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Conference Programme 26th - 29th June 2008
Summary of papers
| ‘Seldom-seen and lesser-known’ cross sculpture of Tipperary and Waterford: |
Kimberley Thounhurst |
Cork |
| Hlymrek and the Old Norse origins of Limerick |
Brian Hodkinson |
Limerick |
| St Columbanus and an Irish solution to the French problem of Easter |
Catherine Swift |
Limerick |
| Drawing in Ashes; creating/consecrating an early Irish church |
Jenifer Ní Ghradaigh |
Cork |
| The Cult of St Féíchín in Connemara |
Pádraic Moran |
Cambridge |
| St Columba, Silnán and the "male bovine" |
David Woods |
Cork |
| St. Brigid and the Sick - some topographical evidence from the West of Ireland |
Paul Gosling |
Galway |
| Ó Cleirigh's Treatment of his Sources |
Joseph Flahive |
Cork |
| Two notes on Vikings |
Colmán Etchingham |
Maynooth |
| Celtic democracy: appreciating the role played by alliances and elections in Celtic political systems |
D. Blair Gibson |
Los Angeles |
| Bede, Patrick and the Virgin Martyrs: a study of female sanctity in the early Insular Church |
Máirín Mac Carron |
Cork |
| St Michan: Danish, Welsh or Irish? |
Emer Purcell |
Cork |
| Do Druthaib 7 Meraib 7 Dásachtaibh: a composite tract? |
Anna Matheson |
Cambridge |
| In nomine Dei summi: a collection of Hiberno-Latin sermons? |
Tomás O’Sullivan |
St Louis |
| The 684 attack on Brega and its impact on Irish perceptions of the English |
Patrick Wadden |
Oxford |
| Pictish symbols – are they symbols or language? |
Robert Lee |
Manchester |
| Old Irish ‘casal’ and Middle English ‘chesible’ in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing – can Celtic and English co-exist? |
Stuart Rutten |
Manchester |
| Anglo-Norman borrowings into the Irish language |
Olga Karkishchenko |
Moscow |
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