News & Events

Matthew Logue

It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of Matt Logue, a well-respected archaeologist and PhD student of Archaeology here at N.U.I. Galway. Both staff and students would like to extend our heartfelt sympathy and condolences to his family and wide circle of friends. He will be greatly missed.

Congratulations to Professor FitzPatrick on her recent promotion

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Elizabeth FitzPatrick has been promoted to a personal professorship.

This is a very well deserved promotion.  Professor FitzPatrick is renowned for her tremendous efforts when it comes to teaching and providing quality education to the students; for her zeal in a variety of outreach engagements (eg through museum work and as journal editor); and last, but in this context not least, for the very high quality of her research, which of course focus on medieval and early modern Gaelic peoples, with particular reference to their expressions of cultural and social identity .  While she has high expectations of her fellow academics, she puts even higher demands on her own work. We are very pleased to see her hard work acknowledged in this way.

As her colleagues we offer Professor FitzPatrick our warmest congratulations, and we look forward to following her future projects.

New M.A. in Landscape Archaeology graduates - November 2012

New Ph.D. Graduate 2012

Prizes and Awards 2012

New IRCHSS awards to Archaeology

We are very pleased to announce that no less than four of our students have received IRCHSS scholarships in 2012. This demonstrates the very high quality of the postgraduate students in the department, and their ability to generate top class projects. We congratulate them all warmly!

Professor Etienne Rynne - an appreciation (Irish Times - Saturday July 14, 2012)

'Professor of Archaeology and renowned scholar drawn to a range of subjects'

New PhD Graduates 2012

Fulbright Scholar Award

Travel bursary awarded to Richard Gray

Richard Gray, who is in the first year of his PhD research on The parish church-centred village in Ireland 1200-1600, has been awarded a travel bursary by the Medieval Settlement Research Group Cambridge (MSRG) to attend a major conference in York on Wharram Percy. The conference is jointly hosted by English Heritage and MSRG and will take place 23-24 March 2012. Congratulations to Richard! 

Bernadette Broderick's Retirement Party

New graduates:  M.A. in Landscape Archaeology

MA in Landscape Archaeology:

class of 2010-2011.

Conratulations to:

Elaine McElroy, Treasa NicDhonncha, Emmet Connolly, Marie Sullivan and Lisa O’Rourke (Meg Swanton absent)

who recently received their M.A. in Landscape Archaeology degrees.

Awards (December 2011)

New Head of Discipline appointed to Archaeology

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Charlotte Damm as Professor and Head of Discipline to Archaeology at N.U.I. Galway.

Charlotte Damm studied for her first degree at University of Aarhus in Denmark, and later received an M.Phil. and a PhD (1991) from University of Cambridge.  She has worked briefly as county archaeologist in Finnmark, Norway and then as director of the excavations at Slettnes, Finnmark (through Tromsø Museum). In 1993 she joined the Department of Archaeology at The University of Tromsø, Norway, where she remained until moving to NUI Galway in 2011 as Established Professor of Archaeology.

While her initial research and PhD focuses on the Danish Middle Neolithic and the interrelationship between the cultural groups there, the empirical basis for her later research is the Stone Age hunter-fishers of Northern Fennoscandia.

She has done fieldwork in Denmark, England, Norway and Finland, as well as in New Zealand, Botswana and on Greenland.

New book published, June 2011

Landscapes of Cult and Kingship edited by Conor Newman (with Roseanne Schot and Edel Bhreathnach) was published by Four Courts Press in June 2011. This 322-page volume of thirteen innovative studies is the result of a conference held in the Moore Institute, NUI Galway in June 2009. It offers new perspectives on cult practices, kingship and royal landscapes in early Ireland and abroad. Contributions include Conor Newman, 'The sacral landscape of Tara', Dr. Roseanne Schot (a research fellow in Department of Archaeology), 'From cult centre to royal centre: monuments, myths and other revelations at Uisneach', Dr Ger Dowling (a research fellow in Department of Archaeology), 'The architecture of power: an exploration of the origins of closely spaced multivallate monuments in Ireland', Elizabeth FitzPatrick et al., 'Evoking the white mare: the cult landscape of Sgiath Gabhra and its medieval perception in Gaelic Fir Mhanach' and John Waddell, 'Continuity, cult and contest'.

Pictured at the NUI Galway Lá na nGradam on 5 Feb 2011 was (l-r):

Ms. Maggie Ronayne, Lecturer in Archaeology, NUI Galway; Dr. Edward Herring, Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies; Karina Barbara Hensel, from Oughterard, Co. Galway, winner of the Monsignor Hynes Prize for Celtic Archaeology 2009-10 and the Athenry Prize, Third Arts (3BA1) 2009-10;  NUI Galway President Dr. James J. Browne; Professor Michael Clarke, Professor of Classics, NUI Galway and Professor Nollaig Mac Congáil, Registrar and Deputy President, NUI Galway.

New Graduates

Joint Award Winners of the Hynes Prize in Archaeology.

Pictured receiving The Monsignor Hynes Prize for Celtic Archaeology from NUI Galway President, Dr James J. Browne, are joint winners (l-r) Emma Cleverley, from Killarney, Co. Kerry and Donna Reid, from Lifford, Co. Donegal. Also pictured  is Maggie Ronayne, Lecturer, School of Archaeology, NUI Galway.

Field Class in the Burren, County Clare.                 

University Scholars in Archaeology