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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

"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

8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d

#WithinWithout2025 #NMSArchaeologyConference #HeritageMatters #ArchaeologyConference #CulturalHeritage #PartitionsInHistory #IrishArchaeology #NationalMonumentService #PublicArchaeology

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Conall (chief dog of Ireland) is on the cover of Archaeology Ireland autumn issue!!

@archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced

"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."

www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland

10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Are you interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?

This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Research Ireland

The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and manag...

www.researchireland.ie

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Are you interested in doing a PhD on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?

This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below

www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme - Research Ireland

The Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and mana...

www.researchireland.ie

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced

"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."

www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland

10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...

www.researchireland.ie

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Jul 19

"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

A photoshop reconstruction showing an early medieval thatched house and the Skehacreggaun stick in the doorway

The Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick stick, made of willow, dated to the 7th century AD

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · Jun 7

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

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · May 30

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

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · May 31

O'Sullivan, A. (2017/18) ‘Magic in Early Medieval Ireland’. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74, 107-117.

www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · May 31

“Coll (Hazel tree)”
Read by Aidan O'Sullivan.

Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times

“Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · May 13

Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households

This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland

www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...

Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households

YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly

This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...

Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly

YouTube video by Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain & Ireland

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland?
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick

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What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland?

Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick (originally published in O’Sullivan, A. and McCormick, F. 2017 Early medieval Ireland: investigating social, economic and settlement change, ad 400–1100.…

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Feb 25

Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Dec 14

“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”

Search for “Archaeology” at
my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Dec 11

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) is a two-year archaeological research project, in partnership between UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · Dec 10

“Things of the early medieval teaglach: exploring the material culture of early medieval households”

Aidan O'Sullivan
Online lecture for NMI

www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...

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