SNSBI Thirtieth Spring Conference 2024
The 2024 SNSBI Spring conference will take place from May 10 to 13 at the All Hallows Campus of Dublin City University (DCU) at Drumcondra. Accommodation will be provided by DCU on the Glasnevin Campus. Both are in the northern suburbs of Dublin, easily accessible from the airport.
For more information, and booking details, please see the first circular and the second circular. The draft programme follows.
Dé hAoine/Friday
- 1530-1730 Clárú/Registration
- 1800-1930 reception & meal (Main Restaurant, All Hallows)
- 1930-2030 Opening lecture (Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich): ‘Placenames of Ireland: an inverted historical periscope through which we can peer into ancient time’
Dé Sathairn/Saturday
Session 1: Irish surnames
- 0930-1000 Liam Ó hAisibéil ‘Eighteenth century 'translations’ of Irish surnames’
Session 2: Ulster placenames
- 1000-1030 Justin Ó Gliasáin ‘Researching the placenames of Inishowen’
- 1030-1100 Paul Tempan ‘Place-names on Robert Lythe’s Map of Carrickfergus Bay (Belfast Lough), 1567’
- 1100-1120 Tae & caifé/tea & coffee
Session 3: Dublin placenames & Irish placenames
- 1120-1150 Liam Mac Mathúna ‘A corpus of Irish-language place-names from the Dublin area (c.1728)’
- 1150-1220 Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill ‘Irish alongside English in the placenames of the Dublin glens’
- 1220-1250 Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill ‘Sliabh na mBan (‘the mountain of the women’)
- 1250-1400 Lón/Lunch (conference room)
Session 4: Placenames
- 1400-1430 Peder Gammeltoft ‘Quantitative extra-linguistic methods in place-name research – worth the bother?
- 1430-1500 Michal Boleslav Měchura ‘A critical look at the data structure behind Logainm.ie’
- 1500-1520 Tae & caifé/Tea & coffee
Session 5: The Ordnance Survey in Ireland & Scotland
- 1520-1550 Thomas Owen Clancy ‘Scottish Gaelic and the Ordnance Survey’
- 1550-1615 OS200 Database Demo Zenobie Garrett
Session 6: Reports
- 1900-2100 Dinnéar/Dinner – The Cat & Cage
Dé Domhnaigh/Sunday
Session 7: English place-names
- 0930-1000 Abigail Lloyd ‘Learning from Celtic predecessors or creation from scratch: What then is a dūn?’
- 1000-1030 Eleanor Rye ‘Old English and Old Scandinavian in contact: dialect-contact and place-names’
- 1030-1100 Keith Briggs ‘Suffolk place-name project’
1100-11.20 Tae & caifé/Tea & coffee
Session 8: Scottish place-names & housenames
- 1120-1150 Carole Hough ‘The Old English contribution to Scottish toponymy’
- 1150-1220 Chris Lewis ‘Helensburgh house-names of the later Victorian period’
1220-1250 Lón/lunch
1300-1800 Turas/excursion (Fore)
1815-1830 Dúnadh/closing remarks
1845-2015 Dinnéar/dinner (The Cat & Cage)
