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ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE STARTED digging at one of Ireland’s most iconic heritage sites and members of the public can get in on the act.
As part of National Heritage Week, children and adults have been afforded the opportunity to help dig at Glendalough in Wicklow.
Since last Tuesday, dozens of people have been helping the excavation at the famous site.
For years, the UCD School of Archaeology has been running fieldwork in the Glendalough Valley which they say is transforming their understanding of the landscape.
The school is currently carrying out a dig for the month of August in a field immediately west of the round tower and main monastic complex.
According to the excavation team, the ditch contains large amounts of 12th and 13th century ceramics.
Graeme Warren, who is one of the directors of the dig, said that inside the ditch lies ”a complex of pits and substantial post holes – some of the latter dating to c 800AD”.
These may provide evidence for early activity on the site. Artefacts include many objects with Hiberno-Norse links in the ninth and tenth centuries, suggesting that the Viking influence at Glendalough extended to much more than simply raiding.
This year there is a wide range of events giving people a chance to find out more about Glendalough, made possible by funding from both Wicklow County Council and The Heritage Council.
Today is ‘Big Dig’ day for children under 12 years. There will also be tours of the excavation sites until the end of the month.
After that, members of the public will have the chance to take daily tours of the excavation works and also visit Glendalough graveyard – an important landmark which dates back hundreds of years.
More information can be found here.
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Didn’t get far into the article before I got the general gist. Doxxing is perfectly acceptable to one side and not the other…guess which side.
@Briscoe Sundara: It is inconceivable that whoever wrote that dross cannot see how bad it is. There’s a paragraph there near the start that try’s to justify Far Left Vs Far Right Doxxing….. Ultimately it says……..
Far Left Doxxing….. Gooooood, because they’re harassing people on the far right….!!!
Far Right Doxxing….. Baaad… because they’re harassing people on the far left….!!!
Can we not all agree…. that you’ll all nuts…. The Nazi’s\racists on the far right and the loons on the far left like the author.
You would need a Pint after reading that carry on.
@Gerard: well this is awkward, didn’t really take long to find one Irish account. https://mobile.twitter.com/antifa_drone
@An Breasláin Nua: where, specifically, are the people on the left approving of doxxing in any significant number?
On the other hand, the far right approval is right here…
My comment linking an example of an Irish far left account openly doxxing people on Twitter was removed… The bias here is very concerning.
I think the cut and paste nature of right wing politics from the UK is the main reason it remains on the fringes here. It is extremely sympathetic to imperialism and loyalism, a deal breaker as this is at odds with the views of the vast majority of Irish people who would otherwise agree with others elements e.g. anti abortion.
“the far-right in Ireland is effectively a “copy and paste” groups in the US and Europe. ”
Very well described! It’s so pathetic how many of them don’t even understand the very basics of Irish politics.
One of their favourite mantras when they found themselves with a brown taoiseach was to claim he was “unelected” because they could only equate leadership with american style presidential contests.
The liberal consensus is creating opposition which it has labelled ‘Far – Right’.
The leaders might be opportunists looking for a cause and they are finding support from men who are reacting to being vilified, shouted down and discriminated against.
However the ‘liberal consensus is also well populated by opportunists and as they say “it takes one to know one”.
There is an economic concept, called the law of diminishing returns in play here. When you have got more than you ever asked for don’t start coming up with new “asks” and historical grievances as supporting facts.
The Catholic Church might have been a focal point for earlier generations but it doesn’t have the moral authority that it used to.
This was meant to be a response to Ned Gerblansky’s post above.
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