Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Insitute - 2nd Annual Donatus Mooney Seminar

24 APRIL 2009, UCD School of History & Archives, Room K114, 10.00.

Donatus Mooney OFM wrote a historical description of the Irish Franciscan Province De Provincia Hiberniae S. Francisci in 1617-18. He was the first guardian of St Anthony’s College Louvain and was appointed Minister Provincial of the Irish Province n 1615. His account is the most important source for the history of the Irish Franciscans in late medieval and early modern Ireland. This day-long seminar, dedicated to his memory, will deal with all aspects of the Franciscan world and, in particular, with research on the Franciscans in Ireland being undertaken under at the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and other institutions in Ireland.

10.00
Opening remarks by Dr Joseph MacMahon OFM, Provincial Secretary, Franciscan Province of Ireland

10.15 Dr Jens Roehrkasten, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham
Cohesion and diversity in the early Franciscan Order

11.00
Coffee

11.30 Yvonne McDermott, Department of Archaeology, NUI Galway
The Franciscan and Dominican friars in the Connacht Burke lordships: late medieval patronage and observance

12.00 Annejulie Lafaye, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and School of Archaeology
The mendicant orders in Munster: new approaches

12.30
A visit to UCD Archives to view a display of some of the key A manuscripts from the UCD-OFM collection
including the Annals of the Four Masters, the earliest surviving copy of Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa and
Tadhg Ó Cianáin’s diary of the Earls’ journey to Rome 1607-9.
(A sandwich lunch will be provided)

14.00 Mr Raghnall Ó Floinn, Head of Collections, National Museum of Ireland
Furnishings of pre-Reformation Irish Franciscan friary churches

14.45 Mr Keith Smith, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute
Catholic altar plate c.1500-1829: patronage and possession

15.15
Coffee

15.45
Mr Michael Lynch, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute
Catholic altar plate in the dioceses of counties Clare, Galway and Limerick

16.15
Summing up by Dr John McCafferty, Director, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute

17.00: Reception in Common Room, Newman Building, UCD

For further details contact:
Dr John McCafferty, Director, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute
john.mccafferty@ucd.ie; 01 7168285
or
Dr Edel Bhreathnach, Academic Project Manager, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute
edel.bhreathnach@ucd.ie; 01 7164654