Discovery Programme Reports: No. 2: Project Results 1993

Eoin Grogan specialises in landscape archaeology, social and political analysis of prehistoric societies, GIS, and the Late Bronze Age. He worked in the Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin as a researcher (1974-89) and Deputy Director on the excavations at Knowth, Co. Meath (1980-85). He is currently working at the Centre for Irish Cultural Heritage and the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. Dr Grogan contributed to the Discovery Programme Reports No. 2 and No. 5.

Martin Doody was an archaeologist and lecturer in the Archaeology Department of University College Cork. He was a significant archaeologist of the Bronze Age in Ireland, with a number of books to his credit. He contributed to the Discovery Programme Reports No. 2 and No. 5.

Conor Newman is a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at NUI Galway. He directed the Discovery Programme's Tara: Archaeological Survey Project before joining the Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway, in 1996. Three times visiting professor of Celtic archaeology at the University of Toronto, he has studied at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, and at Edinburgh University. He was Vice-Dean for Research at the Arts faculty in 2007-08. A member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, he was editor of the Journal of Irish Archaeology from 2003-2008. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and chairman of the Heritage Council. He contributed to the Discovery Programme Reports 2 & 6 and is also the editor of Tara: An archaeological survey (1997).

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.