Dr Grace O'Keeffe
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first heard Jun 2026
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Because I think Irish people in general are incredibly interested in trying to understand who we are and what we are.
If you walk into any bookshop
In Ireland.
The history section is one of the biggest sections.
It's one of the biggest, you know, the bi the busiest uh the busiest sections.
Um and I think we're constantly trying to delve into kind of who we are and what we are, and also the fact that we actually have such a rich like we, you know, think of ourselves as this small island, but we have such a rich history.
Um and archaeology.
I mean, Paul, Paul and Ruth can
Uh agree or disagree with me on this, but I think archaeology took a while in Ireland.
It took a while for us to appreciate archaeology in Ireland, maybe particularly in an urban sense.
Um and I think now that people realise actually how much archaeology can tell us and how even one tiny little object can reveal, you know, the length of uh and breadth of
Where it travelled from.
I was thinking what Ruth and Ruth and um Catherine were saying there about the international aspect of Dublin.
And if you think anywhere that's on a Viking trading route, you think of, you know, all the the passage, the travel, the the merchants, people coming and going in Dublin.
Um if you think of, say, on Wine Tavern Street in Dublin, the the kind of tokens that would have been found um
You know, if we delve into the whole Wood Key excavation, the type of objects that were found in there.
And actually in the next Archaeology Ireland um coming out in September, um, we've an article in there from a joint article between Dublinia um and the University of Stravangar in in Norway about Irish objects found in Norway.
So it works the other way as well that you know the Irish moved
Moved around as as Ruth was saying, you know, uh Saints and scholars maybe not always so scholarly or so saintly.
You know, some of them like we have uh instances in the earlier medieval period of English religious leaders warning people about Irish merchants who were prone to stealing people from uh uh from ports because there was there was a a slave.
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