The Friends of Medieval Dublin, in partnership with Dublin City Council and Trinity College Dublin, have organised a half-day symposium inspired by the 800th anniversary of the granting of the Magna Carta. A fortnight after the Magna Carta, on 3 July 1215, King John granted the Fee-Farm charter to Dublin.
What did this mean for Dublin? And what is the importance of the Fee-Farm charter for Dublin, granted just after its more famous legal cousin, Magna Carta?
Magna Carta @ 800: Discoveries from the Magna Carta Project
–Dr Hugh Doherty (University of East Anglia)
Dublin’s witness to Magna Carta: Henry of London, Archbishop of Dublin
Margaret Murphy (Carlow College)
General discussion
Dublin’s Fee-Farm Charter @ 800: The Growth of Urban Autonomy
-Professor Seán Duffy (Trinity College Dublin)
The Meaning of Magna Carta in Medieval Ireland
-Dr Peter Crooks (Trinity College Dublin)
General discussion and summing up