Thomas Finan, Gaelic Ireland: Revising the Narrative with Archaeology and Digital Humanities

Thomas Finan, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University, presents Gaelic Ireland: Revising the Narrative with Archaeology and Digital Humanities at the CMS Convivium on October 24. Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance.

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Biography

Thomas Finan is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. His research interests are focussed on medieval Ireland, castles in medieval Europe, medieval archaeology and digital applications to the study of history and archaeology.
His main focus of research is the history and archaeology of later medieval Ireland, particularly the history of the borderlands region of the Shannon River in Roscommon in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. He has been director of the North Roscommon Archaeological Project, an ongoing archaeological survey and excavation focussing on the medieval lordship of Moylurg.  He also conducts research in a number of related fields, including the historical theology of the later medieval Gaelic church, thirteenth century bardic poetry, the history of the O Conor and Mac Dermot families of Roscommon, and landscape history of north Roscommon.
Since 2008 he has been an invited delegate of the Chateau Gaillard International Castle Studies Conference. All presentations at the conferences are published in the conference proceedings. In 2019 Finan was selected as the first American member of the Comite Permanent of Chateau Gaillard.
He is also active in the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS), which along with the Center for International Studies and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at SLU, sponsored a major conference in October, 2008, “Beyond Saints and Scholars: Irish Medieval Studies in the 21st Century.”  
He is a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Dr. Finan also conducts research on the history and archaeology of St. Louis, and will be beginning a research project investigating the Civil War forts of Missouri in 2019.