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Historic Scotland and the Iona Community together hosted a research workshop on April 10th to 13th 2012 which added considerably to the understanding of the island of Iona, the Abbey, the Nunnery and the collection of intricately carved stones.
The research conference has informed planning for events in 2013 marking the 1450th anniversary of St Columba’s departure from Ireland in 563 AD. It helped to refine a Draft Research Framework [pdf] and to obtain stakeholder views on Interim Statements of Cultural Significance for the Abbey [pdf] and for the Nunnery, St Ronan’s Church and Maclean’s Cross [pdf].
Click on the speakers name to access the presentation [pdf], and/ or a paper [doc], in full or summarised, that addressed these headings:
*Contains some Gaelic or Irish.
Please view the workshop programme here [pdf, 35kb]
Further information: hs.urban@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
Historic Scotland and the Iona Community together hosted a research workshop on April 10th to 13th 2012 which added considerably to the understanding of the island of Iona, the Abbey, the Nunnery and the collection of intricately carved stones.
The research conference has informed planning for events in 2013 marking the 1450th anniversary of St Columba’s departure from Ireland in 563 AD. It helped to refine a Draft Research Framework [pdf] and to obtain stakeholder views on Interim Statements of Cultural Significance for the Abbey [pdf] and for the Nunnery, St Ronan’s Church and Maclean’s Cross [pdf].
Click on the speakers name to access the presentation [pdf], and/ or a paper [doc], in full or summarised, that addressed these headings:
- The form of the Columban and later monastic settlements: McCormick [pdf], McCormick [doc], Maldonado [pdf], Maldonado [doc],
- Artefacts as evidence for craft activities in Iona: Campbell [pdf], Campbell [doc],
- What do the carved stones tell us? Foster [pdf], Foster [doc], Forsyth [pdf], Caldwell [pdf], Gefreh [pdf]
- How did influence spread across Scotland and Ireland? O’Grady [pdf] (available soon), Borland [pdf], Borland [doc], Swift* [pdf], Bourke [pdf]
- How was Iona seen in the medieval world- Norwegian politics Beuermann [doc1], Beuermann [doc2], and Argyll economics, MacDonald [pdf]
- The architectural development of the abbey and nunnery: Fisher [pdf]
- What were the the impacts of the Reformation and of Celtic romanticism on Iona and on Irish churches? Bradley [doc], Moss [pdf], Moss [doc], MacArthur*[doc1] (on Ritchie) MacArthur*[doc2], MacArthur*[doc3] (on traditions of Columba)
- How has restoration/ reuse in the 20th century changed Iona and Govan? Driscoll [pdf]
- Management of the island and recent archaeology by NTS: Alexander [pdf]
*Contains some Gaelic or Irish.
Please view the workshop programme here [pdf, 35kb]
Further information: hs.urban@scotland.gsi.gov.uk