Our Team

Eamonn P. Kelly

Title: Keeper of Irish Antiquities

Areas of Expertise: Iron Age collections including bog bodies and early Celtic Art; Viking rural settlement in Ireland; crannogs and lacustrine sites; Sheela-na-gigs.

Mary Cahill

Title: Assistant Keeper Grade I

Areas of Expertise: Bronze Age collections; history of collections and antiquarianism.

Nessa O' Connor

Title: Assistant Keeper Grade I

Areas of Expertise: Heritage Law; Underwater Archaeology.

Dr Andy Halpin

Title: Assistant Keeper Grade I

Areas of Expertise: Archaeology of Medieval Ireland; Archaeology of Viking and Medieval Dublin; Medieval Weapons and Warfare.

Maeve Sikora

Title: Assistant Keeper Grade II

Areas of Expertise: The archaeology of Viking Age Ireland; burial archaeology in Ireland; Cypriot collection.

Fiona Reilly

Title: Assistant Keeper Grade II

Areas of Expertise: The Roman collection; archaeological licensing; Medieval parish church architecture; Contact Curator in respect of the Ethnographical collections.

Pádraig Clancy

Title: Assistant Keeper Grade II

Areas of Expertise: Archaeological licensing; high crosses and replicas; the archaeological landscape of the Curragh and Dun Ailinne, Co. Kildare.

Margaret Lannin

Title: Senior Technical Assistant

Areas of Expertise: Object restoration; mounting and display of archaeological collections; object handling; accessing reserve collections on behalf of researchers.

Eamonn McLoughlin

Title: Clerical Officer

Areas of Expertise: Contact person regarding applications for Internships in the Irish Antiquities Division.

Please note that there is a Duty Officer system to deal with reported discoveries or general queries. The Duty Officer may be contacted by telephoning the Museum switchboard +353 1 6777444 and asking for the Irish Antiquities Division Duty Officer or by e-mail.