Brian Lacey
CEO

(with others) Archaeological Survey of Donegal (1983, editor and principal author)

Siege City – the Story of Derry and Londonderry (1990, reprinted 1995 and 1998)

Colum Cille and the Columban Tradition (1997)

Manus O’Donnell – The Life of Colum Cille (1998)

Discover Derry (1999)

A Pocket History of Irish Saints (2003)

Cenél Conaill and the Donegal kingdoms: AD 500-800 (2006

Terrible Queer Creatures: homosexuality in Irish history (2008)

‘The archaeological survey of County Donegal’, in T. Reeves-Smith and F. Hamond (eds.) Landscape Archaeology in Ireland, Oxford 1983, 9 - 23.

'The development of Derry c.600 - 1600', in G. MacNiocaill and P. Wallace (eds.) Keimelia - Studies in medieval archaeology and history, Galway 1988, 378 -96.

'The archaeology of the Ulster plantation' in M. Ryan (ed.) The Illustrated Archaeology of Ireland, Dublin 1991, 201 - 205.

‘Prehistoric and Early Historic Settlement in Donegal’ in W. Nolan, L. Ronayne and M. Dunlevy(eds) Donegal: History and Society, Dublin 1995, 1-24.

‘The People Lost and Forgot’, in Tom Hayden (ed.) Irish Hunger: personal reflections on the legacy of the famine, Boulder (Colorado) and Dublin 1997, 79-90.

‘County Derry in the early historic period’ in G. O’Brien (ed.), Derry and Londonderry History and Society, Dublin 1999, 115-48.

‘Colum Cille’, in S. Duffy (ed.) Medieval Ireland: an encyclopedia, New York 2005, 98-100.

‘A Danish Legacy’, Joe Fenwick (ed.) Lost and Found, Dublin 2003, 207-11.

‘The church of Ráith Maige Oenaig and the Donegal Cenél nÉnnai’, in T. Condit and C. Corlett (eds) Above and beyond: essays in memory of Leo Swan, Dublin 2005, 213-8.

‘Derry, the Cenél Conaill and the Cenél nÉogain’, in M. Meek (ed.) The Modern Traveller to our Past: Festschrift in honour of Ann Hamlin, Belfast 2006, 65-9.

‘”The “Bend of the Finn”: an archaeological landscape in east Donegal’ in C. Manning (ed.) From Ringforts to Fortified Houses: Studies on castles and other monuments in honour of DAVID SWEETMAN, Dublin 2007, 107-17.

Brian Lacey was editor of Museum Ireland for five years - from 1994 to 1998.

Brian Lacey has been editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (JRSAI) from 1998 to the present.

Brian Lacey (a chuir in eagar) Cosáin that Thírdreach na hEorpa. EPCL, Albersdorf, Germany 2004, 114++.

(With M.R. Colhoun) 'Note on a socketed axehead from Ballynabwee Ringfort, Co. Tyrone', JRSAI, Vol. 109, 1979, 152 - 3.

'Two seventeenth century houses at Linenhall Street, Londonderry', Ulster Folklife, Vol. 27, 1981, 52 - 62.

'The making of a holy well’, Ulster Folklife, Vol. 38, 1992, 113 - 114..

‘Derry Trades Council Archives’, Saothar 20 1995, 96-7.

‘Did Columba found Derry - “Mihi manet incertus”’, JRSAI 128 (1998) [published 2001], 35-47

‘The Grianán of Aileach – a note on its identification’, JRSAI 131 (2001, published Dec, 2003), 145-9.

‘Tírecháns Sirdruimm, Adomnán’s Dorsum Tómme’, JRSAI 132 (2002, publ. Dec. 2004), 148-50.

‘The battle of Cúl Dreimne: a reassessment’, JRSAI 133 (2003, publ. Dec. 2005), 78-85.

‘Revival or Re-invention: Columban traditions in nineteenth-century Derry’, Ulster Folklife Vol. 50, 2004 (publ. 2005), 27-50.

‘The Amra Choluimb Cille and the Uí Néill’, JRSAI 134 (2004, publ. Sept. 2006), 169-72.

'Londonderry City', Excavations 1975-6, 28-9.

'Irish Genealogies and Local History', Ulster Local Studies, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1977, 6-10.

‘Londonderry City', Excavations 1977, 1 page.

‘Conall son of Nial', Donegal Annual 1978, 1 page.

'The Archaeology of Clay Pipes and Local History', Ulster Local Studies, Vol. 4 No. 2, 1979, 17 -19.

‘The Ui Meic Cairthinn of Lough Foyle’, Derriana, 1979, 3 - 24.

'The Archaeology of British Colonisation in Ulster and America: a comparative approach', The Irish American Review (University of S. Carolina) Vol. 1 No.1, 1979, 1-5.

‘The [amateur] archaeological survey of Donegal’, Donegal Annual 1979, 445 - 46.

‘Rescue archaeology in Londonderry', Archaeology (New York), July/ Aug. 1980, 52 – 54.

‘“I part not from effeminacy" - Male Homosexuality in Gaelic Ireland’, Identity Quarterly Review 4, Jan - Mar 1983, 10 - 13.

'The Grianán of Aileach', Donegal Annual 1984, 5 - 24.

(With M. McGuinness) 'The Creggan Rath', Templemore 1984, 38-41.

‘Inishowen’ in Irish Association for Quaternary Studies - Field Guide No. 7, 1984, 22-26.

‘Archaeological and Historical Survey Group’ [notes], Donegal Annual 1986, 119 - 121.

'Ballykelly (Walworth House) - Plantation Bawn', The Journal of Irish Archaeology Vol. IV, l987/8, 17.

'Londonderry City Post-Medieval Urban', The Journal of Irish Archaeology Vol. IV, l987/8, 18.

‘County Focus - Donegal’, Archaeology Ireland, Summer 1988, 48 - 52.

‘Tonbane Glebe - Medieval sandhills occupation', The Journal of Irish Archaeology Vol. V, 1989/90, 72.

'Siege Archaeology in Derry', Archaeology Ireland, Summer 1990, 57 - 60.

'A Museum Service in Northern Ireland', Scottish Museum News, Winter 1992, 12 - 13.

‘The Derry Museum Service and the Regeneration of the City', Museum Ireland, Vol. 3, 1993, 57-63.

‘Conflicting Opinions - Understanding Derry’, [British] Museums Journal, August 1994, 28.

'Untangling the knots of myth & history', Causeway, Autumn 1994, 27 - 30.

'The Tower Museum in Derry', Interpretation, Vol 1 No 1, Summer 1995, 17-19

‘A lost Columban Turas in Derry,’ Donegal Annual 1997, No. 49, pp 39-41.

‘Language, literature and labels’, Museum Ireland Vol. 14, 2004, 86-94.

‘West of West’ [exhibition review] Arts News [Donegal] pp 16-7.

‘Egy ír muzeologus Budapesten’ [translated from my English] Magyar Múzeumok, Vol. 2, No. -3, Autumn 1996, 59.

‘The Arts and the Northern Ireland Economy’ [book review] Museum Ireland Vol. 6, 1996, 81-3.

‘Irish Museums and Heritage Centres’ [book review] Museum Ireland Vol. 6, 1996, 90.

‘Távol Koreától’ [‘Budapest in Modern Times’, exhibition review. Translated from my English] in Buksz (Budapest Review of Books), 1996, Ósz, 318-9.

‘Iona, Kells and Derry - Book Review’, Derry Journal, 11 March 1997, 30.

‘The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church: a [book] review’, Derry Journal, 18 April, 1997, Section 2. 16.

‘Protestantism and the Siege of Derry’ (Book review), Derry Journal, 8/8/97, 20.

‘Ireland and Early Europe by Liam De Paor’ [book review], Museum Ireland 7, 1997, 90-1.

‘Ulster Libraries, archives, museums & ancestral heritage centres - visitors’ guide, by Robert K. O’Neill’ [book review], Museum Ireland 8, 1998, 94-5.

Review of Assembly Places and Practices in Medieval Europe, edited by Aliki Pantos and Sarah Sempkle. Dublin. Four Courts Press 2004’, Irish Historical Studies vol. xxxiv, no. 136, 483-4.

‘Review of: Sir Henry Dowcwra, 1564-1631: Derry’s second founder by John McGurk’, Peritia vol. 19, (2006), 371-2.

‘Review of Feastdays of the saints: a history of Irish martyrologies by Pádraig Ó Riain’, JRSAI Vol. 136, 2006 (published 2007), 188-9.

Appendix A 'Archaeological items considered' in The Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster, Proposal for a Gortin Heritage Centre, 1984, 32 - 46.

'Conservation as Education in a culturally divided city in Northern Ireland', in Educacao de adultos minorias e areas desfavorecidas - Relatorio Final, Faro, Portugal, 1987, 62 - 64.

Historic Derry, Eason’s Irish Heritage Series 61, 1988, 25 pages.

The Siege of Derry, Eason's Irish Heritage Series 65, 1989, 25 pages.

Rewriting and editing of all the entries for Co. Derry and Derry City in The Shell Guide to Ireland by Lord Killanin and Michael Duignan, revised and updated by Peter Harbison, Dublin 1989.

Historic Derry, Derry City Council 1990/91, with translations (by others) to Irish, German and French, 11 pages.

With A. Malley and D. Francis, Derry and the Northwest 1846 - The paintings of John Noah Gosset, Derry City Council Heritage and Museum Service, 1994, 16 pages.

With J. Mullan and D. Francis, Atlantic Memorial - souvenir catalogue, May 1995, 92 pages.
City of Derry - an illustrated History and Companion for Londonderry, Cottage Publications 1995, 70++ pages.

‘Foreword’ in The Heritage of Inishowen, by Mabel R. Colhoun, Derry 1995, 1 page.

‘The Tower Museum, Derry - Born from a History of Conflict’, Papers of the II International Symposium on City Museums (April 1995), Barcelona 1996, 115-20.

‘The Historical Context of the Name of the City’, Public Discussions on aspects of the sectarian division in Derry Londonderry, edited by Marie Smyth, March 1996, 12-14.

‘Brian Lacey’, in Perceptions - Cultures in Conflict, edited by Adrian Kerr (Derry 1996) 75-7.

Northern Ireland: Fact and Folklore’, in Museums and Galleries, (Cambridge, Spring 1997), 32-5.
With Tom Condit, The Beltany Stone Circle - a ‘Celtic’ ritual site in County Donegal, Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide No. 4, 1998, 6pp.

‘The Creggan Rath’, with M McGuinness, in M McGuinness and G Downey, Creggan: more than a history, Derry 2000, 15-9.

Sections in Simon Elmes, The Routes of English 3, (BBC) London 2000, 38, 40.

‘Foreword’, The History of Newbuildings, Co. Londonderry, Derry 2003.

‘The Discovery Programme’, in The Encyclopedia of Ireland, 301, Dublin 2003, 301.

‘Constructing Colum Cille’, Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2004, Dublin, 120-3.

‘The Discovery Programme: an introduction’, Heritage Council Outlook Winter 2004, The Heritage Council, Kilkenny, 8-9.

‘Billy’s boys’, History Ireland, September/October 2008 Vol. 16 No. 5, 18-9.