Reframing the first millennium AD in Ireland: archaeology, history, landscape

Abstract

contexts remain unexplored. It is no doubt a somewhat hackneyed trope to suggest that archaeology, its imperatives, and wider thematic concerns, remain subordinated to historical analyses, both in Ireland and elsewhere. Yet, this subordination is arguably the main reason why archaeologies of first millennium AD Ireland occupy a marginalised position within wider European research agendas and discourses. As such, the subordination of archaeological