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
Early Medieval People & Things (EMPAT)
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‘What is experimental archaeology, or what we do at UCD CEAMC, in 7 minutes!’ Available as VIDEO on UCD Centre for
Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture channel. A video created for UCD Earth Institute, for the EPA's #StoryOfYourStuff Schools' competition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=44_3...
“Stories from Ireland’s Past”,
now available to download for free at TII website www.tii.ie/media/n51bn1...
Super excited to read Heather Pulliam's new book today! @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project online lecture for the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI), Monday 27 April, 2026
Funded by Research Ireland COALESCE programme
Booking on Eventbrite
An EMPAT lecture given to University College Cork's course "Food Heritage in Action: Turning Tradition into Sustainable Enterprise", an online Adult Continuing Education course co-ordinated by renowned chef and experimental archaeologist, Dr Bill Schindler
See here www.ucc.ie/en/ace/food-...
“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan, 2026), an MSRG publication
Pre-order from Archaeopress
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
Blacksmithing at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC). Dr Brendan O’Neill and some of our MSc in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture students draw out some of the iron they made themselves from bog ore, to make knives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKss...
The hereditary custodian of the crosier-head and coigreach of St Fillan appeared at an inquest #OTD in 1428. He was confirmed in his special rights of pursuing anywhere in Scotland goods or cattle stolen from anyone in the parish of Killin/Glendochart. 📸NMS
It's #HugaMedievalistDay 🫂 Gold foil figures from early medieval Scandinavia often feature embracing couples. Maybe the medievalists are learning from example!
🔗 from 2023 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
YouTube video by UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture
"How people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things"
EMPAT will create knowledge from large amounts of data from existing Irish archaeological excavation reports, museum catalogues, and scientific literature.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/early-medi...
Prof. Aidan O'Sullivan & Dr. Brendan O'Neill will talk on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things
