Prof. Elizabeth FitzPatrick (Keynote Speaker)
Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway
Gaelic Service Families of Machaire Chonnacht and the Landscape of Fraoch
Elizabeth FitzPatrick is a professor of historical archaeology at the School of Geography and Archaeology in the National University of Ireland, Galway, a director of the Discovery Programme, a member of the international advisory Board for Medieval Archaeology, London, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. She received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin (1997) and worked with the Archaeological Survey of Ireland and with the Carroll Institute, London, before joining NUI, Galway in 1997. She currently holds an RSE European Visiting Research Grant (2018-19) and previously held a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship in the Humanities (2012).
Elizabeth researches and teaches in the area of human identity and cultural practice, with a particular focus on medieval Gaelic peoples of Ireland. She has published widely on medieval landscape, settlement and land-use practices among early medieval Gaelic kings and later medieval lords, with an emphasis on royal marchlands, topographies of elite power and territorial boundaries, assembly places and hunting grounds, churches, settlement forms, and medieval use of prehistoric landscapes in Gaelic polities.
Her current major projects are Gaelic Learned Families of Ireland, focusing on their landscapes and lifeways, and An Atlas of Finn mac Cumaill's Places which investigates the relationship between royal marchlands of Gaelic kings and hunting grounds in the Finn Cycle of Tales.
For more information on Elizabeth and her work, visit: nuigalway.academia.edu/ElizabethFitzpatrick
Elizabeth researches and teaches in the area of human identity and cultural practice, with a particular focus on medieval Gaelic peoples of Ireland. She has published widely on medieval landscape, settlement and land-use practices among early medieval Gaelic kings and later medieval lords, with an emphasis on royal marchlands, topographies of elite power and territorial boundaries, assembly places and hunting grounds, churches, settlement forms, and medieval use of prehistoric landscapes in Gaelic polities.
Her current major projects are Gaelic Learned Families of Ireland, focusing on their landscapes and lifeways, and An Atlas of Finn mac Cumaill's Places which investigates the relationship between royal marchlands of Gaelic kings and hunting grounds in the Finn Cycle of Tales.
For more information on Elizabeth and her work, visit: nuigalway.academia.edu/ElizabethFitzpatrick