Friday November 1st
5.30 pm Registration: Venue Kilkenny Castle
6.00 pm Conference opening Reception in Kilkenny Castle
7.00 pm Official Opening by Chairman Kilkenny C.C. Cllr Michael McCarthy
Keynote address: “Outlaws and In-laws: the complex world of Dame Alice Kyteler”
Speaker: Dr Bernadette Williams
Followed by: Festival Dinner party in the Club House Hotel
Saturday November 2nd
Venue; Kyteler’s Inn
10.30 am Morning Coffee
11.00 am First Lecture: “The Knights Templar – an Irish Perspective”
Speaker: Turtle Bunbury, Historian and Broadcaster
11.45 am Coffee Break
12.00 noon Second Lecture: “Thoughts on being a successor to Richard Le Drede, the 14th Century Bishop of Ossory.”
Speaker: Right Reverend Bishop Michael Burrows
1.00 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Third Lecture: “The first of too many: Petronilla de Midi’s lessons for the future.”
Speaker: Dr Maeve Callan, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa
3.30 pm Fourth Lecture: “Magical Women and Mundane Rituals – Witchcraft and Magic in Medieval Ireland.”
Speaker: Dr Allison Galbari UCD School of Archaeology
Final Q&A of all today’s lectures with Coffee: Ticket = €15.00
5.15 pm A tasting of Irishman Legacy: An exclusive collaboration with like-minded spirits at Kilkenny Whiskey Guild. Celebrating 700 years of Irish Whiskey History.
Full day including lunch = €60.00
7.00 pm Conference Dinner, St Canice’s Cathedral, Ticket = €60.00
Sunday November 3rd
10.00 am – 4.30 pm a range of public Fringe and free street events throughout the city.
11.30 am Remembrance Service of Atonement for Petronilla de Meath in Saint Canice’s Cathedral.
Celebrant: Very Rev. Stephen Farrell, Dean of Ossory
Preacher: Most Reverend Patricia Storey, Bishop of Meath.
1.30 pm Rothe House: Douce Dame Jolie: Music in medieval Kilkenny, played by Siobhan Armstrong, Historical Harps with Louise O’Brien Recorder
Ticket = €15.00
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