Author: Diggingthedirt

Journeys through grief – Part 3

The Galway to Ballinasloe N6 road scheme in the Republic of Ireland was 56 km long: metre for metre, one of the largest archaeological projects anywhere in the world. The archaeology found along the scheme has shed new light on the treatment of the dead at crucial stages of Irish history. In the final of our three part series we assess the evidence. Read more

Munselled

In this fleeting, superficial, celebrity obsessed age, there are two enduring benchmarks by which men and women of substance can always be judged: an entry in who’s who and an invitation to appear on the BBC’s Desert Island Disks. To that holier than holy list we can now add a third. Read more