CHSI Annual Conference, 2026. Irish Catholic spaces: pasts and futures
About this Event
This year's conference is on the timely theme of of 'Irish Catholic spaces: pasts and futures'.
Please note that tickets are €20, to be paid in cash on the day; exact amount preferred. Includes a light lunch.
CHSI Annual Conference 2026 Schedule
9.45-9.50 Welcome
9.50-11.20
800 years of Franciscan spaces
· Prof. John McCafferty (UCD): Remembering and returning: the survival of the Franciscan friary network in 17th century Ireland
· Dr Malgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton (UCC): Poverty and materiality: Franciscan approaches to material culture in medieval Ireland
· Dr Niamh NicGhabhann-Coleman (Limerick): “as an nua … ar an láthair chéanna” – rebuilding Franciscan Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
11.20-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-13.00
Dr David Caron, Twentieth-century stained glass in Dublin
13.00-14.15
Lunch and visit to view stained-glass windows in onsite chapel and meditation room
14.15-15.00
Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB): In the windows and walls: Finding the Irish diaspora through the religious built environment
15.00-16.00
Preserving and Recording Ireland’s Sacred Heritage: Launch of the PARISH church inscriptions database
Dr Sarah Roddy (Maynooth), Dr Joe Curran (Maynooth), Adam Heet (Notre Dame)
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