Moore, D., ed. (1970). The Irish Sea Province in Archaeology and History. Cambrian Archaeological Association.

A short summary (Mesolithic to Bronze Age) concentrating mainly on megalithic tombs

A short paper summarising the long history of the tens of thousands of structures generically called 'Irish Ring-Forts' but shown to date from late Neolithic to the 17h century AD

Chadwick makes detailed exploration of the differences and similarities in literary traditions of pagan Ireland and West Britain. She concludes that while Irish heroic literature originated and developed in Ireland, Irish magic had its background in Britain and reached Ireland across the Irish Sea. Only a few fragments of Irish heroic tradition seems to have reached Wales. A brief look at Early Christian literature 'indicates a close and long-standing unity of culture among the Celtic peoples around the shores of the Irish Sea.'

Sawyer draws mainly on chronicle, language, personal- and place-name and coin evidence to summarise 200 years of Viking raids and colonisation of the islands of north and west of Scotland and the coasts of Ireland. From these strongholds Vikings raided the both Irish and Welsh settlements and monasteries. Records for a second wave of Viking raiding in the 10th century, after determined resistance had driven them out of Dublin in the later 9th century, are confused by the willingness of the Irish themselves to raid their neighbours for goods and cattle at this time.

An overview of traditional forms of Irish farmhouse - highlighting differences between the highland north and west and lowland south and east. With rather crudely drawn distribution maps.