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EDITORIAL -
July 2002
 Welcome
to INSIGHT, the free online Irish Studies magazine.
You've probably already gained some idea of the range of
topics we cover from the Contents
page, and we can assure you that the
range is set to broaden over the coming months. By the end
of August we hope to bring you Irish art, media studies,
education, book reviews and more. You can get details of
some of our soon-to-arrive articles from the
Coming
Soon page, which also
gives details of additional features shortly to be made
available, such as academic and professional job
advertising, and a buy and sell noticeboard.
INSIGHT
is the latest offering from IRQUAS (Irish
Quaternary Studies Online), and its launch marks our second
anniversary. As with everything else offered by
IRQUAS, INSIGHT is free to anyone who
cares to enjoy it. It is born of a passion for knowledge,
and designed for people for whom pestering inquisitiveness a
pleasure to be savoured and nurtured rather than an
irritation. More than just a source of ideas and
information, INSIGHT is open to you in every way.
Submissions for publication are welcome, however short or
long. Details of our submission and peer-review processes
can be found on the How
to Contact Us page. as
is news of events. We'd also be delighted to hear and
publish your comments about INSIGHT and
IRQUAS, so feel free to mail Letters
to the
Editor.
INSIGHT
will continue to present new material as and when it arrives
rather than maintain a fixed publication schedule. We call
it 'rolling publication', and it means that you get to see
the latest work as soon as possible. In addition to
diverging from the orthodox publication regime, we are also
open to material which breaks from the typical article
format. As such, slideshows, interactive presentations, 3D
reconstructions, sound recordings and the like are all
formats which we will consider.
 Well,
I've done my job: INSIGHT is now live (and
kicking). Future editorials will be written by Mike Collins,
our General Editor. Many, many thanks to everyone who has
supported both INSIGHT and the larger
IRQUAS project, most especially John, our Technical
Editor, who turned the text files, oversize graphics, and
mad ideas into something coherent, something real. Thanks
also to our writers present and future. It is their work
that makes INSIGHT worthwhile.
Enough
soppy nonsense from me. Go. Read the articles. Tell us what
you think... and send your own articles in.
INSIGHT
is open for business.
Stiofán
MacAmhalghaidh
IRQUAS Project Manager &
INSIGHT Features Editor
July 2002
Technical note - Footnotes to
articles may be viewed by holding mouse over the 
graphic, PDF versions of some features are available, as
linked
Editorial
Team
General Editor - Mike Collins
Mike took his first degree at UCL Institute of
Archaeology with a thesis on Irish ringforts. He is
currently studying for an MA in Archaeology at
UCL
Project Manager/ Features Editor
- Stiof MacAmhalghaidh
Stiof's educational and professional background is
"largely accidental and irrelevant" (his words). He is an
independent scholar studying medieval Irish settlement and
territory, and the founder and project manager of
IRQUAS
and co-founder of
INSIGHT
Magazine
Technical Editor - John
Alexander
John read Greats at Oxford and now teaches at
Headfort
near Kells, Co. Meath. He is webmaster of several Irish
websites
Associate Editor - Mark
Hall
Mark graduated with a PhD in
Anthropology (Archaeology emphasis) from University of
California at Berkeley in 1992. Dissertation title, "Irish
and Hiberno-Norse Ironworking." Currently a Curator of
Archaeology at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History in
Nagaoka, Japan.
Associate Editor - Raimund
Karl
Ray studied Prehistoric Archaeology at the University
of Vienna, and is currently completing his PhD. He is
presently research fellow for European Archaeology at the
University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic
Studies
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