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From YouTube: The Irish Famine Lecture Series: Famine Roads

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Famine Roads: Archaeological Insights into the Public Works Schemes from the Great Famine in Ireland I Thursday 9 February I Dr. Colm Donnelly, Queen’s University Belfast.

Colm is an historical archaeologist in the School of Natural and Built Environment and Co-Director with Prof. Eileen Murphy of the Centre for Community Archaeology with research interests in Medieval and 17th-century Irish buildings, Gaelic Medieval Ulster, children’s burial grounds (cillíní) and community archaeology. An experienced field archaeologist, in 2021 he led a community-based archaeological excavation of a “Famine Road” at Boho, Co. Fermanagh, with Prof. Murphy. Colm has also led a transatlantic excavation and education programme between the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, and QUB.