Dr Jessica Smyth

Susannah Kelly

Rebecca Grant

Bruce Sutton

Kate Taylor

Tony Bartlett

Natasia Duhau

Dr Susan Curran

Muireann Ní Cheallacháin (co-speaker)

Andrew Fairbrother       (co-speaker)

Deirdre McCarthy

Fran Scully

Dr John Ó Néill

Memory and Perspective

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)

This year's TII Heritage Week Seminar - Memory and Perspective - will take place on Thursday 20th August in the Royal Irish Academy.

The Royal Irish Academy

Memory and Perspective: TII Heritage Week Seminar 2026Date: Thursday 20th August 202609:00 to 17:00 (Doors Open 9.00 Registration 9.00 - 9.30)The title and theme of this year’s TII Heritage Week Seminar is Memory and Perspective. Under this banner, our invited speakers will reflect on the lived experience of our distant ancestors and consider the material culture of those who contributed to our collective inheritance within living memory. The day will feature research related to Ireland’s earliest farmers, settlement and burial evidence from the Middle Ages, and the vernacular architecture of the recent past. As we shift our gaze from an ancient cave to intimate domestic scenes of near contemporaries, the seminar will also address past and future TII projects. <ol><li>Please note that this event will include images of human skeletal remains</li><li>Speakers Title, Abstracts and Biographies are available below (just click on speaker name/photograph).</li><li>The draft agenda for each of the four sessions is available below (however this may be subject to change).</li><li><a href="https://www.tii.ie/media/4aflnnzs/tc-tii-archaeology-and-heritage-events-draft-for-2025.pdf" title="https://www.tii.ie/media/4aflnnzs/tc-tii-archaeology-and-heritage-events-draft-for-2025.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Registration is in accordance with T&amp;C TII Archaeology and Heritage Events</a></li></ol>

Additional information about TII Heritage Week 2026 events will be posted on the TII Archaeology and Heritage <a href="https://www.tii.ie/en/technical-services/archaeology/" title="https://www.tii.ie/en/technical-services/archaeology/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">webpages</a>Photograph credit: Vernacular house, Co. Roscommon, by Eve Campbell, AMS.

Session 1 

  Chair Rónán Swan, Head of Archaeology and Heritage, TII

First Harvests - untangling climate, chronology and cereal cultivation in the Neolithic

'Keeping it Together' Archaeological Conservation

Twisted Narratives: the bioarchaeology of scoliosis in medieval European contexts

Session 2 

Chair Nicola Rohan, Archaeologist, Westmeath County Council

Coast, Craft and Community: Preliminary Specialist analysis of a multi-period excavation on the Ringaskiddy Peninsula

Ballyhusty Iron Age and early medieval enclosures

Kiln time at a lost cashel on the Foynes to Limerick Road Project: preliminary results from Ballyclogh 4

Session 3 

Animals and Lifeways in Iron Age Ireland: New zooarchaeological insights (Natasia Duhau, Dr. Katharina Becker, Dr. Donna de Groene)

Chair James Eogan, Senior Archaeologist, TII

Following in Viking Footsteps at Woodstown

Milltown's rural hinterland. Archaeology of the N17 Milltown to Gortnagunned road project

Session 4 

Circular Economy and Community Gains Opportunities on TII projects

Chair Paul O'Keeffe, Senior Archaeologist, TII

The future archaeology of Tara Station: what we might learn from MetroLink

Beneath the Tracks: The Archaeology of Griffith Park

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