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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project online lecture for the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI), Monday 27 April, 2026 Funded by Research Ireland COALESCE programme Booking on Eventbrite

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

“Stories from Ireland’s Past”, now available to download for free at TII website www.tii.ie/media/n51bn1...

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The hereditary custodian of the crosier-head and coigreach of St Fillan appeared at an inquest #OTD in 1428. He was confirmed in his special rights of pursuing anywhere in Scotland goods or cattle stolen from anyone in the parish of Killin/Glendochart. 📸NMS

The bronze crosier, which was made in the 11th century, and its silver-gilt case, or coigreach, which was made later.

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Blacksmithing at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC). Dr Brendan O’Neill and some of our MSc in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture students draw out some of the iron they made themselves from bog ore, to make knives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKss...

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Blacksmithing at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC)

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

‘What is experimental archaeology, or what we do at UCD CEAMC, in 7 minutes!’ Available as VIDEO on UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture channel. A video created for UCD Earth Institute, for the EPA's #StoryOfYourStuff Schools' competition www.youtube.com/watch?v=44_3...

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What is experimental archaeology, or what we do at UCD CEAMC, in 7 minutes!

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

An EMPAT lecture given to University College Cork's course "Food Heritage in Action: Turning Tradition into Sustainable Enterprise", an online Adult Continuing Education course co-ordinated by renowned chef and experimental archaeologist, Dr Bill Schindler See here www.ucc.ie/en/ace/food-...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 31/03/2026

It's #HugaMedievalistDay 🫂 Gold foil figures from early medieval Scandinavia often feature embracing couples. Maybe the medievalists are learning from example! 🔗 from 2023 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Rectangular piece of gold foil, embossed with a motif of two people embracing.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan, 2026), an MSRG publication Pre-order from Archaeopress www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Cover of forthcoming new book, aerial view of an early medieval settlement with book title and editors names

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Super excited to read Heather Pulliam's new book today! @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

Book by Heather Pulliam, 'Art, Nature, and the Body in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland', on a blue sofa cushion with a bookshelf in the background.

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🆕️ BREAKING NEWS - A fragment of early medieval carved stone interlace found in 2024 is now on display at the Govan Stones, and you can be one of the first people in over 1,000 years to see it! Thanks to University of Glasgow Archaeology & Clyde Archaeology ⛏️ 📼 Tom Horne

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Pictish royal 'power base' uncovered near Rhynie - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Pictish royal 'power base' uncovered near Rhynie

Rhynie in Aberdeenshire has been the focus of a 10-year archaeology project.

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Story-telling" (edited by Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, Aidan O'Sullivan, 2019) www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our "Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project", funded by Research Ireland - COALESCE 2024/3725 - used again in ARCH30530: Early Medieval Ireland undergraduate course at UCD this week - research into teaching

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Our Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project is mentioned in the Irish paper in this forthcoming book

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Delighted to welcome Cambridge University 2nd year undergraduate class on a visit to our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where Prof Aidan O’Sullivan Dr Ryan Lash and Dr Brendan O’Niall took them through how our students learn about past technologies

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 26/03/2026

I'm so looking forward to tonight's Tuatha Talk webinar with Dr Niamh Whitfield, who will be leading us through the incredible detail and stunning artistry of the Tara Brooch, one of the greatest treasures of Early Medieval Europe. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #Medieval

The Tara Brooch on display in the National Museum of Ireland. It is a beautifully decorated piece of early medieval jewellery. It is circular and studded with glass. The gold work bears intricate Irish interlace decoration, and an animal head at the pin.

A closeup of the Tara Brooch. It is a beautifully decorated piece of early medieval jewellery. The main featured area has two tiny human heads, with animal heads biting down above and below. The human heads are mere millimetres in size, but have individual expressions and character.

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Kristel Zilmer @kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today and tomorrow (March 24-25), the three highly fragile sleds from the Oseberg burial are being moved into the new Museum of the Viking Age - a very carefully planned process. #Vikingtidsmuseet @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news...

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We Are Now Relocating Our Most Fragile Objects - Museum of the Viking Age

The move to the new Museum of the Viking Age has reached its most nerve-racking phase – bringing the fragile Oseberg sleds safely into the new museum.

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Caroline Fiennes @carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Lewis chess-pieces are so gorgeous. C12th, walrus tusk, they're all power-players - kings, bishops, "Berserkers" (Norwegian fighters: whence our term 'berserk'). The 2nd most powerful player is a lady, the queen 💪🏽(Neil McGregor's insight there). She looks so bored! Do visit them! - Brit Museum.

Rook with massive shield, giving it some side-eye

Another bishop, this one not looking sad

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/03/2026

Shoe-shaped ceramic vessels, buried with a skeleton missing both feet at 6th-century-AD Germany. In medieval Europe, physical disability was seen as an impediment to moral goodness. The shoes may have symbolically 'restored' the body. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #FolkloreThursday 🏺 #Archaeology

Below: a pair of ceramic vases in the shape of shoes. Above: illustrations of the shoe-vessels.

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

#FindsFriday Frankish Disk Brooch, 7th Century. Gold, filigree, mother-of-pearl, garnets, blue and green stones. Metropolitan Museum of #Art #Archaeology #History #artwork

Title: Disk Brooch
Date: 7th century
Culture: Frankish
Medium: Gold, filigree, mother-of-pearl, garnets, blue and green stones
Dimensions: Overall: 1 3/4 x 5/8 in. (4.5 x 1.6 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Gold
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number: 17.193.70
Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Our First Years made our new bed in the early medieval roundhouse, based on archaeological and environmental evidence from Deer Park Farms, Co Antrim Sods, heavy hazel branches, lighter branches, then blankets … and Dr Anita Radini tried it out

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Making early medieval souterrain ware pots at our First Year Archaeology module ARCH10170: Making the Past - quality work #EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Our ARCH10170: Making the Past first year archaeology students at UCD School of Archaeology engaging with “fabric” as a concept: And is there anything more fundamental to our humanity as cloth and clothes? Dr Anita Radini and Lucy Robinson on spinning and cordage

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Our ARCH10170: Making the Past first year archaeology students at UCD School of Archaeology engaging with “fabric” as a concept: clay, sand, water, hair, wool, spinning, weaving, pottery making @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 14/11/2025

Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology. Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺 📷 Rick Knecht 🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H

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How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time. 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

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8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Conall (chief dog of Ireland) is on the cover of Archaeology Ireland autumn issue!! @archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced "The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things." www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

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Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland

10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Are you interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland? This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below

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Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Research Ireland

The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and manag...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Are you interested in doing a PhD on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland? This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

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Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme - Research Ireland

The Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and mana...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick" earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i... #Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland

A photoshop reconstruction showing an early medieval thatched house and the Skehacreggaun stick in the doorway

The Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick stick, made of willow, dated to the 7th century AD

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) Project at UCD Festival Saturday 7th June, 12-6pm!

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025 Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset! #UCDFestival

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

O'Sullivan, A. (2017/18) ‘Magic in Early Medieval Ireland’. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74, 107-117. www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“Coll (Hazel tree)” Read by Aidan O'Sullivan. Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times “Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...

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Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/e...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Lecture is ready! "The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..." Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025 A public event as part of our EMPAT project

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...

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Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Search for “Archaeology” at my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) is a two-year archaeological research project, in partnership between UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd (photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)

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Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT) @empatireland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“Things of the early medieval teaglach: exploring the material culture of early medieval households” Aidan O'Sullivan Online lecture for NMI www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...

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