ISSN 2009-2237
This entry is part 31 of 33 in the Issue 11Mount St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
49th Consecutive Conference: Friday 4th – Sunday 6th November 2011
FRIDAY 4th NOVEMBER
6.00 Snack supper and registration
6.45 Reception hosted by Roscrea Heritage Society
7.25 Welcome: Dom Richard Purcell, OCSO, Abbot of Mt St Joseph
7.40 Seeing the Sacred: the religious image and the late medieval Irish devotional World
Professor Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiatical History, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth
8.15 The Cloths of Heaven: Eucharistic Vestments in Late Medieval Ireland
Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh, OSB, Glenstal Abbey
8.50 Discussion
9.15 Hospitium
SATURDAY 5th NOVEMBER
8.45 Optional rise for vigils
9.30 Visualising Christianity in sixteenth-century Ireland: the Seanchas Búrcach manuscript
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, Deputy Librarian, RIA
9.55 Reliquaries in Saints’Lives
Professor Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth
10.20 The Miracle of Lismore
Dr Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, UCC
10.45 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Image and Idol: Devotional Statues in Medieval Ireland
Dr Rachel Moss, RIA and TCD.
12.05 Easter and the Eucharist: A study in Franciscan iconography
Dr Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton, UCC
12.40 Making the Arma Christi speak: text and image in late medieval Ireland
Salvador Ryan
1.10 Snack Lunch
2.30 Optional field trips
a) view the relics, stained glass and library of Mount St Joseph Abbey
b) Roscrea Heritage
c) Monaincha
5.30 Vespers
5.55 Sherry Reception hosted by Roscrea Credit Union. Midland launch of Pádraig Ó Riain’s A Dictionary of Irish Saints (Four Courts Press).
Dom Laurence Walsh OCSO
Also honouring the publication of Glendalough - City of God
6.35 Dinner
8.00 Wish I had been present - lecturers share a wish or a comment
8.40 Saturday Colophon
George Cunningham
9.10 Hospitium
SUNDAY 6th NOVEMBER
9.30 In hoc signo vinces: the story of Holycross Abbey
Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel
9.55 Relics and pilgrims: pilgrimage as a cultural and religious experience
Malgorzata D’Aughton
10.20 Discussion
10.30 Concelebrated High Mass
11.30 Coffee
11.55 European religious imagery in Anthony Gearnon’s
Parrthas an Anma (Louvain, 1645)
Bernadette Cunningham
12.20 Purgatory and Prayer: Some Devotional Imagery
on Irish Tombs
Rachel Moss
12.45 Passports to Paradise: the monastic habit in Late Medieval Ireland
Colmán Ó Clabaigh
1.10 What if?
Raymond Gillespie
1.30 Discussion on conference theme
1.40 Summing up and close of conference
George Cunningham
1.55 Lunch
