Amplify Archaeology Podcast

About Amplify Archaeology Podcast

Dig into Ireland’s past

Publisher

Neil Jackman

Category

history · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Aug 2018

Latest episode

27 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 52 episodes have a transcript.

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   27 Mar 2026

   Medieval Gaelic Ireland Amplify Archaeology Podcast

   In this episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast, Neil chats with Professor John Waddell about Celtic Ireland, discussing how our understanding of the Celts has developed, looking at the historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence, the politics of the past and present, and how the story is told today.

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   27 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Celtic Ireland Amplify Archaeology Podcast

   In this episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast, Neil chats with Professor John Waddell about Celtic Ireland, discussing how our understanding of the Celts has developed, looking at the historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence, the politics of the past and present, and how the story is told today.

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   9 Dec 2025

   Kinship Culture and Death in Neolithic Ireland Amplify Archaeology Podcast

   In this episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast, Neil chats with Dr Jessica Smyth, Dr Neil Carlin and Dr Susan Greaney about their recent paper that discusses Neolithic society, kinship, ancient DNA, and how we understand and interpret the story of the past.

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Celtic Ireland Amplify Archaeology Podcast

Published 27 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And from the beginning, the term Celtic itself was kind of discouraged in a way. The general feeling... that it was sort of inaccurate. And you use a term in the book, Celtos scepticism. And that seems to have been the default setting in Irish archaeology. Are we actually safe to use the term Celts, do you think, or should we still be worried? What did this kind of Celtos scepticism take root? From an Irish perspective, you have my deepest sympathy. This was a peculiarly... British phenomenon since, I suppose, the 1960s or thereabouts, and it gradually grew. And I don't know who, I think it might have been a Celtic scholar, Simms Williams, who coined the term Celto scepticism, but it certainly was a very neat way of describing the a plethora of publications, articles and books in which, as you rightly say, the notion of Celts was sort of questioned. […]

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