Conor Newman

Critiquing the classification of the cultural heritage sector in the NACE Codes, the paper argues that in failing to capture the contribution of key actors the existing classification does not offer an accurate measure of the magnitude or diversity of economic activity in the sector, and the contribution it makes to the European economy. Moreover, the classificatory hierarchy employed in the NACE Codes is not utilised fully with respect to the sector, leading to the exclusion of relevant specialisms, such as Conservation-Restoration, from the data. It is argued that the NACE Codes reflect a somewhat anachronistic model of a sector dominated by public institutions when in fact the majority of today’s practitioners work in the private sector. The paper proposes an alternative classification of cultural heritage, arguing that the relevant Division in the NACE Codes should be renamed «Cultural Heritage Activities». The paper finishes by considering how cultural heritage might be develop...

In a preliminary exploration of the Tara landscape, this article examines features of the land between the twin hills of Tara and of Skreen, a broad valley through which flows the Gabhra river and now crudely divided by the new M3 motorway. It is argued that this was a sacralised ...

This publication constitutes the proceedings of an international conference, Landscape and Imagination: Towards a New Baseline for ducation in a hanging World (Paysage et Invention: évolution des enseignements dans un monde en transition) held in Paris, 2nd to 4th of May 2013. Speakers from more than 30 countries worldwide gathered at three different venues: la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, and La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine A collection of 141 essays under six themes (Epistemology; Science; History; Process; Art; Governance) issuing from a UNISCAPE -ENSA Paris-La Villette conference. The book includes abstracts of five keynote addresses given by A. Berque, T. Kuwako, B. Lassus P. Misikova and K Yu (these will be developed into a special volume of essays to be published in 2014) and an editor\u27s introduction.The focus of the conference was on the challenge for educators presented by the internatio...

This paper reports on the findings and recommendations of the European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers Organisations’ (hereafter E.C.C.O. [1]) investigations into the inclusion of Conservation-Restoration in the NACE Codes [2]. It is observed that the classificatory hierarchy employed in the NACE Codes is not utilised fully with respect to the sector, leading to the exclusion of relevant specialisms, such as Conservation-Restoration, from the data. Whereas this is easily resolved; and with minimal adjustment to the codes; the definition of heritage implicit in the Codes does not reflect current theory or practice. It is suggested that the relevant Division in the NACE Codes be renamed “Cultural Heritage Activities”. The paper finishes by considering how cultural heritage might be developed as a discrete sector, where the activity of Conservation-Restoration is situated alongside all other heritage related activities.

Irish writer Colm Tóibín is presented as offering the opportunity to encourage a reconsideration of aspects of the 2011 Draft National Landscape Strategy for Ireland, and as a model for an approach to writing land within architectural education.

s of the KeYNote LeCtures 15 Augustin Berque, Constituting the Subject: Milieu, History, Evolution 15 toshio KuwAKo, Landscape Education Through Co-learning 15 Bernard LAssus, Sensitive Logics: a Multicultural Approach 16 Pavlina MiŠíKová, Feeling at Home in the Landscape 17 Kongjian Yu, Designed Ecologies:Toward a New Landscape Infrastructure and Aesthetics 18

ABSTRACT A series of shell middens and miscellaneous habitation sites, located in a dune system in west County Galway, have been exposed and are slowly disappearing through wind, wave and surface erosion. In 1992 a project was initiated to record, sample and date some of these sites and the radiocarbon results demonstrated that activity in the area spanned the Early Bronze Age through to the Iron Age and into the early and post medieval periods. This preliminary fieldwork was succeeded by the excavation of three of the better-preserved sites; a Bronze Age midden in 1994 and two early medieval sites (the subject of this paper), in 1997. The medieval sites dated to the late-seventh to ninth century ad and were represented by a sub-circular stone hut with a hearth and the charred remains of a more ephemeral wooden tent-like structure. The discovery of a bronze penannular brooch of ninth/tenth century date at the latter site would suggest that the settlements are not the remains of transient, impoverished peoples of the lower classes of society, eking out a living along the coast. The calcareous sands ensured good preservation of organic remains—fish and mammal bones, charred cereal grains, seeds and seaweed, and marine molluscs. Analyses of these indicated exploitation of marine resources but, otherwise, were comparable with the diet and economy represented by assemblages from established contemporary site types of the period. Unlike raths, crannógs and monastic settlements, however, the volume of material represented at the Galway sites was slight, despite the excellent preservation conditions. A range of seasonal indicators also suggested temporary habitation: probable late-spring/-summer occupation of the stone hut site and autumnal occupancy of the second, less substantial site. It is suggested that the machair plain, beside which the dunes are located, was most probably the attraction for settlers to the area and was exploited as an alternative pasture for the seasonal grazing of livestock.

READERS of Archaeology Ireland will have read in the last issue a brief synopsis of the excavations at Raffin, Co. Meath, a ceremonial site dating principally to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, but preceded by substantial Neolithic activity. The site is rich in structural evidence ...

... politically-charged.Like any grand opera, it was 12. Newman, C, Fenwick, J., Schot, R. andDowling, G. forthcoming. "Tara: re-appraisal in the light of recent survey." 13. Newman, C. 1997Tara: An Archaeological Survey. (Discovery Programme and Royal Irish Academy. ...

This paper explores aspects of the tension at play between archaeology and history in the analysis of the famous ‘royal’ sites of Late Prehistoric Ireland paying particular attention to factors that may have led to the aggrandisement of these essentially prehistoric complexes during the medieval period, centuries after they had, to all intents and purposes, fallen into disuse. Attention is

the tradition of her ancestors’ lost pottery styles to her community at Acoma, illustrates how contemporary stars reach backwards and forwards in their traditions to revive old knowledge and revitalize modern practice, while creating continuity amongst practitioners across time, and pushing the tradition forward into the future. Richard Bauman’s exposition of themaking of an early star of the recorded sound era demonstrates how scholars can examine the relationship of a star to his community through the artefacts of his communicative presence—not only through analysis of performative strategies captured in the recordings themselves, but also through the advertisements, promotional materials, and responses to those recordings which can be found in the historical record. These are just a few examples of the many ways in which the ethnographically-rich essays illustrate the complexities of the relationship between the individual and tradition, each adding depth andweight to the volume’s—and perhaps to Glassie’s—great contribution to folklore studies in the articulation and exposition of our discipline’s central concepts.

Survey, excavation and specialist analyses of a hut-circle group containing Dalrulzion-type round-houses revealed evidence of exploitation of Moulin Moor from the Neolithic to the present day. The hut-circles were dated to the later Bronze Age to Iron Age periods and a sub-...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of these notes is to bring together some of the more recent additions to the growing corpus of Irish escutcheons and to comment on their significance for the study of hanging howls. Three new escutcheons have come to light in the last five years and the ...

INTRODUCTION Ballinderry Crann6g No. 2, Co. Offaly, was the second of three crann6gs excavated by Dr Hugh O'Neill Hencken of the Harvard Archaeological Mission to Ireland (Hencken 1942). The crann6g first came to light around 1847 when Ballinderry Lough and ...

Summary. New analysis explores Tech Midchúarta (the 'Banqueting Hall') from the point of view of a sacral, processional approach to the summit of the Hill of Tara, the pre-eminent cult and inauguration site of prehistoric and early medieval Ireland. It is suggested that aspects of ...