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Provisional Conference Programme 26th - 29th June 2008
FRIDAY 27th JUNE
| Session A (206) |
Session B (207) |
| 10.00 am D. Blair Gibson (Los Angeles) Celtic democracy: appreciating the role played by alliances and elections in Celtic political systems |
10.00 am Máirín Mac Carron (Cork) Bede, Patrick and the Virgin Martyrs: a study of female sanctity in the early Insular Church |
| 11:00 Tea/Coffee – G10 |
| Session A (206) |
Session B (207) |
| 11:30 am Nicholas Evans (Glasgow) The Strathearn environs and Royal Forteviot Project: the historical context and potential European significance of a Scottish royal centre and its hinterland |
11:30 am Katja Ritari (Helsinki) Good and bad deaths and the posthumous destinies of souls in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae |
| 12.30 pm Lunch (Fennesseys) |
| Session A (206) |
Session B (207) |
| 2:00 pm Michael Gibbons (Clifden) The impact of World Heritage Status on Skellig Michael: authenticity versus visualisation |
2:00 pm Áine Foley (Dublin) Royal manors in the Dublin hinterland |
| 3.30 pm Tea/Coffee (G10) |
| Session A (206) |
Session B (207) |
| 4.00 pm Dianne Hall (Melbourne) “Discomfited and outdone: women’s violence in late medieval Ireland |
4:00 pm Sarah Thomas (Glasgow) The most attractive church in the Hebrides? The late medieval church and parish of Kilchoman on Islay |
| 4.30 pm Colmán Etchingham (Maynooth) Anti-nativism and related matters: the heiress in Irish law and a witness from 5th C BC Crete |
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| 5.30 pm Recess |
| 7:30 pm Séan-Nós dancing for the uninitiated, Halla MIC |
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