Join us for the annual conference of the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland.

This year's conference is on the timely theme of of 'Irish Catholic spaces: pasts and futures'.

Please note that tickets are €20, to be paid in cash on the day; exact amount preferred. Includes a light lunch.

CHSI Annual Conference 2026 Schedule

9.45-9.50 Welcome

9.50-11.20

800 years of Franciscan spaces

· Prof. John McCafferty (UCD): Remembering and returning: the survival of the Franciscan friary network in 17th century Ireland

· Dr Malgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton (UCC): Poverty and materiality: Franciscan approaches to material culture in medieval Ireland

· Dr Niamh NicGhabhann-Coleman (Limerick): “as an nua … ar an láthair chéanna” – rebuilding Franciscan Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

11.20-11.50 Coffee break

11.50-13.00

Dr David Caron, Twentieth-century stained glass in Dublin

13.00-14.15

Lunch and visit to view stained-glass windows in onsite chapel and meditation room

14.15-15.00

Dr Sophie Cooper (QUB): In the windows and walls: Finding the Irish diaspora through the religious built environment

15.00-16.00

Preserving and Recording Ireland’s Sacred Heritage: Launch of the PARISH church inscriptions database

Dr Sarah Roddy (Maynooth), Dr Joe Curran (Maynooth), Adam Heet (Notre Dame)

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