Bernard Mulholland is an author from Northern Ireland. He is also a historian, archaeologist and Byzantinist (Eastern Roman Empire) with a Doctorate in History and a Masters in Management from Queen’s University Belfast.

Bernard wanted to take his research to a new audience, and the result is his novel Nazareth Quest, which is a tense thriller set in Israel. The November issue of Mensa Magazine has a really great review of the new novel: Nazareth Quest, which may be available for $0.00 on Kindle Unlimited, or to buy from only $9.99. Nazareth Quest arguably combines the best of the CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) franchise together with archaeology.

Available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B92V9VYF

Also authored by Dr. Mulholland is The Man From Mensa (two volumes) which is a history of the high-IQ society MENSA, which was founded in Oxford during 1946. During May 2023 Irish Mensa will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in Belfast.

Bernard Mulholland, The man from MENSA - 1 of 600: Mensa research (Charleston, 2016).
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--- , The man from MENSA - 1 of the 600: Politics 1990-1995 (Charleston, 2016).
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And, if you are into higher education, history, archaeology, Ireland and/or the Byzantine Empire the you might like these:
--- , Ratio analysis of financial KPI in the Higher Education sector: a case study (Belfast, 2018).
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---, Early Byzantine Ireland: a survey of the archaeological evidence (Belfast, 2021).
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---, Navan Fort, Ireland: archaeological and palaeoecological analysis (Belfast, 2021).
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Mulholland, B. (2021). 'Can archaeology inform the climate change debate?' Academia Letters, Article4385. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4385

Academic conference papers

-        'Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian, and Roman church plans in the Levant and some possible consequences', Patristic Studies in the twenty-first century: proceedings of an international conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Association of Patristic Studies, ed. Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Theodore de Bruyn and Carol Harrison (Turnhout, 2015), 597-633.

-        ‘Can the location of the baptismal font in relation to other nodes of power in Early Byzantine basilical churches help to reveal the underlying sacred topography?’ Landscapes of power, Oxford University Byzantine Society's XV International Graduate Conference 2013, 22-23 February 2013, History Faculty, University of Oxford.

-        ‘Women in Early Byzantine churches’, Reality and illusion: seeing through the ‘Byzantine image’, Oxford University Byzantine Society's XIV International Graduate Conference 2012, 17-18 February 2012, History Faculty, University of Oxford.

-        ‘The wreathed cross or stephanostaurion on sixth-century marble chancel screens in the Mediterranean region’, Between Constantines: representations and manifestations of an empire, Oxford University Byzantine Society's XIII International Graduate Conference 2011, 4-5 March 2011, History Faculty, University of Oxford.

-        ‘Does archaeological evidence for the location of the diakonikon in the Early Byzantine Church affect our perception of clergy-laity relations?’ Being Byzantine: definitions, limits and realities, Oxford University Byzantine Society's XII International Graduate Conference 2010, 5-6 March 2010, History Faculty, University of Oxford.

-        ‘The quest for C4’. Postgraduate Forum in Byzantine Studies: Sailing to Byzantium (16/5/2008), Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin.

-        ‘Is Schiffer’s Behavioural Archaeology a useful tool for Byzantine archaeologists?’ The archaeology of Byzantium, 41st Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies 4th–6th April 2008, School of history, classics and archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

-        ‘The Macedonian Renaissance in the archaeological record at St. Polyeuktos, Saraçhane, Istanbul (Constantinople)’, Postgraduate Forum in Byzantine Studies: Sailing to Byzantium (18/4/2007), Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin.

Bernard is a member of the International Association of Patristic Studies, the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, the Council for British Archaeology, and has also been a member of both the New York Academy of Sciences and the high-IQ society MENSA for some thirty years.

Dr. Mulholland was elected in April 2016 to the Irish Mensa committee for a two year term. Previously he was a regional organiser for the Mensa Foundation for Gifted Children during the early nineties. Bernard has been the editor and secretary for Poliphony, which is the journal of British Mensa’s politics special interest group, between 1995-96 and then again 2000-05. Bernard founded Mensa’s science interest group and was its secretary and editor of its journal Wissenschaft from 2003-08, and now from October 2022.

As an archaeologist, Bernard has worked professionally in Ireland, and as an academic in Italy and Israel. Interests include travel, especially on overland expeditions throughout Africa, but with ambitions to travel throughout Asia as well, good food, great company, and wildlife.