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The Irish Archaeological Society (sometimes spelled as "Irish Archæological Society") was a learned society, founded in 1840. [1] Among the founders was the Rev. Dr. Todd , who acted as secretary. The Irish Archaeological Society was one of the first text publication societies of Ireland.
The Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (Irish: Institiúid Seandálaithe na hÉireann) is an Irish archaeology organisation based in Dublin, Ireland.Founded in Merrion Square, Dublin in August 2001, the organisation represents professional archaeologists who are working in the island of Ireland, both in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
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The aim of the Society was the preservation and illustration of the antiquities of Kilkenny, city and county, although this later spread to cover a far wider area, with the Society changing its name only five years later to the Kilkenny and South East of Ireland Archaeological Society, both to attract wider membership and to reflect the ...
[14] Ó Ríordáin wrote numerous papers and excavation reports which were published in archaeological journals, and his 1942 book Antiquities of the Irish countryside has been republished in five editions. [15] He was president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1953 to 1956, and was awarded a D.Litt. by the NUI. [16]
A native of Kilkenny, James's father, Richard Graves [3] (himself a reverend), kept a school in the city, [3] and James himself was born on St Canice's day, 11 October. [3] He stated his nurse regretted he had not been named Kenny, after the patron saint to whom he thus had a double allegiance. [4]
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John Cristopher "Jack" Coleman (1914–1971) [1] was a respected Irish geographer, archaeologist, speleologist and mountaineer.He devoted much of his life to the study of the caves of Ireland, the product of which were his many contributions to scientific journals in Ireland and the United Kingdom, his founding of the Speleological Society of Ireland and the publishing of his book, The Caves ...