The “library” finally finished, almost two years after moving in; it’s got bookshelves, lamps, candles, and …books! 🥰 📚

Newmarket Square, Dublin 8, pretty inspiring isn’t it? A car park, derelict public toilet, dead trees, offices, apartments to exploit international students, skips, a waste facility, derelict buildings and boarded up pub awaiting developers #dublin8 #dublin #derelictireland

Announcing 'Demobbed', our conference on the experiences of military veterans after demobilisation, to be held 30-31 May 2025. Submit your paper proposals to me (see below tweet for details) 👇

We’re delighted to welcome our new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow, Mark Haughton to UCD Archaeology! Mark just finished a postdoc with Mette Lovschal Aarhus University and will now start work on his new project 'The Wool Age: rethinking social life in later prehistoric Europe'! #msca

Congratulations to our Archaeology colleagues in University of Galway on their one hundred years of archaeology in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway, 1924-2024. A fascinating lecture series too!

'New analysis of the Fourknocks passage tomb' National Heritage Week presentation by Assoc Prof Jessica Smyth and her collaborator Dr Jonny Geber HCAatEdinburgh speaking on their Royal Irish Academy funded research available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=TsPJh1… National Monuments Service The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre

As part of the upcoming Ríocht production a new mural is being painted on the walls of Kevin's clubhouse on Donore Avenue and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to have their say via this Google form, which takes less than 1 minute forms.gle/54vJCrktjznbbx…

Or for God’s sake - can people just not… 😳

This is interesting - Kevin’s Hurling & Camogie Club and a local artist collaborating to create a mural representing… well, they’re asking local people #StreetArt #CitizenArt ?

Ahead of the conference, we're showcasing our fabulous line-up of talks. Starting with our first keynote by Roberta Gilchrist of Archaeology@Reading: Medieval Ritual Objects in the Landscape - Mapping Meaningful Deposition. 1/3

ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies. Houses, textiles, pigments & dyes, pot firing - what’s next?

A reminder this wonderful event is coming up!

There's a lot to look forward to this month for members of Tuatha. From a new in-depth course with Dr. Sharon Greene, a tour of the Dingle Peninsula with Isabel Bennett, and a Tuatha Talk with Prof. Aidan O'Sullivan, there's definitely an early medieval feel to this September!

We’ll miss it when it’s gone… I’ve always found academic Twitter to be excellent: smart people who know their subjects, delighted to communicate knowledge, respectful of everyone. The space is becoming darker, but there it is: as archaeologists can tell you, all things end…