Memory and Perspective: TII Heritage Week Seminar 2026

The title and theme of this year’s TII Heritage Week Seminar is Memory and Perspective. Under this banner, our invited speakers will reflect on the lived experience of our distant ancestors and consider the material culture of those who contributed to our collective inheritance within living memory. The day will feature research related to Ireland’s earliest farmers, settlement and burial evidence from the Middle Ages, and the vernacular architecture of the recent past. As we shift our gaze from an ancient cave to intimate domestic scenes of near contemporaries, the seminar will also address past and future TII projects.

The seminar takes place from 9:00 to 17:00 (Doors open with registration from 9:00 to 9:30) on Thursday 20 August at the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, D02HH58.

For the most up to date information about speakers and programme please click on the Booking Link below.

Additional information about TII Archaeology and Heritage is available here https://www.tii.ie/technical-services/archaeology/