Presentation of Heritage Research Awards
This was the second time I’d been nominated for a heritage award, and with the wind on my back and the gods on my side, I scooped second place for my lecture – Recently reported road deaths on the N6: 3500 BC to 1500 AD – a synthesis of work undertaken on various cemetery sites as part of the N6 Galway to Ballinasloe road scheme. Read more
Dining and Dwelling
Over the last 10 years Ireland has been abuzz with archaeological activity – a positive (and now sadly missed) benefit of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ construction boom. Dining and Dwelling is the sixth monograph to be published in this series by the National Roads Authority (NRA), and it must be also be a world first in that it firmly establishes a developer, albeit a semi-state body, as the foremost publisher of a nation’s archaeological work. Read more
The Elvis Convetion
I love me tenders. Uh Huh Huh. But Lawdy Miss Clawdy, I got a woman, in the ghetto, and I’m all shook up. Can’t help falling in love, hound dog, so don’t step on my blue suede shoes. I’m lonesome tonight. We can’t go on like this, with suspicious minds. A little less conversation. It’s now or never. Return to sender. Thank you very much. Elvis has left the building. Read more
Archaeology Careers Advice
Dear archaeologists:
I am writing on behalf of my fourteen-year-old daughter. Her goal for several years now has been to become an archaeologist when she grows up. At her middle school the students each have to attend one semester of a career-planning course and during her time in this course, her instructor has tried on many occasions to dissuade her from this profession. Read more
Unfinished Monkey Business
Given enough time, a hypothetical chimpanzee typing at random would, as part of its output, almost certainly produce all of Shakespeare’s plays. If you’ve not got that long to wait, this book is the next best thing. Immortal, and completely bananas.
A face for radio…
And finally… Archaeology!
Broadcast on RTE Radio 1, Tuesday 27th October. I’m sandwiched somewhere between the serious history stuff (the 1941 German bombings of the North Strand in Dublin) and the competition fluff (True or false – is Cheryl Cole a member of girls aloud?). Read more
Sex!
Ignoring Captain Boner and the topsoil strippers for a moment, there’s something odd about this photo that I can’t quite put my finger on. It features this years winning entry to the ‘2009 Sexiest Field Crew’ competition – a global search led by sexyarchaeology.org to find the new vanguard of dirty pretty things destined to inherit the earth.
