Dr Eileen Murphy
Dr Eileen Murphy
Qualifications
BSc (Archaeology) QUB 1993.
MSc (Osteology, Palaeopathology & Funerary Archaeology) Sheffield 1994.
PhD QUB 1998.
Senior Lecturer in Osteoarchaeology
Email: eileen.murphy@qub.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
Telephone
+44(0) 28 90 973979
Current Teaching:
Undergraduate
GAP1001 Evolution: Humans and Ideas
GAP3053 Society, Death and Disease
Postgraduate
GAP7035 Topographical and Digital Survey
Current Administrative Roles:
Archaeology and Palaeoecology: Head of Undergraduate Teaching
Current Research: Past Cultural Change
Biocultural studies of Irish and Russian archaeological populations; hospitals in Medieval Ireland; deviant and minority burial practices; children’s burial grounds; archaeology of Fermanagh
Ballyhanna Research Project
Further information about this project can be found in volumes 1 and 4 of Seanda, the National Road Authority’s archaeology magazine.
INSTAR: The People of Prehistoric Ireland
Show me the Mummy: The Face of Takabuti
Publications:
(a) Edited Books
Murphy, E. M. (ed.) 2008. Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record. Oxford: Oxbow Book.
(b) Edited Journals
Murphy, E. M. 2008. Childhood in the Past 1
Murphy, E. M. 2009. Childhood in the Past 2
Murphy, E. M. 2010. Childhood in the Past 3.
(c) International Journal Papers
Ruffell, A., Donnelly C. J., Carver N. A., Murphy E. M., Murray E. V. and McCambridge, J. 2008. Suspect burial excavation procedure: a cautionary tale. Forensic Science International 183, e11-16.
Murphy, E. M. 2008. Book review – Gowland, R. and Knüsel, C. 2006, Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains. Environmental Archaeology 13, 195-96.
Svyatko, S. V., Mallory J. P., Murphy, E. M., Polyakov, A. V., Reimer P. J. and Schulting, R. J. 2009. New radiocarbon dates and a review of the chronology of prehistoric populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia. Radiocarbon 51, 243-52.
Murphy E. M., Chistov, Y. K., Hopkins, R., Rutland, P. and Taylor, G. M. 2009. Tuberculosis among Iron Age individuals from Tyva, South Siberia: Palaeopathological and biomolecular findings. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 2029-38.
McKerr, L., Murphy E. M. and Donnelly C. J., 2009. “I Am Not Dead, but Do Sleep Here”: the representation of children in Early Modern burial grounds in the north of Ireland. Childhood in the Past 2, 110-32.
Murphy, E. M. and McKenzie, C. J. 2010. Multiple osteochondromas in the archaeological record: A global review. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 2255-64. [doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.03.023]
Ruffell, A. and Murphy, E. 2011. An apparently jawless cadaver: A case of post-mortem slippage. Science and Justice 51 [ doi:10.1016/j.scijus.2011.03.004]
Murphy, E. M. 2011. Children’s burial grounds in Ireland (Cilliní) and parental emotions towards infant death. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-011-0148-8]
(d) Major Chapters in Books
Murphy, E. M. 2008. A biocultural study of children from Iron Age south Siberia, pp. 175-87 in Bacvarov, K. (ed.), Babies Reborn: Infant/Child Burials in Pre- and Proto-history (BAR International Series 1832). Oxford: Archaeopress.
Donnelly, C. J. and Murphy, E. M. 2008. The origins of cilliní in Ireland, pp. 191-223 in Murphy, E. M. (ed.), Deviant Burial in the Archaeological Record. Oxford: Oxbow books.
Murphy, E. M. 2009. Report on the cremated remains recovered from Archaeological licences AE/04/077, AE/05/014 and AE/04/055, pp. 214-41 in Chapple, R. M., Dunlop, C., Gilmore, S. and Heaney, L., Archaeological Investigations along the A1 Dualling Scheme, Loughbrickland to Beech Hill, Co. Down, N. Ireland (2005) (BAR British Series 479). Oxford: Archaeopress.
Murphy, E. M. and Donnelly, C. J. 2010. Cilliní: lugares para el enterramiento de individuos infantiles en Irlanda, in Sanchez Romero, M. (ed.), ¡Eso no se Toca! Infancia y Cultura Material en Arqueología. Complutum 21(2), 163-180.
Fitzpatrick, E., Murphy, E., McHugh, R., Donnelly, C. and Foley, C. 2011. Evoking the white mare: the cult landscape of Sgiath Gabhra and its medieval perception in Gaelic Fir Mhanach, pp.163-191 in Schot, R., Newman, C. and Bhreathnach, E. (eds.), Landscapes of Cult and Kingship. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
McKenzie, C. J. and Murphy, E. M. 2011. Health in Medieval Ireland: The evidence from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal, pp. 131-143 in Stanley, M. (ed.), Past Times, Changing Fortunes (Archaeology and the NRA Monograph Series No. 8). Dublin: Wordwell Ltd.
(e) National journal papers
Simpson, D. D. A., Murphy, E. M., Gregory, R. A. and McCartney, M. 2007 (published 2008). Excavation at Orquil souterrain, St Ola, Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 137, 169-78.
Simpson, D. D. A., Murphy, E. M., Gregory, R. A. and McCartney, M. 2007 (published 2008). A double cist burial from Gyre Farm, Orphir, Orkney. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 137, 59-68.
Murphy, E. M. and McGranaghan, C. 2008 (published 2010). Osteological report on human remains from Glebe, Rathlin Island, County Antrim, pp. 72-83 in Sloan, B., A Bronze Age cist burial at Glebe, Rathlin Island, County Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 67, 60-83.
Murphy, E. M. 2009 (published 2011). Osteological report, pp. 74-85 in Gormley, S., An Excavation at St. Thomas’s Church, Rathlin Island, County Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 68, 64-101.
(f) Sections in Books
Murphy, E. M. 2008. Animal palaeopathology from Johnstown 1, Co. Meath, pp. 58-69 in Volume 7 of accompanying CD in Carlin, N., Clarke, L. And Walsh, F., The Archaeology of Life and Death in the Boyne Floodplain (NRA scheme monographs 2). Dublin: NRA.
Svyatko, S., Murphy, E., Schulting, R. and Mallory, J. 2008. Dieta narodov epohi bronzy - nachala zheleznogo veka Minusinskoi kotloviny (Yuzhnaya Sibir) po dannym analiza stabilnyh izotopov azota in ugleroda: predvaritelnyye rezultaty, pp. 213-6 in Tishkin, A. A. (ed.), Drevniye i Srednevekovyye Kochevniki Tsentralnoy Azii. Barnaul: Azbuka.
Murphy, E. M. 2010. Trepanation and trephination in early modern Ireland, pp. 259-64 in Davies, M., MacConville, U. and Cooney, G. (eds.), A Grand Gallimaufry Collected in Honour of Nick Maxwell. Dublin: Wordwell Ltd.
Murphy, E. and Heaney, L. 2010. A Middle to Late Bronze Age cemetery at Loughbrickland, County Down, pp. 110-13 in Murray, E. and Logue, P. (eds.), Battles, Bones and Boats: Archaeological Discoveries in Northern Ireland 1987-2008. Belfast: TSO.
Murphy, E. 2010. Human remains from Saint Patrick’s Church, Armoy, County Antrim, pp. 117-21 in Murray, E. and Logue, P. (eds.), Battles, Bones and Boats: Archaeological Discoveries in Northern Ireland 1987-2008. Belfast: TSO.
(g) General Reader Publications
Donnelly, C. J. and Murphy, E. M. 2008. The origins of cilliní. Archaeology Ireland 22, No. 3, 26-9.
Murphy, E. M., Ó Donnabháin, B., Welsh, H. and McGranaghan, C. 2010. INSTAR – The people of prehistoric Ireland: Phase 1. Archaeology Ireland 24, No. 1, 23-5.
Carver, N., Murphy, E., Murray, E. and Sloan, B. 2010. From life in the Bronze Age to ‘Days of the Dead’. Archaeology Ireland 24, No. 2, 14-15.
Full Publication List June 2011
External Grant Funding:
In recent years I have received funding from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency: DOE NI, the National Roads Authority and the INSTAR programme of the Heritage Council.
PhD Students:
Rebecca Craig - A Taphonomic Study of Human Remains from Neolithic Orkney
Jonny Geber - Biocultural and Palaeopathological Study of Famine Burials from Kilkenny Workhouse
Cormac McSparron - The Early Bronze Age Single Burial Tradition in Ireland
Additional Information:
Editor of Childhood in the Past, the journal for the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past and member of the Society's Committee.
Assistant Leader of the Belfast Branch of the Young Archaeologists’ Club
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Member of the Council of the Discovery Programme
Member of the Academic Committee for Archaeology of the Royal Irish Academy
