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Patrick Gleeson
@papgleeson.bsky.social
Archaeologist and Deputy Head of School Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. Munster fan, coffee enthusiast. New book with FCP: Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/patrick-gleeson
Paperback version of my book available for pre order for the exceptionally low price of €26. Absoloute bargain if I do say so myself, thanks to the good people of Four Courts Press. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l...
Four Courts Press | Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150
by Patrick Gleeson
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📰 Was Haughey's Fort in Northern Ireland "one of the most significant centres of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe"? 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @heritagedaily.bsky.social www.heritagedaily.com/2026/07/bron...
Bronze Age hillfort in Northern Ireland was a centre of power and ritual
Archaeologists have uncovered compelling new evidence that Haughey's Fort in County Armagh was one of the most significant centres of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe,…
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Tudor Skinner and Durham colleagues doing a GPR survey of Yeavering today with our new QUB MALA MiRA HDR GPR and ATV. Such an iconic and amazing site.
One solitary copy of my book left, sans dust jacket: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l... get it while you can 📖
They found the landscape was covered in many more earthworks than previously known, suggesting Navan was already a significant prehistoric centre as early as the Bronze Age 5/12
NEW Best known as the mythological capital of Ulster, Navan Fort was one of the five ancient capitals of Ireland. New research finds the landscape's significance stretches all the way back to the Bronze Age, indicating it was a major prehistoric centre. #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
📰 ~400 years before nearby Navan Fort became one of Ireland's five ancient capitals, Haughey's Fort, Co. Armagh was “one of the most extensive and coherent Late Bronze Age landscapes in western Europe” 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
One of Europe’s oldest organised settlements may be located in Northern Ireland
The 3,000-year-old Haughey’s Fort ‘was a thriving and complex hub’ some 400 years earlier than previously thought, academics say
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📣Call for papers TAG Exeter 2026 Join Nelson J. Almeida, Eleanor M. Swallow, and Joanna Brück for our session: "Fragmented Bodies, Enduring Relations: Complex Post-Mortem Processes Across Species in Prehistory". Find the full abstract and more info at: tag2026.square.site/sessions #tagexeter
📰 New research at a prehistoric centre in Ireland uncovers "a level of scale, organisation and connectivity in Bronze Age Ireland that has not been fully recognised until now." 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @glasgow.ac.uk @jodarchaeology.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
3,000 years before Navan Fort became legend, Haughey’s Fort may have been one of Europe’s first proto-urban centers, with 200+ structures, a ritual pool, and a 109-hectare enclosure. #BronzeAge #Archaeology #Ireland www.anthropology.net/p/haugheys-f...
Haughey’s Fort: Did Ireland Have a City Before the Bronze Age Ended?
New survey work on a hillfort near Armagh suggests a planned settlement of houses, workshops and ritual buildings far larger than anything that “hillfort” usually implies.
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Our new paper on Haughey’s Fort, N Ireland, is out in @antiquity.ac.uk! This massive 109 hectare site has it all, from a purpose ritual made pool, to gold & bronze production, and a large, possibly ‘proto urban’ settlement @papgleeson.bsky.social #hillfortsWednesday www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe
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Prehistoric ‘town-like’ settlement in Armagh may be one of Europe’s oldest
Prehistoric ‘town-like’ settlement in Armagh may be one of Europe’s oldest
The 3,000-year-old Haughey’s Fort ‘was a thriving and complex hub’ some 400 years earlier than previously thought, academics say
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why we are funding arts and humanities to be a full part of the UK's future anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...
Why an industrial strategy needs arts and humanities (and why UKRI are funding us to deliver it)
I joined UKRI six years ago because I was deeply attracted to the ambition of unifying curiosity led research and strategic or mission led interventions with the power of science to drive a just ec…
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‘Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future.’ @christophersmith.bsky.social anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...
Why an industrial strategy needs arts and humanities (and why UKRI are funding us to deliver it)
I joined UKRI six years ago because I was deeply attracted to the ambition of unifying curiosity led research and strategic or mission led interventions with the power of science to drive a just ec…
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Upcoming call: The @royalsociety.org – Research Ireland University Research Fellowship will open for applications on 14th July 2026. Supporting outstanding early-career scientists to become future leaders. For more information visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/roya...
📕 #BookReview 🏺 #Archaeology How did royal power shape the emergence of early historic Ireland? @papgleeson.bsky.social's 'Landscapes of kingship in early medieval Ireland AD 400–1150' explores the social organisation underpinning Ireland's early medieval kingdoms. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 1/2
Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social @immaireland.bsky.social @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social generate €209m annually but their true value goes beyond economics. From wellbeing to social cohesion, culture shapes stronger societies www.museum.ie/en-IE/Press-...
If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org
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Last remaining copies of my book, get em while you can before they are officially collectors items
Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...
Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) vacancy in Exeter. Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) This full-time post is avail...
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The @yai.ie Sustainability Statement has has a permanent doi: zenodo.org/records/2059...
Young Academy Ireland Sustainability
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🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...
Lecturer in Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Ancient History on jobs.ac.uk!
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If you are in the Cardiff area next week - don't forget I'll be giving a British Academy lecture on our work at Burghead! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
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Delighted to have been shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize, alongside some fantastic books by colleagues. Landscapes of Kingship is also a collectors item as down to its last 30 copies with Four Courts Press: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Awards/B...
Book Prize 2026 Shortlisted
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NERC and ESRC are launching the Doctoral Focal Award in Environmental Evidence Synthesis. Help equip the next generation of researchers with a strong foundation in advanced evidence synthesis methodologies, to inform effective evidence based environmental policy and practice👇
Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis
Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.
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National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of building ‘The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection … is “at full capacity” and not at the standard required to safely preserve the items, the museum board’s chair has said.’
National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of storage building
Dublin centre ‘at full capacity’ and lacks ‘environmental and structural standards’
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🚨Job alert! Our new @erc.europa.eu funded project 'MEMELAND' needs a #palynologist Postdoctoral Research Associate #PDRA for 3.5 years. You'll help transform our understanding of the impact of #medieval farming on biodiversity! Full details & to apply 👇 #archaeobotany www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies
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