School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts
Programme 2009
THE EARLIEST STRATA
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE EARLY MEDIEVAL TOPONYMY OF IRELAND AND SCOTLAND
An Dara Comhdháil Idirnáisiúnta ar Logainmníocht Luathmheánaoiseach na hÉireann agus na hAlban
An Dàrna Co-labhairt Eadar-nàiseanta mu Ainmean-Àite na h-Èirinn is na h-Alba aig toiseach nam Meadhan Aoisean
12th / 13th / 14th November 2009
School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Drama and Film Centre, Auditorium 2,
20 University Square, Belfast
Organised by Paul Tempan (QUB), Kelly Kilpatrick (Oxford),
Liam Ó hAisibéil (NUIG), Peter McNiven (Glasgow) & Judyta Szacillo (QUB)
and the School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts,
Queen’s University, Belfast
The conference is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER | |
09.00 |
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME |
09.30-10.10 |
Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Keynote paper, ‘The Earliest Irish Place-names — Status Quaestionis’ |
10.15-10.55 |
Catherine Swift : ‘Church names and their significance for the cult of Patrick’ |
11.00-11.15 |
BREAK: Tea and coffee |
11.15-11.55 |
Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Ireland |
12.00-12.40 |
Kelly Kilpatrick: ‘Place-names in a Hagiographic Tradition of St Brigit of Kildare: Analysis of Vita Prima and Bethu Brigte’ |
12.45-13.25 |
Liam Ó hAisibéil: ‘The Boldly Odd Hills of Northern Roscommon’ |
13.30-14.30 |
LUNCH |
14.30-15.10 |
Thomas Owen Clancy: Keynote paper, ‘The Place-Names of the Earliest Scottish Records’ |
15.15-15.55 |
Jacob King: ‘A Lost Aber- Name in Speyside’ |
16.00-16.20 |
BREAK: Tea and coffee |
16.20-17.00 |
Peter McNiven: ‘P-Celtic place-names in Menteith: British or Pictish?’ |
17.05-17.45 |
Guto Rhys: ‘Towards a phonology of “Pictish”’ |
20:00 Public Lecture Venue: PFC G06 |
Nollaig Ó Muraíle: ‘John O Donovan — “most able and judicious Irish scholar and topographer”’ |
FRIDAY 13th NOVEMBER | |
09.30-10.10 |
Richard Coates: ‘Men from the East, names in the West: an approach to some problematic island-names of Ireland and Britain’ |
10.15-10.55 |
Richard Cox: ‘The Etymology of Gaoitbheinn, Isle of Arran’ |
11.00-11.15 |
BREAK: Tea and coffee |
11.15-11.55 |
Short Reports on Current Onomastic Research: Scotland |
12.00-12.40 |
Aengus Finnegan: ‘The Topography of Bruidhean Da Choga or Bryanmore Hill’ |
12.45-13.25 |
Paul Tempan: ‘Carbad in Irish place-names: chariot or boulder?’ |
13.30-14.30 |
LUNCH |
14.30-15.10 |
Richard Warner : ‘Ptolemy's Ireland - observations from an archaeologist’ |
15.15-15.55 |
Grigory Bondarenko: ‘Goidelic hydronyms in Ptolemy’s Geography: Myth behind the name’ |
16.00-16.20 |
BREAK: Tea and coffee |
16.20-17.00 |
Emma Nic Cárthaigh: ‘Difficulties determining early medieval Irish tribal boundaries: Dál, Dealbhna, Déise’ |
17.05-17.45 |
Stephen Digney: ‘Iudeu and Stirling: a possible example of place name change’ |
17.50-18.20 |
CLOSURE |
Time TBC |
Conference Dinner |
SATURDAY 14th NOVEMBER | |
9.30 |
Meet at DFC for excursion to Emain Macha / Navan Fort and Armagh City (with optional extension to visit royal site of Clogher after lunch). Guided by Kay Muhr and Richard Warner. Returning to Belfast at 15:30, or 18:00 for those continuing to Clogher. |
For further information, contact Paul Tempan, (028) 90973890, p.tempan@qub.ac.uk or Clare Marks, Secretary, Irish and Celtic Studies, (028) 90975366, celtic@qub.ac.uk