PUBLISHED RESOURCES TO LEARN MORE

Please explore other publications in print and media by our team members and islanders about Inishbofin, Inishturk, Inishark, and Connemara:

Documentary Films:

Concannon, Kieran (director), Inis Airc: Bás oileáin [Inishark: Death of an Island] (TG4, 2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmXb2sIFJuY&t=2s (5 parts)

Concannon, Kieran (director), Inishbofin in Lockdown (12-part series): https://www.youtube.com/@inishbofinisland3074

Kuijt, Ian and William Donaruma (directors), Nets of Memory / Líonta na Cuimhne (Walkabout Productions, 2019, 60 minutes)

Kuijt, Ian and William Donaruma (directors), Coastal Ireland: Heritage and Place: https://www.youtube.com/@coastalirelandheritageandp1899

Books:

Chesson, Meredith S., Irish Dressers and Delph: Homemaking through Time (Cork University Press, 2025)

Kuijt, Ian, Ryan Lash, William Donaruma, Katie Shakour and Tommy Burke, Island Places, Island Lives: Exploring Inishbofin and Inishark heritage, Co. Galway, Ireland (Bray: Wordwell, 2015)

Lash, Ryan, Island Endurance: Creative heritage on Inishark and Inishbofin (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2025)

Academic Journal and Book Chapters:

Alonzi, E., S. Pacheco-For.s, G. Gordon, I. Kuijt, and K. J. Knudson, New Understandings of the Sea Spray Effect and its Impact on Bioavailable Radiogenic Strontium Isotope Ratios in Coastal Environments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 33(2020): 102462.

Field, S., I. Kuijt, R. Lash, and T. Burke, Monitoring Irish Coastal Heritage Destruction: A Case Study from Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. Remote Sensing, 17(2709): 1-21 (2025).

Goodale, Nathan, Madeleine Bassett, David G. Bailey, Ryan Lash and Ian Kuijt, ‘Early Medieval Seascapes in Western Ireland and the Geochemistry of Ecclesiastical Cross Stones’, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 19, June 2018, pp. 894–902

Kuijt, Ian, Meagan Conway, Katie Shakour, Casey McNeill and Claire Brown, ‘Vectors of Improvement: The material footprint of nineteenth-through twentieth-century Irish national policy, Inishark, County Galway, Ireland’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 19, no. 1, 2015, pp.122–58

Kuijt, Ian, Meredith S. Chesson, Sara Morrow, Diarmuid Ó Giolláin and Ryan Lash, ‘Dying the Good Death and Materialized Mourning: Nineteenth and twentieth century coastal Ireland’, International Journal of Historic Archaeology, vol. 25, 2021, pp. 333–74

Lash, Ryan, ‘Enchantments of Stone: Confronting other-than-human agency in Irish pilgrimage practices’, Journal of Social Archaeology, vol. 18, no. 3, 2018, pp. 284–305

Lash, Ryan, ‘Pebbles and Peregrinatio: The taskscape of medieval devotion on Inishark island, Ireland’, Medieval Archaeology, vol. 62, no. 1, 2018, pp. 83–104

Lash, Ryan, Ian Kuijt, Elise Alonzi, Meredith S. Chesson and Tommy Burke, ‘“Differing in Status, but One in Spirit”: Sacred space and social diversity at island monasteries in Connemara, Ireland’, Antiquity, vol. 92, no. 362, 2018, pp. 437–55

Lash, Ryan, Meredith S. Chesson, Elise Alonzi, Ian Kuijt, Terry O’Hagan, John Ó Néill and Tommy Burke, ‘Sensational Ensembles: Picnicking and pilgrimage on Inishark island, Co. Galway, Ireland 1650–1960’, Current Anthropology, vol. 64, no. 4, August 2023, pp. 380–409

Shakour, Katherine, Ian Kuijt and Tommy Burke, ‘Different Roles, Diverse Goals: Understanding stakeholder and archaeologists positions in community-based projects’, Archaeologies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2019, pp. 372–99

Quinn, Colin P., Ian Kuijt, Nathan Goodale and John Ó Néill, ‘Along the Margins? The later Bronze Age seascapes of western Ireland’, European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 22, no. 1, 2019, pp. 44–66

Ph.D. and M.A. Theses:

Ames, Nicholas

Brown, Claire J., ‘A Pony World – Hoofed Commodities: Breeding capital and culture through human–horse relations in the west of Ireland’, unpublished PhD thesis, Binghamton University, State University of New York, 2019

Conway, Meagan, ‘A Choice to Engage: Selective marginality and dynamic households on the eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Irish coast’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of South Carolina, 2019

Couey, Lauren, ‘A Shifting Island Landscape: Changes in land use and daily life in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland’, unpublished MA thesis, University of Denver, 2018

Lash, Ryan,  ‘Island Taskscapes: Heritage, ritual, and sustainability on Inishark and Inishbofin, Ireland’, unpublished PhD thesis, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, 2019

Shakour, Katherine E., ‘From Colonial Legacy to Difficult Heritage: Responding to and remembering An Gorta Mór, Ireland’s Great Hunger’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of South Florida, 2020

Media:

Brown, Marley, ‘Off the Grid: Inishark Island, County Galway, Ireland’, Archaeology Magazine, March/April 2019: https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2019/off-the-grid/trenches-ireland-inishark/

Myles, Franc, ‘In Small Things Remembered: The sponge decorated ceramics from Inishark, Galway. With apologies to Jim Deetz’, blogpost 28 June 2013, https://wastedonarchaeology.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/in-small-things-remembered-the-sponge-decorated-ceramics-from-inishark-galway/

O’Shaughnessy, Brendan, ‘Off the Coast’, University of Notre Dame Alumni Magazine, August 2012: https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/off-the-coast/

Swartz, Cecilia, ‘Irish Island Memories: The Inishbofin Library Local Studies. Collection’, Europe Now Blogpost, Council for European Studies, January 2025: https://www.europenowjournal.org/2025/01/31/irish-island-memories-the-inishbofin-library-local-studies-collection/