1 Medieval Dublin Xvii (2015)

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN SYMPOSIA LIST OF SPEAKERS & PAPERS

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XVII (2015)

Bernard Meehan – The return of St Mary’s Abbey manuscript to Dublin after 400 years Gabriel Cooney – Rediscovering the Columban legacy of Lambay Paul Duffy – The church of Bearach, the grange of Baldoyle and the town of the dark stranger: excavations in suburban Dublin Brian Coleman – Urban gentry: the county and civic elite of later medieval Dublin Catherine Swift – Ireland, Saracens and the chanson de geste of Brian Boru? Daniel Brown – Civil disobedience: Dublin and the rebellion of Hugh II de Lacy, 122304 Caoimhe Whelan - Giants, dragons and magic: Sir Tristrem’s adventures in medieval Dublin Mark Moraghan – Excavations at Swords Castle gatehouse: bodies and buildings

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XVI – CLONTARF 1014-2014 (2014)

Donnchadh Ó Corráin – Ireland in 1014: the great of church and state Colmán Etchingham – Irish politics in the late Viking Age Bart Jaski – The (legendary) rise of Dál Cais Catherine Swift – The unique nature of Dál Cais DNA Edel Bhreathnach – Brian and the kings of Leinster Eoin O’Flynn – Brian and the Uí Néill kingship of Tara Denis Casey – Brian, Armagh and the Irish church Linzi Simpson – The archaeology of Brian Boru Seán Duffy – What actually happened at the Battle of Clontarf? Máire Ní Mhaonaigh – The wider world of learning: the making of Clontarf Clare Downham – Scandinavian kingship and the Battle of Clontarf Andrew Halpin – Clontarf – the archaeological evidence Paul McCotter – Meic Briain and Uí Briain Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail – Brian Bóraimhe and the Battle of Clontarf in later Irish tradition Alex Woolf – The Hiberno-Scandinavians after Brian Marie Therese Flanagan – The high-kingship after Brian

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XV (2013)

Patrick F. Wallace – The importance of women in measuring the Irishness of Viking Dublin Ian Riddler – Dublin and the Late Roman Comb Matthew Stout – The rocky road(s) to Dublin? Lenore Fischer – What the Vikings really thought of Clontarf, and why we never heard it: a speculation Geraldine Stout – Farm fresh: St Mary’s abbey medieval food suppliers Alan Hayden – A rising tide does not lift all boats: medieval settlement in Temple Bar, Dublin Paul MacCotter – The church lands of the medieval diocese of Dublin Rebecca Boyd – Life in the big city: being at home in Viking Dublin

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XIV (2012) Linzi Simpson – The archaeology of the priory of All Hollows and Trinity College Dublin: recent discoveries at Front Square Denis Casey – Orator/spokesman/lawspeaker? The airlabraid of Dublin in the tenth century Caoimhe Whelan – James Yonge and the writing of history in late medieval Dublin Lenore Fischer – How Dublin remembered the Battle of Clontarf Edmond O’Donovan – Battle-wounds, murder and death in early medieval Swords: evidence from archaeological excavations at Mount Gamble Eoin O’Flynn – The Dublin Vikings and the Clann Cholmáin kings of Southern Uí Néill Andy Woods – ‘A screpul from every moneyer’: interpreting coin finds from early medieval Dublin John Montague – ‘But what about the earlier city?’ – John Rocque’s Exact Survey (1756) as a source for medieval Dublin

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XIII (2011)

Mark Clinton & Eamonn P. Kelly – The discovery of the longphort at Linn Duachaill: implications for Dublin Ellen O’Flaherty – Trinity College Library: manuscript sources for the history of medieval Dublin Judith Carroll – Excavations at nos. 63-63 and 59 Thomas Street/Vicar Street, Dublin 8 Grace O’Keeffe – Mayors, merchants and maidens: the men and women of Bristol in medieval Dublin Geraldine Stout – St Mary’s abbey and precinct, Dublin Alan Hayden – Rivers and industry: the archaeology of the Coombe bypass/Cork St. realignment Áine Foley – The sheriffs of the medieval county of Dublin Claire Walsh – Dublin’s oldest industrial site? The excavation of a Hiberno-Norse milling complex at Chapelizod

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XII (2010)

Maeve Sikora – Recent excavations of a Viking burial at the War Memorial Gardens, Islandbridge Stuart Kinsella – The pencillings and antiquarian rambles of a Fingalian: John S. Sloane and the Victorian historiography of medieval Dublin Dermot McGuinne – Printing in Dublin – the first 60 years Clare Downham – The kings of Dublin and the kings of Leinster Lorcan Harney, Jonathan Kinsella & Aidan O’Sullivan – The Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP): some observations on early medieval archaeological excavations in the Dublin region: 1930-2009 Bernadette Williams – The Dominicans and medieval Dublin – the sources re-examined Colm Moriarty – The Norsesiders – excavations of a Viking house at Hammond Lane Phase 3 Niall Ó hOisín and Breffni O’Malley – Public viewing of DVD Medieval Dublin – From Vikings to Tudors Volume II

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XI (2009)

Linzi Simpson – ‘Forty years a-digging’ revisited – after ten years Claire Walsh – Urban plot development: excavations at nos. 118-124 the Coombe Michael O’Neill – Christ Church cathedral & the tale of two cloisters Sparky Booker – Two nations? Gaelicization and cultural exchange in late medieval Dublin and the Pale Colm Moriarty – Excavations at Portmarnock: from early medieval enclosure to late medieval vill Edel Bhreathnach – Dublin in the dynastich poetry of 11th- and 12th-century Leinster Teresa Bolger – Adventures in the Pill: early waterfront structures at Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin Niall McCullough – The Third Dimension: relationships between architecture, urban design and archaeology in Modern Dublin

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN X (2008)

Sinéad Phelan – The bank, the ditch, and the water: Hiberno-Norse evidence from Hammond Lane Phase 2 Grace O’Keeffe – Prosopography and philanthropy: a study of the benefactors of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Dublin Kevin Lohan – A pre-Viking riverside revetment at Islandbridge: excavations on the site of Clancy Barracks Áine Foley – The Tyrel brothers: outlaws in fourteenth-century Dublin Stephen Harrison – Bridge Street revisited: Viking burial in Dublin and beyond Alan Hayden – ‘Disgusting Street’: a semi-aquatic excavation in medieval Dublin Edmond O’Donovan – Early Christian and medieval excavations at Teach Naithí; the changing morphology of a church site in Dundrum Triona Nicholl – Roskilde to Dublin: the voyage of the Sea Stallion

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN IX (2007)

Colm Lennon – Dublin: the medieval town in the early modern city Franc Myles – A rather large hole in the Liberties: the millpond, watercourses and seventeenth-century defences along Ardee Street, Dublin Peter Crooks – Negotiating authority in a colonial capital: Dublin and the Windsor crisis, 1369-79 Colmán Ó Clabaigh – Hermits and anchorites in medieval Dublin Peter Harbison – Two centuries of illustrations of St Doulagh’s medieval church, Co. Dublin Bernadette Williams – The lost coronation oath of King Edward I: rediscovered in a Dublin manuscript? Giles Dawkes – Excavations at May Lane and Church Street, Dublin: St Michan’s Church enclosure and two medieval timber-framed buildings Breffni O’Malley & Niall Ó hOisín – A pilot demonstration of Medieval Dublin: From Vikings to Tudors, an interactive DVD for schools commissioned by Dublin City Council

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN VIII (2006)

Edmond O’Donovan – The Irish, the Vikings, and the English: new archaeological evidence from excavations at Golden Lane Dublin

Roseanne Meenan – Archaeological investigations at 23-27 Stephen’s Street Lower, Dublin Bernadette Cunningham – Dublin in the late medieval Irish annals Alan J. Fletcher – The annals and chronicles of medieval Dublin: an overview Raymond Gillespie – Dublin’s image of itself: the city chronicle Nessa Walsh – Pre-Romanesque churches in Dublin and its hinterland: the ‘Golden Ratio’ Claire Walsh – The early road to Duiblinn: excavations at Golden Lane/Chancery Lane R. Andrew McDonald – The English conquest of Ireland and Dublin-Manx relations

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN VII (2005)

Roger Stalley – The archbishop’s residence at Swords: castle or country retreat? Alan Hayden – A medieval house in the environs of Howth ‘abbey’ Máire Geaney – The roof timbers of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin Charles Lyons – The roof timbers St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin Raghnall Ó Floinn – A late medieval relic-list from Christ Church cathedral Abi Cryerhall – Excavations at Hammond Lane, Dublin: from hurdle ford to iron foundry John Ó Néill – Warriors of Lothland: a ninth-century Norse community in Cherrywood, Co. Dublin – immigrants or asylum seekers David N. Dumville – Wales and the kingdom of Dublin, 1166-75: a decade which changed the world

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN VI (2004)

Linzi Simpson – Ninth-century Viking Dublin: the evidence unfolds Andy Halpin – Development phases in Hiberno-Norse Dublin: a tale of two cities Margaret Murphy & Michael Potterton – Standards of living in the medieval Dublin region – archaeological & documentary approaches Ailbhe MacShamhráin – The Monasticon Hibernicum project: the diocese of Dublin Raymond Refaussé – Medieval manuscripts from Christ Church & their significance Colmán Ó Clabaigh – Liber niger Alan J. Fletcher – Liber albus Colm Lennon – Book of Obits

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN V (2003)

John Ó Néill – Excavations at Longford Street: an archaeological approach to Dubhlinn Michael O’Neill – St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin and its prebendal churches: gothic architectural relationships Rosanne Meenan – Excavations in the vicinity of St Michan’s, Church Street, Dublin Emmett O’Byrne – Cultures in contact along the marches in Dublin Raymond Gillespie – Dublin’s Dick Whittington: a medieval tale and its uses Ben Murtagh – Fortified town=houses in and around late medieval Dublin Pádraig Ó Riain – Dublin’s oldest known book: a calendar of saints ‘made in Germany’ David Newman Johnson – The Constable’s Tower of Swords Castle

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN IV (2002)

Patrick Wallace – Goldwork – a neglected aspect of Viking Dublin

Alan Hayden – Quayside excavations at Arran Quay, Dublin Eileen Reilly – The contribution of insect remains to an understanding of the environment of Viking and medieval Dublin Edmond O’Donovan – The growth and decline of a medieval suburb? Evidence from excavations at 119/121 Thomas Street, Dublin Emer Purcell – Land use in medieval Oxmantown Tim Coughlan – Excavations at the medieval cemetery of St Peter’s church, Dublin Danielle O’Donovan – English patron, English building? The importance of St Sepulchre’s archiepiscopal palace, Dublin Stephen Harrison – Sorting the wheat from the chaff: a smith’s grave from the ‘Viking’ cemetery at Kilmainham, Dublin

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN III (2001)

Alan Hayden – Excavations at Werburgh Street, Dublin Eoin Halpin – Mercer’s Hospital! Wherefore art thou? James Lydon – Dublin Castle and the medieval city Rachel Moss – Tales from the crypt: the medieval stones of Christ Church Georgina Scally – The defences of the walled town in the north-east corner Mary Clark – People, places and parchment: the medieval archives of Dublin City Roseanne Meenan – Excavations at Cook Street, Dublin Ruth Johnson – Domestic art in Viking-Age Dublin

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN II (2000)

MEDIEVAL DUBLIN I (1999)