2009 Press Releases
Archaeological Exhibition
22.10.2009
The Department of Archaeology is currently celebrating its centenary year with a programme of guest lectures, conferences and other events. These include a photographic exhibition to be opened by UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy at 6pm today (October 22nd 2009) in the foyer of the Boole Library. All are welcome to attend.
22.10.2009
The Department of Archaeology is currently celebrating its centenary year with a programme of guest lectures, conferences and other events. These include a photographic exhibition to be opened by UCC President, Dr Michael Murphy at 6pm today (October 22nd 2009) in the foyer of the Boole Library. All are welcome to attend.
The exhibition focuses on the excavations carried out in 1962-75 by the late Professor Michael O’Kelly at the world famous passage tomb of Newgrange, Co. Meath. The exhibition illustrates the planning and organization of this excavation, the major research findings and the subsequent challenging restoration of the great monument. The exhibition also illustrates excavations undertaken by the Department at other locations in Ireland, including numerous projects in the early city of Cork.
The launch is followed at 7pm by a public lecture in Boole Theatre 1. The speaker, Barry Cunliffe, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford, is one of the world's leading archaeologists and a major authority on the Celtic Iron Age. His talk will examine the problem of Celtic origins in western Europe, in relation to archaeology, history and philology.
Picture: Newgrange Chamber
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The launch is followed at 7pm by a public lecture in Boole Theatre 1. The speaker, Barry Cunliffe, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford, is one of the world's leading archaeologists and a major authority on the Celtic Iron Age. His talk will examine the problem of Celtic origins in western Europe, in relation to archaeology, history and philology.
Picture: Newgrange Chamber
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