ISSN 2009-2237
This entry is part 6 of 8 in the Issue 09The 48th Consecutive Conference
From the Synod of Rathbreasail (1111) to Kells (1152): All Change?
29th April - 1st May, 2011
at Mount St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
FRIDAY 29th APRIL
6.00 Snack supper and registration
6.45 Reception hosted by Roscrea Heritage Society
7.20 Welcome: Dom Richard Purcell, OCSO, Abbot of Mt St Joseph
7.30 Official opening: Dom Laurence Walsh, OCSO, Abbot Emeritus, Roscrea
7.40 Making Change Possible: the run up to Rathbreasail
Tony Candon, Manager Keeper, NMI, Turlough Park, Castlebar
7.55 Stoke up the fire: Irish Monks, English Scholars, Papal Legates and the so-called 12th century Reform of the Irish Church
An t-Ollamh Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Roinn na Staire, NUIG
8.50 Discussion
9.15 Hospitium
SATURDAY 30th APRIL
8.45 Optional rise for vigils
9.30 Benedictine reformers in late eleventh/early twelfth-century Ireland
Dr Edel Bhreathnach, Micheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD
10.10 Metalwork, Sculpture and Liturgy in the Age of Reform
Raghnall Ó Floinn, Head of Collections, NMI
10.50 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
11.30 12th century High Crosses
Professor Peter Harbison, art historian and author
12.10 Case studies of two monastic/diocesan centres in the mid 12th century
Clonfert: Dr Christy Cunniffe
Roscrea: George Cunningham
1.10 Snack Lunch
2.30 Field trip to St Cronan’s monastery, Roscrea And view new work at Damer House
5.30 Vespers
5.55 Sherry Reception to honour the publication:
Treasures from the Cardinal Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive; midland launch of Whitley Stokes (1830-1909): The lost Celtic notebooks rediscovered Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
6.30 Dinner
8.00 Wish I had been present - lecturers share a wish or a comment
8.30 Saturday Colophon
George Cunningham
9.00 Hospitium
SUNDAY 1st MAY
9.30 Benefactors
An tAthair Ciarán Ó Sabhaois, archivist MSJ
9.45 Rathbreasail: Cork or Tipperary?
Tony Candon
10.00 The Shrine of the Book of Dimma
Raghnall Ó Floinn
10.15 Discussion
10.30 Concelebrated High Mass with new liturgical music, Lead me Home, composed by Roscrea man, Seamus Doran, and performed by Roscrea Folk Group.
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Thoughts on monastic libraries in the 12th century
Edel Bhreathnach
12th century pilgrimage in the Burren
Peter Harbison
Synod of Kells, 1152: All Change?
Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
1.15 Discussion on conference theme
1.35 Summing up and close of conference
George Cunningham
1.50 Lunch
