September Lecture: 'Historic Shipwrecks in Northern Ireland: Discovery, Investigation & Protection'

Name: September Lecture: 'Historic Shipwrecks in Northern Ireland: Discovery, Investigation & Protection'
Start: 2024-09-30T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Elmwood Avenue, BT7 1NN Belfast, United Kingdom

Schedule

Mon Sep 30 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Elmwood Avenue, BT7 1NN Belfast, United Kingdom | Belfast, NI

Our September Lecture will take place on 30th September 2024 at 19.30 (this is the correct date, the date in the Summer 2024 Newsletter is incorrect). It will be a hybrid lecture, held in-person at the Elmwood/Geography Building (QUB) and on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/live/oWchKuWj5-I) and Zoom (members-only link will be sent closer to the lecture date via email). This is a *free event* for UAS members and the public.
This lecture is titled 'Historic Shipwrecks in Northern Ireland: Discovery, Investigation and Protection' by Dr Rory McNeary (DfC, HED), and will be an introduction to the Historic Shipwrecks in Northern Ireland.
Hot drinks and biscuits will be served from 19.00 in the Elmwood Common Room of the Elmwood Building before the lecture begins at 19.30 in 0G.029.
Lecturer Bio: 'Dr Rory McNeary (DfC Historic Environment Division, Northern Ireland) is a Senior Inspector of Historic Monuments at HED and works on secondment with DAERA Marine and Fisheries Division as their Marine Historic Environment Advisor. He is responsible for curatorial advice to support marine planning and ensuring significant marine cultural heritage assets are managed and protected through licensing, designation, investigation and the promotion of appropriate policy and guidance. Rory holds a MSc in Maritime Archaeology from Ulster University and is a member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. He has previously worked for the Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Ulster University; the Irish national archaeological research body, The Discovery Programme; and, as a researcher and project diver for the Irish Government’s Underwater Archaeological Unit, attached to the National Monuments Service. Rory is a past licensee of the Girona wreck, NI’s only wreck protected under the PWA 1973; and was involved in the scheduling of HMS Drake in 2017, the first wreck to be scheduled in NI under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (NI) Order 1995' (https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/uas/NewsandEvents/Title,3007123,en.html).
(Image: 'FPV Salar at Lacada Point, County Antrim, the site of designated shipwreck, La Girona, during a licensed dive inspection by the DAERA Marine Scientific Dive Team in September 2021'; Credit: Dr. Rory McNeary)