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How I did it: When I was little I wanted to visit Ireland, because I was obsessed with Riverdance/Lord Of The Dance and did Irish Dancing etc. When I was 14 my parents applied fo our families Irish citizenship, and then decided to move to Limerick because my mum wanted to study Midwifery somewhere where she could still work. I finished my schooling there, which was... an experience... Read how I did it…

How I did it: At the end of first year, all archaeology students at my university attend one of the uni's field schools. The one I chose was on the final year of an excavation of a beaker settlement overlaid by a bronze age round barrow. It was lots of wheelbarrowing and cleaning, but we also learnt how to do mapping, magnetometry, resistivity, GPS, finds etc... Read how I did it…

How I did it: I was lucky enough to be studying archaeology and prehistory at University, and my prehistory lecturer was going to dig at Stonehenge for the first time in nearly 60 years, so he arranged for our small group to go in before the site was opened for a whole hour! We never got given any talks to do with if we were allowed to touch it or not... so while no one was looking, I touched one of the blue stones. I wasn't really expecting to think m… Read how I did it…