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Saints and Sinners: religion and conflict in Medieval Ireland
Religion, and religious strife, have defined modern Ireland. New archaeological evidence is showing that this cultural clash began long ago, with the very arrival of Christianity. In our ...
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Ireland's Invisible People: the Celtic present meets the Celtic past
Comparing Ireland with the fast growing ‘tiger’ economies of the Far East, economists coined the term ‘Celtic Tiger’; the irony is that evidence for ‘Celtic’ Ireland is almost as rare as ...
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Ireland's Prehistoric Beginnings
As Ireland’s land-hungry Celtic Tiger economic boom encroached on wetland landscapes once thought too boggy for modern development, it became clear that these sites, near to rivers, had b...
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Top Ten Sites of the Celtic Tiger
A four-part series by Brendon Wilkins, published in Current Archaeology, examining the top ten sites excavated during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economic boom, as chosen by the archaeologists who...
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When the Celtic Tiger roared: Ireland's golden age for archaeology
Weighing up the legacy of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economic boom, it is clear that it was a golden age for archaeologists; however, was it also a golden age for archaeology? And, what insight d...
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Celtic Tiger Archaeology - the view from afar
Ten years ago I left my native Yorkshire to work on an archaeological road scheme project in Cork, and I have been moving back and forth between Britain and Ireland ever since. Like Vince...
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Excavating Death: Newford, Ballygarraun and Carrowkeel
Ireland Multi-period burials Excavating death Newford, Ballygarraun, and Carrowkeel The Galway to Ballinasloe N6 road scheme in the Republic of Ireland was 56km long: metre for metre, on...
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The Archaeology of Royal Weddings
As Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials this month stir feverish national excitement, what light can archaeology shed on the pomp and pageantry of the most magnificent of Royal oc...
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Past Orders: The Archaeology of Beer
The Bronze Age burnt mounds of Ireland are enigmatic, and many theories have been proposed for their purpose, from cooking sites to Prehistoric saunas. But were these monuments actually ...
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