Cavan conference
Cavan/Breifne in the late medieval/early modern periods
Where
Cavan County Museum
Ballyjamesduff,
County Cavan.
When
Friday 29th - Saturday 30th August 2008
Agenda
Friday 29th August
3.30-4.00: Registration
4.00-6.00
Session 1
Chair: Robert Armstrong (TCD)
Colm Donnelly (QUB): The late medieval and plantation periods in east Breifne: an archaeological perspective.
John Bradley (NUIM): The early development of towns in Cavan.
Annaleigh Margey (UA): Surveying and mapping Plantation in Cavan, c. 1580 - 1622.
6.00 p.m.: Wine Reception
Saturday 30th August
9.00-9.30 am: registration
9.30-10.45: Session 2
Chair: Katherine Simms (TCD)
Nollaig O’Muraile (NUIG): Leabhar Méig Shamhradháin, the MacGovern Poembook - an important Bréifne contribution to Gaelic learning.
Salvador Ryan (SPCT): The devotional macédoine of Maire Ni Mháille: a sixteenth-century Gaelic Irishwoman’s piety in context.
10.45-11.15: tea/coffee
11.15-12.30: session 3
Chair: Marian Lyons (SPCD)
Raymond Gillespie (NUIM): Saints and society in sixteenth-century South Ulster.
Christopher Maginn (FU): Tudor government in County Cavan.
12.30-1.30: lunch
1.30-3.15: Session 4
Chair: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (UCD)
Brendan Scott (CCM): The plantation and 1641 rising in Cavan/Leitrim through the eyes of Frederick Hamilton (1590-1647).
Clodagh Tait (UE): Cavan in 1638: natives and newcomers.
Eamonn O’Ciardha (UU): Tories and outlaws in south Ulster and north Connaught in the seventeenth century.
3.15-3.45: tea/coffee
3.45-5.00: Session 5
Chair: Bernadette Cunningham (RIA)
John McCafferty (UCD): Venice in Cavan: the career of William Bedell, 1572-1642.
Brian MacCuarta (QUB): Catholic renewal in Kilmore diocese, 1603-41.
7.00: Conference banquet
How to Book:
Phone Cavan County Museum on 0498544070 or email bscott@cavancoco.ie to book your place at this conference. Please make clear when booking your place at the conference which option you are choosing:
Friday 29th August 2008
Option 1: Friday evening & wine reception:
Friday 29th & Saturday 30th
Option 2: Friday evening & wine reception/Saturday & lunch: €10
Friday 29th and Saturday 30th
Option 3: Friday evening & wine reception/Saturday & lunch/Saturday evening conference meal: €30
For catering purposes please confirm your attendance by 15th August 2008
This does not include the cost of a B & B or hotel.
Overnight accommodation is limited and it is recommended that you book early.
For your convenience, some hotels and B&Bs are listed here:
Riverfront Hotel, Main Street, Virginia. 0498547561.
Sheila Lynch, B&B, Tullyboy, Kilnaleck. 0494336425.
New Inn B&B. 0498544301.
Park Hotel, Virginia. 0498547235.
St Kyran’s B&B, Virginia. 0498547087.
Ross House, Mountnugent. 0498540218.
White House B&B, Oldcastle Road, Virginia. 0498547515.
How to get to Cavan County Museum:
To find us, turn left off the N3 at Virginia, County Cavan, and proceed for 10 km to Ballyjamesduff. Cavan County Museum is located behind the Roman Catholic Church on the right hand side on the outskirts of town. We are 17.5 km from Cavan town, 96 km from Dublin and 144 km from Belfast.
Speakers
Mr John Bradley, MA, FSA: senior lecturer in department of history, NUI Maynooth. Author of Kilkenny: Irish historical town’s atlas, no. 10 (Royal Irish Academy, 2000) and editor with Anne Murphy of Themes in Kilkenny history (Kilkenny, 2000).
Dr Colm J. Donnelly: Director of CAF (Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork), Queen’s University Belfast. Author of Living Places - Archaeology, Continuity and Change at Historic Monuments in Northern Ireland (Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, 1997) and The Tower Houses of County Limerick (Wordwell Press, forthcoming).
Professor Raymond Gillespie: associate professor, department of history, NUI Maynooth. Author of Devoted people: belief and religion in early modern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 1997), Reading Ireland: print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2005), Seventeenth-century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 2006) and editor of Cavan: essays on an Irish county (Irish Academic Press, 1995), along with many more.
Dr Christopher Maginn: assistant professor, history department, Fordham University, New York. Author of ‘Civilizing’ Gaelic Leinster: the extension of Tudor rule in the O’Byrne and O’Toole lordships (Four Courts Press, 2005), which won the 2005 Irish Historical Research Prize, and The state of Britain and Ireland: religion, politics and society, 1450-1660 (Pearson Longman, 2007) with Professor Steven G. Ellis.
Dr Annaleigh Margey: AHRC post-doctoral research assistant, University of Aberdeen, currently transcribing the 1641 depositions.
Dr Brian MacCuarta: tutor in Irish history, Queen’s University, Belfast. Author of Catholic revival in the north of Ireland, 1603-41 (Four Courts Press, 2007), and editor of Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising (Belfast, 1993).
Dr John McCafferty: senior lecturer in School of History & Archives, UCD.
Author of The reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian reforms, 1633-1641 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-editor with Professor Alan Ford of The origins of sectarianism in early modern Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Dr Eamonn O’Ciardha: lecturer in department of Irish/English Literary & Historical Studies, University of Ulster. Author of Ireland and the Jacobite cause, 1685-1786: a fatal attraction (Four Courts Press, 2002) and co-editor with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer of The Irish statute staple books, 1596-1687 (Four Courts Press, 1998).
Dr Nollaig O’Muraile: senior lecturer in Irish department, NUI Galway. Author of The celebrated antiquary (Maynooth, 1996); editor of The great book of Irish genealogies (5 vols, De Burca, 2004), Irish leaders and learning through the ages (Four Courts Press, 2003) and From Rath Maolain to Rome (Pontifical Irish College, Rome, 2007).
Dr Salvador Ryan: lecturer in ecclesiastical history and academic co-ordinator at St Patrick’s College, Thurles. Former postdoctoral research fellow (IRCHSS), NUI, Maynooth. Co-editor with Rachel Moss and Colmán Ó Clabaigh of Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2006).
Dr Brendan Scott: research officer, Cavan County Museum. Author of Religion and reformation in the Tudor diocese of Meath (Four Courts Press, 2006), Cavan 1609-1653: plantation, war and religion (Four Courts Press, 2007), and editor of Breifne.
Dr Clodagh Tait: lecturer in history department, University of Essex. Author of Death, burial and commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650 (Macmillan, 2002), and co-editor of Age of atrocity: violent death in early modern Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2007),with Dr David Edwards and Dr Pádraig Lenihan.
Chairs
Dr Robert Armstrong: senior lecturer in history, Trinity College Dublin. Author of Protestant war: the ‘British’ of Ireland and the wars of the three kingdoms (Manchester University Press, 2005), and co-editor with Dr Tadhg O hAnnrachain of Community in early modern Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2006).
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, librarian, Royal Irish Academy. Author of The world of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth-century Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2004), co-author with Raymond Gillespie of Stories from Gaelic Ireland: microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals (Four Courts Press, 2003), and co-editor with Dr Edel Bhreathnach of Writing Irish history: the Four Masters and their world (Wordwell Press, 2007).
Dr Marian Lyons: lecturer in history, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Author of Church and society in County Kildare c.1470-c.1547 (Four Courts Press, 2000), Gearóid Óg, ninth earl of Kildare, (Historical Association, 1998), Franco-Irish relations 1500-1610: politics, migration and trade (Boydell & Brewer, 2003). General Editor of Irish Local History Series. Co-editor with Dr Thomas O’Connor of Irish communities in early modern Europe (Four Courts Press, 2006), and many more.
Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin: senior lecturer in School of History & Archives, UCD.
Author of Catholic Europe, 1592-1648 (Oxford University Press, 2008), Catholic reformation in Ireland: The mission of Rinuccini, 1645-49 (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-editor with Dr Robert Armstrong of Community in early modern Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2006).
Dr Katherine Simms: senior lecturer in medieval history, Trinity College Dublin. Author of From kings to warlords: the changing political structure of Gaelic Ireland in the later middle ages (Boydell Press, 1987) and co-editor with T. B. Barry and Robin Frame of Colony and frontier in medieval Ireland: essays presented to J. F. Lydon (Hambledon Press, 1995). Katherine is also the author of Medieval Gaelic Sources (Four Courts Press, forthcoming).
CCM: Cavan County Museum
FU: Fordham University, New York
NUIG: National University of Ireland, Galway
NUIM: National University of Ireland, Maynooth
QUB: Queen’s University, Belfast
RIA: Royal Irish Academy
SPCD: St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra
SPCT: St Patrick’s College, Thurles
TCD: Trinity College Dublin
UA: University of Aberdeen
UCD: University College Dublin
UU: University of Ulster