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22/12/2004 Reports: Irish Historical Studies 2005 programme announced
20/12/2004 Reports: Gordon Casely, 'The duke of Leinster' in The Herald (20 December 2004) on John FitzGerald, Baron of Offaly who, having allied his forces to King Edward I in his Scottish campaigns, was created earl of Kildare by Edward II in 1316.
08/12/2004 Reports: 9th duke of Leinster continues Kildare dynasty
  Events: Launch of Dublin city walls and defences conservation plan in Atrium, Civic Offices, Wood Quay on Wednesday 8 December 2004, 18.00
04/12/2004 Reports: More photos of Dublin march for the Tara-Skryne valley
  Reports: 'The concrete isle' in The Guardian (Saturday 4 December 2004)
03/12/2004 Reports: Possible expelled Dublin Viking hoard found in Cheshire
29/11/2004

Reports: Virtual tour of medieval Galway launched

28/11/2004 Reports: Photos of Dublin march for the Tara-Skryne valley
20/11/2004 Reports: 'Tara Valley group claims publicly elected status' in Meath Chronicle
  Reports: 'Build M3 bypasses first is call from Kells' in Meath Chronicle
14/11/2004 Report: March for Tara from the Garden of Remembrance to Wood Quay
25/10/2004 Report: New music history of Christ Church cathedral features chapters on medieval music in Dublin
19/10/2004 Carrickmines: Judgement reserved over Carrickmines costs
17/10/2004 Carrickmines: 'The lessons of Wood Quay' by Howard Clarke
13/10/2004 Carrickmines: Excavations at Carrickmines Castle 2000-2002: the fourth Leo Swan Memorial Lecture by Dr Mark Clinton in Tallaght county library at 8pm on Wednesday 13 October 2004.
13/10/2004 Articles: Linzi Simpson, 'Viking Dublin: the 9th century evidence begins to unfold' online at Margaret Gowan & Co. Ltd
12/10/2004

Events: TCD evening course offers overview of the medieval world

30/09/2004 Carrickmines: Medieval fosse removed from Carrickmines site
 

Carrickmines: Final phase of M50 again in doubt

17/09/2004 Reports: New legal regime for our heritage
16/09/2004 Events: Public meeting on Woodstown Viking site featuring Dublin based archaeologist, Paula Geragthy amongst speakers in Granville Hotel on Thursday 16 September 2004, 8.00pm
11/09/2004

Reports: Developer appeals decision to block round tower complex

10/09/2004

Events: Public support sought to save Viking site: Woodstown - Dublin based archaeologist, Paula Geraghty, amongst others, to speak.

09/09/2004 Carrickmines: Roads authority rejects claims of overstated costs
  Carrickmines: Work on road not to start for three weeks
  Carrickmines: Archaeology and road-building
08/09/2004

Carrickmines: Mitchell welcomes High Court verdict on Carrickmines

  Carrickmines: Work at Carrickmines to resume this morning
04/09/2004 Reports: Major rise in numbers concerned at issues of environment
03/09/2004 Carrickmines: Archaeology offers complicated and tantalising route
01/09/2004

Carrickmines: Motorway challenge decision on Tuesday

31/08/2004 Carrickmines: State puts its case on M50 challenge
30/08/2004

Carrickmines: M50 needs upgrading after final section is opened

  Reports: Margaret Gowen, 'Dublin City Walls and Defences Conservation Plan' online at Margaret Gowan & Co. Ltd.
28/08/2004 Carrickmines: Call for new study on castle
  Carrickmines: Claims on standard of castle excavation 'incorrect'
27/08/2004 Carrickmines: National Monuments Act
  Carrickmines: Road work at fort site to stay on hold
  Carrickmines: M50 work 'contributing to castle's destruction'
  Carrickmines: Call for new order to protect Carrickmines
26/08/2004 Carrickmines: M50 works halted amid legal row
24/08/2004

Reports: Remains of 10th century woman found

  Carrickmines: National Monuments Act, in reply to An act designed to facilitate roads and real estate
23/08/2004 Reports: Viking find 'extremely significant'
22/08/2004 Carrickmines: The passion and the fury: road projects in dire straits
21/08/2004 Reports: Archaeologists find body of 9th century Viking woman near medieval north Dublin church
  Reports: Body from early Viking period discovered in Dublin
20/08/2004

Carrickmines: Court suspends works at motorway castle site

  Carrickmines: Court told of cost of delay at Carrickmines
  Carrickmines: High Court challenge halts work on M50 once again
19/08/2004 Carrickmines: Council denies deliberate demolition of ancient ruins
  Carrickmines: You can't make progress without disturbing the past
  Carrickmines: High Court to hear Carrickmines case
  Carrickmines: Carrickmines castle and the M50 / Resuming work on the M50
  Carrickmines: Torrential rain does more to delay work than court hearing
  Carrickmines: Council to deny claims it is demolishing ancient ruins
18/08/2004 Carrickmines: Affidavits sought over Carrickmines site
  Carrickmines: Court move today to stop work on M50 motorway
17/08/2004 Carrickmines: An act designed to facilitate roads and real estate
  Carrickmines: Diggers begin clearing castle site for M50
  Carrickmines: M50 work faces new legal challenge
16/08/2004 Carrickmines: The destruction of Carrickmines Castle
  Carrickmines: Motorway works on carrickmines castle barbaric - Greens
  Carrickmines: Work resumes on contentious M50 section
  Carrickmines: The last battle for Carrickmines castle
15/08/2004 Carrickmines: Campaigners in final court move to halt work at Carrickmines
13/08/2004 Carrickmines: Carrickmines work to begin next week
12/08/2004 Carrickmines: Carrickmines saga haunted by echoes of Wood Quay

  Carrickmines: Work to resume next month on M50 at Carrickmines site
11/08/2004 Books: Publication of work by seventeenth-century Sligo scholar, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Leabhar Mór na nGenealach, The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, who worked with Dublin's Sir James Ware in the 1660s
27/07/2004 Events: Ireland's leading folklorist, Dáithí Ó Hógáin and British heritage campaigner among Feis Tara Skryne guest speakers at the RSAI
20/07/2004 Events: August lecture series on medieval manuscripts in Christ Church cathedral
13/06/2004 Reports: Council rejects development at round tower
01/06/2004

Carrickmines: Letter to Irish Times re national monuments

23/06/2004

Carrickmines: SF accuses Cullen of being 'thick' and open to corruption

  Carrickmines: Cullen clashes with SF TD in 'corruption' row
22/06/2004

Carrickmines: Proposed monuments Bill is 'reprehensible' and 'primitive'

18/06/2004 Carrickmines: Will law be a licence to bypass our heritage?
  Carrickmines: Monuments Bill 'legal vandalism' claims Labour
17/06/2004 Carrickmines: 'Ill-conceived' bill threatens heritage sites
  Carrickmines: Historic sites Bill likely to face legal challenge
16/06/2004 Carrickmines: M50 bill may be enacted before recess
  Carrickmines: Green light for stalled M50 link as law ends heritage sites hitch
15/06/2004 Carrickmines: 'Anger Strike' against National Monuments Bill
  Carrickmines: National Monuments Amendment Bill will not prevent another Carrickmines - Fine Gael
  Carrickmines: Cullen clears way for M50's completion
12/06/2004 Events: Medieval priory manuscripts exhibited at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
09/06/2004

Events: Dublin manuscripts exhibition reunites medieval manuscripts for first time since Reformation

07/06/2004

Events: Medieval music opens Christ Church exhibition

02/06/2004 Carrickmines: Brennan: M50 will be finished on time
17/05/2004 Symposia: Launch of Medieval Dublin V to take place at 6th Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium on Saturday 29 May 2004
12/05/2004 Events: Theoretical Influences in Irish Archaeology and Why Archaeology Needs Social Theory and Why Social Theory Needs Archaeology, the third Inspiring agendas lecture at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland on Wednesday 12 May 2004
24/04/2004

Symposia: Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2004 - Saturday 29 May 2004: Trinity College and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

22/04/2004 Books: Launch of new map of medieval Dublin
15/04/2004 Events: The Irish medieval landscape: new perspectives lecture by Professor Valerie Hall on Thursday 22 April 2004 at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
08/04/2004 Events: Theory and Politics in early 20th Century Irish Archaeology, second Inspiring agendas lecture at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland on Thursday 15 April 2004
12/02/2004 Events: Lunchtime lectures on Dublin archbishops St Laurence O'Toole (1162-1180) and John Cumin (1182-1212) on Tuesdays in March 2004 in Christ Church cathedral
04/02/2004 Events: Antiquarianism, Theory and Politics lecture at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland on 17 February 2004
29/01/2004 Events: Lecture by Professor Pádraig Ó Riain on the Christ Church martyrology, previously given at the 5th FMD symposium
  Carrickmines: Castle site roundabout decision overturned
28/01/2004 Carrickmines: M50 work at Carrickmines is halted
27/01/2004 Carrickmines: Ruling on Carrickmines castle overturned
13/01/2004 Carrickmines: Dr Seán Duffy, Chairman of FMD, rejects Irish Times editorial on Carrickmines.
10/01/2004 Carrickmines: Final battle in long-running war to prevent construction over remains of Carrickmines castle lost
07/01/2004

Carrickmines: Transport minster welcomes Carrickmines decision

06/01/2004

Carrickmines: National Roads Authority: Legal challenge adds €10 million to cost of M50

 

Carrickmines: Carrickmines castle decision given

 

Carrickmines: Castle ruins must make way for motorway roundabout

 

Carrickmines: Brennan welcomes Carrickmines ruling

24/12/2003

Carrickmines: Judicial hearing granted over Carrickmines

12/12/2003 Carrickmines: Call for Carrickmines inquiry after EU report
  Carrickmines: EU report critical of archaeological report on castle
09/12/2003

Carrickmines: Court lifts injunction restraining Dún Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council from recommencing work on M50 at Carrickmines castle site

08/12/2003

Carrickmines: Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown County Council request lifting of injunction again work on M50 at Carrickmines castle site.

07/12/2003 Article: Mick Heaney, 'Black death becomes her' in The Times (7 December 2003) reviewing Maria Kelly, The Great Dying: the black death in Dublin (Tempus, 2003)
25/11/2003

Events: Dublinia receives best publication award at the 2003 Museum of the Year awards for Dublinia: The Story of Medieval Dublin.

03/11/2003 Events: UCD lecturer Dr Alan Fletcher interviewed about new book Who killed Chaucer? co-written with, amongst others, Terry Jones of Monty Python fame
01/11/2003

Events: Free lunchtime lectures series in the crypt of Christ Church cathedral on Some more bishops and archbishops of Dublin & Glendalough: Bishop Gilla Pátraic (1074-1084) on Tuesday 11 and Archbishop Adam Loftus (1567-1605) on 11 November 2003.

01/09/2003 Books: Maria Kelly, The Great Dying: the black death in Dublin (Tempus, 2003), a book on Dublin's plagues.
21/04/2003

Symposium: Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2003 - Saturday 17 May 2003, Ussher Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building, Arts Building, Trinity College, Dublin

09/04/2003

Books: Seán Duffy (ed.), Medieval Dublin IV (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003)

01/03/2003 Events: Free lunchtime lectures series at in the crypt of Christ Church cathedral on The Natural Resources of Medieval Dublin on Tuesdays at 1.15pm in March 2003.
23/01/2003 Books: Howard Clarke, The four parts of Dublin: high life and low life in medieval Dublin (Dublin: Dublin City Council, 2002)
12/12/2002

Carrickmines: David Newman Johnson's report to the Castle Studies Group

25/11/2002 Books: Launch of Howard B. Clarke, Dublin c. 840 to c. 1540: the medieval town in the modern city (2nd ed., Dublin: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, 2002)
14/11/2002 Excavations: Luas works will preserve remains of 17th-century stable in Lower O'Connell Street
06/12/2002 Events: New FMD website goes live!
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Launch of 'Dublin city walls and defences conservation plan' on Wednesday 8 December 2004, 18.00
St Audoen's arch c.1885
part of Dublin city wall
TCD evening course offers overview of medieval world
TCD evening course
offers overview of
medieval world
Archaeologists find 9th century Viking in north Dublin
Archaeologists find
9th century Viking
in north Dublin

August lecture series
on medieval mss
at Christ Church
Launch of 'Medieval Dublin V' to take  place at May symposium.
Launch of next
Medieval Dublin
volume to take place
at May symposium

'Walks around medieval Dublin' launch.
Launch of Walks around
medieval Dublin

Maria Kelly, 'The great dying: the black death in Dublin' (Tempus, 2003)
Maria Kelly, The great
dying: the black death
in Dublin
(Tempus, 2003)