Congratulations to Dr Mark Haughton, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc Fellow @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, colleagues from National Museum of Ireland and all the contributors to “A Brief History of Irish Wool” by the Wicklow Uplands Council. Video available via YouTube: youtu.be/PTi89XOHCQY?...

Congratulations to UCD School of Archaeology’s Dr Jess Beck and her colleagues on their paper in American Antiquity, just published December 2025 “Hire Ed: Job Market Dynamics for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Archaeology” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🏛️ Announcing our new MSc and GradDip in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD School of Archaeology and UCD School of Classics. Join us in Dublin, Ireland, next academic year to take our MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology. 📝 Registration opens in January. For more details: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

Wonderful new podcast on our recent work on Neolithic kinship and society in Ireland - featuring Jess Smythe, Neil Carlin and @suegreaney.bsky.social - thanks for the great interview @neiljackman.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Jessica Smyth and Dr Neil Carlin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social & Dr Susan Greaney @uoearchhist.bsky.social on their excellent Amplify Archaeology podcast on “Kinship, Culture and Death in Neolithic Ireland”. www.abartaheritage.ie/kinship-cult... @ucddublin.bsky.social

🕯️🛖 “These were sizeable but dispersed communities, assembling at sites like Newgrange at specific times of the year, including the winter solstice." - Associate Professor Jessica Smyth, UCD School of Archaeology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...

UCD School of Archaeology PhD/MLitt Research Day kicks off, an exciting range of topics being explored by our researchers

Congratulations to Elisabeth Ilgner, recipient of the Ruaidhrí de Valera prize 2024-25 presented by Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social at a reception in the School to celebrate our GradCert, GradDip and MSc students being conferred by @ucddublin.bsky.social today.

A selection of the usual @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social suspects preparing for today's graduation ceremonies. Asst Prof Anita Radini, Dr Robert Power, Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, Assoc Prof Barry Molloy, Asst Prof Brendan O'Neill & Assoc Prof Jessica Smyth. Congratulations to everyone graduating.

TONIGHT! Discovery Programme's Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered by Prof Joanna Brück: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain" Join us on Zoom at 7.30pm. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo... @nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Archaeobotanist Charlotte Molloy, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, is representing the 'First Harvests' @researchireland.ie COALESCE INSTAR+ project at the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Stavanger, Norway (4-6 December). aeastavanger.wordpress.com @nationalmons.bsky.social

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners! This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill

Prof Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact celebrating the publication of four books by our Early Career Researchers, Dr Mark Haughton, Dr Kate Kanne, and Dr Ryan Lash

UCD School of Archaeology 2025 Research Day is on, “Home and Away: The reach and range of archaeology at UCD” @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

A project results evening on Tue 25 Nov 6.30pm led by Aidan Harte and Joanna Brück showcasing local knowledge, archaeological fieldwork and archival research to record sites and landscapes of the revolutionary period. All welcome. @researchireland.ie #limericklibraries #UCD #LoveIrishResearch

We are delighted to welcome Thomas Lawrence, Newcastle University, to our Seminar Series speaking on: 'Cross-Channel connections and the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition of Britain' 16:00, Thu 20 Nov, Ardmore Annexe. Register for Zoom: tinyurl.com/archsocseminar Link will be sent out Thur 15:50.

Home and Away: The Reach and Range of Archaeology at UCD. @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Research Day 2025 Theatre L143, Sutherland School of Law, 2 Dec, 9:30-16:30. Includes a celebration of our Early Career Researchers chaired by UCD VP Prof Kate Robson Brown RSVP by 21 Nov: [email protected]

UCD Masters Week 24 to 27 November Four days of interactive webinars to help you find the best Masters programme for you including excellent graduate studies opportunities with @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/graduateadmi... www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

We are delighted to welcome Prof Alison Beach, University of St Andrews, to our Seminar Series speaking on: 'Visible Disabilities: Thinking Together about Physical Impairment in Premodern Europe' 16:00, Thu 20 Nov, Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/.../alison-b...

Massive thanks from the ANSOC team & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social to all of our brilliant colleagues & to our partners Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Monuments Service & @nmireland.bsky.social for a wildly successful #BronzeAgeForum @ucddublin.bsky.social!!! We had the best time!!!

Home and Away: The Reach and Range of Archaeology at UCD. @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Research Day 2025 Theatre L143, Sutherland School of Law, 2 Dec, 9:30-16:30. Includes a celebration of our Early Career Researchers chaired by UCD VP Prof Kate Robson Brown RSVP by 21 Nov: [email protected]

Day 1 at #BronzeAgeForum 2025 @ucddublin.bsky.social delegates are arriving, badges and programmes in hand, and a quick coffee and chat before we get going #BronzeAge #archaeology #ANSOC

Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project. Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo.... @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social

Our sincerest thanks to @nationalmons.bsky.social for sending us so many wonderful items to share with our interantional delegates at #BronzeAgeForum 2025 #BronzeAge #archaeology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Join us today @ucddublin.bsky.social for the #BronzeAgeForum 2025 Brought to you by @ansoc-erc.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Monuments Service and @nmireland.bsky.social #BronzeAge Follow the signs!

We were saddened to hear of the death of Charlie Doherty, retired lecturer in early Irish history with UCD School of History and Archives. Archaeology alumni will remember his fascinating courses with us on early Ireland where he offered the historian’s perspective. rip.ie/death-notice...

“At Samhain, people believed the veil between this world and the other grew thin, when fairies moved through the land, and the dead drew near.” Prof Aidan O’Sullivan @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social 📷 Filmed at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social MSc Archaeology and MSc World Heritage students explored the stunning cultural landscape of Clonmacnoise today. Our thanks to @opwireland.bsky.social staff Nicola & Aidan for their warm welcome and superb tour. #UCD #worldheritagee #Clonmacnoise @ucddublin.bsky.social

“Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100” 8th Annual National Monuments Service Archaeology Conference Organised by Wordwell | Archaeology Ireland. Trinity College, Dublin, 18 October 2025 youtu.be/NQLhzY3pl0Y?...

This was one my best, we’re carving Irish Halloween turnips today, in homage to the ur-turnip from 1943 from Ballyfin, Co Donegal, in National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social #Halloween #Samhain #OicheShamhna

Great trip with the @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social First Year class to the Hill of Tara last weekend led by Dr Brendan O’Neill, Prof. Joanna Brück, Dr Anita Radini and tutors Katie, Lauren, Cara and Maighread. Our thanks to @nationalmons.bsky.social and @opwireland.bsky.social for hosting the visit.

Back in the winter of 2012, it says here, we decided to position UCD School of Archaeology as a “leading centre for experimental archaeology in Europe.” … 🙂

'Games of the Folk: Traditional Games and the Struggle for Heritage' Dr Tom Fabian, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science Research seminar jointly hosted by Irish Folklore and Irish Studies. An Teanglann (B211 Newman Building), 3pm Tuesday, 21 October

All welcome to a talk on the results of our project on the Archaeology of the War of Independence and Civil War in East Limerick, Kilmallock Library, 6.30pm, Tuesday 25th November! @researchireland.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social, @heritagecouncil.ie, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

The full schedule for the upcoming Bronze Age Forum (Dublin 14-16 November), including paper abstracts and speaker biographies, is now available on the BAF website: bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

Last Saturday the ARCH20170-Discovering Ireland fieldtrip lead by Dr Ryan Lash assisted by Dr Anita Radini, Meaghan Mackie & Katie Wyse Jackson visited Castledermot monastery, Brownshill megalithic tomb and Rathgall Hillfort. Our thanks to everyone who helped make it a great day out.

“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin

"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 Samuel Kinirons, @researchireland.ie PhD Scholar @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and the other presenters at the Irish Association of Professional Osteoarchaeologists (IAPO) seminar on 1 Nov 2025, 9.45am-4.45pm, University College Cork. @ucddublin.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie

You are warmly invited to The Discovery Programme’s Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain” It will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo... Thurs 4 Dec 7.30pm Online Free

All the best to Sam Kinirons, Research Ireland PhD Scholar, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the other speakers at the 26th Medieval Dublin Symposium. Oct 4, 9:30–5:00, Robert Emmet Theatre, Trinity College. dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/26th-m...

Announcing the launch of new exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” at Kilmainham Gaol, showcasing the precious things that refugees have brought with them to Ireland, and the moving stories of courage, resilience, love and hope that these objects have to tell.

Congratulation to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social delegates Prof Graeme Warren, Dr Martin Moucheron and Deborah Buchanan who presented at the recent Meso2025, at Ferrara, Italy. This was the Eleventh International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe which takes place every four years.

“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