Irish
Medievalist
Conference

Old Irish
Summer School

Old Norse

Irish Conference of medievalists

Provisional Conference Programme 26th - 29th June 2008

THURSDAY 26th JUNE

12.00 pm Registration
1.45 pm Conference opens in Rm 206

Session A (206)

Session B (207)
2.00 pm Kimberley Thounhurst (Cork) ‘Seldom-seen and lesser-known’ cross sculpture of Tipperary and Waterford: context, function and distribution of the neglected minor carvings 2:00 pm Catherine Swift (Limerick) St Columbanus and an Irish solution to the French problem of Easter
3:00 pm Brian Hodkinson (Limerick) Hlymrek and the Old Norse origins of Limerick 3:00 pm Jenifer Ní Ghradaigh (Cork) Drawing in ashes; creating/consecrating an early Irish church
3.30 pm Tea/Coffee in G10 (ground floor)

Session A (206)

Session B (207)
4.00 pm  Pádraic Moran (Cambridge) The cult of St Féíchín in Connemara   4.00 pm Joseph Flahive (Cork)  Ó Cleirigh's Treatment of his Sources
4:30 pm David Woods (Cork) St Columba, Silnán and the “male bovine” 4:30 pm Colmán Etchingham (Maynooth) Two notes on Vikings
5:00 pm Paul Gosling (Galway) St. Brigid and the Sick - some topographical evidence from the West of Ireland

 

5.30 pm Wine Reception in G10

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