IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 249: Early Irish Theology
Monday 6 July 2026, 14:15-15:45
| Organiser: | Alexander Cupples, Loyola Institute of Christian Theology, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Wooding, University of Sydney |
| Paper 249-a | The World's Oldest Communion Hymn: The Eucharistic Liturgy in the Antiphonary of Bangor (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Monasticism, Religious Life, Theology |
| Paper 249-b | Cesair Drowned but Cainnear Walked on Water: A Consideration of Grace in Two Medieval Irish Narratives (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Celtic, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Paper 249-c | A 4th-Century Source for Early Christianity in Roscommon (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Celtic, Theology |
| Abstract | This panel addresses the continued desideratum in the study of early Irish Theology from multiple disciplinary perspectives, whilst finding the medium between ‘Iromania’ and ‘Irophobia’, with much of the relevant study to date written from narrow disciplinary and partisan perspectives. Papers are given from the fields of Theology, Liturgy, History and Literature. The early Irish church has often been portrayed as heterodox, idiosyncratic and as insignificant, being called ‘pips on the ends of the earth’, whilst more recently faith leaders and politicians such as a French prime minister and Pope Benedict XVI consider it foundational to building a united Europe. |