At IT Sligo Applied Archaeology we are considering applying for a Fulbright Specialist to come from the US to help us with developing the international archaeological Field School that we plan to operate from this summer onwards. If you are an archaeologist and fancy a few weeks in Ireland in the next year and are interested in helping us with this then please get in touch with Fiona Beglane. Also feel free to pass this on to colleagues if it doesn’t suit you. The fieldschool involves excavation of a later medieval castle at Moygara in Co. Sligo. We are looking for help in targeting our marketing, making contacts, understanding what makes US students pick one school over another, understanding the fine detail of your academic credits system and anything else that might be of concern to potential applicants.

You’ll see a link to Irish and Celtic offerings at Kalamazoo this year on our Facebook page.

Do note, however, that we have several other business and social events going on:

1) The committee will be meeting in the cafeteria on Friday morning at 830 just to straighten issues and points before the business meeting at 12pm(midday).
2) There will be our ASIMS business meeting in Fetzer 2020: Friday 12pm.
3) ASIMS/Notre Dame Medieval Ireland Reception; Friday 515 – Fetzer 1035.
4) ASIMS dinner on Friday night.

See you all in Kalamazoo!
Brian

Medieval Dublin XV
Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains reports on a number of important archaeological excavations in the Dublin area in recent years, including: Claire Walsh’s discovery of the remains of Hiberno-Norse and Anglo-Norman houses at Back Lane; Paul Duffy’s excavations at Baldoyle that produced evidence from the Viking Age onwards; and Edmond O’Donovan’s discovery of a large early Christian cemetery at Mount Gamble in Swords. To accompany his detailed report on the latter the volume includes an important study of the ecclesiastical and political history of the Swords area written by the late Ailbhe MacShamhráin. Also of note: Craig Lyons analyses the emergence of Dublin in the late tenth and early eleventh century as a more distinctively Irish sub-kingdom; Catherine Swift sheds new light on the famous account of Brian Boru and the battle of Clontarf called Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh; Daniel Brown has a fascinating account of what happened in 1223 when Hugh de Lacy, the dispossessed earl of Ulster, raised a rebel army and marched on Dublin; Bernard Meehan describes the recent acquisition by the Trinity College Library of a hitherto unknown manuscript compiled in St Mary’s Abbey in the city in the early fourteenth century; Brian Coleman presents the first fruits of his meticulous study of the elite of Dublin city and county in the later Middle Ages; Dianne Hall examines everyday violence in the medieval city and environs; and, to mark the 700th anniversary of the Scottish invasion of Ireland by Edward Bruce in 1315, we include a hitherto-unpublished essay by the late Professor James Lydon on the Scottish threat to capture Dublin.

Contributors: Daniel J.F. Brown (QUB), Brian Coleman (TCD), Paul Duffy (Grassroots Archaeology), Dianne Hall (Victoria U, Melbourne), James Lydon† (TCD), Craig Lyons (TCD), Ailbhe MacShamhráin† (ind.), Bernard Meehan (TCD), Edmond O’Donovan (archaeologist), Catherine Swift (MIC, U Limerick), Claire Walsh (Archaeological Projects Ltd).

Seán Duffy is professor of medieval history, Trinity College Dublin, and chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin.

AVAILABLE 4 March 2016. 320pp; illustrations.
Paperback. ISBN 978-1-84682-567-5  [Retail: €24.95/$39.95]   /   Hardback. ISBN 978-1-84682-566-8    [Retail: €50./$65]

For more information, including a full list of contents, see: http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2016/medieval-dublin-xv/

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