The Historian as Detective: Uncovering Irish Pasts : Essays in Honour of Raymond Gillespie

This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography, and classical studies who have delved into Ireland's past and pieced together fragments of evidence to uncover the fascinating truth behind an array of curious tales about intriguing characters, events, and vestiges of by-gone days.