Volume 35 No. 3 Issue No. 137

A shipwreck in Sligo: inspiration for the vampire’s landing? 

Mel Ní Mhaolanfaidh and Marion McGarry ponder whether Streedagh strand’s ‘Butter Boat’ played a role in Stoker’s famous book

The Green Fort

In this first contribution to Folklore Focus, Marion Dowd records folk beliefs attached to a seventeenth-century fort

The only way is Wessex?

Rena Maguire wonders where the idea for the Irish Iron Age Y-piece came from

The Discovery Programme—past, present and future

John O’Keeffe marks 30 years of research and innovation in Irish archaeology

Hunt for Kevin leads to archaeological discoveries

Niall Gregory and Anthony Murphy relate how recent sightings of a dolphin in the River Boyne led to an insight into the river’s boating history

Poteen

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey outline the history of poteen distillation in Ireland

Beyond the Pale: a Henry VI coin hoard from Tynan, Co. Armagh

Alan Dunlop and Nicholas L. Wright describe a highly unusual hoard of medieval coins, found far from where it might be expected

Insect remains: what can they teach us?

In this first contribution to our new Environmental Archaeology series, Stephen Davis takes a close look at what insects can tell us about our past

Nexus—people and places through time

The upcoming annual National Monuments Service conference, despite being hosted virtually again, is about the kinds of connections we all enjoy with other people and with our past 

Museum Piece

Trevor White tells us about the Little Museum of Dublin and describes a piece from its collections

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