San Francisco, CA, April 14-18 2021

Call for Papers

Symposium: “Irish Castle Archaeology: Revealing the True Complexion of Social Life in Medieval Ireland”

Two cultures, Old English and Gaelic, coexisted uneasily on the island of Ireland during the Middle Ages. The aristocratic stratum of these societies commenced to construct fortified residences of stone between the 13th and 15th centuries AD. Despite the paucity of available information on medieval Irish and settler social relations and lifeways, especially from the Gaelic areas, there has been very little investigation of these residences until recently. The participants in this symposium will report on the results of recent investigations on aristocratic residences and associated communities undertaken in Ireland.

Please submit proposals to Dr. D. Blair Gibson by September 16, 2020.