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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

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

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