Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

John at work in Rhetoric House, Maynooth, 2001 John Bradley passed away on Friday 7th November 2014 after a short illness. In the time since, there have been a number of tributes to him both as a leading scholar and as a genuinely affable person. These include a statement from Kilkenny Archaeological Society , a piece in the Kilkenny People newspaper, and the setting up of a Facebook memorial page . In time these will, undoubtedly, be followed by considered obituaries in scholarly journals and magazines that critically assess his influence and impact on his areas of study. In the meantime, others have taken to social media to share photographs and memories, offer condolences to those he leaves behind, and voice thanks for his scholarship and friendship. I would simply like to add my voice to this growing body of personal tributes to a great scholar and a genial mentor. May 1977 I first met John during 1990, the final year of my BA degree. As the incumbent staff hadn...

Appendix > If I like you, I like you. For me that’s a pretty simple philosophy. Similarly, when it comes to academic pursuits – if I like and respect your work it’s because I do actually like and respect your work. What I’m getting at here is that I don’t have any particular agendas when it comes to the age, sex, gender, ethnicity, or whatever else you care to mention. Basically, if you’re doing interesting work (or, at least work that I find interesting – which is inevitably bound up in its own collection of biases) I don’t particularly care if you’re male or female, what colour skin you’ve got, or who you choose to sleep with. That all sounds laudably liberal, but it does put me in the odd position that certain things are largely invisible to me as they’re totally off my radar. They don’t bother me because I not always aware that I need to be bothered. Sometimes it takes someone stating the blindingly obvious (to everyone else) for me to recognise that a problem even exis...

Back to the Main Post > This brief appendix lays out the data I rely on for the main post. Where I've been able to discern the sex of the individual, I've categorised them as Male or Female, but if this has not been possible I've marked them as 'Unsure'. I'd appreciate input from anyone who can assist in resolving these last few lacunae in the data. No. Year Rhind Lecturer M F Unsure 1-2. 1874-78 Arthur Mitchell 1 3-6, & 16. 1879-82 & 1892 Joseph Anderson 1 7 1883 Rev J Collingwood Bruce 1 8 1884 Sir Samuel Ferguson 1 9 1885 J Romilly Allen 1 10 1886 David Masson 1 11 1887 Alexander S Murray 1 12 1888 Robert Munro 1 13 1889 John Rhys 1 14 1890 Professor J Duns 1 15 1891 John B...