Lectures
Lectures are usually held in the Main Lecture Theatre, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast 7.
Unless otherwise published lectures start at 8pm prompt.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Jan 28 | AGM 2013 | Review of fieldtrips and fieldwork in 2012. |
| Feb 25 | Dr. Michelle Comber (NUI, Galway) | Excavation in Caherconnell Td, Co. Clare: searching for the Early Medieval, finding Neolithic to 17th Century AD. |
| March 11 | Barrie Hartwell | Artefact workshop: lithics. |
| March 25 | Dr Mark Gardiner (GAP, Queen's University Belfast) | Mapping lost worlds: a survey of the archaeological landscapes of the Antrim Plateau. |
| April 29 | Nick Maxwell (Wordwell Books) | Archaeology Ireland: twenty five years, a hundred issues. |
| May 27 | Conor Brady (Dundalk Institute of Technology) | The Hill of Slane Archaeological Project: old questions and new technologies. |
| June 17 | Elizabeth Thomas (GAP, Queen's University Belfast) | Ulster Workhouses: Manifestations of Poor Law ideologies. |
| Sep 30 | Prof Finbar McCormick (GAP, Queen's University Belfast) | Struell Wells |
| Oct 17 | Annual Dinner | Annual Dinner |
| Oct 28 | John Gillis, (Trinity College Dublin) | The Fadden More Psalter: a spectacular find in Co Tipperary. |
| Nov 4 | Barrie Hartwell | Artefact Workshop. |
| Nov 18 | Philip Macdonald (CAF, GAP, Queen's University Belfast) | Recent archaeological excavations at Dundrum Castle, Co Down. |
| Dec 9 | Norah Bermingham (Archaeological consultant) | Drumclay, Co Fermanagh: a most surprising crannog. |
| Jan 27 2014 | AGM 2014 @7.45pm | Review of fieldtrips and fieldwork in 2013. |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Jan 30 | AGM 2012 | Review of fieldtrips and fieldwork in 2011. |
| Feb 27 | Dr. Emily Murray (CAF, QUB) | Excavations at a newly discovered 16 -17th century fort at Ballycarry, Co Antrim. |
| March 12 | Barrie Hartwell | Artefact workshop. |
| March 26 | Dr. Ian Meighan (Dept Geology, TCD) | Quartz from the south, granite from the north: The geoarchaeology of Newgrange. |
| April 23 | Prof. Martin Carver (Prof Emeritus, Univ York) | Oliver Davies Lecture: The business of archaeology: its product, clientele and social utility in the age of micro-digging. |
| May 28 | Dr. Colm Donnelly (CAF, QUB) | From Crossan to the Acre: a transatlantic archaeological programme in Massachusetts and Tyrone. |
| Sep 24 | Prof. Audrey Horning (QUB) | A tale of five sites: Deciphering the archaeological histories of Goodlands, Co Antrim from the Neolithic to the 18th century. |
| Oct 18 | Annual Dinner | Annual Dinner |
| Oct 29 | Roisin O'Reilly, (Independent Archaeologist) | The archaeology of witchcraft and superstition in Ireland. |
| Nov 19 | Prof. Brian Williams (NIEA) | The economic and social value of the historic environment in Northern Ireland. |
| Nov 12 | Dr. Barrie Hartwell | Artefact Workshop. |
| Dec 10 | Dr. Robert Chapple NAC | Oakgrove: A unique Middle Bronze Age cemetery at Oakgrove, Co. Londonderry. |
| Jan 28 | AGM 2013 | Review of fieldtrips and fieldwork in 2012. |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Mon 21 Feb | Prof Peter Woodman (University of Cork) | First Settlers in Ireland Coping with life in a very different island |
| Mon 28 Mar | Mark Hennessey (Trinity College Dublin) | Trim from early medieval royal centre to Victorian county town |
| Mon 18 April | Conor Newman (National University of Ireland, Galway) | Holy Ground The sacralisation of the Tara landscape |
| Mon 23 May | Rodger Stalley (Trinity College Dublin) | Artist or Artisan The Muiredach master and the carving of the Irish High Crosses |
| Mon 26 Sep | Philip MacDonald, (Queen's University Belfast Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork) | Excavations with the Time Team at Knockdhu A late prehistoric promontory fort in Co. Antrim |
| Mon 24 Oct | Stephen Gilmore (Northern Archaeological Consultancy) | Introduces recent NAC excavations Various speakers |
| Mon 14 Nov | Claire Foley (Northern Ireland Environment Agency) | My Life in Ruins Conservation and the NIEA |
| Mon 5 Dec | Eileen Murphy (Queens University Belfast) | Early Irish Populations Context, Chronology and Osteology |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Mon 22 Feb | Richard Warner | Mourne Gold - the source of Early Bronze Age Gold. |
| Mon 29 Mar | Eoin Halpin, Archaeological Development Services and various speakers | Introducing recent ADS Excavations. |
| Mon 26 April | Moira O'Rourke: Heritage Officer, Lough Neagh Partnerships | Unlocking Lough Neagh's heritage. |
| Mon 31 May | Rosemary McConkey and Wes Forsythe, University of Ulster | Archaeological survey on Rathlin Island. |
| Mon 27 Sep | John Meneely, Queen's University Belfast | 3D Scanning in Archaeology - mapping, monitoring and visualising sites and artefacts using the latest 3D technology. |
| Mon 25 Oct | Steve Flanders, Queen's University Belfast | The Lords of Courcy in Normandy, England and Ireland - discovering the Prince of Ulster's antecedents. |
| Thur in Oct | Annual Dinner. | |
| Mon 15 Nov | Colin Breen, University of Ulster | Dunluce - the Medieval village in the shadow of the castle. |
| Mon 6 Dec | Cormac McSparron, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork, QUB | The date of the Neolithic house in Ireland. |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Mon 26 Jan @ 7.45pm | AGM 2009 | Officers Reports for 2008 and elections followed by illustrated talks on member's activities. |
| Mon 9 Feb | Colin Rynne, University College Cork | The Archaeology of Water power in early Medieval Ireland c.AD600-1100. |
| Mon 23 Feb | Brian Scott, Heritage Consultant | The Great Guns like Thunder: the cannon from the City of Derry |
| Mon 23 Mar | Dean Miller, Rochester University NY | Kings and Things, Royalty and Mythology: Connections and similarities between Ireland's Kings and monarchy in the classical world and elsewhere |
| Mon 27 April | Paul Masser Headland Archaeology | The Archaeology of the Dungannon- Ballygawley Roadworks |
| Mon 11 May | Paula Reimer, 14Chrono: QUB Carbon Dating Dept | AMS Carbon Dating at Queen's - why size matters. |
| Mon 28 Sep | Martin Keery, Gahan and Long Ltd | The Excavation of the Former Glassworks Site, Sirocco Works Belfast |
| Mon 26 Oct | Frazer Hunter, Nation Museums of Scotland | The Romans in Scotland: Latest work.. |
| Mon 16 Nov | Jonathan Bell | Rundale in the Glens of Antrim: Findings from The Glens of Antrim Historical Society's Claghan Project.. |
| Mon 7 Dec | Chris Hunt, Queen's University Belfast | 50,000 Years in the Rainforest of Borneo. |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Mon 11 Feb | John O'Keeffe, DOE Environment & Heritage Service | The Ards at the Time of the Plantation. Some new studies of the archaeology of the cultural landscape. |
| Mon 10 Mar | Professor Dan Bradley, Trinity College Dublin | Irish Human Genetics. Speculation about origins, Niall of the Nine Hostages and adaptive change |
| Mon 28 April | Caroline Wickham-Jones, Orkney Archaeological Trust | World Heritage Orkney |
| Mon 23 Mar | Dr Caroline Malone, Queen's University Belfast | Death Rituals in Megalithic Malta |
| Mon 27 April | Professor W O'Brien, University College Cork | Iverni. The Late Prehistoric Settlement Landscape in South West Ireland |
| Mon 12 May | Ronan McHugh, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork QUB | The Prehistoric Landscape of the Topped Mountain Region, Co Fermanagh |
| Mon 15 Sep | Professor JM Mallory, Queen's University Belfast | Archaeology and Language |
| Mon 20 Oct | Cormac Bourke, Ulster Museum | Medieval Metalwork from the River Blackwater. A Summary and Review |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| Monday 19 Feb | Gill Plunkett, QUB | The Rise and Fall of Old Croghan Man. Investigating the circumstances of a bog body's fate through palaeoenvironmental reconstructions |
| Monday 19 Mar | Ingelise Stuijts, Discovery Programme | Muck Mud Moss and Other Stuff. Environmental Matters at Lough Kinale, Co Longford |
| Monday 16 April | Professor John Waddell, NUI Galway | OLIVER DAVIES LECTURE. Archaeology and Myth.The Challenge of Rathcroghan |
| Monday 28 May | Rick Schulting, Oxford University | New Dates for Old Sites. Revisiting the chronology of court tombs in Northern Ireland |
| Mon 17 Sep | Ruairi O'Baoill, CAF QUB | The Archaeology of Belfast. A Review of the evidence |
| Mon 22 Oct | Mark Gardiner, QUB | 'Coasts Cold'. Merchants and Fishermen in Medieval Iceland. |
| Mon 19 Nov | Eimear Nelis, CAF QUB | A County Churchyard. Excavations at Armoy |
| Mon 10 Dec | Roger Stalley, TCD | Did they ever learn? Some Medieval Building Disasters |