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Completed PhD Theses (Archaeology)
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Dr Chelsea Ryan |
Dr Carleton Jones |
Conveying identity through place: understanding Bronze Age people via nucleated settlements (2024) |
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Dr Daniel Curley |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
A multi-disciplinary study of lordly centres in the later medieval Uí Chellaig lordship of Uí Maine, c. 1100-1600 AD (2022). |
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| Dr Enda O'Flaherty | Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick | Archaeological watermarks: settlement and seasonal flooding in historical Ireland (2020) | |
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Dr Peter Casby |
Conor Newman |
Living trees in created environments of Gaelic Ireland c. 700-1600AD (2019) |
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| Dr Daisy Spencer | Dr Carleton Jones & Dr Aaron Potito | People, Land-use and Time: Linking multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental data to the archaeological record of prehistoric Co. Clare, Ireland (2019) | |
| Dr Karina Hensel | Conor Newman | The symbolism of the Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge in Early Medieval Irish Christian art and iconography (2017) | |
| Dr Yolande O'Brien | Dr Stefan Bergh | Negociating the landscape: prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscaper of esker and bog (2017) | |
| Dr Elizabeth Gray | Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick | Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland (2016) | |
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Dr Richard Gray |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Settlement clusters at parish churches in Ireland, c. 1200-1600AD (2016) |
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Dr Eugene Costello |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
Transhumance practices in Ireland, and their role in settlement and society in post-medieval Ireland, c. 1500 - 1900 AD. (2016) |
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Dr Thor McVeigh |
Dr Carleton Jones |
Calenders, feasting, cosmology and identity: Later Neolithic-Early Bronze Age Ireland in European context. (2016) | |
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Dr Richard Clutterbuck |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Rural Landscapes of Improvement in Ireland, 1650-1850: An archaeological Landscape Study (2015) |
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Dr Andrew Whitefield |
Dr Stefan Bergh |
Sustainable change: temporality and the Neolithic in Western Ireland (2015) |
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Dr Catriona Gleeson |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
Archaeological evidence for social differentiation in the Irish medieval town (2014) |
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Dr Phyllis Mercer |
Dr Carleton Jones |
Ritual Aspects of Irish Portal Tombs (2014) |
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Dr Fiona Gavin |
Conor Newman |
Insular Ornamental Metalwork AD300-500: ‘Military Style’ inspired art in Ireland and Britain (2014) |
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Dr Ros Ó Maoldúin |
Dr Carleton Jones |
Exchange in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) Ireland: Connecting people, objects and ideas (2014) |
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Dr Katherine Leonard |
Dr Carleton Jones |
Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland – material culture, practices, landscape setting, and social context (2014) |
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Dr Margaret Mannion |
Conor Newman |
Glass Beads of Early Medieval Ireland (2013) |
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Dr Theresa McDonald |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
Booleying in Achill, Achill Beg and Corraun: Survey, Excavation and Analysis of Booley Settlements in the Civil Parish of Achill (2013) |
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Dr Eve Campbell |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Displacement and relocation in early modern Ireland: studies of transplantation settlements in Connacht and Clare (2012) |
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Dr Fiona Beglane |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
Parks and deer hunting: evidence from medieval Ireland (2012) |
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Dr Yvonne McDermott |
Professor Elizabeth FitzPatrick |
Patronage and Observance: the Franciscans and Dominicans in the lordships of MacWilliam Iochtar and MacWilliam Uachtar, 1330-1550 (2012) |
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Dr Miriam Clyne |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Irish medieval Premonstratensian monasteries and their European context (2010) |
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Dr Christopher Cunniffe |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Medieval Clonfert: the genesis, development and decline of a Gaelic cathedral town (2010) |
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Dr Robert Hensey |
Dr Stefan Bergh |
Ritual and belief in the passage tomb tradition of Ireland (2010) |
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Dr Noel McCarthy |
Dr Stefan Bergh |
The prehistoric archaeology of Slieve Gamph: movement, place and patterns (2010) |
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Dr Siobhán McDermott |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Iconic Landscapes: settlement and society in Truagh, north County Monaghan, c. 1591-1800 (2010) |
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Dr Gerard Dowling |
Conor Newman |
The architecture of power: an examination of the concept of closely-spaced multivallation in Ireland (2009) |
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Dr Jacqui O'Hara |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
A landscape archaeology of later medieval Fermanagh (2009) |
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Dr Paul Naessens |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
The Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh Gaelic lordship of Iarchonnacht: medieval lordly settlement on the Atlantic seaboard (2009) |
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Dr James McKeon |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
Anglo-Norman frontier urban settlement in the Plantagenet realm: studies from south Connacht (2008) |
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Dr Roseanne Schot |
Conor Newman |
Uisneach, Co. Westmeath: archaeology, history and legend (Prehistory - c. AD 1100) (2008) |
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Dr Rory Sherlock |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
The social environment of the Irish tower house (2008) |
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Dr Diarmuid Ó Seaneachain |
Professor Elizabeth Fitzpatrick |
English plantation settlement and the lost indigenous landscapes of Ulster and Chesapeake Bay in the sixteenth century (2006) |
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Dr Colin Breen |
Dr Kieran O'Conor |
The archaeology and cultural landscape history of Bantry and Beara 1200-1650 (2004) |
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Dr Michelle Comber |
Professor William O'Brien |
The economy of the ringfort in Early Historic Ireland (2000) |
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Dr Sam Redfern |
Professor John Waddell & Dr Gerard Lyons |
The development of computer assisted techniques for the archaeological interpretation of aerial photographs (1998) |
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Dr Patrick Francis Wallace |
Professor Etienne Rynne |
Excavated building remains in Dublin 800-1800 – origins, content and context (1985) |
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Dr John Waddell |
Professor Michael Duignan |
Aspects of funerary practice in the insular Bronze Age (1978) |
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