YouTube Videos of Irish Archaeological Interest

Many of these are holiday videos, with comments like 'I have no clue where we are, but it's a bunch of rocks'. Impressionistic and a bit mixed up: you won’t learn much from it, but you might like it if you would prefer to ‘feel’ Celtic art rather than learn about it. If you like the music on this one, there's a link to iTunes Store. ‘A walk to the baryte mine on Kings mountain county Sligo, Ireland.’ Tagged as ‘industrial archaeology’ but it’s mostly a walk through some atmospheric mountain scenery with some nice guitar music in the background. Background music (no, I think it’s the video that’s background) is The Heat Is On from Beverley Hills Cop. Protesters obstructing the machinery on the road project alternating with scenes in the protesters’ camp, while a rhyme about the controversy is recited in the background. There are hundreds of videos on YouTube relevant to Irish archaeology, especially if you include scenes of castles. There are scenes of geophysical prospecting at the royal sites at Cruachan and Tara, and we see Professor John Waddell sliding into the entrance to the Otherworld.

Description of the significance of Tara, and the controversy about the building of a nearby road. After the significance of these sites has been explained, the documentary gives way to some slides relating to the Tara controversy. Accompanied by a pop-song sung in an American accent, but the words are about the Tara controversy rather than the usual ‘ooh baby I love ya’ theme. The narrators seem to be motivated at least as much by prejudice against business as by love of archaeology. Television report on an interesting piece of experimental archaeology. Scenic, but no archaeology. Another planning controversy: Bremore, in North County Dublin. Quite a lot of decidedly non-Celtic images - megalithic tombs, Henry II, Gothic cathedrals, a Norman knight’s effigy, 18th-century church plate, and modern Dublin. Complete record of a guided tour of Dublin Castle, both the 17th-18th-century rooms above and the mediaeval structures excavated in the undercroft. This po st was created with t he help of GSA C onte nt Gen᠎erator Dem᠎oversion.

Part of the guided tour of Newgrange. It includes pre-Celtic sites such as Newgrange and Stonehenge, and post-Celtic sites such as St. Lawrence’s Gate, Drogheda. Courses run all summer, and students learn a wide range of skills on sites of various types and periods. Two sites affected by the M3 motorway scheme: Rath Lugh, a circular enclosure which the motorway will pass very close to, and Lismullen henge (‘an utterly ancient, utterly phenomenal astronomical observatory’) which will be cut through by the road. Comic film made on the N8/M8 road project with speeded-up motion and quirky editing. Some of the archaeologists who worked on the N6 Kinnegad-Kilbeggan and N52 Mullingar-Belvedere Road Schemes talk about their experiences. How ‘putlog’ scaffolding worked. One of the few places where coal mining took place was Arigna, County Roscommon, where it continued until the 1990s. This is a short film clip showing the miners at work. More old footage: the steam train which transported the coal. Coal is rare in Ireland. Beginning rather abruptly, this appears to be an extract from a television documentary on the later Bronze Age and Iron Age in Ireland.

Spoof explanation of a real excavation in County Kilkenny (Bronze Age bus-stop etc). Views of various parts of the old ironworks (1600-1898) at Creevelea, County Leitrim. Series of text slides attacking various infrastructural projects in County Meath and adjoining areas. This is explained in a series of text slides. Series of stills of sites, manuscripts, finds, structures, and book covers, with a musical accompaniment described as ‘songs by Celts’. Series of stills of Tara (some of the nicest I’ve seen) acompanying The Voice by Celtic Woman. The narrator discusses the relationship between the "Celtic" attitude to nature and that of the "Green" movement. Interviews with Dr Conor Newman & a girl with green hair. Conor Newman’s interview is subtitled: note that ‘jeduritical’ should be ‘Jesuitical’. The end of the story, from Henry VIII to the National Monuments Acts. Slides of the excavations, and aerial views of the Tara monuments. Camera pans back and forth to show a rainbow. Slide show of activities of the Achill Archaeological Field School, with suitable musical accompaniment but no explanation of what people are doing. Mad Poles on an Irish dig. A few shots of ruined mine buildings and cables, but no narrative. ᠎This data has been writt᠎en by GSA Conte nt᠎ Gen᠎er ator DEMO.

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