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.