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

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

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 species; as well as the ...

who worked for the Irish Antiquities Division of the

National Museum of Ireland The National Museum of Ireland () 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 three branches in Dublin, the arch ...

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

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. He has published extensively on a wide range of Irish archaeological subjects including prehistoric antiques,

bog bodies A bog body is a human cadaver that has been Natural mummy, naturally mummified in a Bog, peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BC and the S ...

,Genealogy at Lunchtime: Secrets of the Bog bodies
.

National Library of Ireland The National Library of Ireland (NLI; ) is Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane. The mission of the National Library of Ireland is "To collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the ...

, 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2021 ancient Celtic rites and mythology,

Viking Vikings were 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 settled throughout parts of Europe.Roesdahl, pp. 9� ...

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

ethnography Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

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 Living people People associated with the National Museum of Ireland Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Irish archaeologists 21st-century Irish archaeologists Place of birth missing (living people)