Eamonn P. Kelly (often known as "Ned") is an Irish

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

who worked for the Irish Antiquities Division of the

National Museum of Ireland The National Museum of Ireland ( ga, Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann) is Ireland's leading museum institution, with a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history. It has thre ...

from 1975, including as Keeper of Irish Antiquities (1992-2014). He also held the role of Acting Director (informal, November 1995-April, 1996) of the whole National Museum, and Acting Keeper of Art and Industry (2013-2014).Eamonn P Kelly
. Academia.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2021 He retired in July 2014, but continues to work for the museum as a heritage consultant.Bentley (2015), p. 34 Kelly was born in

County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Dublin.svg , map_alt = map showing County Dublin as a small area of darker green on the east coast within the lighter green background of ...

. He has published extensively on a wide range of Irish archaeological subjects including prehistoric antiques, bog bodies,Genealogy at Lunchtime: Secrets of the Bog bodies
. National Library of Ireland, 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021 ancient Celtic rites and mythology, and

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

influence on Irish culture. He has also written on Classical and Egyptian collections and

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

Selected publications

* "The Vikings in Connemara". In: "The Viking Age: Ireland and the West". Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005, ed. J. Sheehan & D’Ó Corráin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2010Eamonn P Kelly
. museum.academia.edu. Retrieved 14 August 2021 * "Power, Prestige and Production: Problems associated with La Tène Art in Ireland". In ''Treasures of Celtic Art: A European Heritage''. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998 * "The Archaeology of Ireland 3: The Pagan Celts". ''Ireland Today'', No. 1006, 7-10, 1984

References

Sources

* Bentley, Diana.
The Dark Secrets of the Bog Bodies: Interview with Eamonn P. (Ned) Kelly
. ''The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology'', March/April 2015

External links

Selection of Kelly's publications
at Academia.edu {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, Eamonn Irish archaeologists Living people People associated with the National Museum of Ireland Year of birth missing (living people)