IMMA PAST FUTURES - #2 St. Maighneann with Dr. Edel Bhreatnach by IMMA Ireland published on 2022-09-05T09:25:34Z IMMA PAST FUTURES is a new heritage podcasts series supported by the Heritage Council Heritage Stewardship Fund 2022 and will be released in conjunction with the National Heritage Week programme in August 2022. The series is co-hosted by IMMA’s VET Heritage Researcher and Historian, Barry Kehoe with Stephen Taylor, IMMA VET heritage enthusiast. Each podcast explores the site's shared histories and heritage, from gate to gate walk of the site, to featuring unique perspectives from invited guests. Episode Two: St. Maighneann with Dr. Edel Bhreatnach Presented by Barry Kehoe with Stephen Taylor, Released 11 September 2022. In this episode of IMMA Past Futures co-hosts Barry Kehoe with Stephen Taylor invite special guest historian, author and Lecturer in early medieval history Dr Edel Bhreatnach, to discuss the early Christian monastery of St Maighneann, the earliest documented occupation of the site of Kilmainham, where IMMA/ RHK is located. In several manuscripts written well after the death of the Saint that lends his name to Kilmainham, this podcast reflects on St Maighneann as a figure of profound importance and veneration. We have a very brief glimpse into the monastic life of St. Maighneann, the settlement he founded overlooking the ford of the river Liffey at what is now called Island bridge, and is part of the Dublin 8 city district area of IMMA / RHK. Further Information About Guest Edel Bhreathnach is a medieval historian with a particular interest in interdisciplinary studies that connect archaeology, history and literature. She was CEO of The Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland (2013-9) and is a former Visiting Fellow to All Souls College Oxford (2016). She has worked on large-scale projects relating to Tara, a rich landscape of prehistoric and medieval kingship in modern Co. Meath, on the history of the Franciscans in Ireland, and on monasticism in Ireland from the tenth to the thirteenth century. She has published widely on these subjects including her volume Ireland in the medieval world 400-1000AD: landscape, kingship and religion published in 2014 (Four Courts Press, Dublin). She co-edited Monastic Europe: communities, landscapes and settlements (Brepols: Turnhout, 2019). About IMMA Past Futures - Podcasts The site of the Royal Hospital/IMMA has been of exceptional importance in terms of local and national history from the earliest human settlements in the Liffey estuary. The earliest dated human occupation is dated back to 1950 BCE with the discovery of a Bronze-age cemetery at the eastern gate of the museum in 2006. They will interview key specialists and artists that have developed art works in response to the site heritage and delve into a wide range of heritage phenomena related to the site. Released between August and December the podcasts will encourage our visitors to come to our site and engage more widely with the richness of the local heritage. IMMA PAST FUTURES is programmed in association with the IMMA Outdoors programme; IMMA’s Decade of Commemoration programme, 100yrs of Self-determination; and extends on the IMMA TALKS series programme. Acknowledgements IMMA Past Futures - Podcast Series Research: Barry Kehoe (Visitor Engagement Team IMMA) Presenter & Co-hosts: Barry Kehoe with Stephen Taylor (Visitor Engagement Team, IMMA) Produced by Sophie Byrne (IMMA Talks & Public Programmes) Guest Editor: Clíodhna Ní Anluain Sound + Production: Amy O'Dwyer, Conor Reid (Headstuff.Org) Supported by: The Heritage Council Heritage Stewardship Fund 2022. Genre Learning