Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT)
@empatireland.bsky.social
Project directors: Aidan O'Sullivan & Brendan O'Neill, Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland COALESCE project; UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
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Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
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Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
How climate change is threatening Indigenous Yup’ik heritage « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
On 12 October, 2025, Typhoon Halong reached the shores of Southwestern Alaska, with devastating consequences for many of the Indigenous communities living here. Whole villages were destroyed and…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Climate change has disastrous effects on Indigenous communities in Southwestern Alaska, and it is also damaging precontact Yup'ik #archaeology.
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
Charlotta Hillerdal writes on the threat and steps being taken in the latest #AntiquityBlog 🏺
📷 Rick Knecht
🔗 buff.ly/KOUaA9H
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"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference
Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions
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September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
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Conall (chief dog of Ireland) is on the cover of Archaeology Ireland autumn issue!!
@archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer
@archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer
September 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Conall (chief dog of Ireland) is on the cover of Archaeology Ireland autumn issue!!
@archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer
@archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer
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Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland
10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...
www.researchireland.ie
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
Are you interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?
This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below
This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below
Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme - Research Ireland
The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and manag...
www.researchireland.ie
September 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Are you interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?
This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below
This is the primary source of funding for Post-doctoral Fellows in the Humanities/Social Sciences in the the Rep. of Ireland, details below
Are you interested in doing a PhD on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?
This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below
www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...
This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below
www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...
Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme - Research Ireland
The Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme is an established national initiative, funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and mana...
www.researchireland.ie
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Are you interested in doing a PhD on early medieval topics in UCD School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland?
This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below
www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...
This is the primary source of funding for PhD students in the Rep. of Ireland, details below
www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...
Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
Spotlight on COALESCE - Research Ireland
10th September 2025: A sensory walking event co-created by a community of cross-border neurodivergent collaborators, led by artist AlanJames Burns with Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analyti...
www.researchireland.ie
September 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
"The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things."
www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...
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"Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick"
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i...
#Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland
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#Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland
July 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Is this Ireland’s earliest hurley? A possible 7th century AD cammán from Skehacreggaun, Mungret, Co. Limerick"
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i...
#Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/i...
#Hurling #Camogie #All-Ireland #Medieval #Ireland
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Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) Project at UCD Festival Saturday 7th June, 12-6pm!
June 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) Project at UCD Festival Saturday 7th June, 12-6pm!
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Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
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The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social
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O'Sullivan, A. (2017/18) ‘Magic in Early Medieval Ireland’. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74, 107-117.
www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...
www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...
May 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
O'Sullivan, A. (2017/18) ‘Magic in Early Medieval Ireland’. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 74, 107-117.
www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...
www.academia.edu/39566246/OSu...
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“Coll (Hazel tree)”
Read by Aidan O'Sullivan.
Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times
“Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...
Read by Aidan O'Sullivan.
Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times
“Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...
May 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“Coll (Hazel tree)”
Read by Aidan O'Sullivan.
Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times
“Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...
Read by Aidan O'Sullivan.
Hazel trees have greatly benefited the people of Ireland since medieval times
“Spreading the Words” podcast series on histories of Irish words from literature & everyday life, by Sharon Arbuthnot and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh radio.moli.ie/r/coll-hazel...
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
May 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
Visit us at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture at UCD Festival, 12-6pm, 7th June 2025
Walk in an early medieval roundhouse. You can also take a trip to an early medieval rath using a Virtual Reality Headset!
#UCDFestival
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Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.
May 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.
Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households
This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households
YouTube video by National Museum of Ireland
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Lecture: Things of the Early Medieval Teaglach - Exploring the material of early Irish households
This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
This talk will tack between archaeology, early Irish history and experimental archaeology to think about the things that people used in early medieval Ireland
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project
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February 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project
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Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
February 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly
This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...
This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...
Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly
YouTube video by Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain & Ireland
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle, Charlene Eska, & Fergus Kelly
This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...
This event features four prominent medieval Irish specialists in archaeology, literature, and law to present their latest research
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebQj...
What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland?
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/w...
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/w...
What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland?
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick (originally published in O’Sullivan, A. and McCormick, F. 2017 Early medieval Ireland: investigating social, economic and settlement change, ad 400–1100.…
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February 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
What was the impact of the Justinian Plague on sixth-century Ireland?
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/w...
Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick
earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/w...
Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
February 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Lecture is ready!
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
"The archaeology of trade in early medieval Ireland: Olive oil, slaves, wolfhounds & Irish butter? The archaeology of maritime trade between Ireland, Britain, Francia, and the Mediterranean..."
Tuatha Talk online, 26th February 2025
A public event as part of our EMPAT project
“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”
Search for “Archaeology” at
my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”
Search for “Archaeology” at
my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...
December 14, 2024 at 9:07 AM
“Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” Research Scientist, UCD School of Archaeology
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”
Search for “Archaeology” at
my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...
Applications are sought for a 19-month Research Scientist position as part of the project “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)”
Search for “Archaeology” at
my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) is a two-year archaeological research project, in partnership between UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)
December 11, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) is a two-year archaeological research project, in partnership between UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture; TII Archaeology; NMI Dept Antiquities & NMI Education; AMS Ltd
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)
(photos variously by CEAMC, John Sunderland, Conor McDermott, NMS)
“Things of the early medieval teaglach: exploring the material culture of early medieval households”
Aidan O'Sullivan
Online lecture for NMI
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
Aidan O'Sullivan
Online lecture for NMI
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
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December 10, 2024 at 1:23 PM
“Things of the early medieval teaglach: exploring the material culture of early medieval households”
Aidan O'Sullivan
Online lecture for NMI
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...
Aidan O'Sullivan
Online lecture for NMI
www.youtube.com/live/ZYW1wDZ...