Eoin MacWhite

Eoin MacWhite ( born September 7, 1923 in Geneva, † 1972) was an Irish diplomat and prehistorians.

Eoin MacWhite was born in 1923, the son of Irish diplomats Michael MacWhite in Geneva. His father had been appointed after recording the Irish Free State to the League in 1923 as the first permanent representative of Ireland in selbigem.

Also the further life of Eoin MacWhite was marked by the changing diplomatic activities of his father, and the associated relocations. He attended schools in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland. Later he returned with his family to Dublin. Here he began in 1940 his study of Celtic Studies at University College Dublin. In 1943 he received a Bachelor of Arts with honors. The next year, followed by a Master of Arts, he also received with honor. In his master work, MacWhite had engaged in the Late Bronze Age hoards. After the beginning of World War II MacWhite benefited Irish neutrality, as he examined Celtic rock paintings in Spain and Portugal. In 1946, the MacWhite regarded as talented published a paper on Celtic rock carvings in Ireland, where he examined the similarities with those of the Iberian peninsula closer, and his doctoral thesis on the Bronze Age on the Iberian Peninsula.

MacWhite as his father was in the diplomatic service now operates. As ambassador, he represented Ireland later in Australia and the Netherlands. In addition to his diplomatic career, he continued to struggle with academic research; in the 1950s he turned to archeology now to anthropology. In the 1960s, his interest in Russian literature.

Eoin MacWhite died in 1972 at the age of 49 years in a traffic accident.

Publications (selection)

  • The Bronze Socketed Gouge in Ireland, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Seventh Series, Vol 14, No. 3 (Sep. 30 1944), pp. 160-165
  • Irish Bronze Age Trumpets, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol 75, No. 2 (Jun., 1945), pp. 85-106
  • A New View on Irish Bronze Age rock Scribings, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vol 76, No. 2 (Jul., 1946), pp. 59-80
  • On the Interpretation of Archeological Evidence in Historical and Sociological Terms, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1956), pp. 3-25
  • Thomas Moore and Poland, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Vol 72, (1972 ), pp. 49-62
  • Vladimir Pecherin, 1807-1885: The First Chaplain of the Mater Hospital, Dublin, and the First Russian Political Emigré, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol 60, No. 239/240 ( Autumn - Winter, 1971), p.29 ff
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