Stonelight Archives

Archive based around the pioneering research of the Stonelight Team: Martin Brennan (1942-2023), Toby Hall, Jack Roberts (1950-2024) and others interested in the function and purpose of the Irish Megalithic culture.

• Dowth Castle - where East and West meet - April 1978

• Dowth Castle - John Boyle O'Reilly - Drogheda Independent - April 1978

• A National Park to hold Ireland's Pyramids - The Irish Times - November 1987

• The man who 'cracked the Newgrange code' - Sunday Press - August 1979

• The Embassy of the USSR - October 1979

• Cracking the Newgrange Code Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4 - Executive Magazine 1979

• Ireland was at the centre of Megalithic Civilisation - February 1980

• Newgrange Ancient Observatory - The Irish Times - February 1980

• Golden Secrets of our History Irish Independent - March 1980

• Newgrange "A Salt Cellar - Not a Tomb" - Meath Chronicle - April 1980

• Origins of Western Civilisation in Newgrange? Meath Chronicle - May 1980

• The Boyne Valley Calendar May 1980

• Haughey Returns from the tomb - The Irish Times - August 1980

• Knowth Sundial - The Irish Times - September 1980

• Major Antiquities Find Claimed - The Irish Times - October 1980

• The Boyne Inheritance - The Irish Times - December 1980

• No light at this tunnel's end - The Irish Times - December 1980

• Stone Age find claimed - Sunday Independent - December 1980

• An Irishman's Diary - The Irish Times - December 1980

• December's sun solves stone mounds mystery - The Irish Press - December 1980

• Riddles of the Boyne Valley - The Irish Times - January 1981

• Martin Brennan's Boyne Valley research - The Irish Times - January 1981

• Loughcrew Cairn T damaged by vandals - September 1981

• The Fabulous Pre-historic lightshow - Sunday Tribune - December 1981

• Secrets of Newgrange left for the future - December 1981

• American finds world's oldest sundial in Ireland - April 1982

• New discovery made at Newgrange - The Irish Times - April 1982

• Editor - Passage Graves - The Irish Times - April 1982

• Megalithomania By John Michell - The Irish Times - April 1982

• Mace-head found at Knowth is major treasure - September 1982

• Neolithic Artefact found at Knowth - September 1982

• Solstice Watch in Tomb - The Irish Times - December 1982

• Indian Rock 'Calendars' - January 1983

• Newgrange Experience - The Irish Times - January 1983

• Council to dump rubbish in the Carrowmore Stone Age cemetery - March 1983

• Find may change theory on early man in Ireland - The Irish Times - June 1983

• Ultrasonic chatter - key to mystery of the stones - Evening Press - June 1983

• Court orders halt to Sligo Refuse Dump - The Irish Times - July 1983

• Stone Mad by By Claire O'Kelly - The Sunday Tribune - December 1983

• Stones not Bones - December 1983

• Stories of the Stars and Stones - December 1983

• The Stars and the Stones by Martin Brennan - Sunday Tribune - December 1983

• Star gazers surface in megalithic Ireland - 1983

• Stone Mad - Sunday Tribune January 1984

• The Story of the Stones - The Irish Times - Feb 1984

• Digging into the roots of the rich and varied Boyne Culture - The Irish Times - March 1984

• Letter to the Editor - The Irish Times - March 1984

• Archaeologists from 12 European countries to visit Knowth - April 1984

• Book throws light on Knowth Excavations - The Irish Times - April 1984

• Expert warns of threat to ancient monuments - The Irish Times - April 1984

• Letter to the Editor - The Irish Times - April 1984

• Knowth Finds put on display - The Irish Times - May 1984

• 1500 BC vessel found on farm - July 1984

• Circles of Time - Evening Press - April 1986

• Discovering the Dark Wonders of Knowth - The Irish Times - November 1986

• Knowth, A Mecca for Prehistoric Pilgrims - The Irish Times - November 1986

• Tombs of the Gods - The Irish Times - November 1986

• Newgrange - Letters to the Editor - The Irish Times - June 1988

• Newgrange oldest Observatory in world - The Irish Times - January 1989

• Board of Works welcomes decision - The Irish Times - February 1989

• Supreme Court Protects Carrowmore Site - The Irish Times - February 1989

• Carrowmore Judgement - March 1989

• Rites of Passage Graves - Lorna Siggins - August 24th 1989

• The winter solstice phenomenon at Newgrange : Accident or Design - 1989

• Archaeological Park - The Irish Times - January 1990

• An Irishman's Diary - The Irish Times - September 1990

• Sheela-na-gigs - Power to Make Irishmen Blush

• In some counties over 60% of Ireland's Ancient Monuments Destroyed

• Sun Worshippers - spring and autumn equinoxes

• Gravel Extraction Threatens Vital Megalithic Tomb at Carrowmore

• U.S. Mounds Called Oldest Celestial Calendar -

• Wonders of Dowth are uncovered

• Wonders of Knowth go on exhibition in Dublin

• Keeping the past alive - The Irish Times - May 2001

The Stonelight team - Jack Roberts (left), Martin Brennan (centre) and Toby Hall (right). Photo by Anthony Murphy at the 'Boyne Valley Revision' conference at the Newgrange Lodge in December 2009.