Our postponed seminar series A Research Framework for Archaeology in Ireland moves online from 10 Sept with Jessica Smyth School of Archaeology UCD "The Brú na Boinne, World Heritage Site Research Framework a decade on". Book a place & view the schedule @ bit.ly/38OfoZs

While the hoard may be in the lab for now, you can still check out this fantastic 3D model of the objects in situ: sketchfab.com/3d-models/late…

R is our school's top English student. She got 9 at GCSE. She got A at AS. She is studious, precise, deeply thoughtful. She has just had her A Level grade reduced from A* to C, apparently just because she goes to a disadvantaged school. It might help if you liked her poem.

Several University College Dublin academics are included in the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration monitoring of social media users who are critical of Direct Provision. #EndDirectProvision. M Ní Raghallaigh @LTlaw_ and saw @MaryMcAuliffe4 there.

Delighted to see my book on pilgrimage Journeys of faith feature in todays The Irish Times Columba Books Martin Doyle

Our Research Day recognises the difficult year we have all had during this global pandemic, as well as the need to keep connected. We welcome old and new connections to this celebration of our research activities! Please register in advance for free: bit.ly/VirtualResearc…

"You can't get Absolution from a bad confession" The Gist: A bad confession on Mother & Baby Homes by Simon McGarr @[email protected] thegist.substack.com/p/the-gist-a-b…

🧵 I have a series of posts on my website (alisongarden.com) offering advice for #ECRs & #PhDs about my experience of applying for grants, postdocs & fellowships. But I absolutely do not want to perpetuate #SurvivorshipBias so I wanted to address this here.

Following the sell-out success of our Official Edinburgh Castle Tartan Paint, we're delighted to bring even more of the colours of Scotland into your home! Pick your favourite historic hue and let those retro-renovations begin!

Graduated UCD in 2000, contemplating an MA in Landscape Archaeology. Had a scholarship to stay but a lecturer whispered to me "Go to Archaeology at Sheffield instead. It's the best one". They weren't wrong! Amazing course, amazing staff, transformative. #ArchaeologistMadeInSheffield

Reading the news coverage of the @UCU #FourFights strike, I get the impression that many people don’t know what University lecturers do (and why would they?), so here’s a thread on it. I’m a psychologist, so let’s start with the work of the average psychology lecturer. 🧵👇1/18

This week, we've been taking samples from some of our bog butter collections with Karen O'Toole and Jessica Smyth from UCD. Among the first examples of bog butter from Northern Ireland to be sampled, they will help us date these objects and find out more about their uses!

New 'Passage Tomb People' open access paper: first evidence for cattle traction in Ireland (& Britain) c.3600BC. What were they used for?! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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If Iron Age torcs float your boat, you might also enjoy Dr Tiffany Treadway' upcoming book 'Iron Age Wetland Deposition'. Available soon! This is the debut title in our new Archaeology of Prehistoric Ireland and Britain series 🎉 Neil Wilkin Jessica Smyth pre_historian 🕊️🇵🇸 #FindsFriday

Absolutely harrowing testimony from speakers Georgia Andreou, whose students have been displaced and killed, and Fadel Al Utol, who travelled some distance in Gaza to get signal to report on the destruction and looting of Gaza's heritage, and that he's not slept in three days.