Medieval History
THE EARLIEST STRATA
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EARLY MEDIEVAL TOPONYMY OF
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
An Dara Comhdháil Idirnáisiúnta ar Logainmníocht Luathmheánaoiseach
na hÉireann agus na hAlban
An Dàrna Co-labhairt Eadar-nàiseanta mu Ainmean-Àite na h-Èirinn is
na h-Alba aig toiseach nam Meadhan Aoisean
12th / 13th / 14th November 2009
School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Drama and Film Centre, Auditorium 2,
20 University Square, Belfast
Organised by Paul Tempan (QUB), Kelly Kilpatrick (Oxford),
Liam Ó hAisibéil (NUIG), Peter McNiven (Glasgow) & Judyta Szacillo (QUB)
and the School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Queen?s University, Belfast
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER
09.00 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
09.30-10.10 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Keynote paper, ?The Earliest Irish
Place-names ? Status Quaestionis?
10.15-10.55 Catherine Swift: ?Church names and their significance
for the cult of Patrick?
11.00-11.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
11.20-12.00 Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Ireland
12.05-12.45 Kelly Kilpatrick: ?Place-names in a Hagiographic
Tradition of St Brigit of Kildare: Analysis of Vita Prima and Bethu
Brigte?
12.45-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.40 Thomas Owen Clancy: Keynote paper, ?The Place-Names
of the Earliest Scottish Records?
14.45-15.25 Jacob King: ?A Lost Aber- Name in Speyside?
15.30-15.50 BREAK: Tea and coffee
15.50-16.30 Peter McNiven: ?P-Celtic place-names in Menteith:
British or Pictish??
16.35-17.15 Guto Rhys: ?Towards a phonology of ?Pictish??
20:00 Public Lecture
Venue: PFC G06 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: ?John O Donovan ? ?most able
and judicious Irish scholar and topographer??
FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER
09.30-10.10 Richard Coates: ?Men from the East, names in the
West: an approach to some problematic island-names of Ireland and
Britain?
10.15-10.55 Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Scotland
11.00-11.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
11.20-12.00 Aengus Finnegan: ?The Placenames of Bruidhean Da
Choga, some possible identifications?
12.05-12.45 Paul Tempan: ?Carbad in Irish place-names: chariot or
boulder??
12.50-13.30 Stephen Digney: ?Iudeu and Stirling: a possible example
of place name change?
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.10 Richard Warner: ?Ptolemy's Ireland - observations
from an archaeologist?
15.15-15.55 Grigory Bondarenko: ?Goidelic hydronyms in Ptolemy?s
Geography: Myth behind the name?
16.00-16.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
16.20-17.00 Emma Nic Cárthaigh: ?Difficulties determining early
medieval Irish tribal boundaries: Dál, Dealbhna, Déise?
17.05-17.45 Liam Ó hAisibéil: ?The Boldly Odd Hills of Northern Roscommon?
17.50-18.20 CLOSURE
Time TBC Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 14th NOVEMBER
9.30 Meet at DFC for excursion to Emain Macha / Navan Fort and
Armagh City (with optional extension to visit royal site of Clogher
after lunch). Guided by Kay Muhr and Richard Warner. Returning to
Belfast at 15:30, or 18:00 for those continuing to Clogher.
For further information, contact Paul Tempan, (028) 90973890,
[email protected] or Clare Marks, Secretary, Irish and Celtic
Studies, (028) 90975366, [email protected]
- Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture
On Monday 9th May, Prof. Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus Professor of Celtic, University of Oxford, will deliver the 2011 Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture on: 'St Patrick and the Landscape of Early Christian Ireland'Lives of St Patrick, from the...
- Medieval Furness: Texts And Contexts
Dr Fiona Edmonds writes: I am writing to tell you about the AHRC-funded project ?Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and Insular Politics? and the associated conference ?Medieval Furness: Texts and Contexts?, which will take place on 8th...
- Public Lecture In Asnc
On Thursday 2nd December, at 5pm, Professor Liam Breatnach, of the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, will deliver the 2010 E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture, in room GR.06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road,...
- 15th Oxford-cambridge Celtic Colloquium
Ronni Phillips writes: The Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium took place last Saturday, 22nd May. It was held in the Old Music Room at St John?s College, Cambridge, with a dinner afterwards in the Upper Hall, Peterhouse. The Colloquium is a conference...
- Lecture On ?place Names And Saints? Cults: A Window On Medieval Scotland? To Be Given In Derry
In celebration of Colmcille Day, the Northern Ireland city of Derry is hosting a lecture by Gilbert Markus on ?Place Names and Saints? Cults: a window on medieval Scotland.? The lecture takes place today at the Tower Museum and is organised by Derry City...
Medieval History
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EARLY MEDIEVAL TOPONYMY OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
THE EARLIEST STRATA
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EARLY MEDIEVAL TOPONYMY OF
IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
An Dara Comhdháil Idirnáisiúnta ar Logainmníocht Luathmheánaoiseach
na hÉireann agus na hAlban
An Dàrna Co-labhairt Eadar-nàiseanta mu Ainmean-Àite na h-Èirinn is
na h-Alba aig toiseach nam Meadhan Aoisean
12th / 13th / 14th November 2009
School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Drama and Film Centre, Auditorium 2,
20 University Square, Belfast
Organised by Paul Tempan (QUB), Kelly Kilpatrick (Oxford),
Liam Ó hAisibéil (NUIG), Peter McNiven (Glasgow) & Judyta Szacillo (QUB)
and the School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Queen?s University, Belfast
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER
09.00 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
09.30-10.10 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Keynote paper, ?The Earliest Irish
Place-names ? Status Quaestionis?
10.15-10.55 Catherine Swift: ?Church names and their significance
for the cult of Patrick?
11.00-11.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
11.20-12.00 Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Ireland
12.05-12.45 Kelly Kilpatrick: ?Place-names in a Hagiographic
Tradition of St Brigit of Kildare: Analysis of Vita Prima and Bethu
Brigte?
12.45-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.40 Thomas Owen Clancy: Keynote paper, ?The Place-Names
of the Earliest Scottish Records?
14.45-15.25 Jacob King: ?A Lost Aber- Name in Speyside?
15.30-15.50 BREAK: Tea and coffee
15.50-16.30 Peter McNiven: ?P-Celtic place-names in Menteith:
British or Pictish??
16.35-17.15 Guto Rhys: ?Towards a phonology of ?Pictish??
20:00 Public Lecture
Venue: PFC G06 Nollaig Ó Muraíle: ?John O Donovan ? ?most able
and judicious Irish scholar and topographer??
FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER
09.30-10.10 Richard Coates: ?Men from the East, names in the
West: an approach to some problematic island-names of Ireland and
Britain?
10.15-10.55 Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Scotland
11.00-11.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
11.20-12.00 Aengus Finnegan: ?The Placenames of Bruidhean Da
Choga, some possible identifications?
12.05-12.45 Paul Tempan: ?Carbad in Irish place-names: chariot or
boulder??
12.50-13.30 Stephen Digney: ?Iudeu and Stirling: a possible example
of place name change?
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.10 Richard Warner: ?Ptolemy's Ireland - observations
from an archaeologist?
15.15-15.55 Grigory Bondarenko: ?Goidelic hydronyms in Ptolemy?s
Geography: Myth behind the name?
16.00-16.20 BREAK: Tea and coffee
16.20-17.00 Emma Nic Cárthaigh: ?Difficulties determining early
medieval Irish tribal boundaries: Dál, Dealbhna, Déise?
17.05-17.45 Liam Ó hAisibéil: ?The Boldly Odd Hills of Northern Roscommon?
17.50-18.20 CLOSURE
Time TBC Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 14th NOVEMBER
9.30 Meet at DFC for excursion to Emain Macha / Navan Fort and
Armagh City (with optional extension to visit royal site of Clogher
after lunch). Guided by Kay Muhr and Richard Warner. Returning to
Belfast at 15:30, or 18:00 for those continuing to Clogher.
For further information, contact Paul Tempan, (028) 90973890,
[email protected] or Clare Marks, Secretary, Irish and Celtic
Studies, (028) 90975366, [email protected]
- Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture
On Monday 9th May, Prof. Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus Professor of Celtic, University of Oxford, will deliver the 2011 Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture on: 'St Patrick and the Landscape of Early Christian Ireland'Lives of St Patrick, from the...
- Medieval Furness: Texts And Contexts
Dr Fiona Edmonds writes: I am writing to tell you about the AHRC-funded project ?Hagiography at the Frontiers: Jocelin of Furness and Insular Politics? and the associated conference ?Medieval Furness: Texts and Contexts?, which will take place on 8th...
- Public Lecture In Asnc
On Thursday 2nd December, at 5pm, Professor Liam Breatnach, of the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland, will deliver the 2010 E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture, in room GR.06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road,...
- 15th Oxford-cambridge Celtic Colloquium
Ronni Phillips writes: The Oxford-Cambridge Celtic Colloquium took place last Saturday, 22nd May. It was held in the Old Music Room at St John?s College, Cambridge, with a dinner afterwards in the Upper Hall, Peterhouse. The Colloquium is a conference...
- Lecture On ?place Names And Saints? Cults: A Window On Medieval Scotland? To Be Given In Derry
In celebration of Colmcille Day, the Northern Ireland city of Derry is hosting a lecture by Gilbert Markus on ?Place Names and Saints? Cults: a window on medieval Scotland.? The lecture takes place today at the Tower Museum and is organised by Derry City...