Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100: The evidence from archaeological excavations

About Aidan O'SullivanFinbar McCormickLorcan HarneyThomas Kerr

Aidan O'Sullivan PhD is a Professor at the School of Archaeology University College Dublin and a Principal Investigator of the Early Medieval Archaeology Project. His research interests are in early medieval Britain and Ireland; experimental archaeology; and wetland archaeology and environments around the world. His recent books include Rethinking wetland archaeology (2006) and The Oxford handbook of wetland archaeology (2013). Finbar McCormick taught archaeology at Queen's University Belfast for many years before retiring in 2019. He has published widely on a range of subjects with special emphasis on zooarchaeology and settlement in Early Medieval in Ireland. Most recently he has been researching Irish holy wells and the zooarchaeology of the Neolithic Maltese temples. Dr Thomas R Kerr completed his PhD on Early Christian Settlement in North West Ulster in 2005. Thom joined the Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP) in 2008 as a Research Fellow and continued with EMAP until 2013. His current research interests include early medieval warfare and the early medieval Irish economy. Lorcan Harney MA PhD worked as a Research Archaeologist (2007-10) with the Early Medieval Archaeology Project at UCD School of Archaeology. In 2016 he completed an Irish Research Council-funded PhD at UCD. He now works as a primary school teacher in Celbridge but continues to publish aspects of his PhD research and to be involved in local Kildare archaeology and history.