This year's TII Heritage Week Seminar - Memory and Perspective - will take place on Thursday 20th August in the Royal Irish Academy.
Memory and Perspective: TII Heritage Week Seminar 2026
Date: Thursday 20th August 2026
09:00 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.
- Please note that this event will include images of human skeletal remains
- Speakers Title, Abstracts and Biographies are available below (just click on speaker name/photograph).
- The draft agenda for each of the four sessions is available below (however this may be subject to change).
- Registration is in accordance with T&C TII Archaeology and Heritage Events
Speakers
Dr Jessica Smyth
First Harvests - untangling climate, chronology and cereal cultivation in the Neolithic
Susannah Kelly
'Keeping it Together'
Rebecca Grant
Twisted Narratives: the bioarchaeology of scoliosis in medieval European contexts.
Bruce Sutton
Coast, Craft and Community: preliminary specialist analysis of a multi-period excavation on the Ringaskiddy Peninsula
Kate Taylor
The Narrowest of Margins – archaeological excavations on the N74 Ballyhusty Realignment Scheme, Co. Tipperary.
Tony Bartlett
Kiln time at a lost cashel on the Foynes to Limerick Road Project: preliminary results from Ballyclogh 4
Good to know
Highlights
- 8 hours
- In-person
Location
The Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street
D02 HH58 Dublin
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Agenda
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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