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Welcome to this, my 10th, ramble through what I find interesting in Irish archaeology and beyond. If you sign up for a free Academia.edu account you can always come and follow my work too! But before you do any of that, please take a moment to look at Stuart Rathbone's new book: Archaeological Boundaries. Discussions, Experiments and Unprovoked Attacks.


Philip Macdonald: Excavations in the Vicinity of St Jarlath’s Church, Clonfeacle, County Tyrone
Philip Macdonald: Excavations at Crossreagh West, County Londonderry
Philip Macdonald: Dundrum Castle, County Down: An Overview and Excavation Report

John Waddell: Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon: where the Táin Bó Cúailnge began
John Waddell: The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland

John Waddell & Jane Conroy: Celts and others: maritime contacts and linguistic change

Christina Fredengren: Lisnacrogher in a landscape perspective

Spencer Carter: Monitoring of Mesolithic Lithic Sites at Esklets, Westerdale, North York Moors, England: Field observations made in August 2015 with interim archaeological summaries

Merryn Dineley: The craft of the maltster

Marion Dowd: Caves on the Blarney Castle estate, Co. Cork, and the association between caves and castles in medieval Ireland

Robert Hensey, Pádraig Meehan, Marion Dowd, & Sam Moore: A century of archaeology – historical excavation and modern research at the Carrowkeel passage tombs, County Sligo

Finbar McCormick: Struell Wells:pagan past and Christian present

Áine Foley: Violent crime in medieval Dublin: a symptom of degeneracy?

Jessica Smyth: The Role of the House in Early Neolithic Ireland
Jessica Smyth: The house and group identity in the Irish Neolithic

Alison Sheridan: Little and large: the miniature 'carved stone ball' beads from the eastern passage tomb under the main mound at Knowth, Ireland, and their broader significance

Paul Stevens: The Early Medieval Church in Ireland and its Impact on Transformations in the Irish Economy

Clare Downham: 'Hiberno-Norwegians' and 'Anglo-Danes': Anachronistic Ethnicities in Viking Age England
Clare Downham: Viking identities in Ireland: it's not all black and white
Clare Downham: Viking Ethnicities: A historiographic overview

Cóilín Ó Drisceoil: Archaeological Excavations at the Bishop's Palace (Robing Room), Saint Canice's Cathedral Close, Kilkenny
Cóilín Ó Drisceoil: The Burial Monuments of St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny: An Inventory

Julian Thomas: On the origins and development of cursus monuments in Britain

Stephen Davis, William Megarry, Conor Brady, Helen Lewis, Thomas Cummins, Loreto Guinan, Jonathan Turner, Colman Gallagher,Tony Brown and Robert Meehan: Boyne Valley Landscape Project

Patrick Gleeson: Kingdoms, Communities and Óenaig: Irish assembly practices in their Northwest European context
Patrick Gleeson: Constructing Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland: Power, Place and Ideology

Catherine Swift: The gods of Newgrange in Irish literature and Romano-Celtic tradition


Lucy J. E. Cramp, Jennifer Jones, Alison Sheridan, Jessica Smyth, Helen Whelton, Jacqui Mulville, Niall Sharples, & Richard P. Evershed: Immediate replacement of fishing with dairying by the earliest farmers of the northeast Atlantic archipelagos
Location: Belfast, Belfast, UK

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