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British Academy/Royal Irish Academy Joint Symposium

Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings

The practicalities of communication between Irish and English Churches, c.650-850

Fiona Edmonds (Oxford)

Ecclesiastical connections have long enjoyed attention from commentators on Hiberno-Saxon contact and Insular art. The present paper seeks to investigate the practical underpinnings of ecclesiastical links between England and Ireland, and it will focus primarily on the west of the kingdom of Northumbria. It will seek to delineate the growth of church federations and to demonstrate that such bodies promoted administrative links and movements of personnel between the two territories. The paper will then investigate the relationship between the Churches discussed and possible early medieval route-ways between Northumbria and Ireland.