Politics in the British Isles Politics in the British Isles The British Isles comprise two sovereign states, Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, and three dependencies of the British Crown, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man. Ireland is a unitary state and a republic. Since 1998, it shares certain common institutions with Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom, from which it was partitioned in 1921. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and also a unitary state comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Also since 1998, the United Kingdom has devolved significant domestic powers (though differing in extent) to administrations in Northern
Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles Taylor published the first comprehensive study of the available evidence, entitled "Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles". In 1994, the archaeologist George Eogan published an academic monograph on the subject, entitled "The Accomplished Art: Gold and Gold-Working in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze Age", which was brought out through the U.K.-based Oxbow Books. In it, Eogan noted that his study was "not a "corpus" or catalogue" of artefacts, instead being "an evaluation and interpretation of the material in social terms". Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles refers to