Archaeology Ireland Magazine
Established in 1987, Archaeology Ireland magazine is Ireland’s leading archaeology magazine, published quarterly.
Editor: Grace O'Keeffe
Subscriptions can be taken out here: archaeologyireland.ie
- Looking forward to the IPMAG conference in Waterford this weekend! 'Death & Superstition in Post-Medieval Ireland.' Organised by IPMAG with Waterford Treasures and supported by the National Monuments Service. . Full conference programme available here: www.ipmag.org/ipmagconfere...
- Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China! (via CBS news). www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient...
- In the current issue of Archaeology Ireland (Winter 2025): Roisin O’Droma and Niamh Millward explore early modern Dublin through cesspit evidence from Capel Street—using plant and insect remains to reconstruct diet and daily life.
- A remarkable display of the Aurora Borealis over Brú na Bóinne last night. While prehistoric monuments were not built to anticipate aurorae, the skies above them were deeply meaningful places. These ideas are explored in Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide No. 82: Solar Alignments.
- The Swinford Torc — a provenance ‘cold case’ In the current issue of Archaeology Ireland (Vol. 39, No. 4), Michael Brabazon re-examines the Swinford Torc, exploring questions of origin, discovery and context — and how provenance research can reshape our understanding of iconic Irish artefacts.
- In the current issue of Archaeology Ireland, Maedbh McEvoy reviews 'An Irish Civil War Dugout: Tormore Cave, County Sligo' by Marion Dowd, Robert Mulraney & James Bonsall—a multidisciplinary study revealing how dugouts shaped Civil War tactics and memory. www.archaeologyireland.ie
- A knitted cap doesn’t look extraordinary—until you try to make one! In this current issue of Archaeology Ireland Ryan Daniel Koenig reconstructs the sixteenth-century Ballybunion knitted cap, revealing the immense skill, time and embodied knowledge behind what was once everyday clothing.
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxE_... Landscapes with Lineage (TII Heritage Series, vol. 16) presents the results of archaeological investigations along the Kildare section of the M9, revealing 97 previously unknown sites and almost 9,000 years of human activity. Congratulations to all involved!
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- The Heritage Guide that accompanies the Winter 2025 issue of Archaeology Ireland is on 'Kilmallock: A Walled Town in Limerick'. The Heritage Guides are a brilliant series which are free to subscribers and also available to purchase separately from wordwellbooks.com.
- A beautiful new limited edition book on the Spanish Armada in Ireland is available now at wordwellbooks.com. This stunning book is a collaboration between @nationalmons.bsky.social, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Real Academia de la Historia.
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- The amazing 'Words on the Wave' project from the National Museum of Ireland has been shortlisted for the Current Archaeology research project of the year. To read more about it and cast your vote, all the details are here! archaeology.co.uk/awards/resea...
- We were delighted to hear that 'Baltinglass and the Prehistoric Hillforts of Ireland' has been shortlisted in the Book of the Year category in the Current Archaeology Awards! Voting for the awards is live now at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote and voting is open to everyone!
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- Lovely piece on the bones of the European wildcat found in Glencurran Cave, Co. Clare, dated to +5,500 years ago, covered by RTE today. The research on this is by Dr Marion Dowd (ATU), and published in the latest edition of the Journal of Irish Archaeology. www.rte.ie/news/munster...
- A new book coming this week from the National Museum of Ireland and Wordwell, this really beautiful work on Irish Ceramics by Aisling Molloy.
- Very excited to see the cover of the latest edition of Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2025! Featuring wonderful pieces, from the Ballybunion knitted cap to the Swinford Torc, and many more. In the shops or, for subscribers, in your letterboxes next week.
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- JOHN BRADLEY MEMORIAL WEEKEND October 31 @ 5:00 pm – November 1 @ 5:00 pm GMT Join the Kilkenny Archaeological Society for the Annual John Bradley Memorial Weekend. This year’s theme is William Robertson, (1770-1850) Kilkenny’s First Architect.
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- Professor Aidan O’Sullivan 📍 Talk Title: Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100 Professor Aidan O’Sullivan is Head of School and Professor of Archaeology at University College Dublin. 🎟️ Booking now open: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
- Cork University Press recently published an interesting book titled Textiles of Ireland: Archaeology, Craft, Art by Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. www.corkuniversitypress.com/978178205571...
- Our second speaker is Professor Howard Williams 📍 Dykes as deeds? Re-evaluating linear earthworks from early medieval Britain Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions Saturday 18 October 2025 | 🕘 9:15–17:30 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin Register now: bit.ly/Within-Without
- 🎟️ Concession places now available 📍 Trinity College Dublin or online 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025 | 9:15–17:30 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions — the 8th Annual @nationalmonumentsservice Conference. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Within-Without
- 📚 Archives of Archaeology Ireland Fixing Boundaries 📰 Archaeology Ireland, Summer 1997 (Vol. 11:2) In the lead-up to Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions, we’re sharing articles that examine boundaries past and present. 📖 Read the article here: 🔗 reader.exacteditions.com/issues/81489...
- As part of their summer lecture series Rathmichael Historical Society will be hosting a talk on the Boyne Valley Landscape with Stephen Mandal. This talk will take place on the 11th of August at 8pm.
- 🎟️ Concession places now available 📍 Trinity College Dublin or online 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025 | 9:15–17:30 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions — the 8th Annual @nationalmonumentsservice Conference. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Within-Without
- Dr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil 📣 Where power lies: Ireland’s Iron Age earthworks as territorial oppida. Cóilín is with @nationalmonumentsirl and co-authored Materialising Power on the Black Pig’s Dyke. 🎟️ bit.ly/Within-Without 📍 Trinity College Dublin, 18 Oct #WithinWithout2025 #IrishArchaeology
- Meath Archaeological and Historical Society will host a lecture titled ‘The Story of Old Mosney’ with Colin Byrne. The lecture will be held in Bettystown Library on July 29th at 7:30pm
- 🎟️ Concession places now available 📍 Trinity College Dublin or online 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025 | 9:15–17:30 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions — the 8th Annual @nationalmonumentsservice Conference. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Within-Without
- An exciting new book, Dublin’s Industrial Heritage, will be launched by Senator Michael McDowell this evening in Rathmines Library at 6pm. All are welcome! 🗓️ Tonight, July 17th, 6pm 📍 Rathmines Library 🎤 Launched by Senator Michael McDowell
- 📚 From the Archives of Archaeology Ireland 📰 Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2008 (Vol. 22:4) To mark the upcoming Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions conference, we’re sharing an article from the Archaeology Ireland archive. 📖Read the article here: 🔗 reader.exacteditions.com/issues/54689...
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- Sligo Field Club will be hosting an outing to Rathcroghan and Roscommon Castle on July 19th. Departing from Sligo Retail Park (F91 Y030) at 9.00am and returning at 6.00pm. For more details click below! sligofieldclub.ie/lecture/outi...
- 📰 Community Archaeology: More Questions than Answers Archaeology Ireland, Autumn 2016 (Vol. 30:3) 📖 Read: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/55360... 🎟 Register for Within|Without: bit.ly/Within-Without
- The Kerry Archaeology and Historical Society will be holding a walking tour with Prof. Maurice Bric on the 13th of July at 2pm leaving from Fair Field, Cahirsiveen Garda Station
- 🎟️ Concession places now available 📍 Trinity College Dublin or online 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025 | 9:15–17:30 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions — the 8th Annual @nationalmonumentsservice Conference. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Within-Without
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- The summer edition of Archaeology Ireland features a wonderful book titled Ballynahatty: Excavations in a Neolithic Monumental Landscape (Oxbow Books). This book features one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring.
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- Date for the diary: the TII Heritage week seminar, 'Foundations', will take place on 21 August in the RIA, Dawson St. @ria.ie Registration from 9am, with first presentation at 9.50am. Full details here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/foundation...
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- A new study in Cambridge Archaeological Journal (Carlin N, Smyth J, Frieman CJ, et al) has suggested that 'kinship' in Neolithic Ireland was less about blood ties or dynasties and more about shared beliefs and community. Your family was who you shared life with. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Archaeology Ireland Magazine🎧 Listen: @niamhwycherley.bsky.social(Maynooth Univ.) Explores the unique exhibition Words on the Wave: Ireland & St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe on the Medieval Irish History Podcast—joined by Dr. Diarmuid Ó Riain & Matt Seaver (NMI). open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
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- Launched in 2021, the St Anne's Park Community Archaeology Programme is an interdepartmental project of DCC and Archaeology & Built Heritage Ltd, connecting communities w/ their archaeology, heritage & social history. This wonderful project is featured in the current edition of Archaeology Ireland.
- For anyone interested in the development of Open Access publishing in Ireland, PublishOA and the Royal Irish Academy have released a wonderful report mapping the landscape of scholarly publishing on the island. The report is free to download and available for you here: zenodo.org/records/1563...
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- 'It is safe to say that I, and many others interested in the later prehistory of Ireland, have been waiting for this book for decades.' Lovely review of 'A Hillfort through Time: Excavations at Rathgall, Co Wicklow' (Wordwell) from our friends over at Current Archaeology.
- Concession Places Available Limited spots—early booking recommended. 🔴 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions 🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025 🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 Attend in person or online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Within-Without
- The new edition of Archaeology Ireland just landed on the desk and it's looking great! Many thanks to all our wonderful contributors. In the shops this weekend.
- Reposted by Archaeology Ireland MagazineAncient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog
- 🎟️ Concession Places Available Limited spots—early booking recommended. 🔴 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions 🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025 🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 Attend in person or online 🔗 Register: bit.ly/Within-Without
- Medieval archaeology biscuits? Of course that can be done! Check out the amazing creations of @ellamchawk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Archaeology Ireland MagazineOnline Graduate Certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (by Distance Learning) at UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin Closing Date for 2025/2026 Applications is 30th June 2025. (but this is an Irish deadline, so y'know...) www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
- One of the wonderful books reviewed in the upcoming issue of Archaeology Ireland is 'Textiles of Ireland', looking at the work of archaeologist and textile specialist Elizabeth Wincott Heckett. This fine collection is edited by Mary Ann Williams and published by Cork University Press.
- Lovely piece in the Irish Times today on the Words on the Wave exhibition in the National Museum! One of the highlights they mention is the wonderful Faddan More Psalter. If you would like to check out the book on the subject, this is available from Wordwell here: wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro...
- 🎧 New History Ireland Hedge School, out now A Future for Our Past—Museums in the 21st Century What are museums for? How have they evolved in Ireland over the last 30 years? Are there too many—or too few? And in divided societies, how do they serve the public? historyireland.com/hedge-schools/
- We're delighted to say that the new excavations.ie website, the national database of archaeological excavation reports in Ireland, is now live. Have a browse! With thanks to the National Monuments Service, the Dept of Housing, Local Govt & Heritage and The Wordwell Group.
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- The Summer 2025 issue of Archaeology Ireland is about to go to press and it's looking wonderful. An advance peak at the cover for you here. The gentleman on the cover is St Matthew with his tablets, from 1395, from the library at St Gallen.
