Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World

Maggie M. Williams is Assistant Professor of Art History at William Paterson University, USA.

• Introduction: Icons of Irishness Visualizing Antiquity Classifying Taste Meet Me at the Fair Keepsakes and Souvenirs Proclaiming Independence, Expressing Solidarity Afterword Select Bibliography

"Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World may seem to be a relatively brief study, but it is not one to be taken lightly . . . Williams offers a fascinating and illuminating study of the construction of an ethnic identity that links medieval models to the more recent past and the present." - The Medieval Review