Living legacy: archaeology and the early modern town
Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group
&
The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
Verbal Arts Centre
Derry-Londonderry
22-25 February 2013
The year 2013 sees the City of Derry-Londonderry marking its status as the UK City of Culture. As
part of the celebrations, the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Irish Post-Medieval
Archaeology Group are hosting a joint conference at the Verbal Arts Centre within the historic walls
of the City. The conference is intended to situate the 1613 granting of the City’s town charter within
its broader historical context, while also considering the ways in which the early modern urban
fabric continues to shape contemporary lives. The conference will feature a series of public
workshops, a guided tour of the City walls, field trips to nearby archaeological sites, and an academic
paper programme, addressing aspects of the evolution, character, and continuing legacy of
sixteenth- through eighteenth-century urbanisation within and well beyond Ireland and Britain.
www.spma.org.uk and http://www.science.ulster.ac.uk/crg/ipmag/
FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY Verbal Arts Centre
Workshops (2-5PM)
 Archaeology in the classroom (Mary Sleeman)
 Buildings and how to read them (Chris King)
 Learn your pottery (Nick Brannon)
Evening Civic Reception, Tower Museum
5:30PM Welcome from the Societies
5:45PM Keynote Address: Ruairí Ó Baoill, The Post-Medieval Archaeology of Derry/Londonderry
6:45PM Wine Reception
SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY Verbal Arts Centre
8.30 Registration
8.55 Welcome
Session One: Emerging Urbanism
9:00AM Audrey Horning If you build it, will they come? Exploring the early modern town
9:30AM Philip Macdonald What came before: Finding medieval Belfast
10:00AM Deirdre O’Sullivan Brimful of Ashlar? Old place and new spaces in 16C England
10:30AM Coffee break
11:00AM Paul Logue Dunnalong, Dowcra, and Derry
11.30PM Brendan Scott The port of Londonderry
12:00PM Nick Brannon Phoenix from the Flames: the archaeology of Coleraine
12.30PM Discussion
1:00PM Lunch
Afternoon Field Trips: Museum of Free Derry; St Columb’s Cathedral; Walking tour of the City Walls
Evening wine reception and Conference dinner, Custom House
SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY Verbal Arts Centre
Session Two: Life in Towns Part 1
9.30AM Colin Rynne Urban forms and the commonwealth on Richard Boyle’s Munster estates
10.00AM Mairtin D’Alton Londonderry in the Midlands
10.30AM Tracy Collins Limerick: A Tale of Three Cities
11.00AM Coffee
11.30AM Brent Fortenberry St George’s: Atlantic town on the edge of collapse
12.00PM Kieran McCarthy: Venice of the North: Constructing Memory & Landscape in an 18C Irish City
12.30PM Discussion
1.00PM Lunch
Session Two: Life in Towns Part 2
2.00PM Brooklynn Fothergill: Providing ‘Pullen’ to the Public: Poulterers in post-medieval cities
2.30PM Gavin Hughes: 'Walking the streets of Strabane and lounging in the Mess room...'
Irish towns and the United Irish campaign of 1798: military influences on social transitions
3.00PM Harold Mytum: From burial crisis to body snatching
3.30PM Discussion
Session Three: Early modern towns in the present
4.00PM Franc Myles: Oh yous are all nicely shanghaied now! Moore Street, Dublin: the archaeology of
urban conflict from the Easter Rising to the aftermath of the Crash
4.30PM Emma Dwyer: Living in the Past? Contemporary life in 19th and 20th-century Housing
5.00PM James Dixon: Public Art and Early Modern Towns
5.30PM Discussion
6:30PM IPMAG AGM (Tower Hotel)
MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY: Coach tour of selected post-medieval sites in the Derry/Londonderry vicinity:
Culmore, Dunnalong, Mountcastle, Dungiven, Roe Valley, Magilligan Martello tower, Walworth.
BOOKING FORM
Living legacy: archaeology and the early modern town
Derry-Londonderry 22-25 February
To register, please provide the information below and indicate whether or not you wish to
join us on the tours and the conference dinner- places are limited!
PLEASE SEND TO PROFESSOR AUDREY HORNING, SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY,
ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEOECOLOGY, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, BELFAST, BT7 1NN
Or email to a.horning@qub.ac.uk
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□Conference registration IPMAG/SPMA member rate €40/ £33
□Conference registration Non-member rate: €65/ £52
□Museum of Free Derry entry (€2.40; £2)
□Conference Dinner (€24; £20)
□Monday coach tour (€12; £10) (limited seats, book early)
Want to join IPMAG or SPMA?
□IPMAG: Annual membership €20 or £17
□SPMA :
Ordinary members (25 years and older) £27
Joint members (25 years and older) £32
Young person (under 25 years old or full time students) £15
All conference and membership fees payable on arrival at conference