#SarsfieldHomecoming
Fourth portrait in the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project’s team members series with our forensic anthropologist Dr Caroline Laforest. 1/
May 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update

Just back from another trip to Huy during which we continued our excavation of the site… 1/
April 19, 2026 at 6:28 PM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update

Delighted to be in Paris for three full days of filming for the RTÉ TV documentary on Patrick Sarsfield produced by Scratch Films and directed by Maurice Sweeney. 1/
August 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update

Some good news came today with the results of the radiocarbon dating of skeleton no 13 (SK13).

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May 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Second portrait of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project team members with Frank Coyne, the project’s lead archaeologist and director of Aegis Archaeology Ltd. 1/6
March 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update

RADIOCARBON DATING RESULTS AND A CRUCIAL MEETING (Part 1)

Just back from an express trip to Huy with some good and some not-so-good news… 🧵 1/
March 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🚨#SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News

Part of the team have just completed another trip to Huy.

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May 26, 2026 at 6:33 PM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update

After the scenes filmed in Paris at the end of August, further sequences for the documentary, directed by Maurice Sweeney and produced by Scratch Films for RTÉ, were shot in Limerick last week. 1/6
September 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project update

We had another very productive week in Huy last week…

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December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thank you to Ronan McGreevy for his article in the Irish Times on the latest developments of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project 🙏🏻

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Human remains found in Belgium could be Irish war hero Patrick Sarsfield
Sarsfield fled Ireland after Williamite Wars and died in 1693 in service of King Louis XIV of France
www.irishtimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News! 🚨

We are finally back to Huy to resume the search for the remains of Patrick Sarsfield!

Our plan is to finish exploring the cellar area this week.

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January 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Really honoured to be invited to present the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project to Members of the European Parliament next week in Brussels! Many thanks to Irish MEP Kathleen Funchion for her kind invitation. 1/2
September 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
🚨#SarsfieldHomecoming Project🚨

First trailer of a TV documentary dedicated to the project and produced by Scratch Films for RTÉ! Filming began in September 2023 and will end… when the project ends! Very grateful to Liam McGrath for his interest in our work.

youtu.be/fEodMunCfrM
FINDING SARSFIELD PILOT
YouTube video by Liam McGrath
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November 22, 2024 at 8:53 PM
We wish to express our gratitude to Limerick-based company Adhesives Research Ireland, a global leader in high-performance custom adhesive tapes for industrial applications, for the €500 donation they have just made to the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project News

Last April, as some of you may remember, the Sarsfield Homecoming Project found itself at a turning point… 1/
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fifth portrait in the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project’s team members series with Maarten Larmuseau and Noah Gaens, both from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven).

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June 17, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Many thanks to Nigel Dugdale for covering the latest developments of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project
February 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Starting here a series of portraits of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project team members with Stéphanie Ratz, in charge of urbanism and heritage in the administration of the Huy City Council, who has been instrumental since 2021 in sending me historical documents and providing us access to the site… 1/3
February 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Many thanks to St Michael’s National School, Limerick for inviting me to introduce their 5th & 6th class pupils to the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project. 1 hour of stimulating exchanges with the children! Fantastic to see so much enthusiasm for history among young people!

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February 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News! 🚨

Massive preparatory works begin in Huy to enable the archaeological excavations to resume on the still unexplored part of the site where we believe Patrick Sarsfield to be buried!

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August 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Update

RADIOCARBON DATING RESULTS AND A CRUCIAL MEETING (Part 2)

Now on to the good news: the aim of our quick trip to Huy was to attend a decisive meeting with local stakeholders (the Huy City Council and AWaP, the Walloon Heritage Agency)… 1/
March 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🚨NEWS ALERT!🚨
#SarsfieldHomecoming Project

Tomorrow (Friday 31 January) is when we can finally break some exciting news in relation to the project! Tomorrow morning check out the RTÉ News website 📰, tune in to Morning Ireland 📻 or watch the news on RTÉ1 📺 to find out!

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January 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🔴 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project

Some photos of the filming of a sequence of the RTÉ documentary on Patrick Sarsfield at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris this morning. Many thanks to Carole Jacquet & her team for the warm welcome & for allowing us to film in this landmark of Franco-Irish relations.
August 31, 2026 at 10:09 PM
🚨 #SarsfieldHomecoming Project Breaking News! 🚨

Just back from a trip to Huy to supervise the beginning of the removal of the 200t. of soil from the part of the site remaining to be explored and I am glad to say that ATECS, the company we contracted to do the work, have done a fantastic job!

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September 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It was great to get to meet Irish Ambassador to France Niall Burgess this morning to brief him on the progress and next steps of the #SarsfieldHomecoming Project… 1/2
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM