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An investigation of the places in the Irish landscape where
open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held from the
twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. This investigation considers
the places on the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal
inauguration assemblies were held in the period c. 1100-1600.
Specially designated inauguration sites played an important role in
the political life of Gaelic lordships in later medieval Ireland.
Gaelic ruling families often appropriated prehistoric ritual
landscapes for their royal assemblies in order to attach the
pedigree of a royal candidate to an illustrious past; such sites
might be an alleged burial place of an eponymous ancestor or a
legendary heroic figure, or an ancient landscape associated with
renowned events. This study of their physical appearance,
place-names, and geographicaland historical contexts ranges over
all the archaeological sites identified as inauguration places -
enclosures, sepulchral mounds, natural places, ringforts and
churches, and associated inauguration furniture in the form of
leaca and stone thrones, basin stones and sacred trees. Irish royal
assembly places and practices are viewed in relation to sites
elsewhere in Britain and greater Europe, and the circumstances that
brought about the ending of the Gaelic practice of inauguration are
also considered. ELIZABETH FitzPATRICK is Lecturer in Medieval
Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
The period c. 1200-1600 was marked by the achievements and decline
of the Anglo-Norman colony in Ireland, refashioning of Gaelic elite
identity, Reformation, and reassertion of English control that led
to Plantation projects, bringing new people and ideas to the
island. This collection explores the complexities and predicaments
of identity, and the cultural practices used to express and
underpin them in this key period, ranging from the micro-scale and
personal to the macro-scale emergence of ideas of national
identity. The authors consider the extent to which there was a
relational character to identities in Ireland, whereby senses of
being were constructed through engagements with others, and how the
power of the past, in both framing and providing stability for
identity formulations, is explicit in the ways in which groups
intentionally evoked their own histories and connections to place,
to reaffirm and bolster identity and solidarity. Cultural practices
could become naturalised through repetition and, as reflections of
identity, they were formed, transformed or abandoned when necessary
or expedient.
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