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Brides of Christ:Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
Fifth Glenstal History Conference Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
When and where
Date and time
Location
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About this event
Friday 2 July
Opening 15.00–15.20 Webinar opening
Welcome to the Fifth Glenstal History Conference by Abbot Brendan Coffey OSB
15.20–15.40 Introduction by Abbess Máire Hickey, Kylemore Abbey
Session 1 15.40–16.20 Dr Tracy Collins
(Aegis Archaeology) ‘On the Brink of the Wave’: Towards an Archaeology of Female Religious in Early Medieval Ireland.
16.25–17.05 Dr Elva Johnston
(University College Dublin) Locating Female Foundations in the Early Medieval Irish Martyrologies.
17.05–17.30 Q&A Close of day
18.00 Vespers from Glenstal Abbey Church available at: https://www.glenstal.com/abbey/webcam/
Saturday 3 July
Session 2 10.50 Webinar opening
11.00–11.40 Dr Edel Bhreathnach (Independent) Devotees, Mothers, Sisters and Virgins: Seeking Female Monastic Communities in Early Ireland.
11.45–12.25 Dr Cathy Swift (Mary Immaculate College UL) St Macrina, St Brigit and St Íte: Models of Female Charism in the Early Irish Church?
12.30–12.50 Q&A
12.50–13.00 10 MINUTE BREAK
Session 3 13.00–13.40 Dr Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel The Other Peregrinatio: Irish Pilgrim Nuns in Medieval Germany.
13.45–14.25 Professor Yvonne Seale (SUNY Geneseo) ‘Order, Order!’: Identity, Belonging and Women’s Monastic Communities in Ireland and France, Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries.
14.30–15.10 Dr Gillian Kenny (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Paragon(s) of the Gael?’: Medieval Irishwomen - Patronage, Piety, Propaganda and Power.
15.10–15.30 Q&A
15.30–15.40 10 MINUTE BREAK
Session 4 15.40–16.20 Professor Marian Lyons (Maynooth University) Keeping it in the Family: Female Religious and Familial Relations in Late Medieval Ireland.
16.25–17.05 Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB (Glenstal Abbey) Women on the Margins? Vowesses, Anchoresses and Tertiaries in Medieval Ireland.
17.05–17.30 Q&A Close of day
18.00 Vespers from Glenstal Abbey Church https://www.glenstal.com/abbey/webcam/
Sunday 4 July
Session 5 10.00 Mass from Glenstal Abbey Church https://www.glenstal.com/abbey/webcam/
11.50 Webinar opening
12.00–12.40 Professor Emeritus Colm Lennon (Maynooth University) Sisters of the Priory Confraternity of Christ Church, Dublin, in the Late Middle Ages.
12.45–13.25 Ultan Lally (National University of Ireland, Galway) Hora Determinata: Dominican Nuns and Catholic Identity among Galway City’s Elite in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century.
13.30–13.50 Q&A
13.50–14.00 10 MINUTE BREAK
Session 6 14.00–14.40 Dr Bronagh McShane (National University of Ireland Galway) & colleagues A Reflection: Remembering Margaret MacCurtain.
14.45–15.25 Bishop Anne Dyer
(Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney) Ladies of Fame and Women Worthy of Praise.
15.30–16.00 Q&A
16.00–16.10 CONFERENCE CLOSE
