Talk "Scottish Ordnance Survey Name Books (OSNBs)"

 

• Presenter: Nevis Hulme
• Format: Structured talk, followed by questions & answers
• View the recording here, streaming length: 1h 12m

This talk gave a brief overview of how the OSNBs are presented online followed by an examination of methods used to record names. This will include a look at the varied layout of OSNBs, the paper forms used by the OS for this work and how people of the areas being surveyed contributed to the collection of names. This could probably be the most detailed examination of the structure of OSNBs given to date.

Online Talk ‘Family names in the North of Ireland’

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Kay Muhr ‘Family names in the North of Ireland’	10/02/2022 12:30 PM	Heritage From Home
Event Details             Kay Muhr read Celtic Studies at Edinburgh and gained a PhD (on narrative style in traditional Gaelic literature) from the same University.  After postgraduate fellowships in Cambridge, Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast, she became a research fellow on the Ordnance Survey Memoir project in Queen’s University’s Institute for Irish Studies.  She was Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project in Irish & Celtic Studies in Queen’s from its foundation in 1987 until 2010.  She is a member and former president of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and a member and former chairman of the Ulster Place-Name Society (www.ulsterplacenamesociety.org)     She is the author of vol. 6 in the Place-Names of Northern Ireland series (NW Down), an introduction to local place-name study called Celebrating Ulster’s Townlands, and joint author (with Patrick McKay) of Lough Neagh Places: their names and origins (2007). She was the consultant on Irish and Scottish Gaelic surnames for DAFN, the Dictionary of American Family Names (OUP 2003) and for FaNBI, Family Names of Britain and Ireland (OUP 2016), a role shared from 2013 with Liam ÓhAisibéil in Galway. In autumn 2021 Kay and Liam published a volume on Irish surnames north and south: A Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland (OUP).  End Date & Time 10/02/2022 01:30 PM Booking Please register in advance here.

Talk "The List of Historic Place Names - Four Years On!"

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The List of Historic Place Names - Four Years On!

•  May 6th, 2021
 
•  This free lecture will be delivered via Zoom and the invitation will be sent to you once you have booked your place. Please don’t forget to download Zoom if you haven’t already!

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The List of Historic Place Names - Four Years On!

by Dr James January-McCann

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This talk will be a Welsh language event with simultaneous translation provided

Our Place Names Officer Dr James January-McCann looks back at the first four years of the List of Historic Place Names and discusses the work that's gone into it, and the effect it has had on the campaign to protect Wales' place name heritage. He will talk about the sources the names are taken from, and the way that the List is being used by Welsh Government, local authorities and other bodies to halt the loss of our historic Welsh names.

6 May, 2021, 5pm

This free lecture will be delivered via Zoom and the invitation will be sent to you once you have booked your place. Please don’t forget to download Zoom if you haven’t already!

Tickets will be limited and must be booked in advance.

Please reserve one ticket per household.

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During 2021 we will be holding special events and regular presentations on our current research projects. All are welcome to these free online events. All talks will be recorded, becoming available in due course on the Royal Commission’s YouTube channel.

Borgue Field Names Talk on the 10th February 2021

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Over the last 18 months a small team of local volunteers have collected and mapped nearly 1,000 field names analysing the meaning and possible origin of every name gathered.

Old field names act as a memorial, telling the story of the way the land was farmed and making connections between people and places, past and present.

Speakers Rachel Lucas, John Shields and Michael Ansell will describe how the names were collected and analysed, where you can find the results as well as presenting some of the research behind local field names.

February 10th 7.00pm

To register please contact secretary@kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk by February 5th.

Your initial email will be responded to, followed by an email confirming registration on 6th. If you don’t receive this email, please contact the same email address again. The invitation will be sent out on the 8th.

Talk and Exhibition on the Westmeath Field Names Recording Project tomorrow

Join Dr @AengusFinnegan in Collinstown Hall on 22 August from 8pm-9.30pm for an exploration of local placenames. Find out how you can get involved preserving Westmeath’s local heritage through the Westmeath Field Names Recording Project.

What's in a Name? Talk and Exhibition on the Westmeath Field Names Recording Project in Collinstown Hall on 22 August from 8pm#HeritageWeek2019

@NamesField   @CollinstownG  @HeritageHubIRE

A talk by Royal Commission Place names Officer on Collecting Welsh Place Names

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3 April 2019 

Pembroke Dock Library,

7.00pm.

A talk by Royal Commission Place names Officer, Dr James January McCann

on Collecting Welsh Place Names

Casglu Enwau Lleoedd Cymru.

Date	3rd April
Time	7.00 pm
Location	Pembroke Dock Library
Type	Talk
Special Guest	Dr James January McCann

Dr. James January-McCann was appointed at the Royal Commission at the start of July 2017 to be responsible for compiling the List and promoting it to the public in Wales and beyond. He came to the Royal Commission from the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University, where he spent two years as a lecturer in Celtic Languages after gaining his doctorate in Sixteenth Century Welsh Catholic literature.

Talk 'Layers of Leicestershire: uncovering the past through a thousand years of place names'

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Talk on Place Names at St Helen's Community Heritage Centre - Ashby

Mon 3 December, 2018

Dr Rebecca Gregory will talk on 'Layers of Leicestershire: uncovering the past through a thousand years of place names' at St Helen's Community Heritage Centre. 

£3 per person. Tea/coffee and biscuits included. 

7.30pm Start

Berkshire’s place-names in a talk by expert Dr David Peacock

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Find out about Berkshire’s place-names and the ways in which to identify where names originate from in a talk by expert Dr David Peacock.

David is a former teacher of politics and history at Padworth College, and also gives evening classes on local history at Newbury College and Reading University. He is Chairman of the Newbury Society. What's in a name? Rather more than might at first be apparent if you start to look into the meaning of local place names. David will explain the origins of many of Berkshire’s names and explain the ways in which to identify where place names originate from, drawing on examples from across the county.

This is the fourth in a series of five talks this quarter around the theme of the English Civil War, timed to commemorate the 375th anniversary of the Siege of Reading. Buy all five talk tickets for the price of £20 (members £16).
After the talk, tea and cake will be served (included within the price).
Tickets can be booked at www.berksfhs.org.uk or in person at The Centre for Heritage and Family History (see website for opening hours). Alternatively, you may pay at the door (subject to availability). 

Date	23 May 2018
Time(s)	2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Cost	£5 (£4 members) includes tea and cake
Venue	The Centre for Heritage and Family History second floor, Reading Central Library, Abbey Square Reading Berkshire RG13BQ
Phone	0118 950 9553
Category	Historic/Heritage

Talk on place names with Fiachra Mac Gabhann in Dundalk this Friday

http://talkofthetown.ie/talk-on-place-names-with-fiachra-mac-gabhann-in-dundalk-this-friday/

Blackrock native Fiachra Mac Gabhann will be giving a talk on Irish Place Names this Friday night.
The talk, organised by Dundalk Culture Club, will take place in Wellington Hall on St Mary’s Road from 8pm and all are welcome to attend.


Toponymy – the study of Place Names – gives us a fascinating and unique access to our past. It connects us to the landscape and nature and is a well­spring of geographical, historical and mythical information.

Fiachra Mac Gabhann presents a talk that will draw on his extraordinary ten-volume study of the placenames of County Mayo, Logainmneacha Mhaigh Eo, to examine some of the intricacies of these themes and piece together some of what has been lost, and offer perspectives on the historical and cultural significance of Irish placenames to our sense of identity.

After Greek, Irish is the oldest written language still spoken in Europe, and its many linguistic layers can be viewed in crystallised form among our placenames. Did you know that the name Louth is pre-Christian? Or that it refers to the private parts of a male deity? Did you ever wonder if any our ancient placenames come from languages other than Irish? Or how we might know? Not all placenames are ancient – but how can we tell the difference? How do we know for certain that the Irish for Blackrock is ‘Na Creagacha Dubha’ (which we might better translate as ‘the black crags’)?
At the talk, which will be presented in the form of slides with commentary, Fiachra will explore many inter-related aspects of our linguistic, social and historical heritage, with further forays into other diverse but relevant strands, including archaeology, religion and folklore, all the while remembering his roots and drawing on local parallels for an Oriel audience. The talk is open to all and should appeal to anyone curious about the origins of the names of the places they come from and live in.

Admission is free although donations are welcome.

Talks on the Dictionary of Medieval Names

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Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, editor-in-chief, and Dr. Joel Uckelman, chief technical guru, will be giving talks on the Dictionary and Digital Humanities at the University of Bozen (Bolzano) next month, on Dec. 21, 2015. We’ll post more details on the Events page as they are available.

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