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[ selected research output / 2001-present ]


books
Breen, C., 2007, An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland, 1570-1670, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 240pp. ISBN: 978-1-84682-040-3. 
McErlean, T. and Crothers, N., 2007, Harnessing the Tides: The Early Medieval Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough, The Stationery Office, UK. ISBN:  0337088772. 
O' Sullivan, A. and Breen, C., 2007, Maritime Ireland - Coastal Archaeology of an Island People. Tempus Publishing., Stroud, ISBN: 0752425099. 
Breen, C., 2005, The Gaelic Lordship of the O' Sullivan Beare. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 256pp. ISBN: 1-85182-955-5. 
Breen, C. and Forsythe, W., 2004, Boats and Shipwrecks of Ireland: An Archaeology. Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 172pp. ISBN: 0752431226. 
McErlean, T., McConkey, R. and Forsythe, W., 2002, Strangford Lough: An Archaeological Survey of the Maritime Cultural Landscape. Blackstaff Press Ltd., Belfast, 704pp. ISBN: 0856407232. 
journal papers
Pollard, E., 2008, Inter-Tidal Causeways and Platforms of the 13th- to 16th-Century City-State of Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 37 (1): 98–114. pdf
Breen, C., 2007, Advocacy, International Development and World Heritage Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa, World Archaeology, 39 (3): 355-370.
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Forsythe, W., 2007, On the Edge of Improvement: Rathlin Island and the Modern World, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 11 (3): 221-240. 
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McConkey, R. and McErlean, T., 2007. Mombasa Island: A Maritime Perspective, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 11 (2): 99-121. 
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McErlean, T.C., 2007, Archaeology of the Strangford Lough Kelp Industry in the Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth Centuries, Historical Archaeology, 41(3): 76-93.
Quinn, R., Forsythe, W., Breen, C., Boland, D., Lane, P. and Lali Omar, A., 2007, Process-based models for port evolution and wreck site formation at Mombasa, Kenya, Journal of Archaeological Science, 34 (9): 1449-1460.  pdf
Breen, C., 2006, Social Archaeologies of 'Utopian' Settlements in Ireland, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 10 (1): 35-48.  
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Forsythe, W., 2006, The archaeology of the kelp industry in northern Irish islands. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 35(2): 218-229. 
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Kelley, J.T., Cooper, J.A.G., Jackson, D.W.T., Belknap, D.F. and Quinn, R., 2006, Sea-level change and inner shelf stratigraphy off Northern Ireland. Marine Geology, 232: 1-15.  
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Lafferty, B., Quinn, R. and Breen, C., 2006, Subglacial imprints associated with the isolation and decay of an ice mass in the Lower Lough Erne Basin, Co. Fermanagh, Northwestern Ireland. Journal of the Geological Society, 163 (3): 421-430. 
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Lafferty, B., Quinn, R. and Breen, C., 2006, A side-scan sonar and Chirp study of the natural and anthropogenic sedimentary record of Lower Lough Erne, NW Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33: 756-766. 
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Quinn, R., 2006, The Role of Scour in Shipwreck Site Formation Processes and the Preservation of Wreck-Associated Scour Signatures in the Sedimentary Record - Evidence from Seabed and Sub-surface Data. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33 (10): 1419-1432.  pdf
Quinn, R., Dean, M., Lawrence, M., Liscoe, S. and Boland, D., 2005, Backscatter responses and resolution considerations in archaeological side-scan sonar surveys: a control experiment, Journal of Archaeological Science, 32: 1252-1264.  pdf
Breen, C. and Lane, P. 2004, Archaeological Approaches to East Africa’s Changing Seascapes, World Archaeology, 35:3.
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Cooper, J.A.G., Kelley, J.T., Belknap D.F., Quinn, R. and McKenna, J., 2002, Inner shelf seismic stratigraphy off the north coast of Northern Ireland: new data on the depth of the Holocene lowstand, Marine Geology, 185:1-19.
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Quinn, R., Breen, C., Forsythe, W., Barton, K., Rooney, S. and O' Hara, D., 2002, Integrated Geophysical Surveys of The French Frigate La Surveillante (1797), Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland, Journal of Archaeological Science, 29: 413-422.
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Quinn, R., Forsythe, W., Breen, C., Dean, M., Lawrence, M. and Liscoe, S., 2002, Comparison of the Maritime Sites and Monuments Record with side-scan sonar and diver surveys: A case study from Rathlin Island, Ireland. Geoarchaeology, 17 (5): 441-451.
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Breen, C. and Forsythe, W., 2001, Management and protection of the maritime cultural resource in Ireland. Coastal Management 29, 1, 41-51.
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book contributions
McDowell, J.L., Knight, J. and Quinn, R., 2007, Mesoscale changes in present-day nearshore surface sediments and bedform dynamics off the north coast of Ireland, In Balson, P.S. and Collins, M.B., Coastal and Shelf Sediment Transport. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 274, 103–116.  pdf
McDowell, L., Knight, J. and Quinn, R., 2005, Chapter 2: High-resolution geophysical investigations of estuarine and nearshore sediment dynamics, Bann Estuary, Northern Ireland, in High Resolution Investigations of the Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries,  FitzGerald, D.M. and Knight, J. (Eds.),  Series: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins, Vol. 8, Springer, 364pp.  pdf
Forsythe, W., Quinn, R. and Breen, C., 2003, Chapter 18:  Subtidal archaeological investigations in Mombasa's Old Port, Researching Africa's Past: New Contributions from British Archaeologists, Edited by Peter Mitchell, Anne Haour and John Hobart, Oxford Monographs Series in Archaeology, Oxford.
Breen, C. and O' Sullivan, A., 2002, Chapter 25: Underwater Archaeology in the Republic of Ireland, International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology (Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology), Edited by Carol V. Ruppe and Jane F. Barstad, Kluwer/Plenum.
Breen, C., 2001, Chapter XVII: The maritime cultural landscape in medieval Gaelic Ireland, Gaelic Ireland c.1250-c.1650: land, lordship & settlement, Patrick Duffy, David Edwards and Liz Fitzpatrick, Editors, Four Courts Press.
Breen, C. and Callaghan C., 2001, The archaeology of post-medieval shipwrecks, harbours and landing  places in the Shannon Estuary in Farmers,  foragers and fishermen on the Shannon Estuary, In Aidan O’Sullivan (ed.) Discovery Programme Monographs, Royal Irish Academy,  Dublin.