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Professional & Academic Experience PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 1998-1999 Underwater Archaeologist in the Maritime Survey Unit (MSU): External contract for the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands. 2000 Consultant Archaeologist: worked in the private sector for 6 months on both terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites; became eligible to hold a Section 26 Licence to direct archaeological excavations in 2000. 2000-present State Underwater Archaeologist & Districts Officer: National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage. Primary brief is with the Underwater Archaeology Unit (UAU) while also acting as District’s archaeologist for the southwest advising on the archaeological requirements for works at National Monuments sites in State Care in that region. 2003-2007 Visiting lecturer: underwater archaeology: Centre for History and Maritime Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol; delivery of lectures to Master’s Degree students of maritime archaeology; lectures discussed Ireland’s Underwater Cultural Heritage, its chronological development, management and protection, and practices and procedures. Contacts there were Dr Dan Hicks and Dr Kimberley Monk. 2008 Invited lecturer: underwater archaeology: Department of Archaeology, University of Bournemouth (BU); delivery of lectures on underwater archaeological preservation In Ireland to students of the MSc Maritime Archaeology course; contact there was Dr Dave Parham. 2009-present Visiting lecturer: underwater archaeology: University College Cork, – devised, organised and deliver unit to 2nd year undergraduate and Master’s Degree students, along with essay and exam marking; co-supervision of two BA dissertations; contact Prof. William O’Brien. 2018-2021 Visiting lecturer: underwater archaeology and history (online): East Carolina University, USA. Delivering lecture on the history of piracy and slavery and associated shipwrecks in Ireland to undergrad history students; contact there is Assistant Professor Dr Lynn Harris, Program in Maritime Studies, Department of History, ECU. 2021 Invited lecturer: history of piracy in Ireland (online): University of Melbourne, Australia, delivering lecture on the history and archaeology of piracy in the early modern period in Ireland to students, studying under Prof. Richard Pennell, in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Dive and Dive-Related 1995 CMAS Brevet International 2 star + Club Diver 2 Star – completed training under the World Diving Federation & Irish Underwater Council qualification certificates. 1996 PADI Open Water & Advanced Diver Certificates, achieved through the Professional Association of Diving Instructors. 1997-1999 NAS Parts I & II and NAS Tutor – completed relevant training to required standard to qualify under the Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS) training programme. 1999 Commercial Scuba qualification, Part IV – Fort William Commercial Dive Training Centre, Fort William, Scotland: for diving at work under the HSE/HSA Rules and Regulations to 30m depth. 2003 Powerboat Level 2 qualification - National Powerboat Training, undertaken through the Irish Sail Training Association: cox’n of powerboats and RIBs up to 6 nautical miles offshore. 2003 Commercial Surface Supplied qualification, Part III – Fort William Commercial Dive Training Centre, Fort William, Scotland: for diving at work under the HSE/HSA Rules and Regulations to 50m depth with use of hyperbaric chamber. 2003 Commercial Surface Supplied Top-Up qualification, Part I – Fort William Commercial Dive Training Centre, Fort William, Scotland: for diving at work under the HSE/HSA Rules and Regulations to 50m depth offshore using bell and chamber on site. 2009 Short Range and DSM Radio Operators Certificate, awarded through the Department of Transport, Ireland 2013-present Sea Survival and Personal Safety Training: National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI), Ringaskiddy, Cork. EDUCATION: Third Level 1995 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Archaeology: Department of Archaeology, University College Cork; Dissertation title: The Archaeology of Dutch East Indiamen Shipwrecks. 1998 Masters of Arts Degree, Archaeology: Department of Archaeology, University College Cork; Thesis title: The Maritime Archaeological Landscape of Baltimore, Co. Cork. 2013 Ph.D, History: Department of Modern History, Trinity College Dublin; Thesis title: The Confederacy of Pirates in Southwest Ireland in the Early Seventeenth Century: Trade, Plunder and Settlement – a historical and archaeological study. PROFESSIONAL and PERSONAL AFFILIATIONS 2000-present Member of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)/Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA); http://www.sha.org 2001-present Member of the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG; www.ipmag.ie 2007-present Member of the Institute of Archaeologists in Ireland (IAI); www.iai.ie 2008-present Member of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS); http://www.ucc.ie/chas/ 2008-present Member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI); www.rsai.ie 2009-2012 Council member of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (RSAI); www.rsai.ie 2010-2018 Board member of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA); www.acuaonline.org 2014-present Member of the European Scientific Diving Panel (ESDP); https://www.marineboard.eu/scientific-diving-panel 2015-2018 Chair of the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG); www.ipmag.ie 2019-Present Member of the Kerry Historical and Archaeological Society (KHAS); https://www.kerryhistory.ie/ 2018-2020 Secretary of the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG); www.ipmag.ie ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 2005 Government Merit Award for Achievements at Work, Awarded by the Minister for the Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government for work undertaken in relation to two historic shipwrecks – the Dunworley Bay Wreck, Co. Cork and Duncannon Wreck I in Waterford Harbour. 2008 UNESCO meeting of State & Interested Parties, London, represented Department at meeting held to discuss and progress the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2008 Europae Archaeologiae Consilium (EAC), Underwater Cultural Heritage Working Group, represented the Department at a meeting held in London; the group meet twice a year with the primary aim being the management of Europe’s underwater archaeological heritage through partnership, the furtherance of best practice and to discuss common policies. 2008 World Archaeologiae Consilium (WAC), UCH Organising Committee, combined co-ordinator (with colleague from US and Argentina) of the Maritime and Underwater Archaeology theme, which included 10 separate sessions and one Plenary session on the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. 2010-2018 ACUA Submerged Cultural Resource Awareness Workshop (SHA/ACUA Conference): Contributor to lecture series in annual workshop presenting international aspects of UCH, focused on students and those interested in getting involved in underwater archaeology. 2016 Meeting of ACUA UNESCO Committee of NGOs, Washington DC (SHA/ACUA Conference) Department representative in attendance at meeting held on the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and ACUA’s NGO’s role. 2018 UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage Forum, Berlin, participated on behalf of the Department in and delivered lecture at a meeting held in Berlin to discuss the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, with a specific focus of the Forum being shipwrecks from the Great Wars; presented paper on Wrecks of WWI in Ireland: Management and Protection. AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST: Historical and Archaeological Though my work would involve engaging with all periods of our past, from prehistory to contemporary times, my own academic interest would be in the modern historic period, in particular the cultural links across the Atlantic - trade, shipping, piracy, smugglings, slavery and engagement during the periods of transplantation, colonization and expansion of global markets. Some of the areas that are of particular interest to me include: Piracy, Smuggling, Slavery and Prostitution in 16th-- 18th-century Ireland: the historical and cultural footprint of these maritime trades. Coastal cultural landscapes: the utilization of the littoral coastal fringe by mariners and other coastal inhabitants. Plantations and Colonisation: Ireland in the Atlantic world and evidence in the records (both historical and cultural) for activities such as slavery, transportations, maritime ventures, piracy and privateering. 16th-18th century shipwrecks: history and cultural evidence as singular events in time but as entities that represent wider, socio-economic and political processes that crossed oceans and linked worlds. PUBLICATIONS Books Kelleher, C. 2020. The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century. Cork University Press, Cork. Moore, F., Kelleher, C., Brady, K., McKeon, C. & Lawler, I. 2019. RMS Lusitania: The Story of a Wreck. Government Stationary Office Publications, Dublin. In preparation: Schweitzer, H. & Kelleher, C. 2022. The 16th-Century Drogheda Boat Wreck: Discovery, Excavation and Interpretation. Government Stationary Office Publications, Dublin. Chapters in books: Kelleher, C. 2003. ‘In a Harbour Long Ago’, in J. Fenwick (ed), Lost and Found I: Discovering Ireland’s
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