N22 Tralee Bypass Archaeology Seminar
AUG 11TH, 2014A free public seminar highlighting the results of archaeological investigations on the Tralee Bypass will be held at the Kerry County Museum, Tralee, on Saturday 25 January.
A free public seminar highlighting the results of archaeological investigations on the Tralee Bypass will be held at the Kerry County Museum, Tralee, on Saturday 25 January.
The proceedings of the Futures and Pasts seminar were launched by Dr Eileen Murphy of Queens University, Belfast, on 22 August 2013 at the City Wall Space, Wood Quay Venue, Dublin Civic Offices. This new book is the 10th volume in the Archaeology and the National Roads Authority Monograph Series.
Roscommon County Library hosted a large audience on 6 June 2013 for the launch of The Mill at Kilbegly by Neil Jackman, Caitríona Moore and Colin Rynne, the latest title in the NRA Scheme Monographs series. The mill site was excavated by archaeologists from Valerie J Keeley Ltd in 2007.
On the evening of the 14 November 2013 a new book about the archaeology and history of Limerick city was launched in King John’s Castle by Dr Pat Wallace—Limerick man and former Director of the National Museum of Ireland.
Professor William O’Brien, Head of the Department of Archaeology, University College Cork, formally launched 'Generations: the archaeology of five national road schemes in County Cork, Vols 1 & 2' in the Aula Maxima (Great Hall) of the university on 10 December.
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Lismullin is located in the Gabhra Valley, beneath the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath. It has become the best known of 167 archaeological sites discovered and investigated along the route of the M3 Clonee to North of Kells motorway.
The National Roads Authority and Westmeath County Council are delighted to announce the publication of Settlement and Community in the Fir Tulach Kingdom by Paul Stevens and John Channing. This new book describes three significant excavations on the routes of the M6 and N52 in County Westmeath, which cross through the early medieval territory of the Fir Tulach (or ‘Men of the hills’), nestled in the heart of the Irish midlands.
A museum at night is deliciously spooky. The eye is drawn to gold and bronze artefacts in spotlit pools of light and the surroundings feel more like an Aladdin’s cave than a public institution. This was the setting in Ennis, Co. Clare, on Friday 21 September 2012, when John Rattigan, the Curator of Clare Museum, opened its doors for international Culture Night and hosted the launch of two new NRA scheme monographs.
Encounters between Peoples, the proceedings of the 2011 NRA National Archaeology Seminar, was launched by Professor Charlotte Damm, Head of the Department of Archaeology, NUI Galway, on Thursday 23 August at the City Wall Space, Wood Quay Venue, Dublin Civic Offices.