Biography

The Man From MENSA

By Dr. Bernard Mulholland.

Bernard is a Byzantinist, Patristics scholar, archaeologist, and an environmental scientist with a Ph.D. in history from Queen’s University Belfast (2012). View his Academia profile here: https://independent.academia.edu/BernardMulholland

He is also an actor, model, screenwriter, voiceover artist, and also an author who has published both fiction and nonfiction.

Academic Qualifications:

  • 2022 Postgrad certificate in Marketing, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2018 MSc in Management, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2015 Postgraduate certificate in Arts Management, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2014 Postgraduate diploma in Film and Visual Studies, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2012 PhD in History, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2004 MA in Byzantine Archaeology and Text, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2001 MA in Archaeology, Queen’s University Belfast.
  • 2000 BA (first class hons.) in Environmental Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast.

Publications by Dr. Bernard Mulholland

Fiction:

Bernard Mulholland, Nazareth Quest (2022)

Nonfiction:

Bernard Mulholland, The man from MENSA – 1 of 600: Mensa research (2016).

—, The man from MENSA – 1 of the 600: Politics 1990-1995 (2016).

—, Ratio analysis of financial KPI in the Higher Education sector: a case study (2018).

—, Early Byzantine Ireland: a survey of the archaeological evidence (2021).

—, Navan Fort, Ireland: archaeological and palaeoecological analysis (2021).

—, The Early Byzantine Christian Church (Oxford, 2014).

—, ‘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.

Mulholland, B. (2021). ‘Can archaeology inform the climate change debate?’ Academia Letters, Article4385. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL4385

Academic papers

  • ‘Identification of Early Byzantine Constantinopolitan, Syrian and Roman church plans in the Levant and some possible consequences,’ (session 18) Patristic Studies in the Twenty-first Century: An International Conference to Mark the 50th Anniversary of AIEP/IAPS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem from  25-27 June 2013
  • ‘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, The 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, The 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, The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XIII International Graduate Conference 2013, 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, The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XV 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, The 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.
  • ‘The development of the three-aisled basilica (fifth-seventh centuries) in the archaeological record.’  AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History Graduate Day (11/5/2007), Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast.
  • ‘A sixth-century Byzantine church in Ireland?’  AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History Graduate Day (1/4/2005), Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast.
  • ‘Byzantine Ireland?’ Byzantium in Belfast Seminar Series (16/2/2005)

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