Calling Tim Robinson fans! RIA Publishing House is producing new editions of Robinson's iconic map series, Aran, The Burren and Connemara. How would you like to see these wonderful maps brought back to life? We would love to hear from you! Email publications@ria.ie with your feedback.

Heading to the West Cork History Festival? Three Royal Irish Academy authors will be appearing at Inish Beg this weekend. Gabriel Cooney MRIA, author of 'Death in Irish prehistory' explores the boundary between life and death in prehistoric Ireland.

"He's the best kind of fucking weirdo, and if we lived in a world entirely populated by people like him, we'd live fucking weird, great lives." - Peter Derk LINK: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV4NBP4...

Tonight! 🍃

Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's not easy being green but archaeology can help 🌱 In this hopeful talk, discover how the past can power a wilder future: from ancient environments that guide today’s habitats, to wildlife thriving at historic sites, and stories from the past that inspire new ways of caring for our world.

Also the feeling, currently being lived painfully and angrily by hundreds of academic and academic units across the UK including at Exeter, when you've worked sedulously and very effectively for years to attain research and/or teaching excellence, only to be at risk of sweeping redundancy.

University of Exeter Special Collections@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · last wk.

The feeling when you've been looking at a handwritten document for an hour and you still can't read THAT word...! This illustration of a sea monster can be found in our sixteenth-century atlas of the counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX

New paper: Mesolithic mariners in the Central Mediterranean made sustained, long distance sea journeys. Not accidents, one offs, and not rare events. See thread in the comments. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar..., led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social

Join the IAI, IAC Archaeology and Kildare County Council for our free online Heritage Week Lecture with archaeologist Maeve Tobin, as she details findings from two burials from Alasty, Co. Kildare. Tickets available at: buff.ly/11I8A2i #IAI #IrishArchaeology #osteoarchaeology #HeritageWeek

Maybe not.

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

Green tomato, chilli, garlic, 5% brine.

Graeme Warren@graemewarren.bsky.social · last wk.

First proper 🌶 harvest of the summer. Plenty more to come!

First proper 🌶 harvest of the summer. Plenty more to come!

Worked on this wildfire investigation for the last number of months with colleagues across the EU. To publish today is, sadly, very timely. While Ireland doesn’t experience the ‘mega fires’ we see in Spain etc, the damage caused to protected sites here is actually far greater than most of Europe.

The Journal Investigates@investigates.thejournal.ie · 2w ago

NEW INVESTIGATION: Despite escaping the 'mega fires' seen in countries such as Spain and Greece, Ireland actually has one of Europe’s highest rates of wildfire overlap with protected nature sites, we can reveal

How do we measure the value of archaeology? Historic England’s new Unearthing Returns research is an important step towards answering that question. The next step is to move beyond thinking about archaeology only as sites we visit. Read the research 👉 bit.ly/4frux5J

Discover the Museum after hours at #DublinByDusk for Evening Discovery Tours. Join us and explore remarkable objects, including the iconic Tara Brooch. 📍National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street 📅 Thursday, 30 July 🕔 Tours: 17:00 & 18:30 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/D... #TaraBrooch #Archaeology

V pleased that our Prehistoric Policies project (w/@archsoundscapes.bsky.social, @drclairenolan.bsky.social) funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social, will be in the RIA Discourse on "Contemporary biodiversity & the deep time past" (18/5/27) w/ Meriel McClatchie & Anwen Cooper @rewildarch.bsky.social

Royal Irish Academy@ria.ie · 2w ago

The RIA Discourse Series is the oldest and most renowned series of public talks in Ireland. The 2026/27 Discourse Series will focus on the theme of 'Diversity', in its many forms. View the programme for the 2026/27 Discourse Series: www.ria.ie/2026/06/23/d...

NEW Prehistoric fishing traps discovered in Norway indicate hunter-fisher-gatherers introduced trout to mountain lakes, showing how they were actively managing their environments even before the introduction of agriculture! 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #MesolithicMonday 🏺 #Archaeology

It is both interesting and alarming to see how much the tourism board is the ultimate arbiter of heritage in Ireland, be it archaeological heritage or museums. While tourism is obviously financially valuable there are other forms of value that are equally important www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Fáilte Ireland intervened over filming for The Traitors

Fáilte Ireland intervened after the OPW refused permission for the new season of hit TV show The Traitors to stage missions at prehistoric monuments at Knowth and Dowth.

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The ice age deer #Megaloceros is common in the lake sediments beneath many Irish peat bogs, learn more in this talk in Dublin #SpeirGorm

National Library of Ireland@nlireland.bsky.social · 3w ago

Seamus Heaney and the Bogs 🌿 Celebrate Bog Day 2026 at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again with Dr Patrick Roycroft (National Museum of Ireland), exploring the bogs that inspired Heaney's poetry through natural history and readings. 📅 Sat, 1 Aug, 2pm https://ow.ly/RaQ150ZnI94

The Bluesky winner of the day.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3w ago

I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.

This year's chillis going quite well 🌶 🌶 🌶 (Hungarian Hot Wax and Cayenne, the more exciting varieties I planted didnt like the conditions)

Wander back through time on Knepp’s 'Wilding With Archaeology' safari 🌿 Thursday 23 July |11:00-13:30 Part of the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology, join Knepp ecologist Tony Whitbread and the ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory team. More information here: shorturl.at/PZ5Bq

Wilding With Archaeology: How past human practices shape wilding now

<p>Knepp&rsquo;s inspiring wilding journey over the last 20 years has been shaped in surprising ways by the past. Take a journey back in time to unearth the extraordinary archaeological details that u...

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The Royal Irish Academy (RIA), established in 1785, serves as an all-island learned society, recognising academic achievement and contributing expertise to enhance the public good. Follow our Eventbrite page to be the first to hear about our upcoming events! www.eventbrite.ie/o/royal-iris...

On Line, Part Time, Graduate Programme in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Open till end July for Sept 2026 start. Contact me to discuss: details below. @ucddublin.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

We are accepting expressions of interest or short abstracts (200 words) for both issue 1 and issue 2 until 31 August 💙 For further information or any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at haneul.jang@ird.fr or the editorial team at hgreditor+se@gmail.com

Haneul Jang@haneuljang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

Before and after... Race to the Stones. 100km along the Ridgeway to Avebury. In over 30 degrees temperatures. A tough run! V happy with getting through that... 🥵

Warm day for the Pen Y Fan horseshoe. But what a remarkable landscape, with v cool bronze age archaeology on the tops.

Have your degree results? Lookingfor a Masters in Human origins with lots of opportunities to sprecialise? Join our MSc Programme here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Applications are open until mid August. DM or email me with any questions. 🦣💀🧬

Europe absolutely must prioritise landscape-led planning, as thinking through all the sets of landscape relationships is the only way to come to grips with (or even to survive) wicked problems like this.

Lawrence Culver@lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Europe is increasingly paying the costs of a hotter world it has failed to prepare for…The EU’s science advisers warned that efforts to adapt to a hotter planet were insufficient, incremental and often coming too late.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

🧵 Issue 1: Scholarly Reflections & Intergenerational Dialogues We invite reflections, reminiscences, and conversations from senior scholars on the challenges, lessons & future directions of H-G research. Formats: 🌱Scholarly Memoirs 🌱Structured Interviews 🌱Reflections for the Next Generation

🧵 Issue 2: Local and Hunter-Gatherer Voices We invite contributions from local researchers, Indigenous scholars, and hunter-gatherer community members to broaden perspectives in H-G research. Formats: 🌱Dialogues 🌱Collaborative Contributions 🌱Reflections rooted in local knowledge & lived experience