Wordwell Books

08/08/2025

History. Landscape. Division.
Within|Without brings them together in one compelling day of discussion.

Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions

🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online attendance options

Discover how archaeology helps us understand what divides and connects us—across space and time.

👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

With thanks to:
monuments service-archaeology
O’Sullivan TD
Housing
National Monuments Service - Archaeology
Archaeology Ireland
History Ireland

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

08/08/2025

📢 One conference. Many perspectives.
Be part of the conversation at Within|Without, where archaeology meets borders, memory, and place.

🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
📍 Trinity College Dublin & Online

👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

With thanks to:
monuments service-archaeology
O’Sullivan TD
Housing
National Monuments Service - Archaeology
Archaeology Ireland
History Ireland

07/08/2025

🎙️ New History Ireland Hedge School Podcast Now Available!

O’Connell 250 — The Liberator Reassessed
📍 Recorded live on Wednesday 30 July 2025 at Glasnevin Cemetery Visitor Centre

Described by biographer Oliver MacDonagh as “perhaps the greatest innovator in modern democratic politics” and “the originator of almost all the basic strategies of modern Anglo-Irish constitutional relations”, Daniel O’Connell remains a towering figure in Irish history.

To mark the 250th anniversary of his birth, History Ireland editor Tommy Graham hosts a lively and insightful discussion with Patrick Geoghegan, Jennifer T. Keating, Christine Kinealy, and Davide Mazzi, re-examining the legacy of the man known as The Liberator.

This special Hedge School was recorded as part of O’Connell 250: Liberty, Democracy and the Struggle for Human Rights, a two-day symposium supported by Trinity College Dublin.

🎧 Listen now:
👉 https://historyireland.com/hedge-schools/

Hedge Schools Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting a series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities. We don’t at the moment hold exclusively live Hedge Schools. However, we will, by virtue of remote recording, continue to make a ...

06/08/2025

📣 Meet the Speaker

In advance of the National Monuments Service 8th Annual Archaeology Conference we will be introducing you to the speakers and their topics.

Our next speaker is Professor Howard Williams
📍 Talk Title: D***s as deeds? Re-evaluating linear earthworks from early medieval Britain

Professor Howard Williams has over 27 years of experience in academic teaching and research. He joined the University of Chester in 2008 and was appointed to a personal chair as Professor of Archaeology in 2010. His research explores memory, material culture, mortuary practices, and public archaeology in early medieval Britain.

📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available

🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

🙏 With thanks to:

01/08/2025

⏳ Have you secured your place yet?
Join us at Within|Without for a day of ideas, insight, and shared heritage.

Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions

🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online attendance options

This year’s conference brings together leading voices to explore how visible and invisible boundaries shape our world.

👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

With thanks to:
monuments service-archaeology
O’Sullivan TD
Housing
National Monuments Service - Archaeology
Archaeology Ireland
History Ireland

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

31/07/2025

Many thanks to Ian D’Alton and The Irish Catholic for their splendid review of the recently published Dalkey: An Illustrated History by John Martin.
👉
📖 Read it here: https://www.irishcatholic.com/an-ancient-township-by-the-irish-sea

Copies are available at Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre, in all good bookshops, and from our website:
🛒 https://wordwellbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=2175

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30/07/2025

📚 From the Archives of Archaeology Ireland
Crossing Borders in the 21st Century
📰 Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2008 (Vol. 22:4)

To mark the upcoming Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions conference, we’re sharing an article from the Archaeology Ireland archive.

This piece explores the archaeological implications of modern borderlands and questions how physical, cultural, and symbolic borders continue to shape identity and place.

📖 Read the article here:
🔗 https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/54689/spread/27

📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available

🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

With thanks to:Archaeology

22/07/2025

📣 Meet the Speaker

In advance of the National Monuments Service 8th Annual Archaeology Conference we will be introducing you to the speakers and their topics.

Our first speaker is Dr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
📍 Talk Title: Where power lies: rethinking Ireland’s Iron Age linear earthworks as territorial oppida

Dr Cóilín Ó Drisceoil is an archaeologist with the National Monuments Service. He has directed major excavations of prehistoric and medieval urban sites and has published widely on the archaeology of late prehistoric, medieval and post-medieval Ireland. He is the co-author (with Aidan Walsh) of Materialising Power: The Archaeology of the Black Pig’s D**e, Co. Monaghan (Wordwell, 2021).

📌 Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025
🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person & online attendance available

🎟️ Booking now open:
👉 https://bit.ly/Within-Without

🙏 With thanks to: