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'Excavating' The 1916 Rising: Archaeology And The Resistance Of Popular Narrative. (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Franc Myles.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This contributor co-directed a fieldwork project in 2016 which ended in a rather odd archaeological excavation to recover a rifle dropped from the roof of City Hall over the course of the Easter Rising. In the popular context of the centenary, the project blog (thearchaeologyof1916.wordpress.com) attracted a...