Inaugural meeting of the Discovery Programme Advisory Panel, 10 May 1991
Item
- Format
- JPEG
- Title
- Inaugural meeting of the Discovery Programme Advisory Panel, 10 May 1991
- Identifier
- VH0044
- Depiction
- Eight men standing and six men and a woman seated at a long table.
- Description
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This official photograph was taken at the first meeting of the Advisory Panel assembled by Taoiseach Charles Haughey to define the objectives and initial work plan of the Discovery Programme.
Seen here, left to right:
Standing: Pat Wallace; Michael Herity; Anthony Cronin; John Waddell; Peter Woodman; Noel Lynch; Mike Baillie; unidentified representative of the OPW.
Seated: unidentified representative of the OPW; George Eogan; Michael Morris, Lord Killanin; Charles Haughey, Taoiseach; Aidan Clarke, President of the RIA; Anne Lynch, OPW; John Mahony, OPW.
Created at the initiative of the then Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey, the Discovery Programme began its work in 1991. The stated aim of the body was ‘through archaeological and related research to work towards a coherent and comprehensive picture of human life on this island from earliest times’ (Discovery Programme, p. 6). Its initial focus was on the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age ‘or Celtic period’. This was an objective aligned to the major trends of Irish archaeology at the time and, incidentally, to Charles Haughey's own declared interests (Monk & Sheehan, p. 2).
Two of those appointed to this influential Advisory Panel had links to the University in Galway: Pat Wallace, a UCG graduate and later Director of the National Museum, and John Waddell, a UCG graduate and later Professor of Archaeology in NUIG. - References
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Publications:
The Discovery Programme, The Discovery Programme: Strategies and Questions (Dublin, 1992).
Michael A. Monk, John Sheehan (eds), Early Mediaeval Munster: Archaeology, History and Society (Cork, 1998).
- Contributor
- John Waddell
- Bibliographic Citation
- J. Waddell, J. Conroy, ‘Inaugural meeting of the Discovery Programme Advisory Panel, 10 May 1991’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14156, Archival Record Id VHRS
- Spatial Coverage
- Department of the Taoiseach, Government Buildings, Merrion Street Upper, Dublin 2, D02 R583
- Temporal Coverage
- 10 May 1991
- Period
- 1990s
- Category
- b&w
- group
- off-campus
- indoors
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Galway Library
- Rights
- This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
