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 **
Full programme details will be finalised in the coming weeks, but details about most of the papers can be read in the Speakers section below.
Speakers
Dr Jessica Smyth
First Harvests - untangling climate, chronology and cereal cultivation in the Neolithic
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
Dr Susan Curran
Following in Viking Footsteps at Woodstown
Good to know
Highlights
- 8 hours
- In-person
Location
The Royal Irish Academy
19 Dawson Street
D02 HH58 Dublin
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