Conference programme
Friday, 12th of June
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
3.00 - 3.10
Welcome
President and conference organisers
3.10 - 3.45
John Waddell
Rathcroghan: the ‘royal site’
(Dept of Archaeology, NUIG)
3.45 - 4.15
Joe Fenwick
Rathcroghan: the anatomy of a mound
(Dept of Archaeology, NUIG)
4.15 - 4.45
Brian Shanahan & Niall Brady
(Discovery Programme)
5.00
Investigating ‘royal’ sites in Connacht: recent work by
the Discovery Programme at Carnfree and Rathcroghan
Launch of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon: archaeological and geophysical survey in a ritual
landscape by J. Waddell, J. Fenwick and K. Barton
Wine Reception
Saturday, 13th of June
Venue: Moore Institute, NUI Galway
9.30
The Tara Landscape: an iconography
Conor Newman
(Dept of Archaeology, NUIG)
10.00
Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
The Tara Landscape in early literary texts
(Dept of Medieval Irish &
Celtic Studies, NUI Maynooth)
10.30
Marion Deane
(Independent scholar)
11.00
Tea/Coffee
11.20
Charlie Doherty
From sacred marriage to clientship: a mythical account of
the establishment of kingship as an institution
Early Irish kingship: international analogies
(School of History & Archives, UCD)
11.50
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Ethno-history of a Himalayan sacred site of royalty
(Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Villejuif, France)
12.30
Roseanne Schot
(Research Fellow,
Dept of Archaeology, NUIG)
The Sacred Centre: monuments, myths and other revelations
at Uisneach
1.00
Buffet Lunch
2.00
Edel Bhreathnach
Cashel: from prehistoric fortress to twelfth-century cathedral
(Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD)
2.30
Ann Dooley
Bardic poetry and the inventing of the sacred space
(Centre for Medieval Studies,
St. Micheal’s College, Toronto)
3.00
Elizabeth FitzPatrick,
Eileen Murphy & Ronan McHugh
Evoking the white mare: the cult landscape of Cornashee
and its medieval perception
(Dept of Archaeology, NUIG
& School of Geography, Archaeology
and Palaeoecology, QUB)
3.30
Tea/Coffee
3.50
Steve Driscoll
Investigating the Pictish royal palace at Forteviot
(Dept of Archaeology,
University of Glasgow)
4.20
Alain Stoclet
(Centre de Recherche: Histoire
et Archéologie, Université de Lyon II)
4.50
The ruler as the Master of the Waters: some definitive royal
acts in 7th and 8th century Europe
Discussion
Conference Dinner – Claregalway Castle
Sunday, 14th of June
9.30
Depart from Galway – Fieldtrip to Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon
1.30
Lunch at Crúachan Aí Heritage Centre, Tulsk, followed by a series of short papers:
2.15
Cathy Swift
(Dept of Irish Studies,
University of Limerick)
2.30
Kay Muhr
Bull-rulers and Calf-lords: symbolic versus practical
landscape usage
Placenames and the understanding of monuments
(Northern Ireland Place-Name
Project, QUB)
2.45
Ger Dowling
Multiplying the boundary: an intensification of sacred space?
(Research Fellow,
Dept of Archaeology, NUIG)
3.00
Robert Shaw & Anthony Corns
Remote sensing at Tara: recent geophysics & LiDAR
(Discovery Programme)
3.15
Brian Lacey
Cruachan Dromma Lighean and other forgotten royal sites
(Discovery Programme)
3.30
Open Discussion
4.30
Depart from Tulsk (Return to Galway at 6.00pm)
Department of Archaeology
NUI, Galway
Millennium Fund,
NUI, Galway
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute,
University College Dublin
The Discovery Programme,
63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2