Dr Finbar McCormick
Dr. Finbar McCormick
Qualifications
BA University College Cork 1976,
MA University College Cork 1982,
PhD Queen’s University Belfast 1987.
Senior Lecturer
Email: f.mccormick@qub.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography , Archaeology and Palaeoecology
Queen’s University Belfast
Northern Ireland
Telephone
+44 (0) 29 90973447
Current Teaching:
ARP2004 Historic Ireland
ARP2005 Sites and Artefacts
ARP3004 The Archaeology of Animals and Humans
GAP7303 Post-excavation Strategies
GAP7304 Archaeology of Buildings
Current Administrative Roles:
Advisor of Studies for all Archaeology/ Palaeoecology Students
Current Research: Past Cultural Changes
- Early medieval settlement in Ireland
- The zooarchaeology of the Mesolithic and Neolithic
- The zooarchaeology of the Early Medieval Period
- Animals and Ritual
Publications:
McCormick, F. 2009 “Ritual feasing in Iron Age Ireland” in G. Cooney, Katarina Becker, J. Coles, M. Ryan and S. Sievers (eds.) Relics of old decency: archaeological studies in later prehistory, Bray, Wordwell, 405-412.
McCormick, F. 2008 ‘The decline of the cow: agricultural and settlement change in early medieval Ireland’ Peritia 20, 210-225.
McCormick, F. 2007. ‘Reformation, privatisation and the rise of the headstone’ in A. J. Horning, R. O’Boyle, C.J. Donnelly and P. Logue The post-medieval archaeology of Ireland, 1550-1850, Bray, Wordwell, 351-366.
McCormick, F. 2007 ‘Mammal bones from prehistoric Irish sites’ in E.M. Murphy and N.J. Whitehouse (eds) Environmental Archaeology in Ireland, Oxford, Oxbow.
McCormick, F. and Murray, E.V. 2007 Knowth and the zooarchaeology of Early Christian Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
McCormick F. 2007 ‘The horse in early Ireland’, Anthropozoologicia, 42(1), 85-104.
McCormick, F. 2006 “Animal bone” in I. Armit Anatomy of an Iron Age wheelhouse, Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Edinburgh. 161-172.
McCormick, F. and E.V. Murray 2006 ‘The mammal bones from Mooghaun, Co. Clare: Preliminary report’ in E. Grogan The north Munster Project: Volume 1 The later prehistoric landscape in south-east Clare, Bray, Wordwell.
McCormick, F. 2005 ‘Archaeology: The horse in early Ireland’ in M. McGrath and J.C. Griffith The Irish draught horse: a history, Cork, Colins Press, 17-29.
Murray, E. and F. McCormick 2005 ‘Environmental analysis and food supply’ in Jenny White Marshall and Claire Walsh Illaunloughan Island: An early medieval monastery in County Kerry, Wordwell, 67-80.
McCormick, F 2004 ‘Animal bone report’ in M.K. Grig ‘Excavations in the Laird’s Hall, Drum Castle’, Proceedings of the society of Antiquqries of Scotland, 134, 440-442.
B. Graham and F. McCormick 2004 ‘The headstones of James Connelly’, Seanchas Ard Mhaca, 20, 162-168.
Kerr, T. and F. McCormick 2004 ‘Early secular settlement in County Fermanagh, in E.E. Murphy and W.J. Roulston Fermanagh History and Society, Dublin, Geography Publications, 57-75.
McCormick, F. and P. Macdonald 2004 ‘Excavations at Dunnyneill Island’, Strangford Lough’, Lecale Review, 2, 5-10.
McCormick, F. 2004 ‘Hunting pig in the late mesolithic’ in H. Roche, E. Grogan, J. Bradley, J.Coles and B. Raftery (eds.) From megaliths to metals, essays in honour of Geroge Eogan, Oxbow, Oxford, 1-5.
E. Murray, F. McCormick and G. Plunkett 2004 ‘The food economies of Atlantic Island Monasteries: The documentary and archaeo-environmental evidence’, Environmental Archaeology, 9, 2004, 179-189.
Moore, P., Donnelly, E. Murphy, W. Roulston and F. McCormick 2004 ‘Excavations at St. John’s Church, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim’, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 61 (2002), 130-136.
McCormick, F. 2004 ‘The Mammal bone’ in A. Hayden ‘Excavation of the medieval river frontage at Arran Quay, Dublin’, Medieval Dublin V, 221-231.
Edwards C.J., Connellan J., Wallace P.F., Park S.D.E., McCormick F.M., Olsaker I., Eythórsdóttir E., MacHugh D.E., Bailey J.F. & Bradley D.G. 2003 ‘Feasibility and utility of microsatellite markers in archaeological cattle remains from a Viking Age settlement in Dublin’, Animal Genetics 34(2003), 410-416.
McCormick, F. and F.J. Crone 2002 'A destroyed enclosure at Site 5, Marshes upper, County Louth', County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, 26, 4 (2000), 553-562.
McComick, F. 2002 'The animal bones from Tara' in Discovery Programme Reports 6, 103-116, Dublin, Royal Irish Society/Discovery Programme.
McCormick, F. 2002 'The distribution of meat in a Hierarchical Society: The Irish evidence' in P. Miracle and N. Milner Consuming Passions and Patterns of consumption, McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 25-31.
P.J. Reimer, F.G. McCormac, J. Moore, F. McCormick and E.V. Murray 2002 ' Marine radiocarbon reservoir corrections for the mid- to late Holocene in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic, The Holocene, 12, 2, 129-135
McCormick, F. 2001 'The mammal bone' with C. Smith in A.S. Cameron and J.A. Stones (eds.) Aberdeen: An in-depth view of the city's past, (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph No. 19), 271-275.
McCormick, F. 2001 ‘Animal Husbandry’ in P. Crabtree (ed.) Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia, New York and London, Garland, 1-4.
External Grant Funding:
N2 excavation animal bone (Grant 1) (CRDS – Cultural Resource Development Service) £25,5000
N2 excavation animal bone (Grant 2) (CRDS) £500
Excavations at Staad Abbey (Heritage Service RoI) £12,270
Dún Aonghasa animal bone (Discovery Programme) £3,000
Knowth animal bone (Discovery Programme) £19,246
Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork (EHS – Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland)) (Grants 1-4) £353,354
Protecting historic monuments (EHS) £17,021
Illustrators post (EHS) £12,500
Post-excavation work (National Museum of Scotland) £1,365
Raholp excavation (Water Service) £1,765
Carrickmines bones (Valerie Keeley Ltd) £22,704
Scarva excavation (EHS) £89,057
Devenish Excavation (EHS) £1,630
Islandhill excavation (EHS) £4,008
Excavation at Woolworths, Belfast (Margaret Gowen and Co.) £13,450
Instar Project (Heritage Council) £56,269
