Hello friends! I'm doing a *free* online talk about Filthy Queens and the history of Beer in Ireland for the Dublin Festival of History on Sept 30th from 5pm IST. All welcome. Hope to see some of you there! Link to register: dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/filthy...

6/6 The Lough Kinale Shrine reconstructed! Ireland’s oldest & largest Book Shrine was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake Now, Discovery Programme has used 3D modelling to digitally reconstruct it with @nmireland.bsky.social for #wordsonthewave exhibition: @heritagecouncil.ie

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️ More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Make Your Thursdays Count! Looking for something different after work? 🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM. ✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition 📍 Free entry, no booking needed. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...

Hut site and cairns in the eroding sand dunes on the Doorin Point survey. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social

Eroding shell middens recorded surveying around Doorin Point, Donegal. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social

Checking out the erratics used as land marks, place names, fossils and rock formations on the foreshore around Doorin Point promontory fort in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social #Riagrants @ria.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

This was a really cool find on the recent survey, tracks running for over 500m across the intertidal zone. #climateiretage

Erosion cut through a stream making a new waterfall with the original now dry valley on the townland boundary seen further south. Doorin Point in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social

New research from @oxmartinschool.bsky.social and @smithschool.ox.ac.uk shows policymakers are seriously underestimating how willing the public is to step up on climate action. Read more ⬇️ #OxfordClimate

Good start finding submerged forests and old landing places. Looking forward to going around the promontory fort on Doorin Point when continue in a couple of weeks #RIAgrants @ria.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

For those who caught the @rteone.rte.ie coverage of our work on eroding archaeology on the Copper Coast & would like to know more, check out this tour of Illaunobrick Promontory Fort from our Maritime Archaeologist Dr @edwardpollard.bsky.social: youtu.be/34KhLwKwTHc?... @heritagecouncil.ie

It was great to be back in Donegal working on the Doorin Point coastal zone assessment led by @edwardpollard.bsky.social of @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social #climateiretage #archaeology #climateheritage

In our second EAD celebration, today the CHERISH project (@discoveryprogramme.bsky.social, @rcahmwales.bsky.social, @aberuni.bsky.social, @geolsurvie.bsky.social) launches its UAV dataset, now digitally preserved for long-term open access in the Repository! Find out more: dri.ie/news/europea...

‪🎧 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...

Curator Matt Seaver joins ‪@newstalkfm.bsky.social‬'s #TalkingHistory podcast to reveal the story behind “Words on the Wave” — a stunning new exhibition at @NMIreland. Treasures returned to Ireland after more than 1,000 years. 🎧 Listen: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

We're hiring @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! Seeking a Lecturer/Assistant Professor for the Department of Early Irish and programme in Irish Cultural Heritage @maynoothuniversity.ie next year. Deadline 25 June 2025. More info here: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

A medieval mystery resurfaces. The Lough Kinale Shrine, once lost in an Irish lake, is now conserved. Explore the story of this sacred artefact and its journey through time, then see it in person from 30th May, 2025, at the National Museum of Ireland. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Happy star wars day, from the planet Ahch-to! #maythe4th #donegal #malinhead

Explore the fascinating early medieval Irish depictions of Christ on the Cross. Discover the beautifully illustrated Gospel-book (Cod. Sang. 51) & the Crucifixion plaque from Rinnagan, Co. Roscommon. #NMIBlog #CuratorBlog #Archaeology www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

DRI's @lisagriffith.bsky.social and Stuart Kenny along with members of the @irelandmapped.bsky.social project contributed to a new paper on ‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’: Connecting Collections for Nineteenth-Century Ireland: doi.org/10.5334/johd... #Mapping #OrdnanceSurvey

In the mid-9th century, amidst fierce Viking raids, scribes in northeast Ireland copied a Latin textbook written in 6th-century Constantinople, this manuscript, is key to understanding the Irish language of the time. #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog #CuratorBlog #Archaeology www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

#LoughcrewEquinox Day 7 - Cairn T 3D model. Happy Spring Equinox from Discovery Programme! At Loughcrew, Cairn T’s passage aligns with today's sunrise. Cairn T is managed by @opwireland.bsky.social, it's currently not safe to enter, so we've collaborated to share 3D models of the site

#LoughcrewEquinox Day 6 – Orthostat L2, passage. At Loughcrew, Cairn T’s passage aligns with the equinox sunrise. Loughcrew is managed by @opwireland.bsky.social. It's currently not safe to enter, so we've collaborated to share 3D models of its megalithic art until Equinox (tomorrow!) skfb.ly/puU7F

#LoughcrewEquinox Day 4 – Ceiling Stone At Loughcrew the main tomb’s passage aligns with the equinox sunrise. Loughcrew is managed by @opwireland.bsky.social. It's currently not safe to enter, so we've collaborated to share 3D models of its megalithic art from now until Equinox

📢This year's Irish Historic Towns Atlas seminar is on 'Water, Towns and Topography' in Academy House on 28 May 2025 and is being convened with the Irish Walled Towns Network @heritagecouncil.ie www.ria.ie/2025/03/05/c... Proposals for 20-minute papers are invited by 28 March: Please share #IHTA

He really encapsulates 2025.

The Archaeology Research Grants scheme and Radiocarbon dates scheme are open to applications until 27th March. Both schemes are offered across the island of Ireland and are open to applications from archaeological researchers/archaeologists, including students and PHD candidates.

The Discovery Programme have been collaborating with @nmireland.bsky.social on some of their most exciting artefacts. Read all about the work on the Banagher Cross in their latest blog! We undertook laser scanning & reprocessed the data to create these detailed images of its decorations

Read about some of the great collaborative work between @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social and @nmireland.bsky.social here. Looking forward to the Words on the Wave exhibition launching soon.

#frameworksfebruary 5/8 In the Frameworks for Archaeological Research #FAR survey we asked... In your opinion, which of the following represents the single biggest challenge to the conduct of future research on the island? You answered... @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

Happy Valentine’s Day! 💘 Holed stones in the landscape are prehistoric in origin, but over time became associated with oath-taking, used by lovers for making promises or getting engaged. We found these holed stones during CHERISH project fieldwork, perhaps used for this purpose #cherishlegacy

Say it with Megafauna on February 14th! Cave art drawing of a mammoth, perhaps showing the position of the heart. From El Pindal Cave, Asturias, Spain. Around 15,000 years old. Photo: Berenguer (1994) 🦣❤️🏺

Spread the word! There is now a climate & heritage feed. Tag with #climateheritage for all things related to climate change impacts on tangible & intangible cultural heritage & what to do about it. 🏺🧪🗃️🌎 bsky.app/profile/did:...

I love this great local example of heritage interpretation. Well done all involved! www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

📢𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 #𝐂𝐌𝐅𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Our Community Monuments Fund is currently open for applications. 👉 tinyurl.com/2p96vbu7 If interested in applying, please get in contact with your Local Authority. youtu.be/LFgUMNFQkac #HeritageIreland2030 #ClimatEireitage #Conservation #CastleviewMills

That ending gets me every time…

Experience the winter solstice at Newgrange. #wintersolstice #archaeology

Historic England are recruiting for 4 marine data analyst posts. Sadly we are all very happy here at MSDS but if we weren't we would apply so have a look if you fancy a change of role that will help do something pretty cool with marine data: app.beapplied.com/apply/uvjssu...

We have made a start on a maritime archaeology starter pack. It is very much a work in progress so if you would like to be added or think we should add someone please shout! go.bsky.app/TUn9A7A

#12days2solstice Day 9 Orthostat C10 Situated on the righthand side of the tomb's rear recess, a motif of 3 double spirals can be seen on its main face. The Discovery Programme scanned it in 2014 & re-processed the scan data in 2024 as part of #5Dculture skfb.ly/psVwV @timemachine.eu

“Ding dong! Merrily on high” is an insane way to start a song, and I respect it so much, but to then commit to the chaos by demanding your sopranos to sing “Gloria” with 33 syllables for just the letter “O” is king-level genius!

Is a moon-bow a thing?

#12Days2Solstice Day 6 Orthostat C3 C3 is at the back of the west recess. The Discovery Programme scanned it in 2014 & re-processed the data in 2024 to create this model for #5Dculture buff.ly/3OVTQjg @timemachine.eu

Twelve Days to Solstice - Day 3 Kerbstone 52, Newgrange K52 is located on the north side of the mound, diametrically opposite K1. The Discovery Programme scanned K52 in 2014 & re-processed the data in 2024 to create this model for #5Dculture project skfb.ly/psN6I @timemachine.eu #12days2solstice

#12Days2Solstice - Day 1 Orthostat R21, located on the east side of the tomb’s passage. @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social scanned it & re-processed the data in 2024 to create this model as part of the #5Dculture project skfb.ly/psIEz @timemachine.eu

A lot of people will tell you we're a Roman Palace. We are in fact a moon-sized super-weapon capable of destroying a planet. (Better with sound).