Amplify Archaeology Podcast

Featuring interviews with Ireland’s top experts, Amplify Archaeology Podcast helps you to dig in to the story of Ireland!

Amplify Archaeology Podcast

Dig into the Stories of Ireland!

Welcome to the Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

Have you ever wanted to know more about Irish archaeology? Do you want to discover the real story of the past, or have you ever been curious about how archaeologists know, what they know? Then this might well be the podcast for you!

Amplify Archaeology Podcast features a series of informal interviews with a number of Ireland’s top archaeologists and specialists. You can hear discussions the key periods, themes and stories and the different types of sites and artefacts that can tell us how people lived in the past. We also hope to give an insight into the profession and practice of archaeology and the various techniques and scientific methods that help to build the picture of Ireland’s history.

As well as really insightful interviews with some of Ireland’s top archaeological experts and specialists, we also feature literally groundbreaking (sorry) news – with trench-side interviews with teams digging iconic sites like  Glendalough, Kilkenny Castle and the Rock of Cashel.  Each episode has its own page with shownotes and links that allow you to dig deeper into the particular themes and references that were discussed during the show.

To date, we have covered diverse subjects like ogham stones, passage tombs, Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology, and how practices like digital heritage or living history can help us to understand the past. We also discussed the groundbreaking new insights from the passage tomb complex at Carrowkeel with the project team, and we chatted with Professor Tadhg O’Keeffe about the story and origins of Irish castles. In December 2020, we also ran a miniseries focused on Newgrange and the Winter Solstice featuring chats with those who know the site best.

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We hope that this podcast will become a useful and enjoyable resource for anyone interested in Irish archaeology.  If you have suggestions for a particular subject that you are interested in please do let us know and we will certainly consider it for a future episode. Amplify Archaeology Podcast is available on Apple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsSoundcloud and most of the usual podcast outlets.  If it doesn’t appear on your favourite podcast app please do let us know and we try to make it available there too.

“The perfect blend of authoritative voices with a friendly interviewer – always interesting and never too densely academic. A must for anyone interested in Irish archaeology”.

Apple Podcasts Review

Also delving underground – literally and figuratively – is the Amplify Archaeology Podcast. Host Neil Jackman is himself an archaeologist and also the director of Abarta Heritage, an online resource offering audio guides that champion sustainable heritage tourism. In episodes of up to an hour, Jackman and guests…excavate the past and how it informs our present…

Lucy White, Irish Independent

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Amplify Archaeology Podcast features interviews with Ireland’s leading experts in archaeology,
with discussions on period, place and practice. Let’s dig into the stories of Ireland!

Episode 40 with Prof. Gabriel Cooney

Death in Irish Prehistory Part Two

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Episode 40 with Prof. Gabriel Cooney

Death in Irish Prehistory Part One

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Episode 39 with Tommy Burke & Dr Ryan Lash

Island Pilgrimage

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Episode 38 with Dr Michelle Comber

Excavations at Caherconnell Fort

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Episode 37 with Dr Ruth Carden & Dr Rebecca Boyd

Viking Dogs

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Episode 36 with Con Manning

Clogh Oughter Castle

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Episode 35 from the Archives

A Newgrange Solstice

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Episode 34 with Dr Michael Potterton

Moynagh Lough

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Episode 33 with Dr Daniel Curley et al

Farming Rathcroghan

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Episode 32 with Paul Duffy

Archaeological Storytelling

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Episode 31 with Dr Steve Davis

Archaeological Insect Analysis

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Episode 30 with the excavation team

Digging Dún Áilinne

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Episode 29 with Dr Rebecca Boyd

Viking Age Ireland

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Episode 28 with Prof. Muiris O’Sullivan

The Winter Solstice at Knockroe

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Episode 27 with Dr. Karen Dempsey

Relict Plants & Medieval Women

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Episode 26 with Prof. Roger Stalley

Irish High Crosses

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Geraldine & Matthew Stout and Excavation Team

Excavations at Beaubec

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Cóilín Ó Drisceoil, Aidan Walsh & Shirley Clerkin

The Black Pig’s Dyke

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Episode 23 with Dr. Marion Dowd

Cave Archaeology

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Episode 22 with Mary Cahill

Prehistoric Gold

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Episode 21 with Terry O’Hagan

Archaeological Landscapes of St Patrick

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Episode 20 with Cathy Moore & Dr. Ben Gearey

Wetland Archaeology

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Episode 19 with Prof. Gabriel Cooney

Newgrange Podcast Miniseries; Part 5

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Episode 18 with Dr. Robert Hensey

Newgrange Podcast Miniseries; Part 4

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Episode 17 with Clare Tuffy

Newgrange Podcast Miniseries; Part 3

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Episode 16 with Dr. Jessica Smyth

Newgrange Podcast Miniseries; Part 2

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Episode 15 with Prof. Muiris O’Sullivan

Newgrange Podcast Miniseries; Part 1

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Episode 14 with Maeve Sikora & Matthew Seaver

The National Museum of Ireland

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Episode 13 with Dr. Nora White

Ogham

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Episode 12 with Dr. Damian Shiels

Conflict Archaeology

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Episode 11; Orla-Peach Power & Gary Dempsey

Digital Heritage & Sheela-na-gigs

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Episode 10 with Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Excavations at Kilkenny Castle

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Episode 9 with Déise Medieval

Living History

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Episode 8 with Dr. Patrick Gleeson

Excavations at the Rock of Cashel

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Episode 7; Lara Cassidy, Robert Hensey et al

Neolithic Mortuary Practice at Carrowkeel

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Episode 6 with Dr. Neil Carlin

The Beaker People and Chalcolithic Ireland

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Episode 5 with Dr. Meriel McClatchie & team

Bloom; the Past in Plant Remains

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Episode 4 with Dr. Jessica Smyth

Passage Tombs

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Episode 3 with Prof. Tadhg O’Keeffe

Irish Castles

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Episode 2 with Prof. Graeme Warren

Mesolithic Ireland

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Episode 1; Conor MacDermott & Graeme Warren

Excavations at Glendalough

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