Dr. Steevens' Hospital (1733): A Building to Save Bodies and Books

A conference to celebrate 275 years of Dr. Steevens' Hospital, Dublin and the Edward Worth Library

Supported by The Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College, Dublin

The Humanities Institute of Ireland is funded under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), administered by the HEA.

Admission 30 euro (including lunch and reception). Cheques payable to The Trustees of the Edward Worth Library. Enquiries: 00 353 1 635 2215 www.edwardworthlibrary.ie. Booking essential.

Monday 22 September, 2008, 11.00 am in the Edward Worth Library, Dr. Steevens' Hospital, Dublin 8

Introduction by Professor MARY E. DALY, 11.00am

SESSION 1: 11.30 am. Chair: FELICITY HENDERSON

DANIELLE WESTERHOF; Petrus Crescenzi's Ruralia Commoda in the Edward Worth Library.

ANDREW MEGAW: Conservation of two 16th century books in the Edward Worth Library: Chaucer, Works (London, 1532) and Crescentius, De Omnibus Agriculturae Partibus (Basle, 1548)

Lunch: 12.30 - 2.00 pm

SESSION 2: 2.00 pm. Chair: MARC CABALL

MARK PURCELL: Books in Northern Irish Houses owned by the National Trust (UK)

SIMON Mc CORMACK: Informed Restoration of Historic Buildings in the National Trust (UK): The Stables at Nostell Priory

Visit to the 1916 Memorials in the Hospital Grounds, 3.00 pm

SESSIONS 3: 3.30 pm. Chair: KIERAN HICKEY

NICHOLAS RYAN: Stone Mason's Marks at Dr. Steevens' Hospital.

CHRISTINE CASEY: The Curious Career of Michael Wills, Architect to Dr. Steevens' Hospital.

SESSION 4: 5.00 pm

Re-publication of T. P. C. Kirkpatrick's History of Dr. Steevens' Hospital (1924), hosted by University College Dublin Press