Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT)

How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…

Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.

Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺

📷 Rick Knecht

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8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.

🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

#WithinWithout2025 #NMSArchaeologyConference #HeritageMatters #ArchaeologyConference #CulturalHeritage #PartitionsInHistory #IrishArchaeology #NationalMonumentService #PublicArchaeology

Conall (chief dog of Ireland) is on the cover of Archaeology Ireland autumn issue!!

@archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer

Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland 10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced

"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."

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

Are you interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?

This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below

Are you interested in doing a PhD on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?

This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below

www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland 10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced

"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."

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

A photoshop reconstruction showing an early medieval thatched house and the Skehacreggaun stick in the doorway

The Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick stick, made of willow, dated to the 7th century AD

"Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick"
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i...

#Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) Project at UCD Festival Saturday 7th June, 12-6pm!

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project

Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025

Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival

The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social

O'Sullivan, A. (2017/18) ‘Magic in Early Medieval Ireland’. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74, 107-117.

www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...

“Coll (Hazel tree)”
Read by Aidan O'Sullivan.

Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times

“Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project

Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025

Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival

Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.

Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland

Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households

This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland

www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...

Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project

earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/e...

Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project

Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly YouTube video by Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain & Ireland

Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly

This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...

What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland? Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick (originally published in O’Sullivan, A. and McCormick, F. 2017 Early medieval Ireland: investigating social, economic and settlement change, ad 400–1100.…

What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland?
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick

earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/w...

Yes please

Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project

“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”

Search for “Archaeology” at
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Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) is a two-year archaeological research project, in partnership between UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)

“Things of the early medieval teaglach: exploring the material culture of early medieval households”

Aidan O'Sullivan
Online lecture for NMI

www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...