2009 Press Releases
Archaeology Ireland
17.12.2009
The winter issue of Archaeology Ireland just published (Vol. 23, No. 4), features the IRCHSS-sponsored ‘Christ on the Cross’ project (School of English, and History of Art, School of History, UCC) on its cover, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of this innovative project.
17.12.2009
The winter issue of Archaeology Ireland just published (Vol. 23, No. 4), features the IRCHSS-sponsored ‘Christ on the Cross’ project (School of English, and History of Art, School of History, UCC) on its cover, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of this innovative project.
"We’re very pleased to receive such publicity", says Dr Jennifer Ní Ghrádaigh, History of Art, whose article (pp. 26-30) described the project’s goals. She went on to say that the striking crucifixion which graces the cover, the Catalan Organyà Majesty, is perhaps indicative of a whole range of lost wooden sculpture from the Romanesque period in Ireland, such as the famous speaking cross from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, described by the Norman cleric, Gerald of Wales, in his Topographia Hibernica.
One of the aims of the conference taking place next March is to place Ireland’s wealth of imagery and text of Christ’s passion within the greater European picture. Amongst those speaking will be Jordi Camps, chief conservator of the Romanesque Art Collection at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, who is an expert on the Organyà Majesty and other such ‘majesty’ crucifixions. Scholars from the US, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the UK, and of course, Ireland itself, will be spending the first two days of Holy Week examining such images, as well as textual and liturgical renditions of Christ’s triumphant death, at the ‘Croch Saithir’ conference. Dr Juliet Mullins explained that this term, meaning, ‘cross of hardship’ or ‘cross of travail’ occurs in the Stowe Missal, now in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, which is one of the best early witnesses to how liturgy was celebrated in Ireland in first half of the ninth century.
For further information on the project, visit http://www.christonthecross.org/ Registration for the conference is now open at http://conferencing.ucc.ie/conference/conference.php?id=54
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One of the aims of the conference taking place next March is to place Ireland’s wealth of imagery and text of Christ’s passion within the greater European picture. Amongst those speaking will be Jordi Camps, chief conservator of the Romanesque Art Collection at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, who is an expert on the Organyà Majesty and other such ‘majesty’ crucifixions. Scholars from the US, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the UK, and of course, Ireland itself, will be spending the first two days of Holy Week examining such images, as well as textual and liturgical renditions of Christ’s triumphant death, at the ‘Croch Saithir’ conference. Dr Juliet Mullins explained that this term, meaning, ‘cross of hardship’ or ‘cross of travail’ occurs in the Stowe Missal, now in the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, which is one of the best early witnesses to how liturgy was celebrated in Ireland in first half of the ninth century.
For further information on the project, visit http://www.christonthecross.org/ Registration for the conference is now open at http://conferencing.ucc.ie/conference/conference.php?id=54
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