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METALS AND METALWORKING IN IRELAND
Dublin, 14-16th September 2007

This year’s Historical Metallurgy Society conference is being run in
conjunction with the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland and will be based in
the National Museum in Dublin, by kind invitation of its Director, Dr
Patrick Wallace. There will be visits guided by four of the Museum’s
curators to both the Archaeological collections at Kildare Street and the
Decorative Arts and History collections at Collins Barracks. In addition
there will be two half-day lecture sessions at Collins Barracks with a wide
range of papers on all aspects of metals and metalworking in Ireland, from
the earliest times to the more recent past. On the Friday and Monday there
will be optional visits to historic mining sites near Dublin, organised by
the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland.

Accommodation has been arranged in Trinity College Dublin, which is in the
centre of the city. Non-residents can join us for dinner on both Friday and
Saturday evenings.

The early evening lectures on Friday will be in the National Museum in
Kildare Street, which is close to Trinity College. They will provide an
introduction to the subject matter of the conference and be followed by a
wine reception. On Saturday morning we return to the Museum in Kildare
Street to visit the archaeological collections. Highlights are the Bronze
Age gold, the Treasury with its many Early Christian metal artefacts, and
the Viking and medieval galleries with displays including a wide range of
metal objects and evidence for metalworking. On Saturday afternoon there
will be the first lecture session at Collins Barracks. On Saturday evening
there will be a series of short members’ talks at Trinity College before we
adjourn to the bar. On Sunday morning we return to Collins Barracks for a
second lecture session, followed by a buffet lunch and visits to the museum’
s collections, which include coins, pewter, Georgian silver, military items
and the ‘What’s in store’ visible storage display of over 16,000 objects
including metalwork and scientific instruments. There may be an opportunity
to see Viking metalworking finds from Dublin in the stores.

The lecture programme is being finalised and will be posted on the HMS
website at the end of July. A downloadable registration form can also be
found on the website (http://hist-met.org/conf2007.html).

For further details of the conference please contact the organiser:
Justine Bayley, English Heritage, Fort Cumberland, Eastney, Portsmouth PO4
9LD
Email: justine.bayley@...




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