Knowth

Kerri Cleary was project coordinator for volume six in the Excavations at Knowth series, on the Neolithic archaeology of the Great Mound. She has worked as an archaeologist for over fifteen years, since completing her PhD at University College Cork in 2007. She specialises in prehistoric archaeology, particularly the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Ireland.

GEORGE EOGAN† directed the Knowth excavations for almost 40 years, as part of his research into the passage tomb builders of Ireland and Western Europe. The results of his work in this area were published in an extensive series of books and papers, including the Royal Irish Academy’s seven-volume Excavations at Knowth series. Following his retirement as professor of archaeology at UCD in 1995, he became Professor Emeritus of Celtic Archaeology.

Elizabeth Shee Twohig was senior lecturer in archaeology at University College Cork until her retirement in 2007. She was Archaeological Editor and author of four of the six chapters in The Megalithic art of the passage tombs at Knowth, County Meath, volume seven in the Excavations at Knowth series. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Edel Bhreathnach is a medieval historian with an interest in interdisciplinary studies in archaeology, history and literature. She wrote Ireland in the medieval world 400–1000 ad: landscape, kingship and religion (Four Courts: Dublin, 2014) and co-edited Monastic Europe: communities, landscapes and settlements (Brepols: Turnhout, 2019). She served as CEO of The Discovery Programme 2013–19.

Patrizia La Piscopia works in the World Heritage Unit at the National Monuments Service (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) and occasionally lectures on UCD’s post-graduate programme in World Heritage Management and Conservation. She is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and a committee member of Blue Shield Ireland.

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf is a research associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University. Her doctorate in Early Irish and Old French is from University College Cork. She is the author of Dindshenchas Érenn (Cork Studies in Celtic Literatures: Cork, 2023).

Claire Breen joined the National Monuments Service (Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) in 2000 and is a senior archaeologist in its Monument Protection Unit. She manages the Community Monuments Fund and advises on matters relating to the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Property.

Ken Williams is a photographer whose specialist area is the prehistoric art and monuments of Western Europe. He has been involved in numerous collaborations with archaeologists on a wide range of projects, and has contributed to several academic and popular publications and conferences on prehistoric art and monuments, their recording, and their future conservation.

Steve Doogan is an award-winning illustrator from Scotland. Over the past 22 years he has produced illustrations for a wide variety of clients, from heritage and archaeological projects to theatre, music, packaging and publishing. He has produced two childrens books with the writer Manchan Magan: Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature, and Wolf-Men and Water Hounds. He lives in Dublin.