The National Conference on the Occasion of the 850Th Anniversary of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland
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Invasion 1169 The National Conference on the occasion of the 850th Anniversary of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife’, Daniel Maclise, c.1854, © National Gallery of Ireland. Speakers include: David Bates (East Anglia) * Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth) * Keith Busby (Wisconsin-Madison) * Bruce Campbell (QUB) * Denis Casey (Maynooth) * Peter Crooks (Trinity) * Ruairí Cullen * Seán Duffy (Trinity) * Marie Therese Flanagan (QUB) * Robin Frame (Durham) * Jeremy Hill * Rachel Moss (Trinity) * Ronan Mulhaire (Trinity) * Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge) * Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal Abbey) * Ruairí Ó hUiginn (DIAS) * Linzi Simpson * Thomas W. Smith (Leeds) * Michael Staunton (UCD) * Colin Veach (Hull) * Nicholas Vincent (East Anglia) * Caoimhe Whelan (Trinity) Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th May 2019 Edmund Burke Theatre (Arts Building), Trinity College Dublin ADMISSION FREE • ALL WELCOME Register at: https://www.tcd.ie/medieval-history/invasion1169/ For information: [email protected] The 3rd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium The 3rd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium Ireland Medieval Trinity 3rd The www.tcd.ie/medieval-history/invasion1169/ Registration and information: information: and Registration ALL WELCOME ALL • FREE ADMISSION Trinity College Dublin College Trinity significance of 1169 in Ireland’s historical development. historical Ireland’s in 1169 of significance (Arts Building) Building) (Arts (or perhaps reconfirming) myths, and shedding new light on the the on light new shedding and myths, reconfirming) perhaps (or Edmund Burke Theatre Theatre Burke Edmund raising public awareness of this important anniversary, dispelling dispelling anniversary, important this of awareness public raising 4th May 2019 May 4th 2nd to Saturday Saturday to Thursday bring the Anglo-Norman invasion into the realm of public discourse, discourse, public of realm the into invasion Anglo-Norman the bring the light of the latest cutting-edge research. 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Diarmait 15.30–17.30 Session 1 18.30–20.00 HISTORY IRELAND HEDGE SCHOOL Mac Murchada, king of Leinster, may traditionally have a unsavoury - AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN? - ‘850 Years of Oppression’? reputation but he was also a generous patron of the reformed church Intellectual, literary and religious culture and, before his expulsion from Ireland in 1166, he founded the on the eve of the invasion Elizabeth Boyle (Maynooth University) Augustinian priory of All Hallows (or All Saints) in a place called ‘Hoggen Green’ to the east of the Hiberno-Norse town of Dublin. Kings and kingship in post-Clontarf Ireland SATURDAY, 4 MAY 2019 Ronan Mulhaire (Trinity College Dublin) Long after Diarmait’s own unlamented demise, All Hallows would 9.30–10.30 Derbforgaill and the expulsion of Diarmait Mac Murchada KEYNOTE 3 continue to thrive, and remained one of the city’s most important Denis Casey (Maynooth University) - Henry II and Ireland religious houses until its dissolution in 1538 during the Protestant Nicholas Vincent (University of East Anglia) Reformation. The grounds and buildings of the former monastery 11.00–12.30 Session 5 were granted to the citizens of Dublin in return for their loyalty FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019 - CONQUEST AND COLONIZATION to the crown during the rebellion of Silken Thomas and, when The Anglo-Norman castellation of Ireland Dublin eventually acquired a university in 1592, Trinity College 9.30–10.30 KEYNOTE 2 Linzi Simpson Dublin was created on the former monastic site by royal charter - Ireland and empires Immigration and plantation of Queen Elizabeth I. of the twelfth-century world Seán Duffy (Trinity College Dublin) David Bates (University of East Anglia) 14.00–15.30 Session 6 11.00–13.00 Session 2 - THE CHURCH AMONG TWO NATIONS - 1169 & ALL THAT Between Christ and Caesar: Monasticism and the Invasion The first invaders and their aims Colmán Ó Clabaigh (Glenstal Abbey) Colin Veach (University of Hull) Building the Anglo-Norman Church The papacy and the invasion: Laudabiliter Rachel Moss (Trinity College Dublin) Thomas Smith (University of Leeds) 16.00–17.30 Session 7 Reflexes of the invasion in Gaelic sources - WHAT DID THE NORMANS EVER DO FOR US? Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) From boom to bust: the Lordship of Ireland 14.00–15.30 Session 3 and the European commercial revolution - NARRATING THE INVASION Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast) Giraldus’s Expugnatio Hibernica reconsidered ‘Pax Normannica’? Michael Staunton (University College Dublin)