NIEA LECTURES Northern Ireland Environment Agency is providing a series of public lectures from 1.00pm to 2.00pm on the first Friday of each month of 2012. The venue is the Monuments and Buildings Record public reading room in Waterman House, 5-‐53 Hill Street, Belfast BT1 2LA. Information: 028 90 543 159 or email hmenquiries@doeni.gov.uk. Admission is free. All welcome. Space is limited at these talks, so please come early to avoid disappointment. 21st September 1.00pm Malachy Conway, The National Trust – An Archaeological Survey of Divis and the Black Mountain 21st September 6.00pm Terence Reeves-‐Smyth, NIEA – The Annesley Inheritance: Castlewellan, Mount Panther and Donard Lodge 5th October John Meneely, Queen’s University, Belfast -‐ Mapping, Monitoring & Visualising our Built and Natural Heritage in 3D 2nd November Emily Murray, Queen’s University, Belfast, Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork -‐ Carrickfergus Castle Barracks 7th December Mark Monaghan -‐ Harland and Wolff: The drawing offices. The forgotten artefact
BOOKS
IVERNI: A prehistory of Cork By Prof. William O’Brien, £35 available from www.collinspress.ie. This is a really interesting book charting the prehistory of Cork through the monuments and artefacts. It is a large hard-‐backed volume and beautifully illustrated with coloured diagrams and photos throughout. O’Brien has devoted each chapter to a different period of Cork’s prehistory and addresses a number of issues in the subsections of the chapters. Beginning with a discussion of Ice Age hunters and the Mesolithic, we quickly move to the Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and finally the Iron Age. The majority of the book is devoted to the Bronze Age, with three chapters covering settlement, economy, religion, society and warfare. Extensive use is made of excavations, surveys and artefacts to explain the discussion in the text. This is the first comprehensive account of prehistoric County Cork. This book is written in a very accessible manner and will interest the non-‐specialist, but there is also much detail on the key sites and artefacts for the professional. As professor at University College Cork, O’Brien is well placed to write on the subject and over the years he has carried out a number of excavations and research projects studying the late prehistoric period, specifically in the Southwest of Ireland. Prof. O’Brien spoke on this subject to the Ulster Archaeological Society back in 2008.
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