TII Marks World Heritage Day

In honour of World Heritage Day, the Archaeology and Heritage section of TII has released free digital versions of one of its landmark publications—Stories of Ireland’s Past: knowledge gained from NRA roads archaeology. On its publication in 2017, Dr Alison Sheridan of National Museums Scotland described the book as ‘a milestone in Irish archaeology: a step change in our understanding of Ireland’s past, written by outstanding scholars and attesting to the massive contribution made by roads archaeology’.

Edited by Michael Stanley, Rónán Swan and Professor Aidan O’Sullivan, the papers in Stories of Ireland’s Past stem from a public seminar held in 2014 during which leading scholars evaluated the contribution of ‘roads archaeology’ to our understanding of Ireland’s prehistoric and historic past. Surveying some 10,000 years of new archaeological evidence for the human habitation of the island, the authors delivered a truly significant publication: a state-of-the-art review of the newly discovered archaeology of one of the richest archaeological landscapes of Europe, if not the world.

Stories of Ireland’s Past has been ‘out of print’ for some time, so this welcome initiative is making free-to-download PDF and EPUB versions of the book available for the first time. Just visit the Archaeology and Heritage publications webpage to download your free copy today. And don’t forget to view the full range of TII heritage resources available at https://www.tii.ie/technical-services/archaeology