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Student Activities in archaeology

AYIA conference: 8-10 March 2013

We are pleased to announce that this year’s Association of Young Irish Archaeologists (AYIA) conference will take place in NUI Galway from Friday 8^th to Sunday 10^th of March. This event will give students and recent graduates an opportunity to present papers in addition to encouraging undergraduate and postgraduate archaeology students to attend a conference hosted and attended by fellow friends and scholars. Speakers at the 2013 conference will include scholars from the various Irish Universities and ITs, where archaeology is part of a taught programme. The programme will also include a number of short presentations by others working in the profession. There will be a poster competition and a table quiz in addition to live music and entertainment on the Saturday night. Attendance to the conference is free and we look forward to an informative and enjoyable weekend. Keep up to date on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AYIAConference2013

Upcoming events of the N.U.I. Galway Archaeology Society

Semester 1 (2012)
Please note: All guest lectures commence at 7.00pm in Lecture Theatre AC202
.

Wed. 26th Sept. - Meet and Greet
A social get together of new and existing archaeology society members - all welcome!

Tues. 2nd Oct. - Guest Lecture
                        Dr. Pat Wallace
                        Recent discoveries in Viking age Ireland

Tues. 16th Oct. - Guest lecturer
                        Sam Moore
                        Concentrating the sacred: ritual space at the Carrowkeel Passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo.

Sat. 20th Oct. - Day-trip to Co. Sligo
                         Visiting Ballymote castle and Carrowkeel

Tues. 6th Nov. - Guest Lecture
                        Dr Michael Potterton
                        Contacts between Ireland and the Continent in the sixteenth century

Tues. 20 Nov. - Guest Lecture
                        Dr Michael Hazard
                        The annals written by the Dominican Friars in Roscommon 1163-1314 AD

Tues. 4 Dec.     Guest Lecture
                       Dr Andy Halpin
                       Viking Versache? The 1999 hoard from Dunmore cave, Co. Kilkenny

Semester 2 (2013)
Please note: All guest lectures commence at 7.00pm in Lecture Theatre AC202
.

Tues. 15th Jan. - Christmas Party

Tues. 22nd Jan. - Guest Lecture
John Gillis
The Faddan More psalter

Sat. 26th Jan. - Day-trip to the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Tues. 5th Feb. - Guest Lecture
Professor Audrey Horning
(title to be advised)

Thurs. 14th Feb. - Charity coffee morning

Tues. 19th Feb. - Guest Lecture
                        Dr Marion Dowd
                        Recent excavations at Moneen Cave, the Burren in the context of caves as multi-period archaeological sites

Tues. 5th Mar.   Guest Lecture
                        Dr Joanna Bruck
                        Landscapes of desire: parks, colonialism and identity

April (dates to be announced) - Away trip to Wales

Archaeology Society

N.U.I. Galway.

on a fieldtrip to

Wales (2011)

January 2011

18^th January 2011: Guest Lecture by Eamonn P. Kelly (Keeper of Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland) - 'Irish Iron Age Bog Bodies'

February 2011

1^stFebruary: Guest Lecture by Dr. Neill Brady - 'Underwater Archaeology'
15^thFebruary: Guest Lecture by Ms. Mary Cahill (Assistant Keeper of Irish Antiquities, National Museum of Ireland) - 'Prehistoric Irish Gold'
Daytrip – Details to be announced.

March 2011

1^stMarch: Guest Lecture by Dr. Michael Ryan (Curator, Chester Beatty Library) - 'Early Irish Metalwork'
15^thMarch: Guest Lecture by Dr. Elizabeth O'Brien FSA - 'Politics, Family, Religion - Burial rituals in Ireland, 5th - 8th centuries AD'

Dr. Kieran O'Conor is giving the NUIG Archaeology Society a lecture on the
building of Flynn Castle, Northern Wales in April 2010.

April 2011

April 2011: Trip to South Wales – Details to be announced.

For more information and updates please also see the Facebook website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid="135879389765619&v="app_2344061033#!/group.php?gid="135879389765619" "

Mr. Darrell Hooper is giving a lecture on the Tihilly
Cross to the NUIG Archaeology Society on their
Day Trip to Tullamore on 16th October 2010.

Department of Archaeology
National University of Ireland, Galway,
University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0) 91 492167 , Fax: +353 (0) 91 525700, E-mail Archaeology
This page was last updated Friday, April 12, 2013

AYIA conference: 8-10 March 2013
		We are pleased to announce that this year’s Association of Young Irish Archaeologists (AYIA) conference will take place in NUI Galway from Friday 8^th to Sunday 10^th of March. This event will give students and recent graduates an opportunity to present papers in addition to encouraging undergraduate and postgraduate archaeology students to attend a conference hosted and attended by fellow friends and scholars. Speakers at the 2013 conference will include scholars from the various Irish Universities and ITs, where archaeology is part of a taught programme. The programme will also include a number of short presentations by others working in the profession. There will be a poster competition and a table quiz in addition to live music and entertainment on the Saturday night. Attendance to the conference is free and we look forward to an informative and enjoyable weekend. Keep up to date on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AYIAConference2013