Power and Lordship in Norman Ireland

Linda Doran

• 📅Tuesday, March 5, 2024
• 🕥10:30 – 12:30
• 🏟Newtownpark Pastoral Centre (map)

This talk will look at the Normans in Ireland, particularly in the south-east where Norman settlement is strongest and the evidence lordship is clearest. We will consider who the Normans were and how their adventure in Ireland fits the pattern of their activities elsewhere. The Normans in Ireland adopted and changed to the circumstances they encountered, and in doing so left an indelible mark on the Irish economy, religious institutions and landscape. In this talk we will follow them on that adventure.

Linda Doran is a graduate of University College Dublin where she completed her PhD in 2001. She carried out a study of medieval settlement along the valleys of the Barrow, Nore and Suir rivers (2002-2004) funded by the Heritage Council of Ireland. She has published numerous papers on settlement and communication routes, is editor of the New Ross section of the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Historic Towns Atlas and has edited books on medieval lordship (2008) and Glendalough: City Of God (2011). She is a former honorary general secretary of Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. She lectures in medieval history in University College Dublin.