Archeological Tours
Dr. Peter Harbison is an archaeologist an art historian. His Guide to the National Monuments of Ireland celebrates
forty years in print in 2010, and he has published books on Ireland’s ancient heritage in Europe and the United States.
Professor of Archaeology at the Royal Hibernian Academy, he is also a former Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy. Other honours include Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London and Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
He has given talks about Ireland on both sides of the Atlantic, and on it – as guest lecturer on cruises over a period of four decades. He is chairman of the Bunratty Castle Ownership Trust, which provides the name of one of the bedrooms of the house.
Books
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Spectacular Ireland (Southport, Conn.). Text illuminating colour photographs by various photographers – for which you need a large coffee-table. |
| Ireland’s Treasures. 5000 years of artistic expression
(Southport, Conn.). The only coffee-table panoramic view of Irish art from the stone age to the twentieth century. |
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The Golden Age of Irish Art (London). Early Christian Irish art with beautiful black-and-white illustrations. |
| Ancient Ireland From Prehistory to the Middle Ages (London). Text accompanying Jacqueline O’Brien’s remarkable colour images. |
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Irish Art Historical Studies in Honour of Peter Habison (Dublin,
Princeton). International scholars offer the fruits of their research to honour Professor Peter Harbison. |
| Pre-Christian Ireland (London). Well researched overview of Irish prehistory from Newgrange to the Celts. |
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Guide to the National Historic Monuments of Ireland (Dublin). Classic guide to Ireland’s ancient monuments – never out of print over the last forty years |
| The Crucifiction in Irish Art (Harrisburg, Pa. and Dublin). The ups and downs of 1200 years of Irish art on the basis of illustrations of the crucifiction. |
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Treasures of the Boyne (Dublin /Drogheda). |
| Pilgramage in Ireland. The Monuments and the People (London). Many early Christian monuments may be explained as part of much-neglected medieval pilgramage activity |
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