Launch of Stories of Irelands Past

TII is delighted that Dr Alison Sheridan of National Museums Scotland, will launch the latest book in the TII Heritage Series - "Stories of Ireland's Past".

Stories of Ireland’s Past celebrates two decades of the energy and endeavour of professional archaeologists in this country and their archaeological discoveries made in advance of one of the most spectacular infrastructural transformations of any European country in recent times: the development of a modern roadway network. This scholarly synthesis of the archaeologically excavated evidence—the first of its kind—speaks to the legacy not only of our ancestors but also of the hundreds of field archaeologists who toiled across the Irish landscape to unearth, record and understand the traces of our shared past. The stories of Ireland’s past have had to be re-written.

The papers in Stories of Ireland’s Past stem from a public seminar held in 2014 during which leading scholars evaluated the contribution of ‘roads archaeology’ to our understanding of Ireland’s prehistoric and historic past. Surveying some 10,000 years of new archaeological evidence for the human habitation of the island, the authors have delivered a truly significant publication: Stories of Ireland’s Past represents a state-of-the-art review of the newly discovered archaeology of one of the richest archaeological landscapes of Europe, if not the world.

This launch will be preceded by a public seminar Between the Lines: the Archaeology of Luas Cross City in Chartered Accountants House between 14:00 and 18:00, if you would like to attend this seminar please register at https://tii-between-the-lines.eventbrite.ie