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Archive Page of our previous Conferences 26 – 28 Sept. 2003 History and Community Thomas Charles- Edwards, Jesus College , Oxford, “The Irish Collection of Canons and the Senchas Mar, A Comparison and contrast”. Padraig O’Riain , UCC, “From Tallaght to Youghal: the feast days of Saints” Damian Bracken, UCC, “Leadership in the Early Irish Church: the evidence of thje”Collectio Hibernensis”.” Colman o Clabaigh, Glenstal Abbey, “The Friars of Youghal, their friends , their foes and their library”. Cathryn Power, Archaeologist, “The archaeological excavations of medieval Youghal”. Tadhg O’Keeffe , UCD, “ The Topographies of medieval and plantation-period Youghal”. Rita Connolly, UCC, “Politics and the Boyle Affinity”. Dave Edwards , UCC, “The Sacking of Youghal, 1580”. Clodagh Tait, NUI Maynooth, “Mortality, martyrs and monuments, death and burial in early modern Youghal”. Field Trip to Dairinis and Ardmore 25 Sept. to 3rd Ocober 2004 Youghal's Maritime tradition (50th Anniversary of Making of Moby Dick film in Youghal.) John Sheehan, “The South Coast and the Viking Expansionin the Atlantic”. Tim O’Neill, “Trouble in Medieval Youghal” John Fitzgerald, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, “Merchants and Mariners from Youghal to Newfoundland” Alicia Fitzgerald , Youghal – the Huguenot Connection”. Tadgh O’Keeffe “ Youghal’s Maritime Tradition” David Kelly “ Youghal Harbour, Gateway to Overseas Trade” Field Trip to Lismore along the Blackwater Trade Route 23 – 25 Sept. 2005 The Life ad Times of Sir Walter Raleigh Mark Nicholls, St. John’s College, Cambridge, “Who is Sir Walter Raleigh? The Man, The Myth and the Mystery”. Dave Edwards, UCC, “Raleigh and the Desmond Rebellion”. John Barry, UCC, “ The History of the World as perceived by Sir Walter Raleigh”. Andrew King , UCC, ”Spenser and Raleigh in Ireland” Larry Tise “Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoake Island”. Field Trip to sites associated with Sir Walter Raleigh 22nd – 24th Sept. 2006 Sir Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork22 – 23 Sept. 2006 Sir Richard Boyle “The Dowager Countess of Desmond, 1464 – 1604?” (an entertainment by Kieran Groeger) Toby Bernard , Hertford College, Oxford, “ The Boyles and Youghal from the 1640s to 1760”. Nicholas Canny, NUI Galway, “Richard Boyle as Projector and Planner, including Lismore Gardens”. Kenneth Nicholls, UCC, “Corruption in the 17th Century”. Donal Brady, Waterford County Librarian, “The Lismore Papers: A Seminal Resource on the Study of 16th and 17th Century Irish History”. Clodagh Tait, University of Essex, “One of the most scandalouse pieces that was ever seene: reading Richard Boyle’s tombs”. Tadhg O’Keeffe, UCD, “A Tale of Two Towns: Youghal and Bandon in Boyle’s Time”. Des Cowman , Irish Mining historian “ A Universal Havoc Made of Root and Branch. The Forests north of Youghal and Richard Boyle’s ironworks. Field Trip to College Gardens, Lismore Gardens and Castle. 29 – 30 Sept. 2007 Churches and Cloisters in Medieval Youghal ( celebrating Louvain 400) Colman O’ Clabaigh, UCD and Glanstal Abbey, “Mendicants, merchants and mariners; the friars in medieval Youghal”. Padraig O’Riain , UCC, “Was the lone survivor the friary’s most important book? The story of Youghal’s Franciscan martyrology”. Tadhg O’Keeffe, UCD, “The architecture of friaries; with special reference to the Franciscan and Domincan abbeys at Youghal”. Raymond Gillespie, NUI Maynooth, “The Golden Age of the Irish Franciscans”. Malgorzata Krasnodebska – d’Aughton , UCD, Franciscan Altar Plate in the first half of the 17th century”. Bernadette Cunningham, RIA, Dublin, “Micheal O’Cleirigh and the Annals of the Four Masters”. Marian Lyons, Dromcondra, “The expansion of the Irish Franciscan College network in 17th century Europe”. Edel Bhreathnack, UCD, “Louvain 400, the Franciscan Library, Killiney, past and future”. Field Trip to North Abbey site. 11th -12th Oct. 2008 Ports in the 18th and 19th Centuries Patrick O’Flanagan , UCD, Irish port towns and cities within an Atlantic European context”. Peter Murray, Crawford Gallery, Cork , “Art and Patronage in 18th Century Cork”. Colin Rynne, UCC, “The Port Archaeology of Youghal, Cork and Kinsale in the 18th Century”. Una O’Connor, UCC, “Transportation, the Famine Flight and Post- Hunger Exodus: Nineteeth Century Emigration from the Port of Cork”. Tadhg O’Keeffe, UCD, “The 18th and 19th centuries in Youghal, : the information from the historic Town Atlas”. Loughlin Kealy , UCD, “ Land and Sea: the architectural imagination”. Michael Mc Carthy “ Port of Cork, “Recent developments and the future of the Port of Cork”. Alicia St. Leger, “ Huegenot Linnks with Youghal”. Lindsay Proudfoot, QUB, “Ports and Politics: Contesting Landlord Authority in Dungarvan c.1830- 1832”. Carmel Quinlan , UCC, “ Merchants, Philantrophists and Reformers – the Quakers of Youghal”. David Kelly “ Life in 18th and 19th Century Youghal”. 25 – 27 Sept. 2009 The Blackwater Valley - Historic Houses and Landscapes Kieran Heffernan, “The Houses of the River Blackwater” Tadhg O’Keeffe and Dave Whelan , UCD, “The Georgian Order and its Origins; the Big Houses of the Blackwater Valley, 1500 – 1800”. Willie Fraher, County Waterford Museum, Dungarvan, “County Waterford Houses on the River Blackwater”. Peter Murray, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Art and Architecture in the Blackwater Valley 1600 -1900”. Sarah Monahan , UCD, “18th century Estate Towns of the middle Size, Villierstown and Dromana Estate” Terence Dooley, NUI Maynooth, “The Social Life of Castle HydenPost Independence”. Julian Walton , Dunhill Education Centre, “Dromana: The Lords of the Decies and the Villiers Stuart”. Finola O’Kane, UCD, “The Designed Landscape of the Blackwater River Valley”. Field Trip , by boat, to Dromana House and Villierstown. />> |
