Dr Eóin O’Donoghue
Research Associate
Office: Tower 2, Room 507
Phone: 091 495746
E-mail:
eoin.odonoghue
nuigalway.ie
Eóin O’Donoghue’s research focuses on the archaeology of pre-Roman Italy. Current writing projects include a monograph on Etruscan gender identity, the subject of his doctoral dissertation, and a project entitled ’Élite Interaction in Inland Etruria: an examination of Chiusine Bucchero Pesante’ which has been partially funded by the
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. He works on the excavation project of the Etruscan site of
Poggio Civitate (Murlo).
Select Publications
O’Donoghue, E.M. 2010. ’The Etruscans on Kildare Street: A Mirror in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland.’
Classics Ireland
17: pp. 71-84
O’Donoghue, E.M. 2011. ’The Costume of Crisis: Reinforcing Local Identity in Later Etruscan Art.’ In L. Amundsen-Mayer, N. Engel and S. Pickering (Eds.).
Identity Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Identity. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference: pp. 96-105. Chacmool Archaeological Association, Calgary
Recent Presentations
January 2012: ’Brothers in Arms: Masculine Identity in Archaic Etruria’. In a colloquium session entitled
Gender Identities in pre-Roman Italy (organised by Eóin O’Donoghue, NUI Galway and Lucy Shipley, University of Southampton),
113th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia.
June 2011: ’Changing and Maintaining Gender Structures in Orientalising and Archaic Etruria’. At a conference on
Burial and Social Change in Ancient Italy, 9th-5th century BC: Approaching Social Agents, British School at Rome.
September 2010: ’Female gender identity in Archaic and Classical Etruria’ At the
European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, The Hague.