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THE IRISH-SCOTTISH WORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES The 2nd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium marking the 700th anniversary of the Bruce Invasion of Ireland (1315 - 1318) Friday 18 and Saturday 19 September 2015 Thomas Davis Theatre (Room 2043, Arts Building), Trinity College Dublin Register online at www.tcd.ie/history/bruce700 ADMISSION FREE • ALL WELCOME

Speakers include: Dauvit Broun • Michael Brown • Thomas Owen Clancy • Seán Duffy • Robin Frame James E. Fraser • Benjamin Hudson • Martin Macgregor • Bernard Meehan R. Andrew McDonald • Michael Penman • Katharine Simms • Alex Woolf

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The Irish–Scottish World in the Middle Ages The 2nd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium marking the 700th anniversary of the Bruce Invasion of Ireland (1315–1318)

Friday 18 September 2015 Saturday 19 September 2015 Keynote Address 14.00 - 15.30 Session 1: Irish and Scottish Beginnings 09.00 - 10.30 Session 3: The Viking Age and Beyond Friday 18 September at 7 pm Thomas Owen Clancy Alex Woolf The keynote address by Professor Dauvit Broun ‘Adventus Scotorum? Scotland and Ireland before 800’ ‘Ecclesia Scoticana: the Scottish and Irish church will address the topic of ‘Ireland and the in the tenth to twelfth centuries’ James E. Fraser beginnings of Scotland’. ‘Ireland and the Christianisation of Scotland’ R. Andrew McDonald Dauvit Broun is Professor of Scottish History at the ‘Ireland, Scotland and the Kingdom of the Isles’ 16.00 - 17.30 Session 2: Artistic and Literary Realms University of Glasgow and is among the foremost 11.00 - 12.30 Session 4: Bruce 700 Scottish historians of his generation. He is author of Bernard Meehan The Irish Identity of the kingdom of the Scots (1999) ‘The art of early medieval Ireland and Scotland’ Michael Penman and Scottish Independence and the Idea of Britain ‘The Bruce Invasion of Ireland: A Scottish perspective’ Benjamin Hudson from the Picts to Alexander III (2007). He is also ‘The literary world of early medieval Ireland and Scotland’ Seán Duffy Principal Investigator for the People of Medieval Scotland project ‘The Bruce Invasion of Ireland: An Irish perspective’ (www.poms.ac.uk). 19.00 Keynote Address: Dauvit Broun 14.00 - 15.30 Session 5: Later Medieval Ulster and Scotland ‘Ireland and the beginnings of Scotland’ Robin Frame ‘The earldom of Ulster between England and Scotland’ Katharine Simms ‘Scotland and the politics of Gaelic Ulster’ 16.00-17.30 Session 6: After Bruce: Convergence or Divergence? Martin Macgregor ‘Identity and culture in late-medieval Scotland and Ireland’ Michael Brown ‘Kingdom and lordship: Scotland and Ireland in the late Middle Ages’

Speaker affiliations: • Dauvit Broun (Glasgow) • Michael Brown (St Andrews) • Thomas Owen Clancy (Glasgow) • Seán Duffy (TCD) • Robin Frame (Durham) • James E. Fraser (Guelph) • Benjamin Hudson (Penn State) • Martin Macgregor (Glasgow) • Bernard Meehan (TCD) • James E. Fraser (Guelph) Detail of seanchaidhe proclaiming the royal genealogy at the inauguration of Alexander III from Walter Bower, • R. Andrew McDonald (Brock) • Michael Penman (Stirling) Scotichronicon (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 171, fo. 206r) • Katharine Simms (TCD) • Alex Woolf (St Andrews) ‘Christ enthroned’ from the Book of Kells (TCD MS 58, fo. 32v)