This book surveys the way the ordinary social life was lived in Ireland before the advent of written records. The late Laurence Flanagan, a distinguised archaeologist, takes us on a journey through the mesolithic period 8000BC, the neolithic period 4000BC, and the bronze age 2000BC to 700BC.

The reader is given a reconstruction of the social life of these earlier dwellers.

A must have for both layman and students of Irish history and archaeology.