O’Meara’s Ghost

Drawing on examples from the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, this paper explores three different forms of archaeological haunting. First, it examines how revolutionary ruins and other material traces come to have an aura; second, it considers the phenomenon of reported sightings of revolutionary ghosts; and third, it addresses how archaeologists themselves come to be haunted by the objects of their research, and what this might mean for archaeological ethics

Independence (probability theory) · Irish · Phenomenon · Spanish Civil War · Archaeological Research and Protection · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration