Katie

Old Things Enthusiast / @Discprog Administrator

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Put up the office Christmas tree today! 🎄

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Great to be back at UCD today for the very insightful Bronze Age Forum @ucdarchaeology

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Stepped into the early medieval world this weekend at @NMIreland visiting their new exhibition, Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe. Soooo nice seeing a shiny new exhibition 😩🤗

[NationalPrintMuseum @NatPrintMuseum]

To open the exhibition, exhibiting students will host hands-on workshops where visitors (young and young at heart!) can create their own paper pop-up theatres!

📅 Saturday 17 May
🕐 13:00–15:00
📍 Free, no booking needed, all welcome!

#NationalDrawingDay with @NGIreland

[NationalPrintMuseum @NatPrintMuseum]

We’re thrilled to present a new exhibition celebrating 120 years of @AbbeyTheatre through hand-crafted illustration and typography. Created @DistillersPress by second-year Illustration students from Dept of Communication Design @NCAD_Dublin

#Illustration #Letterpress

[UCD Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology]

'The Neolithic axe quarries at the Eagle’s Nest, Lambay and North Roe, Shetland: a comparative perspective'

Prof Gabriel Cooney, @ucdarchaeology

@RSAInews and @socantscot Inaugural Joint Lecture

Thur Apr 17,· 7:30pm
63 Merrion Square, Dublin & via Zoom
https://t.co/SXKnPmVOs7

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Back tonight in UCD for the @ClassicsUCD Inaugural Lecture about female social and geographic mobility in the 3rd century by Prof Rebecca Sweetman of @BSAthens. First time in UCD’s suave village lecture theatre 🤯

[History Hub.ie @HistoryHub_ie]

The Women’s Grassroots Activism podcast series is now live! Episode 1 looks at the ICA’s long history of activism @IrelandICA https://t.co/dEqYrwmIAG

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

It’s great to be here at the Association of Young Irish Archaeologists ‘Emerging Voices in Archaeology’ 2025 Conference, speaking about @DiscProg, the work we do, project collaborations and outputs, and my own career journey in the heritage sector @ucdarchaeology @UCDArchSoc

[National Gallery of Ireland @NGIreland]

Happy Valentine’s Day. ❤️

If you’re in the neighbourhood, you can see this much-loved painting, Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton, between 12pm and 2.30pm in Room 20.

#ValentinesDay #NationalGalleryIRL

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

This week I re-created in chocolatey form some of the megalithic art on Kerbstone 52 using #5DCulture data and an @anthonycorns 3D print for the @DiscProg AGM! They went down a treat 🤤 Hopefully more to come… (left side)

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

It was great to hear more about the Monastic Midlands Project, which I was involved in this summer, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to public and community archaeology and “deep history”. Any excuse to talk about rocks!

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Just attended a fascinating Frank Mitchell Memorial Lecture at @RSAInews! Dr Steve Mandal of the @IrishHeritageSc presented on ‘The Monastic Midlands - designing a sustainable community focussed research project’.

[The Friends of Medieval Dublin @FMDublin]

We're getting excited to welcome you to this year's #MedievalDublin Symposium @histfest @tlrhub @TCDMedieval *Sat 5th October* #HistFest organised by @dubcilib in partnership with @DCCCultureCo Free! All welcome! Come learn about new research on old Dublin.

[National Museum of Ireland @NMIreland]

Museums in Ireland and abroad are decolonising their collections, influenced by movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter @TG4TV & @BBCnireland doc Iarsmaí (Remnants) examines Ireland's colonial legacy, including stolen artefacts. Watch on TG4, 9 Oct at 21:30

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

An interesting lecture today by Dr Pat Wallace, former director of the @NMIreland, ‘Wood Quay 50: What’s It All About?’ for their Wood Quay and the Viking World’ series

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Great to be here on day 3 of @HistFest for an engaging discussion ‘The Trouble with Recent History’ talking about history and memory, academic detachment and moral outrage, public and private pasts with @CaelainnH, @Mickcliff, Diarmaid Ferriter, chaired by @FrankmcnallyIT

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

I wrote a short blog post about my experience digging with @IrishHeritageSc ! You can read it here: https://t.co/jW15HXU1Et

[Katie @ancientkatie_]

Just wrapped up an incredible two days at @qubpublichist Conference ‘Digital Public History in a Divided World’! There were so many worthwhile topics to discuss and so many valuable takeaways about the future of public history and outreach in an increasingly digital world💻📖

[History Hub.ie @HistoryHub_ie]

Check out @UCDHistory options for @UCDforALL Lifelong Learning programme this autumn @ucddublin. Topics include: a global history of food; Ireland in the 19th century; family history; violence in Northern Ireland 1920-1922; and, US elections since 1960. https://t.co/AD1l1hL7lr