As a professional archaeologist I have wanted to excavate in Ireland for years but can't because I am not from the EU. I also have an MA in Archaeology from a...
Letter to editor, Irish Times, from Kathy Sinnott MEP in response to an article in IT on the EU Petitions Committee report on the M3 and the actions carried...
All, Did you know that in the name of protecting it, The Irish Government have decided to move The Turoe Stone from its rural home environment to a museum in...
Hello all, Stiof's message reminded me that Jon C. Henderson from the University of Nottingham has just published a book titled 'The Atlantic Iron Age' which...
... reference ... known ... combines ... away from ... breaking ... evidence, ... Celtic- ... individual ... Thanks, it is really interesting. But there are...
Hi, well, the actual base data was collected in a GIS. Making that public is a different question, though. If one produces a nice glossy book that can be sold...
Hi again, ahem, as additional information to what I wrote about three minutes ago, just had an email from John Koch stating that a CD with the PDFs and the GIS...
My latest Ulster Cycle webcomic, "The Cattle Raid of Cooley", begins weekly serialisation at http://paddybrown.co.uk on Wednesday 6 August! Visit now for a...
Hi, I am constructing a scale model Irish Iron Age promontory fort with figures. I would like to know if whitewash or such rendering could have been used on...
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FYI/Zur Kenntnis RAY Forwarded message follows: Dear friends and colleagues, IARSS visits the seaside! We are pleased to announce that the annual Iron Age...
Hi All! And firstly sorry about the length (and complexity) of this mail. I'm currently writing up my family history (the Ó Sionnaigh) and among several...
... Féine ... associated ... of ... of ... to ... of ... and ... military ... was ... came ... freeborn ... thereof. ... settlements ... of ... Seamus, Not...
Hi Kieran, and thank you for that, would be much appreciated. I know that in “Prehistoric and Early Ireland” by Daibhí Ó Croinin, Féine is presented...
... Féine is presented as an overall pre-historic population name for what became the Connachta/Uí Néill in the midlands and west, and the Eoghanachta in...
Proposed origin for the names Gaeil/Gwyddelod/Féine. There existed a population group in Ireland, widespread across the island, whose name derived from a...
I don't know how many of you watched Blood of the Irish whose premise of the Irish coming from Spain has been disproved these last couple of months by new DNA...
Didn't see Blood of the Irish, so I can't comment on that. But the similarities between Gael and Gaul are coincidental. If you trace them back through earlier...
... This is merely coincidental, just as well as the French name of Wales = Gales and the name of the Spanish province Galicia < Callaecia, and the name of the...
This idea goes back to Eric Hamp,if I am not mistaken. I seem to remember that it was published in Etudes Celtiques a few years back. I am not sure that his...
Thanks David and Patrick. I've forwarded the responses on to Peter. Janet ... From: David Stifter To: Iron-Age-Ireland@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January...
Hi all, In relation to the name of Ireland, as far as I remember from various sources the most favoured the development was Proto-Irish *Iweriū (or *Iwerjon-)...
Hi David, I personally have come to favour more and more some sort of relationship between the population name Féine and the socio-military group name...
We are offering from this autumn some brand new campus courses in English, specifically designed for exchange students from EU countries (Erasmus or free...
Hi everyone, Are there any St Patrick experts here? I'm writing a short summary of his life using only his Confessio and Epistle but I am not certain what date...