The Making of a Myth
Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of the ‘Great Earl’ of Kildare
Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre
(Room 2043 Arts Building)
Trinity College Dublin
Friday 13 to Saturday 14 September 2013
Featuring a keynote public lecture by Professor Steven Ellis
Friday 13 September 2013 at 7 pm
Organizers:
Peter Crooks and Seán Duffy, Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Telephone: +353 1 896-1791
Admission Free • All Welcome
To register, please go to http://geraldines.eventbrite.co.uk/
Further Information:
www.tcd.ie/history/geraldines
medieval.ireland.symposium@gmail.com
Speakers include:
Sparky Booker (TCD) • Ciaran Brady (TCD) • Peter Crooks (TCD) • Seán Duffy (TCD) • David Edwards (University College Cork) • Steven Ellis (NUI Galway) • Robin Frame (Durham) • Paul MacCotter (UCC) • Huw Pryce (Wales, Bangor) • Katharine Simms (TCD) • Linzi Simpson • Brendan Smith (Bristol) • Colin Veach (Hull)
Details
Keynote Lecture: Friday 13 September at 7 pm
Professor Steven Ellis will examine the career of the Great Earl of Kildare, once dubbed by a twentieth-century historian the ‘all-but king of Ireland’. Among Professor Ellis’s many publications are: Ireland in the age of the Tudors (1998); Tudor frontiers and noble power (1995); and Reform and Revival (1986).
Friday 13 September 2013
13.45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
14.00–15.30 – Session 1
Ciaran Brady
Seán Duffy
16.00–17.30 – Session 2
Huw Pryce
Colin Veach
Saturday 14 September 2013
9.00-10.30 – Session 3
Brendan Smith
Paul MacCotter
11.00-12.30 – Session 4
Robin Frame
Katharine Simms
14.00-15.30 – Session 5
Linzi Simpson
Sparky Booker
16.00-17.30 – Session 6
Peter Crooks
David Edwards