Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI)
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Saturday 31 March - Tuesday 3 April 2007
St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin
Programme
Saturday 31 March
3.00pm onwards Registration
8.00 pm Welcome (and chair): Dr Oliver Padel (President)
Evening Lecture
8.00 - 9.00 Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle “Name studies in Ireland: a review”
9.15pm Committee meeting
Sunday 1 April
Morning Lectures. (shown in the picture)
9.15 - 9.45 Prof. Thomas Clancy "Logie bared: an ecclesiastical place-name element
in eastern Scotland"
9.45 - 10.15 Dr. Micheál Ó Mainnín "Navigating the Dabhall: the river and its
influence on the toponymy of North Armagh"
10.15 - 10.45 Dr. Paul Cullen 'The survival of Celtic place-names in Kent'
11.15 - 11.45 Dr. Carole Hough “Names in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
11.45 - 12.15 Dr. Kay Muhr "From Tamlachtae Dublocho to Gort Tamhlacht na Muc"
12.15 - 1.00pm Peter Kitson “OE Maw/Moew, ‘Burial mound’”
Afternoon Lectures
2.15 - 2.45 Dr. Fiachra Mac Gabhann “The microtoponymy of Achill, Inishturk and
Inishark, County Mayo”
2.45 - 3.15 Paul Tempan “Five Common Generic Elements in Irish Hill and Mountain
Names: Binn, Cnoc,Cruach, Mullach, Sliabh"
3.45 - 4.15 Dr. Pat McKay "Some Scots Influences on Ulster Place-Names"
4.15 - 4.45 Dr. Simon Taylor "The trouble with the Forest of Outh .... defining
a boundary in medieval Fife"
4.45 - 5.15 Michael Ansell “Place Name Evidence for woodland distribution and
hunting in medieval Galloway and Carrick”
5.15 - 5.45 Dr. Rhian Parry “Farm and field names of Ardudwy Uwch Artro”
Evening Lecture
8.00 - 9.00pm Prof. Liam Mac Mathúna "Anglicised names in bilingual texts (1600-1800)"
Monday 2 April
9.15 AGM (the picture shows the coach arriving at Glendalough that afternoon)
Morning Lectures.
10.00 - 10.30 Dr. Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich “English placenames in south Wexford”
11.00 - 11.30 Dr. Eamon Lankford “Cork & Kerry Place Names Survey Methodology”
11.30 - 12.00 Jennifer Scherr “The Norman French element bretesche in England and Ireland”
12.00 - 12.30 Dr. Kevin Murray “The Locus project”
2.00 pm Afternoon Coach excursion to Glendalough (shown in the last picture)
7.00 pm Conference Dinner at the Glen View Hotel, Glen of the Downs.
Tuesday 3 April
9.15am Committee meeting.
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