The Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group (IPMAG) in conjunction with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, is holding its 6th Annual Conference on 24th - 26th February 2006 in Boole 1, University College Cork.

The theme for this conference is:

Plantation Ireland: settlement and material culture, c 1550-c. 1700. This conference will serve to highlight the significant role that settlement and materiality has played in the transformation of Irish society. Material culture In the form of artefacts, architecture, grave memorials, as well as documentary sources such as maps, inventories and treatises can provide a perceptive commentary on the lives of people who lived in a society that was undergoing a fundamental change from medieval lordship to capitalism and centralised state authority. Contributions from a multi-disciplinary perspective (archaeology, history and historical geography) will help to realign the study of settlement and material culture as essential to our understanding of how society in Ireland was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

For more details of the 2006 IPMAG conference please contact

James Lyttleton or Tracy Collins

will be holding a summer residential course entitled

Where?

The Lampeter campus of the University of Wales

When?

19-24 June 2006

Further information at http://www.lamp.ac.uk/celtic/

Island Pilgrims are a group who organise tours which precede each residential course held in Lampeter.

This year the tour is to Ireland.

May 28 - June 18

The theme Spiritual Ireland

The tour will visit sacred sites from the Stone Age on islands and lake islands. The aim is to gain an understanding of the environment and life of the early inhabitants.

Small group (max 8) Non profit making.

Further details at http://www.canadac.com/celtic/events.html

Please send expressions of interest/paper abstracts (250 words) in Irish or English preferably by e mail (subject: gaelic Identities) to Dr Angela Bourke angela.bourke@ucd.ie

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