Modern and celebrated Georgian Dublin has accreted around a smaller slimmer Medieval skeleton. But if you want to know why Dublin is like it is today, you must first look to its medieval origins. This FREE seminar would seem an excellent way to open the door to that past landscape - no advanced booking required,
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Admission free. All welcome.
Click here for a printable PDF version of the symposium poster.
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| Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037),Arts BuildingTrinity College, Dublin
Saturday 19 May 2012 |
| 09.30 | Registration and opening remarks
Seán Duffy |
| 09.40 | The archaeology of the priory of All Hallows and Trinity College Dublin: recent discoveries at Front SquareLinzi Simpson |
| 10.30 | Orator/spokesman/lawspeaker? The airlabraid of Dublin in the tenth century
Denis Casey |
| 11.10 | Tea & coffee |
| 11.30 | James Yonge and the writing of history in late medieval Dublin
Caoimhe Whelan |
| 12.10 | How Dublin remembered the Battle of ClontarfLenore Fischer |
| 12.50 | Lunch |
| 14.00 | Battle-wounds, murder and death in early medieval Swords: evidence from archaeological excavations at Mount Gamble
Edmond O’Donovan |
| 14.40 | The Dublin Vikings and the Clann Cholmáin kings of Southern Uí NéillEoin O’Flynn |
| 15.20 | Tea & coffee |
| 15.40 | ‘A screpul from every moneyer’: interpreting coin finds from early medieval Dublin
Andy Woods |
| 16.20 |
“But what about the earlier city?” – John Rocque’s Exact Survey (1756) as a source for medieval Dublin John Montague
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NO ADVANCE REGISTRATION OR BOOKING REQUIRED
For further information, contact Professor Seán Duffy:
sduffy@tcd.ie or telephone (01) 896 1791.
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Details of last year's: Medieval Dublin Symposium 2011
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