice Hurley
Archaeology of post-medieval Derry and Londonderry, 1550-1800 / Paul Logue
Post-medieval archaeology of Galway, 1550-1850 : a historical outline / Paul Walsh
Ireland's fortress : Limerick 1550-1691 / Kenneth Wiggins
English settlement and change in Roscommon during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Kieran O'Conor
Post-medieval coastal landscape of Bantry and Beara, 1580-1850 / Colin Breen
Post-medieval marshland reclamation in Ireland : a case-study from the Shannon estuary / James Lyttleton and Aidan O'Sullivan
Archaeology of power and industry / Colin Rynne
Post-medieval shipwrecks in Irish waters / Wes Forsythe
Archaeology of parks and gardens, 1600-1900 : an introduction to Irish garden archaeology / Thomas McErlean
Community to privacy : late Tudor and Jacobean manorial architecture in Ireland, 1550-1640 / Terence Reeves-Smyth
Domestic architecture in Ireland, 1640-1740 / William Roulston
Church buildings in Ireland, 1550-1850 / Richard Oram
Reformation, privatisation and the rise of the headstone / Finbar McCormick
Overview of livestock husbandry and economic practices in the urban environments of post-medieval Ireland / Eileen Murphy
Post-medieval pottery in Ireland / Rosanne Meenan
Manufacture and use of glass in post-medieval Ireland / Nessa Roche
Using coins in the post-medieval context / Robert Heslip
Clay tobacco pipes in Ireland, c. 1600-1850 / Joe Norton and Sheila Lane
Town and country : an overview of Irish archaeological cloth and clothing, 1550-1850 / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett
Introduction to firearms in post-medieval Ireland, 1500-1700 / James O'Neill.
The post-medieval archaeology of Ireland, 1550-1850. ISBN 9781905569137. Published by Wordwell in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.