Ireland

The Registry of Memory Process Applied to Experimental Archaeology in a Castromao “Oven”

Author(s)
Andrés Teira-Brión 1 ✉,
Josefa Rey-Castiñeira 1,
Clíodhna Ní Líonain 2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2014/1
7th UK EA Conference Cardiff 2013
***Memory is the cognitive process that codifies, stores and retrieves past actions that are perceived in the present, generating our remembrances and perceptions of the past and informing our knowledge of the world around us (...) Applied to archaeology, memory can be understood as the marks or...

Irish National Heritage Park (INHP) (IE)

Member of EXARC
Yes

Near the town of Wexford at Ferrycarig, the 35 acres large Irish National Heritage Park (Pairc Naisiunta Oidhreacht na hEireann) depicts several periods and sites, important to Irish Past, going back a total of 9,000 years.

Near the town of Wexford at Ferrycarig, the 35 acres large Irish National Heritage Park (Pairc Naisiunta Oidhreacht na hEireann) depicts several periods and sites, important to Irish Past, going back a total of 9,000 years...

John Nicholl MA, HDE

Member of EXARC since
Country
Ireland
Crafts & Skills
Leatherwork & tanning

I began with introducing Living History to the Irish National Heritage Park circa 1995 when I founded a Living History group Gael agus Gall - this involved researching craft work in Viking Age Ireland for presentation to the public visiting the Park - using the (re)constructed buildings as a cont

Discussion: Food - Reconstruction and the Public

Author(s)
Thit Birk Petersen 1 ✉,
Aidan O’Sullivan 2,
John Majerle 3,
Gary Ball 4,
Edwin Deady 5,
Torsten Neuer 6,
Miika Vanhapiha 7,
Darell Markewitz 8,
Olaf Trollheimsfjord 9,
Vicky Shearman 10,
Del Elson 11,
Daniel Serra 12
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/3
For a BBC program in 1954, Sir Mortimer Wheeler tasted a reconstruction of the Tollund Man’s last supper, which turned out to be a tasteless mush. This led him to announce: "I believe that the poor chap of Tollund committed suicide because he could stand his...

Book Review: The Boyne Currach: from Beneath the Shadows of Newgrange By Claidhbh Ó Gibne

Author(s)
Tom Jackson 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2013/2

Claidhbh Ó Gibne has devoted himself to building traditional currachs and researching their history. His new volume, The Boyne Currach: From beneath the shadows of Newgrange, puts the currach in the context of the history of...

Lough Gur (IE)

Member of EXARC
No

For a BBC movie about Lough Gur, one of the Neolithic houses was reconstructed but already in 1990 was long gone. Nothing reminded of the reconstructed dwelling (Ahrens 1980, 91-92).

For a BBC movie about Lough Gur, one of the Neolithic houses was reconstructed but already in 1990 was long gone. Nothing reminded of the reconstructed dwelling (Ahrens 1980, 91-92)...

Craggaunowen - The Living Past (IE)

Member of EXARC
No

Craggaunowen – northwest of Limerick – the Living Past experience is situated on 50 acres of wooded grounds. The Park interprets Ireland’s prehistoric and Early Christian eras. It features stunning recreations of some of the homesteads which existed in Ireland over 1,000 years ago.

Craggaunowen – northwest of Limerick – the Living Past experience is situated on 50 acres of wooded grounds. The Park interprets Ireland’s prehistoric and Early Christian eras. It features stunning recreations of some of the homesteads which existed in Ireland over 1,000 years ago...