Ireland-Bristol Trade in the Sixteenth Century
Department
of History, University
of Bristol
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Conference: The Celtic Sea World, 1400-1700
The project hosted a small conference at the Universtiy of Bristol on 2-3 September 2008. The conference consisted of invited speakers and other interested parties. A limited number of bursaries were available for postgraduate students.
Location: Department of Historical Studies, 13 Woodland Road, Seminar Room G.50 (Location 62 on Precinct Map)
Provisional Programme
Tuesday 2 September
10.00 - 10.15
Registration and introduction
10.15-11.00
Keynote speaker
Ronald Hutton (Bristol), 'The state of 'British' history'
11.00-11.30
Coffee
11.30-13.00
First Session: Late Medieval world
Wendy Childs (Leeds), 'The development of Atlantic trade in the late middle ages'
Brendan Smith (Bristol), 'Bristol and Waterford and the politics of the fifteenth century'
13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Second Session: Early Modern Trade
Evan Jones (Bristol), 'Anglo-Irish trade in the sixteenth century'
David Ditchburn (TCD), 'The Irish Sea zone and the strange disappearance of Scottish trade, c.1200-c.1542'
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-17.30
Third Session: Mercantile Communities
David Dickson (TCD), 'Dublin - capital of the Irish Sea?'
Duncan Taylor (Bristol), 'The Bristol Channel and southern Ireland in the sixteenth century'
18.30-
Drinks at a Clifton pub (close to the Rodney Hotel), followed by dining opportunites.
Wednesday, 3 September
10.00-11.30
Fourth Session: Migration
Peter Fleming (University of the West of England), 'The Irish experience in Bristol, 1400-1700'
Annaleigh Margey, 'Shaping Ireland: migration, plantation and cartography in Munster, 1580-1620'
11.30-12.00
Coffee
12.00-13.30
Fifth Session: Material Culture
Susan Flavin (Bristol) 'Irish material culture in the sixteenth century; the evidence from the Bristol customs accounts'
Toby Barnard (Oxford), 'Changing tastes: the material cultures of England and Ireland, c.1580-1700'
13.30-14.30
Lunch
14.30-16.00
Fourth Session: Religion
Clodagh Tait (Essex), 'Riots, rescues, libels and 'grene bowes': Irish Catholic protest in British context'
Raymond Gillespie (University of Ireland, Maynooth), 'Common Prayer? Protestantism in South West England and Munster, 1580-1700'
16.00-16.30
Coffee
16.30-18.00
Bruce Campbell (Queens, Belfast): Chair
Round-table discussion of research progress and future agendas for late medieval - early modern Celtic Sea history.
19.00-
Conference dinner in 'The Library', Goldbrick House, Park Street.