Tara. A Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland. London: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 1931. First Edition. Green buckram boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A nice bright copy.

Illustrated with sixteen plates & a map.

Drawing on excavation reports, early Irish literature, mythological cycles, and comparative religion, Macalister presented Tara as the ritual and political heart of prehistoric Ireland.

His central argument—that Tara functioned as a pagan ceremonial complex with deep mythic significance—was bold for its time and helped cement Tara’s place in the Irish cultural imagination.