Category: Past Events

I wish, first of all, to congratulate the organisers and participants of the 9th Symposium of Irish Studies in Latin America (25-27 August 2014) for what seems to have been a great success. Speakers from Ireland, several different states of Brazil, Argentina and United States engaged in 6 lectures, 10 different panels, and 3 round-tables. Secondly, I…

Third Glenstal History Conference Conference Theme: Soldiers of Christ: The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in Medieval Ireland Dates: 19-21 Sept 2014 Location: Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick Programme & Abstract

Originally posted on FMRSI: The Annual Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture 2014 Monks, Labour and the “Holy Poor”: Early Christian Monasticism between Egypt and Syria Prof. Peter Brown, Princeton University Tuesday 7 October 2014 Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. 7.30pm All Welcome RSVP: Salvador.ryan@spcm.ie Download poster here.

Originally posted on ASNØC: 2014 Networks & Neighbours Symposium: preliminary program The 2014 N&N Symposium, which will take place in Curitiba, Brazil, is nearly upon us. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to release a preliminary version of the program. We are confident this won’t change much in next month, but please bear…

Originally posted on FMRSI: Closing date for proposals: May 1, 2014 34th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 10, 11 and 12 October 2014 The Thompson Room (Room 110) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street The Harvard Celtic Department cordially invites proposals for papers on topics which relate directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any phase;…

This week two Research Assistants, Dr Keith Smith and Dr Elaine Pereira Farrell, officially started their activities in the second phase of the Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement and next week, Dr Annejulie Lafaye will join the team as a post-doctoral researcher. The Monastic Ireland is supported by the Irish Research Council (IRC) under the Advanced Research Project…

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of Dr Edel Bhreathnach’s ‘Ireland in the medieval world, AD 400–1000: landscape, kingship and religion’ by Four Courts Press. ‘Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.…

As a follow up of the symposium, a panel Penance and Empires of Sin about will be held at the 20th International Medieval Congress in Leeds (IMC) – 7-10 July Session 1526 Thursday 10 July 09.00-10.30 In the sixth century a new kind of text originated in Ireland and the Celtic speaking parts of Britain:…

On the 19 October 2012 the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute (http://www.ucd.ie/mocleirigh/) will host a seminar entitled: Penance, Penitential Texts and Pastoral Care in Early Medieval Ireland, (please see Programme & Abstracts). The primarily aim of this event is to connect scholars from different academic institutions interested in the sacrament of penance, in the usage, relevance and impact of penitential…