ISSN 2009-2237
IPMAG X
TEN YEARS ON
The tenth conference organised by the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group
To be held in the Group Space, Ulster Hall, Belfast,
Friday 5 February to Sunday 7 February 2010
Friday 5th February 2010
9.00 Registration
SESSION 1: Retrospective and prospective
9.30-10.00 Ten Years On: perspectives on Irish historical archaeology Audrey Horning
10.00-10.30 Post-Medieval Sites in the Excavations Bulletins 1970 - 2008. Richard Clutterbuck and Isabel Bennett
10.30-11.00 Mortuary monuments and memory: the current state of knowledge and management of Irish graveyards and cemeteries. Harold Mytum
SESSION 2: Explorations of Gaelic life and identity in post-medieval Ireland
2.00-2.30 The landscape setting and physical identity of native schools in later sixteenth-century Ireland. Elizabeth FitzPatrick
2.30-3.00 Ballydonnelly - Reconstructing a Late Medieval Gaelic Estate in Tyrone.
Colm Donnelly, Shane McGivern and Gary McCabe
3.00-3.30 Gaelic settlement after Cromwell: the local transplantation settlement of the O Davorens of the Burren, Co. Clare. Eve Campbell
3.30-4.00 Angelic Engineering, stoups, stone boats and sub-sea roads: New Insights into the survival of the Maritime Pilgrimage tradition in post-medieval Ireland. Michael Gibbons
4.00-4.15 Discussion
Saturday 6th February 2010
SESSION 4: Society and Economy
9.30-10.00 The Other Plantation: Settlement on the Antrim Estates. Colin Breen
10.00-10.30 The Rutland Island Wreck: From whence did it come? Connie Kelleher
10.30-11.00 What’s in a name?: transhumance practice in Ireland. Theresa McDonald
SESSION 5: Post-medieval landscapes and buildings
2.00-2.30 Richard Boyle as a colonial entrepreneur and the development of plantation-period industrial landscapes in south Munster, c. 1600-1640. Colin Rynne
2.30 -3.00 The excavation and restoration of a 17th century Irish formal garden: Lisburn Castle Gardens, Co. Antrim. Ruairí Ó Baoill & Stefanie McMullen
3.00-3.30 Vernacular settlements in Ireland Barry O’Reilly
3.30-4.00 Coffee
4.00-4.30 The Ruins of Memory- Ruins and identity in a Fortified House, Inniscarra, Co. Cork. Kieran McCarthy
4.30-5.00 ‘Restoration - King William to Griff Rhys Jones and beyond - archaeological investigations at the Whitehouse, Newtownabbey, Belfast’. Johanna Vuolteenaho
5.00-5.30 The Architecture of the Leix & Offaly Plantations; c1540 - 1600. Máirtín Conor D’Alton.
5.30-5:45 Discussion
7.00
Book launch (Plantation Ireland) and evening reception: The Freemason’s Hall, Arthur Square, Cornmarket, Belfast.
Sunday 7th February 2010
SESSION 6: Peopling the past and present
9.30-10.00 Towards an archaeological understanding of female monasticism in post-medieval Ireland. Tracy Collins
10.00-10.30 Hidden in plain sight: the Great Blasket village and the value of the written record. Frank Coyne
12.30-1.00 IPMAG AGM
Conference adjourns