Visiting Seminar: Dr. Niamh Whitfield ‘Early Irish Metalwork’

RSVP Required: kim.loprete@nuigalway.ie

Dr Niamh Whitfield, a well-published independent scholar (http://independent.academia.edu/NiamhWhitfield), is a leading expert on early Irish metalwork in a European context.  After completing a BA Hons in Archaeology & French at UCD, where she studied with the esteemed Dr Françoise Henry, inter alia, Niamh moved to London, where she raised a family and completed an MA & PhD in Medieval Archaeology & the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art/UCL.  She has taught at TCD and been a regular contributor to the MA Medieval Studies at NUIG since its inception.