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Our Team

Title Name Area of Expertise
Keeper of Irish Antiquities Maeve Sikora
  • Archaeology of early Medieval and Viking Ireland
  • Burial archaeology in Ireland
Assistant Keeper, Grade I Dr Nessa O'Connor
  • Heritage Law
  • Underwater Archaeology
  • Archaeological regulation and licensing
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Isabella Mulhall  
  • Archaeological Licensing
  • Intake of excavated finds
Assistant Keeper, Grade I Matthew Seaver
  • Archaeology of early Medieval Ireland
  • Archaeological legislation
  • Aspects of the prehistoric collections in NMI
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Sharon Weadick
  • Prehistoric collections in NMI, in particular Bronze Age ceramics
  • Documentation of excavated collections
  • Alter and Export licensing
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Dr Bernard Gilhooly
  • Archaeological licensing
  • Prehistoric lithic collections in the NMI in particular Mesolithic and Neolithic collections
  • Stone axeheads
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Dr Aoife O’Brien
  • Ethnographic collections (with a regional focus on Oceania)
  • Collecting histories, including eighteenth-century collections and collaboration with community groups
  • Histories of colonialism and colonial collections
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Joanne Gaffrey
  • Iron Age collections at NMI
  • Liaison with the archaeological profession and intake of archaeological finds
  • Mounting and display of archaeological collections
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Dr Róisín Nic Cnáimhín
  • Zooarchaeology
  • Animals and the economy of medieval Ireland
  • Archaeology of medieval Ireland
Assistant Keeper, Grade II Fiona Reilly
  • Archaeological Licensing
  • Intake of excavated finds
Collections Assistant Dr Alexandra Guglielmi
  • Personal ornament, ancient glass beads
  • Collection care and providing access to Reserve Collections for researchers
  • Documentation of excavated collections
Collections Assistant Emma Skarstrand
  • Object Handling;
  • Accessing Reserve Collections on behalf of Researchers and Online Collections
  • Viking and Early Medieval Archaeology
Curatorial Researcher Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain
  • Archaeology and history of medieval Ireland
  • Carved stone
  • Exhibition curation
Executive Officer
 
Eamonn McLoughlin
  • Administrative duties for the Irish Antiquities Division
  • Excavation licencing records and contact person for Applications for a Licence to Alter & Export Archaeological Objects
  • Contact Person regarding Applications for Internships in the Irish Antiquities Division

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