Helena King Editor

Helena King is senior editor at the Royal Irish Academy. She was project manager and editor from volume three to volume seven of the Excavations at Knowth series. Kerri Cleary has a PhD in archaeology from University College Cork for her research ‘Irish Bronze Age settlements: spatial organisation and the deposition of material culture’. She was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, and the editor/author of Archaeological networks: excavations on six gas pipelines in County Cork (Collins Press, 2015). She is now a post-excavation manager with a commercial archaeological company based in England. Elizabeth Shee Twohig was senior lecturer in archaeology at UCC until her retirement in 2007. She was Archaeological Editor of The megalithic art of the passage tombs at Knowth, County Meath. Edel Bhreathnach is a medieval historian with an interest in interdisciplinary studies in archaeology, history and literature. Claire Breen currently works as a senior archaeologist in the Monument Protection Unit of the National Monuments Service and advises on matters relating to the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Property. George Eogan† directed the Knowth excavations for almost 40 years, as part of his research into the passage tomb builders of Ireland and Western Europe. The results of his work in this area were published in an extensive series of books and papers, including the Royal Irish Academy’s seven-volume Excavations at Knowth series. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a member of Seanad Éireann. Patrizia La Piscopia has worked on both commercial and research excavations in Europe and further afield and currently works for the National Monuments Service in the World Heritage Unit. Marie-Luise Theuerkauf is a research associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University. Her doctorate in Early Irish and Old French is from University College Cork.