Our core research expertise focuses on the following areas:
- Irish cultural heritage
- Social and cultural history
- Archaeology
- Landscape studies
- Early Irish literature
We are currently working on the following research projects:
Irish Cultural Heritage
Toggle‘The Invention of Tradition’?
This research focuses specifically on the origin and perception of Irish Cultural heritage in the late 19th century.
Cú Chulainn (GPO, Dublin)
Early medieval Ireland and holistic interpretation
This is a multidisciplinary investigation of early Irish society and culture with an integrated framework involving literature, history, archaeology, placename and landscape studies.
Monastic Settlement, Clonmacnoise
Black Pig’s Dyke regional project
Staff in the Centre are collaborating with a number of external partners in the multi-disciplinary study of the so-called Black Pig’s Dyke (commissioned by Cavan, Monaghan, Longford, Roscommon and supported by the Heritage Council).
The Irish Bronze Age ‘in the light of recent research’
This involves an integration of new discoveries from national infrastructural development in a review of the Bronze Age in Ireland (NRA funded).
Mitchelstown Face Cup (Eachtra Archaeology Limited)