Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI)
Nineteenth Annual Easter Conference
Ivy Bush Royal Hotel, Carmarthen 12th - 15th March 2010
organised by Professor Hywel Wyn Owen
and sponsored by the Welsh Language Board.
Conference Programme
| FRIDAY 12th March 2010 | ||
| 3.00pm | Arrival and Registration. | Tea and coffee (to order) |
| 6.15pm | Bar available | |
| 7.00pm | Dinner | |
| 8.00pm | Professor Prys Morgan | Carmarthen, capital of west Wales |
| 9.15pm | Committee Meeting of the Society. | |
| SATURDAY 13th March 2010 | ||
| 7.30am | Breakfast | |
| 9.00am | Gwyn Jones | Safoni enwau lleoedd Cymru Standardizing Wales's Place-names |
| 9.35am | David Thorne | Field names in a Carmarthenshire parish. |
| 10.10am | Chris Lewis | Personal names and cultural identity in Victorian Wales. |
| 10.45am | Coffee | |
| 11.05am | Donall Mac Giolla Easpaig | The element longphort "ship-encampment" in Irish toponymy. |
| 11.40m | Emma Nic Carthaigh | Difficulties in determining early medieval Irish tribal boundaries: Dal, Dealbhna, Dartraighe. |
| 12.15am | Paul Tempan | Patterns in street-naming in Belfast. |
| 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| 2.00pm | Dewi Evans | Welsh place-names in Patagonia. |
| 2.35pm | Julia Stanbridge | The naming of New Zealand: how the British applied British names to the colony. |
| 3.10pm | Tea | |
| 3.30pm | Ann Cole | Lurking by Offa's Dyke. |
| 4.05pm | Ellen Bramwell | Homonymous brothers in the Hebrides: present day parallels to an historical problem. |
| 4.40pm | Marteinn Sigurdsson | Norse names of three episcopal seats in medieval Scotland. |
| 6.00pm | Dinner | |
| 7.30pm | Peder Gammeltoft | DigDag: a Danish place-name research infrastructure. |
| 8.05 | Shaun Tyas | Gooch's Lincolnshire place-names and other delusions. |
| SUNDAY 14th March 2010. | ||
| 7.30am | Breakfast | |
| 9.00am | Annual General Meeting of the SNSBI. | |
| 9.40am | John Koch | Gens Hiernorum "the Irish" and other early names from the Ora Maritima in the light of recent work on Ross Island and Tartessian. |
| 10.15am | Coffee | |
| 10.35am | Guto Rhys | Names and phonology of Pictish |
| 11.10am | David Parsons | Y Sais bach yng Nghymru: the place names of England and Wales contrasted. |
| 12.00 | Lunch | |
| 1.15pm | Excursion to Tenby | led by Professor Prys Morgan. |
| 6.00pm | Dinner | |
| Family Names in the United Kingdom (AHRC funded project) | ||
| 7.30pm | Patrick Hanks | Some methodological considerations in approaching the study of family names. |
| 7.55pm | Peter McClure | Some problems and solutions in explaining English and Anglo-Celtic names. |
| 8.20pm | Kaye Muhr | The Elizabethan Fiants for Ireland and Irish surnames today. |
| 9.00pm | Committee Meeting of the Society. | |
| MONDAY 15th March 2010. | ||
| 7.30am | Breakfast |
Excursion to Tenby
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| The Ivy Bush Hotel. | Preparing the reception desk |
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| Breakfast | The Lecture Room |
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| The Lecture Room. | The Bar. |
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| Tenby town walls | The five-entrance gate |
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| Daffodils outside the church | The church from the main street |
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| Tenby harbour. | Looking out to sea |
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| Fort on the rock | Houses above the beach |
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| harbour and sea front from the museum | Harbour and jetty |
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| The merchant's house | returning to the coach |
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| Memorial to the "Rebecca Rioters" | Viewing the memorial. |
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