MEDIEVAL DUBLIN SERIES TABLE OF CONTENTS ALL VOLUMES PUBLISHED THROUGH FOUR COURTS PRESS (WWW.FOURCOURTSPRESS.IE) ALL VOLUMES EDITED BY SEÁN DUFFY (CHAIRMAN OF THE FRIENDS OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN) MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XVI Coming Soon! Special edition – Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: national conference marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, 11–12 April 2014 MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XV (2016) Edmond O’Donovan - Archaeological excavations on Mount Gamble Hill: evidence for a new early medieval church in Swords? Ailbhe MacShamhráin - Swords and district: the political and ecclesiastical background, fifth to twelfth centuries Craig Lyons - Óláfr Cúarán, Sigtryggr Silkbeard and the emergence of the Irish kingdom of Dublin Paul Duffy – The church of Bearach, the grange of Baldoyle and the town of the dark stranger Catherine Swift – Chivalry, Saracens and the chansons de geste of Brian Borus Claire Walsh – Housing in early Anglo-Norman Dublin: evidence from an excavation at Back Lane Daniel J.F. Brown – The archbishop and citizens of Dublin during Hugh de Lacy’s Irish rebellion, 1223–4 Bernard Meehan – A fourteenth-century historical compilation from St Mary’s Cistercian abbey, Dublin James Lydon – Dublin and the Scottish threat, 1315–18 Brian Coleman – Urban Elite: the county and civic elite of later medieval Dublin Dianne Hall – Everyday violence in medieval Dublin MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XIV (2014) Ian Riddler & Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski – Dublin and the Late Roman comb Rebecca Boyd – Life in the big city: being at home in Viking Dublin Gwendolyn Sheldon – The conversion of the Vikings of Dublin Lenore Fischer – What the Vikings really thought about Clontarf: a speculation A.R. Hayden – A rising tide doesn't lift all boats: archaeological excavations at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin Geraldine Stout – St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, and its medieval farm suppliers Linzi Simpson – St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin: the recent discovery of the thirteenth-century south nave wall Charles Smith – Trouble with the archbishops in thirteenth-century Dublin Randolph Jones – Janico Markys, Dublin, and the coronation of 'Edward VI' in 1487 Eoin C. Bairéad – The bailiffs, provosts and sheriffs of the city of Dublin 1 MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XIII (2013) Eoin O’Flynn – The Dublin Vikings and the Clann Cholmáin kings of the Southern Uí Néill Denis Casey – Norse, Gaelic or Hiberno-Scandinavian? The airlabraid of tenth-century Dublin Andrew Woods – The coinage and economy of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin Leonore Fischer – How Dublin remembered the Battle of Clontarf Paul MacCotter – The church lands of the diocese of Dublin: reconstruction and history Niall Ó Súilleabháin – Mormaors, mayors and merchants: the early development of municipal government in Dublin Grace O’Keeffe – The merchant conquistadors: medieval Bristolians in Dublin Declan Johnston – Black Monday: the power of myth in medieval Dublin Bernadette Williams – The arrival of the Dominicans in Ireland in 1224 and the question of Dublin and Drogheda: the sources re-examined Caoimhe Whelan – James Yonge and the writing of history in late medieval Dublin John Montague – ‘But what about the earlier city?’: John Rocque’s Exact Survey (1756) as a source for medieval Dublin Linzi Simpson – The priory of All Hallows and the Old College: archaeological investigations in Front Square, Trinity College Dublin Niall McCullough – Architecture for archaeology and urban context: the Ship Street- Werburgh Street Framework Plan MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XII (2013) Edmond O’Donovan – Early Christian and medieval excavations at Teach Naithí: the changing morphology of a church site in Dundrum, County Dublin Linzi Simpson – The longphort of Dublin: lessons from Woodstown, County Waterford and Annagassan, County Louth Claire Walsh – The excavation of an early roadway and Hiberno-Norse houses at the Coombe Geraldine Stout – The topography of St Mary’s Cistercian abbey and precinct, Dublin Judith Carroll – Excavations at 58–59 Thomas Street/Vicar Street and 63–64 Thomas Street, Dublin 8 Colm Lennon – The medieval manor of Clontarf, 1171–1540 Alan R. Hayden – Rivers and industry, life and death: archaeological excavations on the Coombe bypass and Cork Street realignment, Dublin Rosanne Meenan – Excavations at 23–27 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin Áine Foley – The sheriff of Dublin in the fourteenth century Ellen O’Flaherty – Manuscript sources for the history of medieval Dublin in Trinity College Library, Dublin MEDIEVAL DUBLIN XI (2011) Linzi Simpson – Fifty years a-digging: a synthesis of medieval and archaeological investigations in Dublin City and Suburbs Lorcan Harney, Jonathan Kinsella and Aidan O’Sullivan – County Dublin: some observations 2 on the historiography of early medieval excavation and research, 1930-2005 Teresa Bolger – Defining the ‘Pill’: the contribution of excavations at Ormond Quay Upper to the interpretation of the original topography of the Liffey foreshore Maeve Sikora, Barra Ó Donnbháin and Niamh Daly – Preliminary report on a Viking warrior grave at War Memorial Park, Islandbridge Clare Downham – Viking identities in Ireland: it’s not all black and white Áine Foley – Chieftains, betaghs and burghers: the Irish on the royal manors of medieval Dublin Charles Smith – Patricians in medieval Dublin: the career of the Sargent family Colm Moriarty – The medieval vill of Portmarnock Randolph Jones – ‘Hys worthy seruice done in that vpror’: Sir John Whyte and the defence of Dublin during Silken Thomas’ rebellion, 1534 Michael O’Neill – Christ Church Cathedral and its environs: medieval and beyond Patrick James Herbage – Richard Stanihurst’s Irish Chronicle and the crown censors, 1577 Dermot McGuinne – Printing in Dublin: the first sixty years MEDIEVAL DUBLIN X (2010) Clare Crowley – Sanctuary and symbolism: the origins of the curvilinear plan-form at Clondalkin, County Dublin Linzi Simpson – Pre-Viking and early Viking-Age Dublin: research questions Clare Downham – Viking camps in ninth-century Ireland: sources, locations and interactions Stephen H. Harrison – Bride Street revisited – Viking burial in Dublin and beyond Edel Bhreathnach – Dublin in Middle Irish Leinster dynastic poetry Sinéad Phelan – The bank, the ditch and the water: Hiberno-Norse discoveries at Church Street and Hammond Lane Giles Dawkes – Interim results of excavations at 152-5 Church Street, Dublin: St Michan’s early enclosure and late medieval timber-framed buildings Áine Foley – Violent crime in medieval County Dublin: a symptom of degeneracy? Alan R. Hayden – Archaeological excavations at the west side of Augustine Street, Dublin: a summary Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB – The hermits and anchorites of medieval Dublin Sparky Booker – An English city? Gaelicization and cultural exchange in late medieval Dublin A.J. Otway-Ruthven (prepared for publication by Peter Crooks) – The medieval Irish town MEDIEVAL DUBLIN IX (2009) Claire Walsh – An early medieval roadway at Chancery Lane: from Duibhlinn to Áth Cliath? Linzi Simpson – Dublin’s famous ‘Bull’s acre’: site of the monastery of Kilmainham? Bernadette Williams – The lost coronation oath of King Edward I: rediscovered in a Dublin manuscript Melanie McQuade – Archaeological excavations on the site of Meakstown Castle, Finglas, Co. Dublin Peter Crooks – Negotiating authority in a colonial capital: Dublin and the Windsor Crisis, 1369-78 Peter Harbison – Some old illustrations of St Doulagh’s church, Balgriffin, Co Dublin Grace O’Keeffe – The Hospital of St John the Baptist in medieval Dublin: functions and 3 maintenance Franc Myles – Archaeological excavations at the mill-pond of St Thomas’s abbey, Dublin Tríona Nicholl – From Roskilde to Dublin: the story of the Sea Stallion from Glendalough MEDIEVAL DUBLIN VIII (2008) Myles Gibbons and Michael Gibbons – The search for the ninth-century longphort: early Viking-Age Norse fortifications and the origins of urbanization in Ireland Nessa Walsh – Pre-Romanesque churches in County Dublin and its hinterland Edmond O’Donovan – The Irish, the Vikings, and the English: new archaeological evidence from excavations at Golden Lane, Dublin R. Andrew McDonald – Man, Ireland, and England: the English conquest of Ireland and Dublin-Manx relations Linzi Simpson – The medieval city wall and the southern line of Dublin’s defences: excavations at 14-16 Werburgh Street Bernadette Cunningham – Dublin in the late-medieval Gaelic annals Alan J. Fletcher – The annals and chronicles of medieval Dublin: an overview Raymond Gillespie – Dubliners view themselves: the Dublin City chronicles Christine Baker – Excavations within the manor of Merrion Castle, Dublin Teresa Bolger – An analysis of the environmental history of medieval County Dublin based on Archbishop Alen’s Register c.1172-1534 Howard B. Clarke – Thirty years on: a personal memoir of the Friends of Medieval Dublin MEDIEVAL DUBLIN VII (2006) Abi Cryerhall – Excavations at Hammond Lane, Dublin: from hurdle-ford to iron foundry Seán Duffy – The royal dynasties of Dublin and the Isles in the eleventh century John Ó Néill – Excavation of pre-Norman structures on the site of an enclosed Early Christian cemetery at Cherrywood, County Dublin Raghnall Ó Floinn – The foundation of relics of Christ Church cathedral and the origins of the diocese of Dublin Alan Hayden – Excavation of a medieval house in the grounds of Howth House, County Dublin Linzi Simpson – John Rocque’s map of Dublin (1756): a modern source for medieval property-boundaries Roger Stalley – The archbishop’s residence at Swords: castle or country retreat? Charles Lyons