OBITUARY.

An appreciation of the late Professor George Eogan

IDOLS, ARDS AND SEVERED HEADS 

Eve Campbell and Ros Ó Maoldúin reveal 3,000 years of deposition uncovered in a Roscommon fen

 

THE ESKER CRUCIFIX

Chris Corlett and Helen Farrell ask whether a wooden crucifix found when digging a school’s foundations could be a medieval rood

 

WHERE WAS ÁTH CLIATH—THE FORD OF THE HURDLES?

Conleth Manning examines evidence for Dublin’s eponymous crossing-point

 

A RENAISSANCE MERMAID 

Cóilín Ó Drisceoil and Jim Higgins describe an interesting carving resurrected during renovations at St Patrick’s Church, Waterford 

 

NEWGRANGE 

In this contribution to the Folklore Focus series, Marion Dowd records folk beliefs attached to Meath’s famous passage tombs

 

THE POTATO

In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey outline the introduction and adoption of the potato in Ireland 

 

FOSSIL POLLEN GRAINS: WHAT CAN THEY TEACH US?

In this contribution to our new Environmental Archaeology series, Daisy Spencer explains what we can learn about our past from pollen

 

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BARROW  

Martin McGonigle describes a Bronze Age barrow with an unexpected afterlife in County Tyrone

 

ARCHAEOLOGY IN IRELAND’S JOURNALS 2021

Conleth Manning reviews last year’s offerings

 

MUSEUM PIECE

Peter Foynes tells us about the Butter Museum in Cork and describes a piece from its collections

 

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