This year’s Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium will take place in the Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037) in the Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin, and will provided a wealth of new information on this fascinating medieval city.
List of speakers include:
Aisling Collins & Jacqueline Mac Dermott – Excavations at 124-128 The Coombe
Ruth Johnson – A twelfth-century graffito from the Coombe
Edel Bhreathnach – Saints’ dedications in Viking Dublin: Irish, Scandinavian and others
Alan Hayden – Throwing a spanner among the pigeons: recent finds at St Sepulchre’s Palace
Catherine Swift – Scandinavian skinners and transient traders in early Anglo-Norman Dublin and Limerick
Siobhan Osgood – What lies beneath: the architectural evolution of St Mary’s Abbey, Dublin
Lynn Kilgallon – Parliament and politics in fifteenth-century Ireland: the chronicle of Henry Marlborough
Paul Duffy – Sunk, ditched and buried: recent excavations at Aungier Street/Stephens Street, Dublin