Moore Institute, NUI Galway on Friday 27th August 2010.

'People, places and memory' is an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI, Galway and supported by the Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group. It will present cutting-edge research by post-graduate students on early modern Ireland, c. 1550 - 1800, and bring together graduate researchers from Ireland and abroad to discuss and debate various topical themes. The programme for the day comprises fourteen speakers from the disciplines of archaeology, history, geography, architectural history and place-name studies. Some of the themes covered will include: remembering early modern Ireland; colonial processes; cultural frontiers and Ireland 'after the conquest'.

The event promises to be a refreshing and informative contribution to early modern Irish studies.

Conference fees are €20/€10 (waged/unwaged). Interested delegates should email earlymodernirelandconference@gmail.com as soon as possible as places are limited. For more information on the conference, transport to, and accommodation in Galway see www.earlymodernirelandconference.blogspot.com.

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People, places and memory programme

27th August, NUI Galway

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-9:40 Introduction and welcome

Session One: Remembering early modern Ireland

9:40-10:00 What’s in a Ruin? Memory and identity in a Fortified House, Inniscarra, Co. Cork

Kieran McCarthy, Department of Geography, UCC

10:00-10:20 Salterstown: remembering the ‘Second Plantation’ and beyond

Shannon M. Kennedy , Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield

10:20-10:40 Tea & Coffee

Session Two: Colonial Processes

10:40-11:00 The Books of Survey and Distribution: Confiscation and subjugation in rural east Clare Terri Shoesmith, Department of History, NUI, Galway

11:00-11:20 The Archaeology of the Munster Plantation: Landscape, Memory and History Joe Nunan, Department of Archaeology, UCC

11:20-11:40 Geophysical and topographical mapping of a seventeenth century blast furnace in Ballyvannan, East Clare Paul Rondelez, Department of Archaeology, UCC

11:40-11:55 Discussion

11:55-12:15 Tea & Coffee

Session Three: Cultural frontiers

12:15-12:35 The Ulster coarse pottery assemblage from the high-status Gaelic crannog at Island MacHugh, Co. Tyrone Colleen O’Hara, Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway

12:35-12:55 Cultural frontiers in 16th century Ireland and Transylvania Teodora Pascal, Department of History, NUI, Galway

12:55-13:15 The Death of the Tower House: evidence for the decline of trade at tower houses Vicky McAlister, Department of History, TCD

13:15-13:35 English Garrisons and Irish Towns during the Elizabethan Conquest, 1558 – 1603 Kieran Hore, Department of History, NUI, Galway

13:35-13:50 Discussion

13:50- 15:20 Lunch

Session Four: After the conquest

15:20-15:40 A Question of Faith. Studying Mass Rock Sites in Ireland Hilary Bishop, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

15:40-16:10 Chapel villages and estate towns: the role of medieval ecclesiastical buildings in settlement development 1700-1900 Caroline McGee and Niamh Nic Ghabhann, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, TCD

16:10-16:30 The Archaeology of Identity: A case study of demesnes in north County Cork Jane Hurley, Department of Archaeology, UCC

16:30-16:50 '"Collusion at Morristown Lattin": A case study of the Lattin family, 1722-26.' Emma Lyons, School of History & Archives, UCD

16:50-17:10 “Bridewell, Smithfield and Bully’s Acre – names in the Irish built environment copied due to a common function” Paul Tempan, Irish and Celtic Studies, Queens University Belfast

16:50-17:05 Discussion