Recalling Rome, Recalling Jerusalem
Please join us today at 4:00PM in 129 DeBartolo Hall for “Recalling Rome, Recalling Jerusalem: The Sacred Topographies of Major Ecclesiastical Sites in Early Medieval Ireland“, a lecture by Tomás Ó Carragáin, Lecturer in Archaeology at University College Cork. 
Tomás Ó Carragáin is a graduate of University College Cork and the University of York and became a lecturer in the Archaeology Department, UCC, in 2002. His publications include Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape (Collins Press 2008) and Churches in Early Medieval Ireland. Architecture, Ritual and Memory (Yale University Press 2010), the first in-depth study of Irish architecture from the arrival of Christianity to the early stages of the Romanesque. He is currently working on the Making Christian Landscapes project which is funded by the Heritage Council and considers the impact of Christianity on early medieval landscapes in Ireland and neighbouring countries. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), he won the 2009 Society for Medieval Archaeology Martyn Jope Award, the 2011 Michael Adams Prize in Irish Medieval Studies and the 2011 UCC College of Arts Research Achievement Award.
