Tara Symposium (23rd-26th October 2009)
Featuring approximately forty papers by an international group of scholars, the symposium promises to be the most extensive review of the archaeology of Tara undertaken to date. It focuses on the data from the two excavation volumes but extends to a wider consideration of research undertaken at Tara over the past twenty years.Symposium Live!
Web stream times can be found on the web stream page.
Local time is:Sponsors
- Meath County Council
- National Monuments Service (Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government)
- The Heritage Council
- University College Dublin
- Humanities Institute of Ireland
- John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies
- UCD Research
- UCD School of Archaeology
- University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Tara symposium overview (23rd-26th October 2009)
Following the publication by Wordwell of reports on Seán P. Ó Ríordáin’s excavations at the Mound of the Hostages (Muiris O’Sullivan 2005) and Rath of the Synods (Eoin Grogan 2008), the UCD School of Archaeology, in association with the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, is hosting a symposium entitled Tara – From the Past to the Future.
Featuring approximately forty papers by an international group of scholars, the symposium promises to be the most extensive review of the archaeology of Tara undertaken to date. It focuses on the data from the two excavation volumes but extends to a wider consideration of research undertaken at Tara over the past twenty years. Themes include:
The archaeology of Tara
- Papers subjecting particular aspects of the archaeology of Tara to detailed scrutiny
- Underlying question: What more can be mined from the archaeological data?
Tara in its local and regional setting
- Contributions examining the locality around Tara and exploring how Tara interacted with its surroundings at various times in the past
- Underlying question: What was the settlement history of the landscape around the Hill of Tara?
Comparative perspectives on Tara
- A variety of speakers examining Tara from the perspective of other iconic places such as Stonehenge and Carnac
- Underlying question: What is the international perspective on Tara?
The significance of Tara through time
- Addressing the distinctive qualities that have set Tara apart from ancient times to the present
- Underlying question: What dynamics have influenced the emergence of the Tara phenomenon?
The symposium, organised by Professor Muiris O’Sullivan, takes place during the October Bank Holiday weekend in the Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield. For further practical information about catering, late registration and other issues click here or use the links to the right of this page.
Conference Live Web Stream
The symposium will be streamed live via the web and facilities are available to overseas listeners to ask question via the symposium email address tara.symposium@ucd.ie. As the programme is compact, only a small proportion of questions will be relayed to the symposium auditorium.
Click here for a live video stream of the conference >>
Books at the conference
The Discovery Programme and the Royal Irish Academy are delighted to announce that they will be selling books at the symposium.
We have deeply discounted titles we feel would be of interest to delegates. Prices are below. In order to judge demand and have copies available, please email an order to info@discoveryprogramme.ie we will have your order ready when you come.
DPR sets – full sets will be sold for €20.00 and individual copies €5.00.
Tara sets (four volumes) for €45 (50% special weekend symposium reduction)
The Tara Volumes should be sold at the following reduced rates:
- Tara: A Select Bibliography (€15) special offer price €10.00
- Monographs 2 – Tara: An Archaeological Survey (€30) special offer price €20.00
- Discovery Programme Reports 5 (€15) special offer price €5.00
- Tara and the Ark of the Covenant (€30) special offer price €20.00
