Memory and Perspective
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Memory and Perspective: TII Heritage Week Seminar 2026
Date: Thursday 20th August 2026
09:00 to 17:00
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 **
We have a fantastic line-up of speakers, including Tony Bartlett (AMS), Dr Susan Curran (The Discovery Programme), Natasia Duhau (UCC), Andrew Fairbrother (IAC), Rebecca Grant (Independent Researcher), Susannah Kelly (Freelance Conservator), Muireann Ní Cheallacháin (IAC), Deirdre McCarthy (Roscommon County Council), Dr John Ó Néill (MetroLink), Associate Professor Jessica Smyth (UCD), Bruce Sutton (Rubicon) and Kate Taylor (TVAS).
Programme details to be added in coming weeks.
Additional information about TII Heritage Week 2026 events will be posted on the TII Archaeology and Heritage webpages
Registration is in accordance with T&C TII Archaeology and Heritage Events
Photograph credit: Vernacular house, Co. Roscommon, by AMS.
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