"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

Speakers include Prof Aidan O'Sullivan, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and other leading Irish and international researchers.

Come and meet the team from the National Museum of Ireland at the National Ploughing Championships, Screggan, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, taking place from 16th to 18th September 2025. www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...

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 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...

A wonderful day with Tuatha Members at @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social, where Dr Brendan O'Neill led a workshop on casting Bronze Age axes, and Dr Ryan Lash had us carving early medieval cross slabs and cursing stones. A truly engaging, fun, and immersive day! Looking forward to the next outing!

It was a fantastic experience for us to get hands-on with casting an Early Bronze Age axe at the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social Dr Brendan O'Neill and Tuatha Members went through the whole process, from creating the clay tuyere & crucible to using the bellows to the all-important pour at the end.

We offer an MSc, or Graduate Diploma (both on-campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, Distance Learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture programmes. Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making

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. 👏🙏🙂

Only the future is unchangeable; the past is constantly changing. How ongoing research and new methods continually change our image of the past, our images of the past in the truest sense of the word. The shaman with many faces:

Shane Smith, filmmaker, & colleagues are filming a movie in the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, “Stone Elegy” “A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.” You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures

Drop-In Manuscript Makers! 📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street 📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30 🎟️ Free | No booking needed Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

"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

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.

“Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, storytelling” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Delighted to welcome the “Medieval and Later Pottery Research Group” (of Britain and Ireland) to UCD School of Archaeology/Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, for one day of their 50th Anniversary Conference 18-20 June 2025

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture busy for UCD Festival 2025

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

We're hoping this session may be of interest to those involved in field-based teaching both inside and outside of the academy - if you think we might be the session for you this TAG, drop us a line! @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @mafs-scot.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social

If you are around Dublin, do go to the big mega Open Day at @ucddublin.bsky.social and visit the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social section. Good folks, great archaeology :)

Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025 Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset! #UCDFestival

Delighted to see our early medieval roundhouse reconstruction at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture gets a good write up in this key Archaeology textbook “Archaeological Investigation”

The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social

20 years ago, myself and Conor McDermott sat down with 4 of my photographs - of crannog on Lough Derrvaragh, of reconstructions at Ferrycarrig, of boats, and swans, and tried to make a photoshop image of an early medieval crannog. Now Conor’s work is in an international exhibition #WordsOnTheWaves

‘It belongs with the books of Kells and Durrow.’ Illuminated manuscripts back in Ireland for the first time in more than 1,000 years "Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe" exhibition opens Friday, 30th May www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

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...

The rich history and interwoven artistry of early medieval Ireland are revealed by the Manuscripts on display at the Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe exhibition. Opens May 30th 📍National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

A preview of the new “Words on the Waves” Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social It’s magnificent - & has replica E-ware pottery made by UCD Archaeology’s Dr Brendan O’Neill & Elizabeth Ilgner, MSc student in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

Online Graduate Certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (by Distance Learning) at UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin Closing Date for 2025/2026 Applications is 30th June 2025. (but this is an Irish deadline, so y'know...) www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

Building a bed (imda) using our own hazel in our early medieval roundhouse for UCD Festival on 7th June 2025, as part of our “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” project

This is such a stunner. And so happy for them volunteers at the Vindolanda dig. arkeonews.net/1800-year-ol...

Building a bed (imda) using our own hazel in our early medieval roundhouse for UCD Festival on 7th June 2025, as part of our “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” project

Oseberg tapestry: Viking Age artwork from a boat burial that may depict the Norse tree of life. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Interdisciplinary Early Career Seminar for Medieval studies on Tuesday 27 May at 11.00 in the UCD Global Lounge featuring Dr Christina Lee from the University of Nottingham and Julie Perez, UCD School of Archaeology. Refreshments will be provided and everyone welcome.

As always, a great morning in @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social last week. Marie and I took a fieldtrip to visit Aidan and Brendan and we all happily chatted about early medieval houses, crannogs and chronologies for hours!

Congratulations to Dr Kate Kanne, ERC Postdoc Research Fellow on the @ansoc-erc.bsky.social project, and her international co-editors on their significant new publication exploring horses and people across time. @erc.europa.eu @ucddublin.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @ukri.org @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Delighted to welcome to UCD CEAMC Dr Rebecca Boyd and Dr Marie-Therese Barratt, from the IAC team working on publishing Drumclay crannog, for a good long chat about early medieval roundhouses, their architecture, uses, and longevity

Last Friday our Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project hosted a group of Forest School leaders at Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (CEAMC) making early medieval Souterrain Ware cooking pots working with 'wild' raw materials and techniques from over 1000 years ago.

Interested in any of our Postgraduate Taught programmes at UCD School of Archaeology - MSc and Graduate Diploma (on -campus) and Graduate Certifcate (online)? Apply now for 2025/2026 www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

BIG NEWS: our UCD School of Archaeology has a new fantastic On-line Programme! A graduate Certificate in Hunter-gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology- coordinated by Prof Graeme Warren, a world leading expert in this field! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

“Ireland’s neolithic passage tombs were not just the burial place of the elite” Neil Carlin, @ucddublin.bsky.social , Catherine J. Frieman, Australian National University, @cjfrieman.bsky.social Jessica Smyth, @ucddublin.bsky.social In @theconversation.com theconversation.com/irelands-neo...

What a fantastic day at CEAMC! Our students finally made their brooches - they prepared everything including the molds- this is part of our MSc Module in Practical Experimental Archaeology- coordinated by Dr Brendan O’Neill! Look at the joy on their faces and the beauty of their work! 🤩🤩🤩

"Social and Genetic Relations in Neolithic Ireland: Re-evaluating Kinship" A major contribution to debates on Neolithic kinship, genetic relatedness & monuments like Newgrange. Led by Dr Neil Carlin & Dr Jessica Smyth at UCD Archaeology & international team Cambridge Arch J doi.org/10.1017/S095...

🏺 Love history & ancient pottery? Dive into our YouTube channel to explore ancient skills, fascinating techniques, and the stories behind stunning pottery. Let’s preserve history together! 🕰️✨ 👉 Watch now: youtube.com/@PottedHistory #AncientPottery #HistoryLovers #PottedHistory

Stop 3 of Discovering Ireland Module at UCD School of Archaeology , coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash): our students have Fore Abbey as class-room!

Stop 2: Loughcrew Passage Tomb - of Discovering Ireland Module led by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology! Our students get to experience the beauty of Irish landscape and past all in one place! Thank you to Cara and Julie for their help!

In the 12th century Life of Colmáin Maic Luachain, there’s a short paragraph explaining how to build a house (it’s a metaphor, “one thing at a time”), effectively it says how do you build a house? Well, you weave in a hazel rod, one rod at a time, and slowly the house gets built.