March 5-6, 1999
Cormac Bourke
Ulster Museum, National Museums Northern Ireland
The Book of Kells: New Light on the Temptation Scene
Mildred Budny
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
Deciphering the Art of Interlace
Tessa Garton
College of Charleston
Masks and Monsters: Some Recurring Themes in Irish Romanesque Sculpture
Peter Harbison
Royal Irish Academy
The Otherness of Irish Art in the Twelfth Century
Jane Hawkes
University of York
An Iconography of Identity? The Cross-Head from Mayo Abbey
Colum Hourihane
Princeton University
De Camino Ignis: The Iconography of the Three Children in the Fiery Furnace in Ninth-Century Ireland
Catherine Karkov
Miami University
Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland
Heather King
Duchas-Irish Heritage Service, Dublin
Late Medieval Crosses and Their European Background
Susanne McNab
National College of Art and Design
Celtic Antecedents to the Treatment of the Human Figure in Early Irish Art
Pippin Michelli
St. Olaf College
St. Genevra and St. Bridgid
Raighnall Ó Floinn
National Museum of Ireland
Goldsmiths’ Work in Ireland, 1200-1400
Emmanuelle Pirotte
Université libre de Bruxelles
Ornament and Script in Early Medieval Insular and Continental Manuscripts: Reasons, Functions, Efficiency
Roger Stalley
Trinity College, Dublin
Sex, Symbol, and Myth: Some Observations on the Irish Round Towers
Kees Veelenturf
Radboud University Nijmegen
Irish High Crosses and Continental Art: Shades of Iconographical Ambiguity
Dorothy Verkerk
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pilgrimage ad Liminia Apostolorum in Rome: Irish Crosses and Early Christian Sarcophagi
Niamh Whitfield
Independent Scholar
The Tara’ Brooch: An Irish Emblem of Status in Its European Context
Maggie McEnchroe Williams
Columbia University
Constructing the Market Cross at Tuam: The Role of Cultural Patriotism in the Study of Irish High Crosses
Susan Youngs
The British Museum
‘From Ireland Coming’: Fine Irish Metalwork for the Medway, Kent, England
