George Eogan, Mr George Eogan, Michael Herity

• 1: The Background, Geographical and Historical; 2: Stone Age Beginnings: Hunter-Fishers and First Farmers; 3: The Boyne Culture: Passage Grave Builders in Ireland and Britain; 4: Late Neolithic: Single Burials, New Technology and First Central European Contacts; 5: Beaker Peoples and the Beginnings of a New Society; 6: Food Vessel People: Consolidation of the Single Grave Culture; 7: Urn People: Further Arrivals and New Developments; 8: Industrial Changes Late Second–Early First Millennia; 9: Final Bronze Age Society; 10: Later Prehistoric Events: The Iron Age and the Celts; 11: Retrospect

`There is much of profit to be gained from this account of Ireland's prehistory. It should meet a widely felt need.' - Times Literary Supplement`Stimulating book ... scholarly and informative ... it will enable the ordinary reader as well as the student to comprehend the vast amount of archaeological work that has been accomplished in Ireland over the last twenty-five years.' - Irish Press`All students of Irish archaeology will need this book, and all Irish libraries will need, not just copies, but spare copies.' - Irish Times`This detailed and wide-ranging work is the starting place for research into Irish prehistory.' - National Museum of Ireland