Brigid gallagher biography
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Brigid P. Gallagher
Biography
Brigid aspired to becoming a doctor but it was not her destiny.
Instead, she spent 13 years in the life assurance industry, before following her heart, and training as a natural medicines therapist.
Brigid practiced and taught natural medicines for 20 years, teaching at Stirling University's Open Studies and Summer Schools from 1993 to 1999, setting up the Scottish School of Holistic Healing plus a therapy centre and shop in Stirling, Scotland.
In 1999, she relocated to Donegal, Ireland - the home of her ancestors. Four years later she succumbed to a mystery illness, which was eventually diagnosed as fibromyalgia and possible rheumatoid arthritis.
"Stopping the World," forced Brigid to reassess her life, and thus she began retraining in organic horticulture. She taught this subject in schools until recently.
Creative writing has been an integral part of her self healing regime.
Fun Facts
Hobbies
Gardening, singing, crafting, cooking...Most Exotic Place Visited
BaliFavorite Sport
Walking, swimming, yoga.Mountains or Beach? Why?
Both. I live in an area of outstanding beauty near the sea and mountains.Number of Published Books
OneBook that Changed Your Life
The Artists Way - Julia CameronFavorite Place to Wri
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Brigid Gallagher
Brigid
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Brigid is a strong champion for shut up shop archaeology, e.g.[1].
External Links
Radio Live split up [1]
Manukau Traveler article 2009
References
- ↑Feeling the force; Brigid Gallagher unearths interpretation past. Spanking Zealand True 2011, 109:24-25.
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Feeling the force
Brigid Gallagher unearths the past
Jane Ussher
Ever felt the urge to hunt for treasure in the grounds of Buckingham Palace? Or dreamed of rediscovering a lost medieval priory, or lifting and conserving the earliest evidence of ‘basketry’ in Ireland? Archaeologist Brigid Gallagher, recently back in New Zealand after an 11-year stint in Europe, has done all that and more.
As co-presenter of Britain’s popular Time Team television series for seven years, she was also a member of the various teams of specialists who retrieved Mesolithic fishnets in Ireland and unearthed the Augustinian Priory of St Peter and St Paul at Taunton in southwest England. And she had a hand in excavating a Roman frontier settlement near Hadrian’s Wall and finding evidence of Ogham—an early medieval alphabet—on the Isle of Man. That televised dig in the Queen’s backyard was successful too—among items prised from the ground was a diamond earring.
For a time, Gallagher was lead conservator at the world’s oldest and largest Neolithic site, Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia, Turkey, where archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest mirror and wooden bowl, the first fabric and first evidence of cattle farming.
“At Çatal Hüyük and several other sites, I became a conservatio