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SNSBI 2010 Carmarthen meeting (Ivy Bush Royal Hotel, March 12–15)

This meeting was organised by Professor Hywel Wyn Owen and sponsored by the Welsh Language Board. There is a report in Nomina 33, 169–171.

Friday 12 March

  • Professor Prys Morgan: Carmarthen, capital of west Wales

Saturday 13 March

  • Gwyn Jones: Safoni enwau lleoedd Cymru: Standardising Wales’s place-names
  • David Thorne: Field names in a Carmarthenshire parish
  • Chris Lewis: Personal names and cultural identity in Victorian Wales
  • Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig: The element longphort ‘ship-encampment’ in Irish toponymy
  • Emma Nic Cárthaigh: Difficulties in determining early medieval Irish tribal boundaries: Dal, Dealbhna, Dartraighe
  • Paul Tempan: Patterns in street-naming in Belfast
  • Dewi Evans: Welsh place-names in Patagonia
  • Julia Stanbridge: The naming of New Zealand: how the British applied British names to the colony
  • Ann Cole: Lurking by Offa’s Dyke
  • Ellen Bramwell: Homonymous brothers in the Hebrides: present-day parallels to an historical problem
  • Marteinn Sigurdsson: Norse names of three episcopal seats in medieval Scotland
  • Peder Gammeltoft: DigDag – a Danish place-name research infrastructure
  • Shaun Tyas: Gooch’s Lincolnshire place-names and other delusions

Sunday 14 March

  • 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
  • Guto Rhys: Names and phonology of Pictish
  • David Parsons: Y Sais bach yng Nghymru: the place names of England and Wales contrasted
  • Excursion to Tenby led by Professor Prys Morgan
  • Patrick Hanks: Some methodological considerations in approaching the study of family names
  • Peter McClure: Some problems and solutions in explaining English and Anglo-Celtic names
  • Kay Muhr: The Elizabethan Fiants for Ireland and Irish surnames today

The Ivy Bush Hotel

Preparing the reception desk

Breakfast

The Lecture Room

The Lecture Room

The Bar

Tenby town walls

The five-entrance gate

Daffodils outside the church

The church from the main street

Tenby harbour

Looking out to sea

Fort on the rock

Houses above the beach

harbour and sea front from the museum

Harbour and jetty

The merchant’s house

Returning to the coach

Memorial to the “Rebecca Rioters”

Viewing the memorial.