“The Cult of St Leo in Inishark: A Creative Heritage” Dr Ryan Lash, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Presentation as part of the Dublin Festival of History at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin 2. 3 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/the-cu... @nlireland.bsky.social

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time. 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

All the best to Dr Ben Spillane and other contributors to “1,111 Years of History in 111 Minutes: A Whirlwind Journey Through Waterford’s Incredible Past” as part of Culture Night tonight at House of Waterford, Waterford.

As part of the #ANSOC project Prof Joana Brück's recent invited lecture ("Decolonising European prehistory") at the International Society of Biomolecular Archaeologists conference in Turin can now be viewed online! #BronzeAge #ERC media.unito.it?content=11522

Congratulations to Dr Penny Johnson, Eva Kourela and other contributors to the upcoming "Beneath Our Feet: Art & Archaeology Exhibition" 20 Sept–8 Oct, St Peters, Cork. It will feature the work of a range of archaeologist and artists and promises to be a great event. www.corkcity.ie/en/council-s...

The team is ready ✅ The venues are still standing ✅ The programme is live ✅ The tickets are on sale (and selling fast!) ✅ Then join us @ucddublin.bsky.social forthe Bronze Age Forum 2025! #BronzeAge #BAF2025 Spread the word and we'll see you in November! bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

Congratulation to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social students graduating this week including Kevin Cooke, Adam Bolger, Deirdre O’Connor, Kevin Whooley and Hannah Costello at today’s BSc Social Science conferring. It was a pleasure to be part of your time at UCD and all the best for your new paths. 🎉👨🏽‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓🍾🥳👏

Congratulations to Prof Aidan O’Sullivan & Dr Brendan O’Neill; Assoc Prof Jessica Smyth; Assoc Prof Neil Carlin; and Assoc Prof Helen Lewis on securing four of the 2024 Research Ireland COALESCE grants. www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc... @ucddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning! First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc

Interested in doing a PhD on hunter-gatherer archaeology with me at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social ? Main source of funding is Research Ireland scholarships - see below. Call opens 11 Sept, deadline 23 Oct. Contact me to discuss potential projects. Please share! www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Interested in post-doctoral research on hunter-gatherers with me at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social? Main source of funding is from Research Ireland (see below). Deadline 23/10/25. Please contact me to discuss. www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Interested in experimental archaeology & material culture? This online graduate certificate at UCD is just the best fun - and you can do it from your own home! hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...

‘Decolonizing European prehistory’ Congratulation to Prof. Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on being an invited speaker at International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology 11 in Turin tomorrow. “I have come to realize that colonial thinking has had a profound impact” www.isba11.com

Congrats to UCD Archaeology's Dr Neil Carlin & colleagues on their new Open Access paper: Guiry, E, et al (2025) 'Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange' out this morning in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 1/3 doi.org/10.1017/ppr....

Delighted to welcome Steve and Andrea White to UCD School of Archaeology and to thank them for their generous philanthropic support of our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC), through their Mary Agnes McDonnell LeBlanc donation. 👏🙏🙂

Bronze Age Forum 2025 Conference Programme We are delighted to share our conference programme, which will see over 50 papers on a wide range of topics across the three days of the meeting at @ucddublin.bsky.social. bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com #BronzeAgeForum

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @irarchaeology.bsky.social Conference Programme We are delighted to share our conference programme, which will see over 50 papers on a wide range of topics across the three days of the meeting #BronzeAgeForum

Congratulations to Meaghan Mackie, SFI-IRC PhD scholar at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on her contribution to this new Nature paper pushing the boundaries of paleoproteomics based on research when she was part of a team at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UCD archaeobotanists past and present are at the IWGP conference in Groningen, Netherlands this week. This is the largest gathering of archaeobotanists in the world, providing an excellent opportunity for the Irish team to share their research findings on the global stage archaeobotany.org/iwgp2025/

Prof Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social has been elected as an International Fellow of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, the highest honour the Academy confers on non-UK residents. www.ucd.ie/research/news/2025/profjoannabruckelectedinternationalfellowofthebritishacademy/body,834332,en.html

"Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick" earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i... #Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland

Prof Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social has been elected as an International Fellow of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, the highest honour the Academy confers on non-UK residents. www.ucd.ie/research/news/2025/profjoannabruckelectedinternationalfellowofthebritishacademy/body,834332,en.html

Join us for our Tuatha Talk Webinar: The Early Medieval Origins of Hurling & Camogie with Professor Aidan O'Sullivan In this richly illustrated lecture, Professor @aidanosullivan.bsky.social of @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social will explore the evidence for the origins of hurling and its development.

Extended graduate opportunities 2025: 🔹Hunter Gatherer Archaeology (MSc or GradDip) on campus - closes 31 Jul 🔹Hunter Gatherer Archaeology & Anthropology GradCert online - closes 8 Aug 🔹Grad Cert in Experimental Archaeology online - closes 8 Aug www.ucd.ie/archaeology/study/graduatetaughtprogrammes/

Dr Claire Cave from UCD's School of Archaeology World Heritage Programme is attending the 47th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Paris. Over the next 10 days the Committee will make decisions regarding the World Heritage Convention and current and potential World Heritage properties.

For details of the fourth week of Glendalough Heritage Forum and UCD Archaeology excavations which continued as a Community Excavation, please visit the Glendalough Heritage Forum page. It was a great week with fantastic community volunteers and returning students: www.facebook.com/GlendaloughH...

Busy, busy day on site today as we near the end of our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social community excavations on behalf of Glendalough Heritage Forum. Funding from @wicklowcoco.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie Lots of drawing & recording today. Marc is rocking the 'holding the level staff straight' look

For details of the third week of Glendalough Heritage Forum and UCD Archaeology excavations which continues as a Community Excavation, please visit the GHF facebook page. It was great to welcome old friends and new and the excavation continues to reveal new features: www.facebook.com/GlendaloughH...

Just defended my PhD! An incredible experience, with thought-provoking discussions from two brilliant opponents: Prof. Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and Prof. @kristinaoma.bsky.social. Including a trial lecture debating the presence of warriors and hierarchy in Scandinavian rock art 👇🏽

Congratulations to Associate Professor Jessica Smyth &Associate Professor Dr Neil Carlin, and International colleagues, on their publication in Antiquity today, "The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber" www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Great to work with the Irish Farmers Journal on a new pod exploring the past, present & future of Irish food & agriculture. Lots to digest in Ep 1 where @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Assoc Profs Meriel McClatchie & Jessica Smyth discuss Ireland's past diets & farming practices. 👇 tinyurl.com/2xw9n4vf

genuinely deeply excited that our second Irish Neolithic paper has made the cover of Antiquity. this and the CUP article are the product of a genuinely beautiful collaboration - a wonderful personal and intellectual experience the article (OA): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Jessica Smyth &Associate Professor Dr Neil Carlin, and International colleagues, on their publication in Antiquity today, "The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber" www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

“Investigating Neolithic social structures on the basis of unprecedentedly large family trees from the site Gurgy ‘les Noisats’ in France” Dr. Maïté Rivollat CNRS, Bordeaux University, France Tue 1 Jul, 4pm, Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe.

New podcast from UCD Earth Institute Journalist-in-Residence Janine Kennedy explores the past, present and future of Irish food & agriculture! In Ep.1, Meriel McClatchie & Jessica Smyth UCD School of Archaeology bring prehistoric diets and farming practices to life: shows.acast.com/farmers-jour...

First day of our Glendalough Community Excavations, supported by @heritagecouncil.ie @wicklowcoco.bsky.social and @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social. Good progress on the walls, and hints that we might have a buried medieval deposit in places. Not a bad location for a days digging!

Visit our Facebook page for details of the final week of our annual ARCH10180 Archaeological Field Skills excavations at Glendalough which will be followed next week by our community excavations. It was a great success thanks to our students and staff. facebook.com/ucdarchaeology

“6,000 year old farmers” Countrywide on RTÈ Radio One Associate Professor Jessica Smyth, UCD School of Archaeology, talks about her research. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Everyone very happy at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Glendslough fieldschool.

ANSOC & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Kate Kanne & Jess Beck had an amazing time with a fantastic group of archaeologists! Massive congratulations & thanks to @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social Martin Furholt & all the participants for an inspiring weekend

Great progress today on our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Glendalough fieldschool. The geophysical anomalies are resolving into very distinctive linear stone structures - lots of fine trowelling and mattocking work. Lots of finds (mainly post med) for recording - all great training opportunities

“Medieval Appetites: Food plants between Iberia and Ireland” Seminar by our visiting Erasmus+ PhD student María Valero Rodríguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, hosted by Assoc Prof Meriel McClatchie. All welcome Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe, 1.00pm Thur 19 June. In person only

A glorious day on site with our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social fieldschool at Glendalough. Lots of digging, planning and sieving - always sieving...

Visit our Facebook page for updates on our annual ARCH10180 Archaeological Field Skills excavations at Glendalough which will be followed by our community excavations. For the first time we are excavating in June and the weather brought mixed fortune. www.facebook.com/ucdarchaeology

First day of @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social UG training fieldwork programme. Starts on campus with lectures inc. from our friends at the @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social who are providing scanning, photogrammetry and geophysics training. Then geometry with long tapes! Beautiful 10x10 squares from all.

Another fine day on site with @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social training excavation at Glendalough. Cleaning back still - but the pace of work of our students is clearing proving a little too much for our PhD student supervisors 🤣

Archaeobotany meets astrobotany at the UCD Festival! Come along to "Plants for the Future" and learn about findings from the FOODSEC project on ancient agriculture, funded by IRC Coalesce INSTAR+ festival.ucd.ie/events/explo... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) Project at UCD Festival Saturday 7th June, 12-6pm!

Join @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social at the Experimental Archaeology and Materials Culture for UCD Festival to meet a range of specialists talking about their area of expertise with the aid of demonstrations, guided handling of ancient artefacts and replica structures. festival.ucd.ie/events/inter...