The County Kildare Archaeological Society has recently produced a DVD containing every volume of the society's journal from 1891-2007. A huge and incredibly useful resource for archaeologists, historians and many others.

The DVD was launched by Cllr Tom Purcell last Tuesday and is available for purchase from the society's website.

I recently received the excellent news that the call for papers for Trowel Volume XII has been re-issued. The volume had stalled recently but with new editors, a new website and a new online format it looks like this unique student publication, celebrating its 21st birthday, will continue despite the current hard times.

As a past editor I will be very interested to see how the transition to online publication will work and whether the relatively recent book reviews and reflections sections will continue. The inclusion of the thesis lists on the websites re-instates a valuable function served by Trowel previous to financial and logistical problems that led to us dropping them for Volume X.

Trowel volume X can be downloaded or read here on Seandálaíocht.com and Volume XI can be purchased using this order form.

Volume 23, issue 3 of Archaeology Ireland has arrived in the post and includes a little plug for www.seandalaiocht.com in the "News from the Net" section. Links discussed in this regular Archaeology Ireland feature are available online here.

The Fingal Heritage Network and the Mayor of Fingal are launching a book and an exhibition on the evening of Tuesday 7th July 2009 at 7.30pm. The book is entitled Axes, Warriors and Windmills: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in North Fingal. It was recently reviewed in Archaeology Ireland and includes papers on Lambay Island, Flemington, Bearnageeragh, Lusk, Mount Gamble and Bremore Castle. I haven't got a hold of a copy yet myself but it promises to be a useful volume.

The same evening sees the launch of a photographic exhibition called Fingal: A Photographic Memoir. RSVP 890 5771 or by email.