FRIENDS OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN
8th Medieval Dublin
Symposium
2006

Robert Emmet Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building
Trinity College, Dublin

Saturday 13 May 2006

Seán Duffy (ed.), Medieval Dublin VII (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006)
09.30

Registration and opening remarks
Seán Duffy

09.45

The Irish, the Vikings, and the English: new archaeological evidence from excavations at Golden Lane, Dublin
Edmond O'Donovan

10.30 Archaeological investigations as 23-27 Stephen's Street Lower, Dublin
Roseanne Meenan
11.00 Tea / coffee
11.20 Dublin in the late medieval Irish annals
Bernadette Cunningham
12.00 The annals and chronicles of medieval Dublin: an overview
Alan J. Fletcher
12.45

Lunch

14.00 Dublin's image of itself: the city chronicle
Raymond Gillespie
14.45 Pre-Romanesque churches in Dublin and its hinterland: the 'Golden Ratio'
Nessa Walsh
15.20 Tea / coffee
15.40 The early road to Duiblinn: excavations at Golden Lane / Chancery Lane
Claire Walsh
16.10 The English conquest of Ireland and Dublin-Manx relations
R. Andrew McDonald
Admission free. All welcome. Details of last year's
Medieval Dublin Symposium 2005