Delighted that @drclairenolan.bsky.social has joined @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social as Project Researcher for @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project.
PP examines how deep-time past, is used in environmental policy. Claire is a fabulous addition to the team!
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We bade farewell to our Student Administrator Lisa Rogers today. We are bereft at her leaving, but delighted for her, with her new position as a Senior Executive Assistant elsewhere in UCD. Thank you Lisa, from the bottom of our hearts for all you’ve done for our community over the last three years💐
‘A Millet Odyssey: a kaleidoscopic journey through the time, matter, and memory of a crop’
Dr Andrés Teira-Brión, BIOPOLIS/CIBIO – University of Porto
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Seminar Series.
Tue 21 Apr, 4:00–5:00pm. Ardmore Annex Seminar Room
@ucddublin.bsky.social, @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
Congratulations to Sam Kinorns, IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar, and Jennifer McCarthy, MLitt student, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
on their contributions to the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland conference in Cork this weekend.
@researchireland.ie, @ucddublin.bsky.social
'Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe'
Edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies & Aidan O’Sullivan
Major new volume providing a unique new Europe-wide perspective on medieval rural settlement.
Pre-order or download: www.archaeopress.com/9781805833147
‘Different strokes: changing identities and connectivity between Iron Age Ireland and Northern Britain’
Congratulations to Dr Rena Maguire on this major publication undertaken as part of her IRC @researchireland.ie GOI Postdoctoral Fellowship @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.1080/0066...
National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of building
‘The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection … is “at full capacity” and not at the standard required to safely preserve the items, the museum board’s chair has said.’
Thanks to the lovely Ballyfermot Library staff for hosting our exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” until 4 Jun, exploring how artefacts from Kilmainham Gaol Museum and refugees today tell moving stories of resilience.
@dublincitylibs.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie
Congratulations to Dr Martin Moucheron on being awarded a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social as recently announced by @researchireland.ie:
www.researchireland.ie/news/government-of-ireland-pg-postdoc/
people.ucd.ie/martin.mouch...
@ucddublin.bsky.social
‘Rathfarnham Castle and its Place in Early Modern Architectural History’
Lecture by Prof Tadhg O’Keeffe @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Rathfarnham Castle, Sat 25 Apr 2026, 3.30pm (Doors open 3pm).
Tickets €5 from Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rathfarnha...
heritageireland.ie/places-to-vi...
'From the Cradle to the Grave: Homo naledi and Other Humans Before Humans'
Dr Zachary Cofran, @vassar.bsky.social Vassar College
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Seminar Series
Date: Tuesday, 7 April, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: Ardmore Annex Seminar Room
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
Join our Taught Postgraduate webinar on Mon 13 Apr, 12pm IST.
✒️Learn about our range of on campus and online graduate programmes.
✒️Hear from staff and students.
✒️Find out about Archaeology careers.
✒️Ask questions to discover what it’s like to study at UCD.
To register. www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...
Archaeology & Folklore Bake Off 2026
Wed April 1, 10:00–13:00
Ardmore Annex Coffee Room
Join us to sample entries by the 12 contestants and see who receives the prizes for best overall, best tasting, most authentic, best undergrad (Folklore), and best undergrad (Archaeology).
'From the Cradle to the Grave: Homo naledi and Other Humans Before Humans'
Dr Zachary Cofran, @vassar.bsky.social Vassar College
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Seminar Series
Date: Tuesday, 7 April, 4:00–5:00 PM
Location: Ardmore Annex Seminar Room
@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
Pictured: ANSOC team members Dr Kate Kanne, Prof. Joanne Brück and Dr Floor Huisman.
Huge congratulations to our fantastic colleague, Dr Floor Huisman (right), who will be finishing up with the @erc.europa.eu funded ANSOC project this month to take up an exciting new position as Scientific Research and Archaeological Trainee Programme Coordinator with ADC ArcheoProjecten.
ansoc.net
Pictured: Marc Morris, Maighread Southward Wray, unnamed attendee, Ella Jones and Brendan DuMoulin. Photo: Charlotte Molloy.
Congratulations @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social students and graduates at the AYIA in Belfast. Students and alumni (Marc Morris, Maighread Southward Wray, Ella Jones & Brendan DuMoulin) presented excellent papers and research scientist Charlotte Molloy also attended. Marc also won for best presentation.
Best wishes to the Association of Young Irish Archaeologists 2026 conference in Queens University Belfast this weekend and good luck to the everyone from @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social presenting papers and posters. It promises to be a great weekend.
www.instagram.com/p/DU-e_npCJrA/
UCD’s early medieval roundhouse under construction (thatching in progress here) at University College Dublin’s Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC)
Come study for MSc, Graduate Diploma or online Grad Cert with us!
@experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
That’s Ryan over on right side, in front
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social On Campus MSc in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology. Seminars, lectures, practicals, lab/field work. Open now for Sept 2026 entry. Join the UCD Hunter-Gatherer Research Group! (There's cake...).
Photos (c) @shahbazmajeed.bsky.social 2023
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
Many congratulations to UCD researchers Dr Sara Benedi Lahuerta and Dr Ryan Lash, who have been appointed to the Young Academy of Ireland in recognition of their contributions as emerging leaders in research and innovation.
👏 @ria.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Get your Archaeology podcasts here with Abarta Heritage!!! All the experts, all the best Irish archaeology stories and insights
www.abartaheritage.ie/amplify-arch...
ARCH41270: Archaeological Field Methods students digging at CEAMC
Investigating an experimental iron production site (charcoal pit, smelting furnace, slag and debris) and the final stages of a Bronze Age wooden figures experiment (see below video for that project)
@experimentarchaeol.bsky.social
Brendan and Samantha are looking forward to their talk this evening for the “Housing Ambition Project”! Thanks to all our colleagues in the Department of Architecture (University of Nairobi) for all their kind support during their trip!
We’re teaching experimental archaeology and archaeological excavation skills this next two weeks at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Popped into our early medieval roundhouse
Makes you think of the thinginess of things, but especially the overwhelming woodiness of the past
Explore the cultures of the Mediterranean from prehistory to late Antiquity, from Greece to North Africa to Iberia with us on our new Graduate Diploma and MSc programmes at #ucdmediterraneanarchaeology in @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and @ucdclassics.bsky.social at @ucddublin.bsky.social
Our piece in The Conversation about the massacre and mass grave at Early Iron Age Gomolava, reflecting on aspects of its resonance today theconversation.com/a-2-850-year... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
The Housing Ambition team thank Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, George Morara Orina and his team for warmly receiving Brendan O'Neill, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and Samantha Martin, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy to discuss the richness of Kenya's archival history.
UCD's 'Housing Ambition' project team thank Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, George Morara Orina, & his team (Timothy and Jackie) for warmly receiving Dr Brendan O'Neill & Dr Samantha Martin. A great conversation about Kenya's recent archival history, its richness, and our shared long-term vision.
We have been delighted to host a visit from Dr Cecilia Rose Collins to Dr Anita Radini thanks to an Erasmus+ grant as a recent graduate of the University of Iceland. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Reykjavík University with a grant from Rannís, the Icelandic Centre for Research.
