Robert Power

Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago rte.ie/news/munster/2… via @rte

Fun to see my comments in this Neanderthal diet article. Thanks @BrincatClarissa 🙌 livescience.com/archaeology/hu… #Neanderthals #PaleoDiet #Science

Soil in Focus: Photography Competition Launched for Soil Health Week teagasc.ie/news--events/n…

Offaly foragers at Ploughing 2025 on why we should be eating from Ireland’s hedges and bogs independent.ie/regionals/offa…

✨ Culture Night Dublin celebrates 20 years this Friday! Thousands are expected to join the capital’s biggest night of creativity as arts, heritage, music and performance light up the city streets – and every event is free to attend! Find out more: culturenight.ie

First white-tailed eagle born in Waterford in 150 years rte.ie/news/munster/2… via @rte

First met #UmhaAois in ’07 (Inis Oírr). If you’re in Kerry, don’t miss the Dromid week, 14–20th: daily casting 11:30–17:30, drawing (17th), Culture Night (19th), night casting + music (20th). umha-aois.com

Today is Bilberry Sunday a day that traditionally celebrated the (near) end of the bilberry season & the beginning of the new potato season. My piece is over on @RTEBrainstorm rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Great start to #IMPR2025 in Barcelona with a very informative phytolith morphometry workshop opened by Rand Evett, President of the International Phytolith Society, @imfcsic #archaeobotany

Congratulations to Associate Professor Jessica Smyth & Associate Professor Dr Neil Carlin, and colleagues, on their publication in Antiquity, The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber" ucd.ie/newsandopinion…

Great Irish Farmers Journal podcast with Prof Meriel McClatchie and Prof Jessica Smyth on Irish food history shows.acast.com/farmers-journa… via @acast @ucdarchaeology

If interested on starch degradation in archaeological contexts...don't miss this! doi.org/10.1016/j.soil…

Traded lab coats for field boots in Morocco- excited to be back in the field! #Archaeology #Fieldwork

Congratulations to Meaghan working with a team of international scientists whose research was published recently in the prestigious Science journal. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Absolutely thrilled to see this landmark study on Denisovans. Even prouder that my PhD student contributed as a co-author—an incredible achievement on a project I wasn’t involved in at all. Huge congrats to the whole team! irishtimes.com/science/2025/0…

Still ten days left to apply for an exciting PhD opportunity exploring ancient dental calculus. dietevo.ie/phd-opportunit…

📢 Lust, nach Dublin zu kommen und an antiken Pflanzenresten zu forschen? 🌿🇮🇪 Komm am 08.04.2025 von 14:00 bis 15:00 CET Uhr zur Info-Veranstaltung über das Feodor Lynen-Forschungsstipendium der @AvHStiftung an der @ucddublin! #UCD #FeodorLynen humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/inf…

Submission link here rb.gy/lp3j5s

FINAL CALL for Papers: Roots of Resilience–Archaeological Perspectives on Sustainability. The Environmental Archaeologists in Ireland invite submissions for our conference, Roots of Resilience: Archaeological Perspectives on Sustainability at the RSAI Dublin on 10th May 2025.

Dublin Launch of Elizabeth Heckett's new book on Irish textiles. Thursday 20th February at 6.00 pm. Hodges Figgis, Dawson St, Dublin.