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Dr Colin Breen

Senior Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology


School of Environmental Sciences
University of Ulster
Coleraine BT52 1SA
Co. Derry
Northern Ireland


Office: G1104, Centre for Coastal and Marine Research
Phone: +44 (0) 2870 123093
E-mail: CP.Breen@ulster.ac.uk
Research Group: Centre for Maritime Archaeology

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Qualifications

2007 PgCert ConfDev, Open University
2003 PhD Archaeology, NUI Galway
1991 MPhil Maritime Archaeology, University of St Andrews
1990 BA Archaeology, University College Cork


Experience

2007- Senior Lecturer, University of Ulster
1999-2007 Lecturer, University of Ulster
1997-1998 State Maritime Archaeologist, DoE Ireland
1993-1996 Research Fellow, Queens University Belfast
1991-1993 Research Archaeologist


Research Interests

  • The archaeology of maritime landscapes.
  • Historical archaeologies of East Africa and the Red Sea
  • Linking archaeology and international development


External Activities

  • 2007 Invited exhibitor, Smithsonian Summer Festival, Washington, USA
  • Advisor and research collaborator to the Government of Tanzania and the University of Dar-es-Salaam
  • Working Group Member on Marine Designations, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, UK
  • 2003 Visiting Lecturer with the Irish American Cultural Institute. more
  • Reviewer for Antiquity, World Archaeol., J. Archaeol. Sci., Coast. Manage. and Int. J. Naut. Archaeol.

Publications

Number of items: 45.

Breen , Colin (2012) Dunluce Castle; archaeology and history. Four Courts Press. Dublin . 230 pp ISBN 978-1-84682-373-2

Forsythe, Wes, Donnelly, Colm and Breen, Colin (2012) The later Medieval Period. In: Rathlin Island: An Archaeological Survey of a Maritime Landscape . The Stationery Office , Belfast , pp. 150-172. ISBN 9780337097041

Breen, Colin (2012) Randal MacDonnell and early seventeenth-century settlement in northeast Ulster, 1603-30. In: The Plantation of Ulster: ideology and practice . (Eds: O Siochru, Micheal and O Ciardha, Eamonn), Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 143-157. ISBN 9780719086083

Smith, LMV, Mallinson, MDS, Phillips, JS, Breen, CP, Forsythe, W, McErlean, T, Britton, D, Porter, S and Jansen van Rensburg, J (2012) Archaeology and the archaeological and historical evidence for the trade of Suakin, Sudan. . In: Navigated spaces, connected places: Proceedings of the Red Sea Conference V held at the University of Exeter, September 2010. Archaeopress: British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, pp. 173-186. ISBN 978-1-4073-0929-3

Breen, Colin, Forsythe, Wes, Smith, Laurence and Mallinson, Michael (2011) Excavations at the medieval Red Sea Port of Suakin, Sudan. Azania, Journal of Archaeological Research in Africa, 46 (2). pp. 205-225.

Breen, Colin, Murray, E, Reid, Gemma and Robinson, R (2011) Dunluce; a castle and lost town in north Antrim. Archaeology Ireland , 25 (3). pp. 26-29.

Breen, Colin and Rhodes, Daniel (2010) Archaeology and International Development in Africa . Duckworth Academic Press. 159 pp ISBN 978-0-7156-3905-4

Breen, Colin, Forsythe, Wes, Raven , John and Rhodes, Dan (2010) 'Survey and Excavation at Dunstaffnage Castle, Argyll' . Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 140. pp. 165-178.

Mallinson, M, Smith , L, Breen, Colin, Forsythe, Wes and Phillips, J (2009) Ottoman Suakin 1541 – 1865 AD – Lost & Found.. In: Frontiers of the Ottoman World. (Eds: Peacock, A), Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press, pp. 469-492. ISBN 13: 9780197264423

Breen, Colin (2009) Famine and Displacement in Plantation-period Munster. In: Plantation Ireland: Settlement and Material Culture. Four Courts Press, Dublin , pp. 132-139. ISBN 978-1-84682-186-8

Breen, Colin (2009) Discovering a sense of place: Mental maps of Cork City . In: Lost and Found II; Rediscovering Ireland's Past . (Eds: Fenwick , J), Wordwell, pp. 279-284. ISBN 978 1 905569 26 7

Breen, Colin (2009) University-based Teaching and Research of Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland . In: Crossing Paths of Sharing Tracks? Future directions in the archaeological study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland . (Eds: Horning , Audrey and Palmer, Marilyn ), Boydell , pp. 55-64. ISBN 978 1 84383 434 2

Breen, Colin (2007) Advocacy, international development and World Heritage Sites in sub-Saharan Africa. WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY, 39 (3). pp. 355-370.

Quinn, R, Forsythe, W, Breen, C, Boland, D, Lane, P and Omar, A Lali (2007) Process-based models for port evolution and wreck site formation at Mombasa, Kenya. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 34 (9). pp. 1449-1460.

Breen, Colin and Forsythe, Wes (2007) The french shipwreck La Surveillante, lost in Bantry Bay, Ireland, in 1797. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 41 (3). pp. 39-50.

Callaghan, Claire, Breen, Colin and Loingsigh, Moira Ni (2007) Investigations of Taymouth Castle, a nineteenth-century composite ship lost off the coast of northern Ireland. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 41 (3). pp. 25-38.

Breen, C, Quinn, R and Forsythe, W (2007) A preliminary analysis of historic shipwrecks in northern Ireland. HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 41 (3). pp. 4-8.

Breen, Colin (2007) An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland 1570-1670. Four Courts Press, Dublin. 239 pp ISBN 978-1-84682-040-3

O'Sullivan, Aidan and Breen, Colin (2007) Maritime Ireland; An Archaeology of Coastal Communities. Tempus. 256 pp ISBN 978 0 7524 2509 2

Breen, Colin (2007) English Colonial Landscapes in the South-West of Ireland. In: Estate Landscapes. (Eds: Finch , Jonathan and Giles, Kate), Boydell , pp. 177-190. ISBN 978-1-84383-370-3

Breen, Colin (2007) The Post-Medieval Coastal Landscape of Bantry and Beara . In: The Post-Medieval Archaeology of Ireland 1550-1850. Wordwell, pp. 205-220. ISBN 978 1 905569 137

Lafferty, B, Quinn, R and Breen, C (2006) A side-scan sonar and high-resolution Chirp sub-bottom profile study of the natural and anthropogenic sedimentary record of Lower Lough Erne, northwestern Ireland. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 33 (6). pp. 756-766.

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, NW Ireland. JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 163 (Part 3). pp. 421-430.

Breen, Colin (2006) Social Archaeologies of Utopian Settlements in Ireland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 10 (1). pp. 64-80.

Breen, Colin (2005) The Gaelic Lordship of the O'Sullivan Beare: A Landscape Cultural History. Four Courts Press, Dublin. 256 pp ISBN 1-85182-955-5

Breen, Colin and Forsythe, Wes (2004) Boats and Shipwrecks of Ireland . Tempus. 192 pp ISBN 0 7524 3122 6

Forsythe, W, Quinn, R and Breen, C (2003) Subtidal archaeological investigations in Mombasa's Old Port. In: Researching Africa's Past: New contributions from British Archaeologists. (Eds: Mitchell, P, Haour, A and Hobart, J), Oxbow Books, pp. 133-138. ISBN 978-0-947816-58-2

Breen, Colin and Lane , Paul (2003) Archaeological approaches to East Africa’s changing seascapes. World Archaeology, 35 (3). pp. 467-489.

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-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 17 (5). pp. 441-451.

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 (4). pp. 413-422.

Forsythe, W, Quinn, R and Breen, C (2002) Shipwrecking and maritime casualties in Strangford Lough. In: Strangford Lough: an archaeological survey of the maritime cultural landscape. (Eds: McErlean, T, McConkey, R and Forsythe, W), Blackstaff Press, pp. 377-403. ISBN 978-0856407239

Breen, Colin and O'Sullivan , Aidan (2002) Underwater Archaeology in the Republic of Ireland . In: International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology. (Eds: Ruppe, Carol V and Barstad, Janet F), Plenum , pp. 399-415. ISBN 0-306-46345-8

Breen, C, Forsythe, W and Quinn, R (2002) Offshore archaeology of the North Coast. In: Field Guide to the Coastal Environments of Northern Ireland . (Eds: Knight , Jasper), University of Ulster, pp. 109-114. ISBN 1 85923 158 6

Breen, C, Forsythe, W, Lane, P, McErlean, T, McConkey, R, Omar, A Lali, Quinn, R and Williams, B (2001) Ulster and the Indian Ocean? Recent maritime archaeological research on the East African coast. Antiquity, 75 (290). pp. 797-798.

Forsythe, Wes and Breen, Colin (2001) Management and protection of the maritime cultural resource in Ireland. COASTAL MANAGEMENT, 29 (1). pp. 41-51.

Breen, Colin (2001) The Maritime Cultural Landscape in Gaelic Medieval Ireland . In: Gaelic Ireland . Four Courts Press, pp. 418-436. ISBN 1-85182-547-9

Breen, Colin and Callaghan , Claire (2001) The archaeology of post-medieval shipwrecks, harbours and Lighthouses. In: Farmers, Foragers and Fishermen on the Shannon Estuary. (Eds: O'Sullivan , Aidan ), Royal Irish Academy , pp. 233-251. ISBN 1-874045-85-2

Breen, Colin , ed. (2001) Integrated Marine Archaeological Investigations of the Historic Shipwreck 'La Surveillante'. 140 pp. Impact. ISBN 1 85923 153 5

Forsythe, Wes, Breen, Colin, Callaghan, C and McConkey, Rosemary (2000) Historic storms and shipwrecks in Ireland: A preliminary survey of severe synoptic conditions as a causal factor in underwater archaeology. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 29 (2). pp. 247-259.

Breen, Colin (2000) Marine Archaeology. In: The Heritage of Ireland . (Eds: Buttimer, Neil, Rynne, Colin and Guerin , Helen ), Collins Press, pp. 29-30. ISBN 1-898256-15-2

Breen, CP (2000) An unidentified late 18th century shipwreck in Derrynane Harbour, Co Kerry. Journal of the Kerry Historical and Archaeological Society, 29. pp. 135-142.

Breen, Colin (1999) A medieval fisheries at Rossglass, County Down. Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 58. pp. 153-156.

Breen, Colin (1998) The archaeology of early harbours and landing places in Down. Ulster Local Studies, 19:2. pp. 11-27.

Breen, Colin (1996) Maritime archaeology in Northern Ireland: an interim statement. The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 25:1. pp. 55-65.

Breen, Colin (1995) The management and research of the marine archaeological resource in Northern Ireland. In: Coastal Zone Management: from needs to action. Trinity College Dublin , Dublin , pp. 218-224. ISBN 9780952332473

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