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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 13h

Join us on 23 October for Revealing the Past, a biennial conference on recent archaeological discoveries and research funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social , Historic Environment Division NI, and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social via RIA grants

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 3d

A year ago I was invited to Dublin for the 7th National mons.bsky.social Service Annual Archaeology Conference to give a talk on my work. All those intriguing and compelling talks are now available in this volume: TRACES, the archaeology of small things' Available from @wordwellbooks.bsky.social

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 5d

⏳Closing date Friday 24 October 2025.
Following the success of the 2025 Commercial Dive Training Grant Scheme, @nationalmons.bsky.social is offering up to four further grants in 2026 to assist archaeologists gain commercial diving qualifications.
#UCHIreland
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 6d

You are warmly invited to The Discovery Programme’s Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025:
"Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain”

It will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social

Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

Thurs 4 Dec
7.30pm
Online
Free

Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025

The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 9d

The Discovery Programme's latest Ezine is now available to read here: discoveryprogramme.ie/2025/10/06/d...

@heritagecouncil.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

Discovery Programme Ezine: Autumn 2025 now available - The Discovery Programme

The latest Discovery Programme Ezine (October 2025) is now available to read here. This edition of the Ezine includes updates on the Discovery Programme’s work including: New staff member New project: 3D-4CH New COST Action: Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA) Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland conference UCD Fieldschool Rathgurreen Ringfort excavations CHERISH: […]

discoveryprogramme.ie

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 15d

Welcoming today's assessment of the built & archaeological heritage sector. #ClimatEireitage
We look forward to continuing engagement with
@ccacireland.bsky.social
and key partners as we seek to strengthen out adaptive capacity to protect our heritage
@nbhsireland.bsky.social
#HeritageIreland2030

Climate Change Advisory Council Ireland @ccacireland.bsky.social · 15d

The Council’s Annual Review of Adaptation has been published today with key observations and policy recommendations published to help Ireland deal with the impacts of future climate change.
Read the full report here: shorturl.at/LogZL

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 15d

CALENDAR MONUMENTS– September 2025
Ballyloughan Castle, Co. Carlow #CastlesOfIreland
Built late 13th century by the Carew family.
It then fell into the hands of the Kavanaghs, who resided here until the mid 17th c.
tinyurl.com/5cbuzthb
#HeritageWellbeing #HeritageIreland2030
@opwireland.bsky.social

Ballyloughan Castle, Co. Carlow #CastlesOfIreland
*Please be aware this monument is located in a farming field*
Copyright and Photo Credit
©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland

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National Built Heritage Service @nbhsireland.bsky.social · 23d

#CultureNight celebrated 100 years since the turning of the sod at #Ardnacrusha ❤ #NationalBuiltHeritageService joined w/ #ESB & @nationalmons.bsky.social at the ‘A Bolt out of The Blue’ photo exhibition to celebrate #ModernArchitecture & #builtheritage

#ESBArchives #DHLGH

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 26d

✨Always a pleasure for our @nationalmons.bsky.social
team to connect with the farming community and custodians of our archaeological heritage at the @NPAIE
🙏 Minister James Browne, Dept. Housing, Local Government & Heritage.
#ProtectOurPast #CheckBeforeYouDig #HeritageIreland2030 #CMF2025

The National Monuments Service Team with Minister James Browne at the National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore 18 September 2025
Images ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland

The National Monuments Service Team wat the National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore 18 September 2025
Images ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland

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National Built Heritage Service @nbhsireland.bsky.social · 28d

Join the #NBHS & #ESB in celebrating 100 years of #architecture at #Ardnacrusha See the photo exhibit A Bolt out of The Blue w/ photos from @nationalmons.bsky.social & enjoy the music, coffee & cupcakes and lot of activities this #CultureNight📍ESB HQ, Fitzwilliam St. Lower

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 28d

🚜#Day2 @NPAIE #Govploughing2025
Come meet our @nationalmons.bsky.social archaeologists and staff to learn more.

📍Culture, Communications, Archaeology and Sport Block 3 -Row 14-Stand 274

#ProtectOurPast #CheckBeforeYouDig #HeritageIreland2030 #CMF2025 #ClimatEireitage #HeritageWellbeing

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 28d

📢 Announcing a new @researchireland.ie-funded project exploring Tara places in Ireland

'Tara by Name, Tara by Nature?' will explore archaeological connections between Ireland’s 'temair' places

It will be led by The Discovery Programme's Dr Susan Curran
@nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Sep 10

Make Your Thursdays Count!
Looking for something different after work?
🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM.
✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition
📍 Free entry, no booking needed.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · Sep 8

Four Archaeology Grants schemes offering funding opportunities for research across a number of areas are now open and accepting applications until 15 October.

For further details see: https://www.ria.ie/grants/ and contact [email protected] with any queries.

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · Sep 8

‘Hidden Layers: Inside the World of Archaeological Compliance’

NMS archaeologist Anne Carey talks w/ Aidan Priestley of the #ConstructionIndustryFederation
Before carrying out groundworks including land clearance and reclamation #CheckBeforeYouDig to help #ProtectOurPast
tinyurl.com/4hv8yyvu

Images ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations to Prof Aidan O’Sullivan & Dr Brendan O’Neill; Assoc Prof Jessica Smyth; Assoc Prof Neil Carlin; and Assoc Prof Helen Lewis on securing four of the 2024 Research Ireland COALESCE grants.

www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

@ucddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣Discovery Programme is delighted to announce the CHERISH Project Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) data is now archived securely in the @dri.ie & available for anyone to use! doi.org/10.7486/DRI....

@heritagecouncil.ie @aberuni.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social @interregeurope.bsky.social

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · Sep 2

We are delighted to announce that 'Knowth' (RIA, 2024, ed. Helena King) has been awarded the prestigious @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Book Prize at the opening ceremony of the 31st EAA Annual Meeting on 2 September 2025.

Find out more at https://shop.ria.ie/products/knowth

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Archaeology Ireland Magazine @archiremag.bsky.social · Aug 20

Professor Aidan O’Sullivan
📍 Talk Title: Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100

Professor Aidan O’Sullivan is Head of School and Professor of Archaeology at University College Dublin.

🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

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Archaeology Ireland Magazine @archiremag.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our second speaker is Professor Howard Williams
📍 Dykes as deeds? Re-evaluating linear earthworks from early medieval Britain

Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
Saturday 18 October 2025 | 🕘 9:15–17:30
Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Register now: bit.ly/Within-Without

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Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social · Jul 16

We are delighted to announce our next CPD which will take place online on 4 Sep at 10am. Learn all about the Archaeological Survey of Ireland – the past, present & future. To secure your FREE ticket, please visit buff.ly/DSEthBF #archaeologyevents #iaievents #archaeologicalsurvey #NMS #archaeology

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Architectural Conservation / Galway City Council @conservationgalway.bsky.social · Aug 24

FREE BOOKING OPEN!

Discovery Buildings Archaeology is a FREE full day event including expert presentations / site visits with archaeology + conservation practioners in Galway City.

Full programme + booking:

www.galwaycity.ie/BuildingsArchaeology

@nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie

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Archaeology Ireland Magazine @archiremag.bsky.social · Jul 22

Dr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
📣 Where power lies: Ireland’s Iron Age earthworks as territorial oppida.
Cóilín is with @nationalmonumentsirl and co-authored Materialising Power on the Black Pig’s Dyke.
🎟️ bit.ly/Within-Without
📍 Trinity College Dublin, 18 Oct
#WithinWithout2025 #IrishArchaeology

8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

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National Built Heritage Service @nbhsireland.bsky.social · Jul 15

✨COMHAIRLIÚCHÁN POIBLÍ AR OSCAILT✨

Tá @nationalmons.bsky.social agus NBHS i mbun Plean Oiriúnaithe Earnála maidir le hOidhreacht Thógtha agus Seandálaíochta á ullmhú📑

Dáta deiridh 📅 5pm an 29 Iúil 2025.

Sonraí 👉 bit.ly/4lWoUOC

@depthousingirl.bsky.social @deptcee.bsky.social

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National Built Heritage Service @nbhsireland.bsky.social · Jul 15

✨PUBLIC CONSULTATION OPEN✨

@nationalmons.bsky.social and NBHS are preparing a Built and Archaeological Heritage Sectoral Adaptation Plan📑

Closing date 📅5pm 29 July 2025.

Details 👉 bit.ly/4lWoUOC

@depthousingirl.bsky.social @deptcee.bsky.social

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