Still digging up the past keeping galways history alive

NOT many women plot out their career path in a graveyard but on a damp morning as Helen Bermingham stood beside her local church during a school outing she realised what she wanted to do.
History is one the greatest loves of her life, and listening to an archaeologist talk about his job during that fifth class school trip to a local conservation project was all the inspiration she needed.
While Helen is now responsible for pretty much everything that goes in, out and up in Galway’s museum, she spent many years working as an archaeologist and she is still very much involved in delving into the past.
The property boom of the early noughties also drove up the demand for archaeologists but as construction sites closed, so too did the job doors for hundreds of archaeologists around the country.
However, Helen from Imanemore, Barnaderg had luckily decided to change jobs just before the recession really struck. She first moved from archaeology to the museum world when she got a job with Kerry County Museum. In 2007 she returned to Co Galway where she nows works as Documentation Officer with Galway City Museum.

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