Eugene Costello

New article just out! @J_F_Archaeology - 'Dating and Interpreting Landscapes of Livestock Herding: Excavation of a Hut Site and Enclosure in Southwestern Ireland' @UCCResearch @CACSSS1 @uccHistory tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨Two exciting new roles waiting to be filled @UCC 💼 Lecturer in International Economic History 🔗 Info: ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancie… 💼 Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Irish History 🔗 Info: ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancie… 🕛 Closes: 12pm, Tuesday 13 May 2025 #UniversityVacancies #Jobs

🥳 I'm organising a conference! 🚨 #CfP (Re)Creating Stories, a conference on rewritings & adaptations of Old/Middle Irish narratives in Early Modern/ Modern Irish/Gaelic, up to & including 18th cy. More details 🔗dias.ie/2024/11/05/cal… Feel free to email me with any questions!

There’s a worrying tendency in recent reporting to portray Irish as not belonging to the working class. As someone who started life in a Deis Gaelscoil, the question is why certain communities are not being given the same educational opportunities and what can be done about it.

Another Irish 1841 Census extract that emerged during my recent research trip @USNatArchives, relating to the McMahons of Crockacleaven, #Tyrone. It's really impossible to overstate how valuable these files are to those interested in the social history of the 19th century Irish.

Call for Papers: 76th Annual Irish History Students’ Association Conference 📚 📅 Date: 28 February - 01 March 2025 📍 Location: University College Cork 👉 Send your proposals to IHSA2025@gmail.com with your name, institutional affiliation, and paper title. Please share.

Great day of activities on the bog lined up for Sunday morning at Cronin's Yard. The Killarney National Park Education Team will be guiding us through these inspiring wetland habitats. Spaces are limited. Bookings available on Eventbrite, visit kerrybiosphere.ie for more.

Yesterday, our team from #CpgSthlm recovered a 2-metre lake bottom sediment core from Nares Land on northern Greenland (82 deg N). The project is part of the #GEOEO Expedition organised by @polarforskning, and aims to study Greenland’s prehistory using ancient DNA.

📢Tar ag obair linn! Fáilteofar roimh iarratais ar thrí phost anseo i Roinn na #Gaeilge: Léachtóir le Sean-Ghaeilge, Léachtóir le Gaeilge (Béaloideas) agus Léachtóir le Gaeilge (Nua-Ghaeilge Mhoch). Féach sonraíocht na bpost faoi 'Academic Vacancies' ag universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/

Our pop-up #exhibition on objects of the Revolution in East Limerick is now at @LimerickMuseum. This project is being undertaken by @ucdarchaeology in collaboration with @AbartaGuides through the @IrishResearch COALESCE fund. @NationalMons @HeritageHubIRE @Limerick_Leader

📢Pre-Call announcement📢The Government of Ireland Postgraduate and Postdoctoral 2025 calls will open on the 29th of August. IRC are delighted to partner with @dfatirl , @MetEireann, @EPAIreland, @dcediy. 📢Find out more: research.ie/funding/

Scaipigí an dea-scéal! Tacaíocht ar fáil ó Bhrí Uíbh Ráthaigh chun tabhairt faoin MA sa Cheannaireacht Teanga @MICLimerick. Gach eolas faoin gclár bliana MA (ar líne ó thús deireadh) ag an nasc thíos agus eolas faoin scoláireacht ó @BriUibh

We currently have several PhD posts open within the AGRI-DRY network. I have two posts open until 12th July. They are funded by MSCA/UKRI @UofGlasgow @UofGArchaeo agri-dry.org/call-for-phd-r… They are very well funded and need an archaeology, GIS and/or palaeoecology background.

‘My main concern is that every farm Coolmore take over, they take all the ditches out’ independent.ie/farming/rural-…

Oifigeach Logainmneacha á lorg ag @DeptCultureIRL . Deis iontach dul i mbun taighde ar logainmneacha na hÉireann. Deá-scéal freisin go bhfuiltear ag cur le foireann an Bhrainse Logainmneacha - toradh ar obair an Bhrainse ó 1956 é @logainm_ie gov.ie/en/publication…

This #OA paper a long time in gestation; we, the authors, hope it is worth the wait. Read about vicissitude of temperate rainforest & its unique flora (filmy ferns, #Arbutus) in SW 🇮🇪, history of bogs, human impact etc #Beara #Killarney #Mizen all feature link.springer.com/10.1007/s00334…

Later prehistoric/early medieval job, fieldwork and GIS. Still a little over a week to apply for this job working on cult landscapes

Flash talks on the clothes line, hearing aid, freezer, water bottle, and time capsule as environmental objects are tomorrow morning! Join us for this @RIAdawson and @BritishAcademy_ funded session as a part of The Apocalyptic Quotidian workshop. @EnglishUCC @Eco_Humanities

Coming back from annual leave and pleased to see this article with Andrew McCarthy @UCCHistory has now been published online in @IrishPolStudies @mpilhlt tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Conference: Sustainability and Minority Languages Comhdháil: An Inbhuanaitheacht agus na Mionteangacha Conference Programme and Registration: ucc.ie/en/igl/activit…