The 2024 SNSBI Spring conference will take place from May 10 to 13 at the All Hallows Campus of Dublin City University (DCU) at Drumcondra. Accommodation will be provided by DCU on the Glasnevin Campus. Both are in the northern suburbs of Dublin, easily accessible from the airport.
Call for papers: contributions are welcome on a range of topics, both place- and personal names. If you are interested in giving a paper please email a title and abstract to confsec@snsbi.org.uk by January 25th.
For more information, and booking details, please see the first circular.
Draft programme
- Conchubhar Ó Crualaoich – opening lecture.
- Liam Ó hAisibéil ‘Eighteenth century 'translations’ of Irish surnames’
- Justin Ó Gliasáin ‘Placenames of Inishowen’
- Paul Tempan ‘Place-names on Robert Lythe’s Map of Carrickfergus Bay (Belfast Lough), 1567’
- Liam Mac Mathúna ‘A corpus of Irish-language place-names from the Dublin area (c.1728)’
- Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhghaill ‘minor placenames in the Dublin mountains’
- Peder Gammeltoft ‘Quantitative extra-linguistic methods in place-name research – worth the bother?
- Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill ‘Sliabh na mBan (‘the mountain of the women’)
- Thomas Owen Clancy ‘Gaelic and the Ordnance Survey’
- Zenobie Garrett & Catherine Porter ‘OS200 Database Demo’
- Abigail Lloyd ‘Learning from Celtic predecessors or creation from scratch: What then is a dūn?’
- Eleanor Rye ‘Old English and Old Scandinavian in contact: dialect-contact and place-names
- Keith Briggs ‘Suffolk place-name project’
- Carole Hough ‘The Old English contribution to Scottish toponymy’
- Chris Lewis ‘Helensburgh house-names of the later Victorian period’
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