public Archaeology

Developing professional ethics and standards through mutually accountable work with communities to support their heritage in Ireland and abroad. With particular concern for the positive and negative impact of development.

Staff Research

Ms Maggie Ronayne ( Profile)

Professor John Waddell ( Profile)

Current Projects

• Archaeology and development: mutual accountability as an approach to public archaeology.
  • Large dams
  • Tourism in heritage landscapes and at World Heritage Sites
  • Road development
• History and development of professional ethics and standards
• Cultural destruction and manipulation of heritage during war and occupation

Current Graduate Research

PhD

• Elizabeth O’Donoghue: Colonising the Past: Antiquarianism in Ireland from the 16^th to the 18th centuries.

M.Litt.

• Ann Kelly-Moran: Archaeology and Education in Multi-Racial Ireland.

Completed Graduate Research 2000-2009

M.A.

• J. Touhy: Monumental Suburbia. The incorporation of archaeological monuments into the suburban landscape of South County Dublin (2007)
• D. Holmes: Aileach and its communities – past, present and imagined (2006)
• L. O'Donnell: Representations of landscape in the Heritage Sector (2004)
• E. Dowling: Celtic Mists: the construction and representation of Galway’s archaeological heritage landscape in the context of State tourism (2003)

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