Author: William F. Wakeman

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Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781331861355

Excerpt from Wakeman's Handbook of Irish Antiquities The year 1848, what may be styled a precursor of my present "Handbook of Irish Antiquities" was published. Since then a new impulse, leading to the study of Archaeology in this country, has, for various reasons, steadily prevailed. In the first place, our antiquarian writers, as a rule, no longer propounded the visionary theories of an older school. Secondly, publications like the Journal of the Kilkenny Society, the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, that of the Irish Archaeological Society, the Proceedings and other works emanating from the Royal Irish Academy, amongst which the Catalogue of Antiquities preserved in the Museum of that body, by the late Sir William Wilde, takes a foremost place, were well calculated to place students - particularly of Celtic archaeology - in the right way of investigation. But besides the Societies, not a few independent observers were individually at work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."