PRELIMINARY NOTICE OF 8TH ANNUAL MEDIEVAL DUBLIN SYMPOSIUM

The 8th Annual Medieval Dublin Symposium will take place on Saturday 13 May in Trinity College Dublin (Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building), 9.30am-5.00pm.

The programme will contain papers on important archaeological topics such as the recent discovery of Viking burials at a major excavation at Golden Lane near St Patrick's Cathedral, directed by Edmund O'Donovan, and the results of a survey by Nessa Walsh of the pre-Romanesque churches of County Dublin.

A little-known manuscript in TCD contains an important chronicle surviving from medieval Dublin, and its 'rediscovery' will be presented in a landmark paper by Raymond Gillespie, entitled "Dublin's image of itself: the city chronicle". This will be accompanied by Alan Fletcher's study of "Dublin in the medieval Anglo-Irish and Latin chronicles", and Bernadette Cunningham's assessment of "Dublin in the medieval Irish annals".

Admission free. Everyone welcome. Further information from sduffy@tcd.ie.