Academic Staff Information

Dr Michelle Comber, Co-ordinator, Irish Studies Online

Address:  Room 204, Martha Fox House, Distillery Road , NUI Galway

Telephone:  353 (0)91 492887    

Email:  michelle.combernuigalway.ie

Michelle is the Academic Co-ordinator of the Irish Studies Online programme, a series of web-based courses in Irish Studies developed by NUI Galway in conjunction with Regis University, Denver, Colorado. Michelle’s current research project is examining the archaeological landscape of the Burren, County Clare, with excavations ongoing at Caherconnell in the heart of the Burren. She has given public lectures throughout Ireland, Scotland and the USA. She is a member of Galway County Heritage Forum, external referee for the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, and sits on the Council of the Discovery Programme. 

She has published two monographs based on her MA and PhD theses, Native Evidence of Non-ferrous Metalworking in Early Historic Ireland (2004) and The Economy of the Ringfort and Contemporary Settlement in Early Medieval Ireland (2008). Michelle has also contributed chapters to a number of books, and written articles for academic and popular publications such as the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, the Journal of Irish Archaeology, and Archaeology Ireland.

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