IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 1010: Power and Authority in Medieval Connacht (Ireland)

Sponsor:	Centre for Human Settlement & Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway
Organiser:	Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, School of Irish, National University of Ireland, Galway
Moderator/Chair:	Máire Herbert, Department of Early & Medieval Irish, University College Cork
Paper 1010-a	Creating and Appropriating Kingdoms and Kingship in Pre-Norman Connacht (Language: English) Anne Connon, Centre for the Study of Human Settlement & Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Onomastics
Paper 1010-b	Ecclesiastical Monuments at Political Centres in Medieval Connacht (Language: English) Catherine Swift, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 1010-c	Powerful Literature: Inventing Medieval Connacht (Language: English) Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, School of Irish, National University of Ireland, Galway Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities
Abstract	This session will discuss issues of power and authority in the province of Connacht in medieval times, treatiing Connacht as a literary, cultural, political and geographical unit, and approaching it from historical, archaeological and literary perspectives.