The Beyond The Grave Conference on the social and physical acts surrounding burial and death in both modern and ancient Ireland, co-ordinated by Limerick Museum and Archives (LMA) in partnership with Mary Immactulate College, Limerick. This conferernce took place between 25 - 27 April 2014 in City Hall,Mary Immaculate College, and at graveyards throughout the city.
The following are the talks for the Saturday event in Mary Immaculate College with links to the talk where available.
- "Creating an awareness and appreciation of our ironwork”
- Eric O'Neill, Blacksmith - Video - “Surveying, documenting, publishing of Historic Graves Ireland”
- John Tierney, Historic Graves Project - Video - “Conservation of Graveyards for the Future “
- Dr. Helene Bradley, Mary Immaculate College - Video - “Theatre of Life & Death; Design for Personalised Requiem Spaces”
- Laurence Lord, Architecture Practice + Experimentation - Video - “Grave memorials of St. Fintan's cemetery Doon, Co. Limerick”
- Margaret Franklin, Independent Scholar - Video - "Funerary Monuments a Rich Heritage in Stone”
- Dr Jim Higgins, Heritage Officer, Galway City Council - “The Fairy Funeral- An Exploration of Death in Irish Fairytales”
- Marian Sheehan, BA, Limerick School of Art and Design - Video - “A Place Apart?: Mortuary Practices Associated with Violence in Medieval Ireland”
- Niamh Carty, PhD Candidate in the Biological Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Research Group, Department of Archaeology, UCC - Video - “‘Remember Man, Thou Art But Dust…’. Osteoarchaeology and Prehistoric Cremation.”
- Dr Linda Lynch PhD MIAI Consultant Human Osteoarchaeologist - Video - “English Versus Irish Death Rites.”
- Dr Joan O' Doherty, Civil Funeral Celebrant - Video - “A Burning Issue: Early Mesolithic Burial at Hermitage, Castleconnell, Limerick.”
- Tracy Collins Aegis Archaeology - Video - "A student perspective of surveying Mount Saint Lawrence Cemetery"
- Mary Kury, Student Mary Immaculate College - Video - “Surveys and Transcriptions of Graveyards in in the Diocese of Ossory”
- Dr Jane Lyons, Genealogist - Video - "The Ballyhoura Graveyard Project – “The Importance of Community”
- Amanda Slattery, Tourism & Heritage Officer, Colum Hardy, Community Archaeologist - Video - “Funerary Ironwork of the 19th Century”
- David Humphreys, Director APC and Historic Ironwork Consultant - Video - “Attitudes to Dying, Death and Burial as Expressed in Irish Folklore”
- Emeritus Professor Patricia Lysaght, UCD - “Religious devotion and the afterlife: Pilgrim burials from Medieval Ireland”
- Dr Louise Nugent, Archaeologist - Video - “County Limerick's Necropolis at Knockainey”
- Tom Cassidy Heritage Officer, Limerick County Council, Eliza O'Grady, descendant of Edward O’Grady, Catherine O’Brien, MRIAI - Video - “Changing role of funeral directing since the 1800s”
- Graham Gleasure, Public Relations Officer, Irish Funeral Directors for Gerry Griffin - Video - “Commemorative Arrangements, Flowers for Funerals”
- Dan Lawless, Proprietor Lawless Flowers, Limerick - Video - “Mortality in Limerick City, 1910 – 1915: The Mount Saint Lawrence Evidence”
- Margaret Buckley, PhD Research Student at UCC - "A Sense of Place in Death - An Oral Record"
- Maurice O'Keeffe - Irish Life and Lore - Video - "Vanish Ireland"
- Turtle Bunbury - Video - “The art of dying: salvation, commemoration and Franciscan ideologies on late medieval Irish tombs”
- Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton, UCC - Video - “What the obituaries tell us about society”
- Dr. Ursula Callaghan, Independent Scholar - Video - “Working knowledge: the industrial archaeology of burial”
- Dr Julie Rugg of the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York - Video - "A Student Persepective" Maire Taylor & Grainne Dwyer, Mary Immaculate College
- Video - “Where are the Dead?”
- Leonie Kellaher, Professor Emeritus, the Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University - Video