The book’s full title is IVERNI – A Prehistory of Cork.
This book explores the prehistory of county Cork from the earliest human settlement to the Romano-British era, ending with the beginning of Christianity. The author admits that limiting the book’s scope to the boundaries of the county is an arbitrary enterprise that has more to do with modern assumptions about readership and the business of heritage interpretation.
The book richly illustrated with good colour photographs, diagrams, maps, and drawings, and divided into chapters: the prehistoric landscape, the Stone Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, death and religion in the Bronze Age, warfare and society in the late Bronze Age, and the Celtic and Roman Iron Ages. There is a short concluding section on the myths of a sacred landscape.