Medieval Dublin Symposium 2026
About this Event
Join us Saturday 3rd October, 9.30 - 5pm, for this year's in-person Medieval Dublin Symposium at the JM Synge Theatre (Room 2039), Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
The 27th Medieval Dublin symposium, presented as part of the Dublin Festival of History, will showcase new research in the history and archaeology of medieval Dublin.
The purpose of the annual Medieval Dublin symposium is to provide a way through which teachers, students, specialists, amateurs, historians, archaeologists, and everyone whose talents and interests are required to make complete the business of history, excavation and post excavation, can collaborate and provide us, and the Dubliners of the future with a clearer picture of the early growth of this remarkable city.
The event is free and all are welcome!
Programme lineup
9.30–9.45 Introduction
9.45–10.25 Update on the Viking settlement at Ballyfermot from 2026 excavations
Antoine Giacometti
10.25–11.00 Farmers, friars and spies: the Jordan family in Ireland, England and Scotland
Caoimhe Whelan
11.00–11.30 Break
11.30–12.10 Excavations of a late 7th to late 12th century penannular enclosure site in Newcastle, co. Dublin
David McIlreavy
12.10–12.45 The medieval farming landscape of the royal manor of Newcastle Lyons: insights from recent excavations
Muireann Ní Cheallacháin
12.45–14.00 Lunch break (not provided)
14.00–14.40 Charters as census substitutes: reconstructing the population of medieval Dublin
Seán Duffy
14.40–15.15 Sources for the history of medieval Dublin in the National Archives of the UK (TNA)
Paul Dryburgh
15.15–15.45 Break
15.45–17.00 50th Anniversary Roundtable: the founding of the Friends of Medieval Dublin in 1976 Anngret Simms, Howard Clarke, Richard Haworth, Tim O’Neill, Thaddeus Breen
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