Friday 11th April & Saturday 12th April – Admission Free All Welcome.
Trinity College Dublin has a unique connection to Brian, being the home of the so-called Brian Boru’s Harp whose image is the national symbol of Ireland. Although the harp has no known link to Brian and is considerably later in date, Trinity College does in fact house the only artefact surviving today which we can definitively state the high-king saw and perhaps touched: the world-famous Book of Armagh with its inscription marking his visit to the primatial city in 1005 in which he is described as Imperator Scotorum (‘Emperor of the Gaels’). Trinity College also houses the largest collection of medieval manuscript sources for the Battle of Clontarf including the famous Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh
Programme:
09.15-10.00 Opening Address:
‘Ireland in 1014: the great of church and state’ – Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Late Viking-Age Ireland
10.00-10.45 ‘Irish politics in the late Viking Age’ – Colmán Etchingham
10.45-11.15 Tea and coffee break
11.15-12.00 ‘The (legendary) rise of Dál Cais’ – Bart Jaski
12.00-12.45 ‘The unique nature of Dál Cais DNA’ – Catherine Swift
Brian Boru And The High- Kingship
14.00-14.45 ‘Brian and the kings of Leinster’ – Edel Bhreathnach
14.45-15.30 ‘Brian and the Uí Néill kingship of Tara’ – Eoin O’Flynn
15.30-16.00 Tea and coffee break
16.00-16.45 ‘Brian, Armagh and the Irish church’ – Denis Casey
16.45-17.30 ‘The archaeology of Brian Boru’ – Linzi Simpson
Brian and the Battle of Clontarf
09.15-10.00 ‘What actually happened at the Battle of Clontarf?’ – Seán Duffy
10.00-10.45 ‘The wider world of learning: the making of Clontarf’ -Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
10.45-11.15 Tea and coffee break
11.15-12.00 ‘Scandinavian kingship and the Battle of Clontarf’ – Clare Downham
12.00-12.45 ‘Clontarf – the archaeological evidence’ – Andrew Halpin
The Legacy of Brian and Clontarf
14.00-14.45 ‘Meic Briain and Uí Briain’ – Paul McCotter
14.45-15.30 ‘Brian Bóraimhe and the Battle of Clontarf in later Irish tradition’ – Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail
15.30-16.00 Tea and coffee break
16.00-16.45 ‘The Hiberno-Scandinavians after Brian’ – Alex Woolf
16.45-17.30 ‘The high-kingship after Brian’ – Marie Therese Flanagan