Cork

Friday 12 October

6:00     Registration, Boole Lecture Theatre Concourse

7:30     Martin Brett, Cambridge   Canterbury's perspective on Church Reform and the Irish, 1046—1100 [more]

8:30     Reception, Aula Maxima

 

Saturday 13 October

9:00     Registration, Boole Lecture Theatre Concourse

9:30     Maurice Hurley, City Archaeologist, Cork Corporation   Waterford in the twelfth century: a gateway to southern Ireland [more]

10:05   Seán Duffy, TCD   "The western world's tower of honour and dignity": the career of Muirchertach Ó Briain in context [more]

10:40   Coffee

11:10   John Fleming, Irish College, Rome   Gille of Limerick: a medieval Irish Canonist [more]

11:45   Marie Therese Flanagan, QUB   Institutional and individual reform in the twelfth-century Irish Church [more]

12:20   Rhoda Cronin, UCC   Layered meanings in twelfth-century art: the iconography of the Doorty Cross, Co Clare [more]

12:55   Lunch

2:00     Richard Gem, Cathedral Fabrics Commission   St Flannán's church at Killaloe and the beginnings of Romanesque architecture in Ireland [more]

2:35     Diarmuid Scully, UCC   Ireland and the Irish in Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of Malachy [more]

3:10     Coffee

3:40     Martin Holland, TCD   Irish Church Reform and the first Synod of Cashel [more]

4:15     Raghnall Ó Floinn, National Museum of Ireland   Bishops, liturgy and reform: some archaeological and art historical evidence [more]

5:00     Bus leaves for Cashel

8:30     Civic Reception, Cashel

 

Cashel

Sunday 14 October

9:00     Registration, Brú Boru

9:30     Anthony Candon, Ulster History Park   Muirchertach, marriage and monogamy or power, politics and polygamy: the decree of the Synod of Cashel in context [more]

10:05   Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, UCC   Ireland and Germany: the role of the Schottenklöster [more]

10:40   Roger Stalley, TCD   Architecture and ideology: the architecture and decoration of Cormac's Chapel at Cashel [more]

11:15   Coffee

11:45   Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Cambridge   Vernacular literature and Twelfth Century Reform [more]

12:20   Tadhg O'Keeffe, UCD   Building reform: how intelligible was Cashel's architecture to its twelfth-century spectators? [more]

12:20   Lunch

2:30     Tour of St Patrick's Rock by Brian Hodgkinson and Conleth Manning, Dúchas

4:00     Vespers in Cormac's Chapel, St Patrick's Rock, sung by the monks of Glenstal Abbey

5:00     Bus returns to Cork

 

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Cormac's Chapel, St Patrick's Rock
Cashel