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It is a handsome, scholarly, authoritative, lavishly illustrated volume covering textile finds in Irish archaeology from the Mesolithic period... to the modern era--Niall MacMonagle ""Sunday Independent"" The book, rich in detail across 500 pages is painstaking in its analysis of textile composition, has an extensive bibliography, index and many charts and illustrations...It will be invaluable reading for historians, archaeologists and others interested in Irish material culture for a long time to come. --Deirdre McQuillan ""The Irish Times""

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Elizabeth Wincott Heckett is a retired archaeologist who specialised in the study of the archaeological textiles of Ireland for more than thirty years. Shortly after receiving her MA from University College Cork, she published her research into a group of headcoverings worn by tenth-century women in Viking Dublin, which were found in the Wood Quay excavations. Wincott Heckett gained worldwide recognition for this style of headcovering, which became known as the 'Dublin Cap'. Over her long career, she researched and wrote about the earliest textiles of Ireland, from artefacts long held in museum collections to finds that surfaced during recent roadworks. She consulted with leading archaeologists throughout Ireland, including Raghnall O Floinn, former director of the National Museum of Ireland, Maurice F. Hurley, Conleth Manning, Alan Hayden, Sheila Lane and Claire Walsh. She was a part-time faculty member in the Archaeology Department of University College Cork. Her skill as a teacher and her gift for public speaking inspired students and wider audiences alike. Mary Ann Williams is a writer and editor who specialises in writing about heritage. She has a lifelong interest in textiles, archaeology and textile history. In Ireland her clients have included St Patrick's Cathedral, the County Museum, Dundalk, the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre and the Heritage Officers of Counties Laois and Offaly. She edited and shaped the text of Stories from a Sacred Landscape: Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise (Caimin O'Brien, Mercier 2005), a book about monastic sites in Offaly. In the United States, her clients have included the Field Museum of Natural History, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Shedd Aquarium. She met Wincott Heckett while doing research on an historical novel about spinning, set in Early Christian Ireland.

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