Please see the programme below.
Programme
DÉ hAOINE/ FRIDAY 15 April 2016
3.30pm Clárú/Registration
6.00-8.00pm Dinnéar/Dinner (Pugin Hall)
Léacht an Bhreathnaigh/Paul Walsh Lecture (Renehan Hall)
8.00-9.00pm Mícheál Ó Mainnín (QUB) 'Annexing Irish
names to the English tongue: language contact and the anglicisation of Irish
place-names'
DÉ SATHAIRN/ SATURDAY 16 April
2016
Oscailt/Opening (Renehan Hall)
9.00-9.20am
Ruairí
Ó hUiginn (Maynooth U.) 'The Irish language
and onomastics'
Session 1: Scottish & Irish Personal Names
9.20-9.50am Alice Crook (U. of Glasgow) 'From Abram Meassone
Mansone to Onesiphorus Tyndall Bruce Nivison: the usage of middle names in
Early Modern Scotland'
09.50-10.20am Sofia Evemalm Kalamakis (U. of Glasgow) 'Theorising the study
of personal names as place-name elements in a Lewis context'
10.20-10.50am Liam Ó hAisibéil (NUI Galway) 'Morose and mirthful: adjectival
epithets in Irish personal names'
10.50-11.10am Tae agus Caifé / Tea and Coffee
Session 2: Irish Personal Names & Surnames
11.10-11.40am Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich (Placenames Br.) 'Personal names and
surnames in Wicklow as found in the 16th century Fiants'
11.40-12.10pm Niall Comer (Ulster U.) 'Personal names and
surnames in the barony of
Coleraine'
12.10-12.40pm Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Mich al Boleslav Mechura & Katie Ní Loingsigh (DCU) 'Towards a database of Irish surnames'
12.40-2.00pm Lón/Lunch (Pugin Hall)
Session 3: Irish Place-Names
2.00-2.30pm Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill (Placenames Br.) 'Some fishery names on the River Shannon'
2.30-3.00pm Conchúr Mag Eacháin (DCU) 'Dúchas.ie as a
toponymical resource'
3.00-3.30pm
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig (Placenames Br.) 'The element machaire
in Irish
place-names'
3.30-4.00pm Tae agus Caifé / Tea and Coffee
Session 4: Aoiléacht/Guest Lecture
4.00-5.00pm Fiachra Mac Gabhann (Castlebar College of Further Ed.) 'A turf-bank of toponymy: Mayo
place-names and the publication of Logainmneacha Mhaigh Eo'
5.00-6.00pm Walking tour of
campus/Maynooth Castle
6.30-8.00pm Dinnéar na Comhdhála /Conference Dinner
(Pugin Hall)
Session 5: Project Reports
8.00-8.15pm Josefin Devine (Umeå U. & Institute for language and folklore, Uppsala) 'Ubbe, Gök and
Fjäder. Personal names within place-names in the county of Jämtland, Sweden'
8.15-8.30pm Justin Ó Gliasáin & Mairéad Nic Lochlainn (DCU) 'Project report on logainm.ie – the
Placenames Database of Ireland and Meitheal Logainm.ie
8.30-8.45pm Carole Hough (U. of Glasgow) 'Project report: Cognitive Toponymy:
People and Places in Synergy'
8.45-9.00pm Postgraduate Workshop Report (Rebecca Gregory & Alice Crook)
DÉ DOMHNAIGH/ Sunday 17 April 2016
9.15-10.00am AGM (Renehan
Hall)
Session 6: English Place-Names
10.00-10.30am Eleanor Rye (U. of Nottingham) & Stuart Brookes (UCL) 'New approaches to
old roads: travel and communication in Anglo Saxon England'
10.30-11.00am Rebecca Gregory (U. of Nottingham) 'The specificity of
generics: semantic development and differentiation in some East Midland
field-name elements'
11.00-11.20am Tae agus Caifé/Tea and Coffee
Session 7: Place-Names & Streetnames
11.20-11.50am Pat McKay (QUB) 'Heaney Country:
celebration of place- names in the poetry of Seamus Heaney'
11.50-12.20pm Graham Collis (U. of Nottingham) 'St. Patrick – born in
the Pas-de-Calais?'
12.20-12.50pm Liam Mac Mathúna (UCD) 'Irish-language
street-names pre 1900: sources and functions'
12.50-1.40pm Lón/Lunch
1.40-6.00pm Turas go Baile Átha Troim /Excursion to Trim
6.30-8.00pm Dinnéar/Dinner (Pugin Hall)
Session 8: Hydronyms
8.00-8.30pm Keith Briggs (Independent) 'The river-names of Suffolk'
8.30-9.00pm Paul Tempan (Independent) 'Gaoth – a Brittonic
element in Irish hydronyms?'
DÉ LUAIN/ Monday 18 April 2016
10.00-11.00am Committee meeting