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Conference and Academic Papers
Newrath Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations
New road developments in southern Ireland are not only improving the infrastructure of the country in terms of road safety and meeting the demands of increasing traffic volume but are als...
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Archaeology of Irish Industry
Two vernacular industrial sites in rural county Galway: a water-powered forge or 'spade mill' at Coola and a brick making site at Brusk. By Jerry O'Sullivan, John Tierney and Brendon ...
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The origins of the Irish Cillin: the segregation of infant burials within an ...
Paper presented to TAG, Columbia University, 2008. In later and post medieval Ireland, unbaptised children were rarely buried in consecrated ground. Strangers, suicides, or unrepentan...
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WAC Knowledge, Value and the Celtic Tiger
Paper presented to WAC 06, Dublin, 2008. The buoyant Irish economy has stimulated an unprecedented boom in commercial sector archaeology. The scale of this work has challenged accepte...
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If it weren’t for those pesky kids: the spatial segregation of children in an...
Death confronts us with the ultimate boundary through which we all inexorably pass. According to Derrida, awareness of our own mortality calls forth other intangible boundaries, such as e...
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Time and tide: five thousand years of human settlement and environmental chan...
This article is a non-specialist introduction to a site at Newrath, Co. Kilkenny - a multiperiod alluvial and estuarine wetland excavated on the banks of the river Suir in advance of the...
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Time and Tide: five millennia of environmental change and human activity on t...
The archaeological excavation of alluvial and estuarine landscapes in response to large infrastructural development programmes is a relatively new direction for Irish archaeology, albeit ...
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Excavations at Newrath, Co. Kilkenny as part of the N25 Waterford Bypass proj...
NRA/UCD Seminar: Towards Best Practice in Alluvial and Estuarine Archaeology.
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Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns: Rumsfeldian Archaeology on...
This paper cheerfully accepts the challenge elloquently articulated by the existential poet Donald Rumsfeld. In order to justify the vast public expenditure on development-led archaeology...
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