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Celebrating medieval Limerick and its people: International conference on King’s Island 28 th – 31 st October 2019, discussing the Black Book of Limerick and the evidence it provides for the people living in the frontier city Further details: https://medievalhistoryfestivallimerick.home.blog/ EMAIL: [email protected] & Twitter: Limerick Fair@martinmasf. Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society
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Celebrating medieval Limerick and its
people:
International conference on King’s Island 28th – 31st October 2019, discussing
the Black Book of Limerick and the evidence it provides for the people living
in the frontier city
Further details: https://medievalhistoryfestivallimerick.home.blog/
EMAIL: [email protected] & Twitter: Limerick Fair@martinmasf.
Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society
St Martin’s Fair: A conference on Medieval Limerick and its
International Connections. 28th-31st October 2019
28th October – evening @ ST MUNCHINS / CIVIC TRUST
Welcome by Councillor Michael Sheahan, Mayor of the City and County of Limerick and by Honorary Consul of France for the Midwest, Dr Loïc Guyon.
Her Excellency Else Berit Eikeland, Ambassador of Norway to Ireland: Mixed Irish/Norse
identity 7:00 - 7:30
Mr Gary McMahon (Ilen): Limerick to Greenland - Salmons Wake and sailing routes 7:30 - 8:30
Professor Howard Clarke (UCD): Limerick port in its medieval Irish context 8:30 - 9:00
Dr Billy McGlynn (Dingle): St Martin’s Fair 9:00 - 9:30
29th October – morning @ ST MUNCHINS / CIVIC TRUST
Mr Paddy Bushe (Iveragh): Port of entry: Inbhear Scéine and migration in An Leabhar Gabhála
9:00-9:30
Professor Liv Helga Domaesnes (Bergen): Farms, women and settlements in Norway 9:30-10:00
Professor Judith Jesch: Landnámabók and Hlymrekr 10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 break
Professor Dauvit Broun (Glasgow): Latin charters as evidence for the use of Gaelic in Scotland 1100-
1250 11:00-11:45
Mr Markus Mayer (Berlin): Rural-Urban Migration in 13th and 14th century continental Europe. Importance and Problems 11:45-12:15
LUNCH 12:15 - 1:30
29th October – afternoon @ ST MUNCHINS / CIVIC TRUST
Professor Peter Fleming (University of West of England): 12th and 13th C Bristol and Limerick
1:30-2:15
Dr Adrian Empey: The evolution of a seigniorial capital: Kilkenny Hightown 1175-1225 2:15-2:50
Tour of King John’s Castle led by Mr Dan Tietsch Tyler (Limerick) 3:00pm
Reception @ King John’s Castle 4:15pm
29th October – evening @ CURRAGHGOUR BOAT CLUB
Dag Inge Bjørkedal, Ottar Bjørkedal, Jakob Bjørkedal and Jørn Olav Løset (Bjørkedalsbåt AS): Building Viking ship replicas – the experience of the Myklebus ship 7:30pm
30th October – early morning @ ABSOLUTE HOTEL
Ms Lenore Fischer (Cologne): Literary evidence for 12th & 13th C O’Brien kings 9:00-9:30
Dr Maurice Gleeson (London): The Black Book, DNA & the O’Malleys of Limerick 9:30-10:00
Dr Joseph Flahive (RIA): The Normanisation of Hiberno-Latin 10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 break
30th October – late morning @ ST MARY’s CATHEDRAL
Dr Joanna Tucker (Glasgow): The nature of medieval cartularies – the Scottish evidence 11:30-12:15
Professor Pádraig Ó Macháin (UCC): The materials and make-up of the Black Book of Limerick
12:15-1:00
LUNCH: 1:00-2:15
30th October – afternoon @ ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL
Professor Alf Tore Hommedal (Bergen): Monks, nuns, canons and friars in medieval Norway
2:15-2:45
Dr Tracy Collins (Aegis Archaeology): Medieval female religious in Limerick and elsewhere 2:45-3:15
3:15 – 3:45 break
Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal): Friars, Frankhouses and Lusty Widows: Male Monasticism in Medieval Limerick 3:45-4:15
Dr Griffin Murray (UCC): Changes in Irish church metalwork during the twelfth century: the evidence of croziers 4:15-4:45
30th October – evening @ ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL
Cantoral, Irish World Academy Vocal Ensemble (Artistic Director, Catherine Sergent) 8:00pm
31st October – morning @ ISTABRAQ HALL, Corporate Headquarters, LIMERICK CITY AND COUNTY
COUNCIL OFFICES, MERCHANT’S QUAY
Dr Margaret Murphy (Carlow): Welsh and English women in early Norman Ireland 9:30-10:00
Mr Tony Candon (Castlebar): Migrant women and the Banshenchas: where are they? 10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 break
Professor Marie Therese Flanagan (Queen’s University Belfast): Cross-cultural marriage in 12th C
Ireland – the case of Aífe and Strongbow 11:00-12:00
Áine Foley (University of Liverpool) - Robert Bagod and the office of sheriff in thirteenth century
Limerick 12:-12: 30
Tomás O’Sullivan – Papal law and canon lawyers 12:30– 1:00
Building Viking ship replicas – the
experience of the Myklebus ship
Hosted by the Curraghgour Boat Club
29th October 7:30 pm
The shipwrights in Bjørkedalsbåt are Jakob Helset, Dag Inge Bjørkedal, maritime
engineer Saxe Bjørkedal, Ottar K. Bjørkedal, Erlend Helset, Ola Følsvik, Jakob S.
Bjørkedal. (Photo by Jørn Løset.)
