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Táin Bó Cuailnge: Ireland’s National Epic? This year’s Noel O’Connell lecture will address the literary and historical background of the Táin, its transmission through the centuries, the main characters and their roles in the tale, and the possible messages it may have been intended to convey. Táin Bó Cuailnge, is one of the most extensive tales to have been transmitted ...
Robert Tobin's study of Butler is masterly ... Tobin mixes familiarity with objectivity, scrupulous scholarship, and a gossip's curiosity.'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?’ So asked the Kilkenny man‐of‐letters Hubert Butler (1900‐91) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. ...
The 2013 ILS/Irish Texts Society Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Seán Ó Coileán, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish at University College, Cork and Member of the Royal Irish Academy. The subject of his lecture will be, ’The ITS volume that never was: Robin Flower and The Great Blasket’. This annual lecture is organised in conjunction with ...
To turn O'Connell Street into the Broadway of Ireland; The Debate over the Relocation of the Abbey Theatre. The Irish Literary Society is delighted to present its 2nd Joint Lecture with the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS), St Mary's University College. From its foundation in 1904 The Abbey, Ireland’s national theatre, has been located at Lower Abbey Street in Dublin. ...
This month’s lecture will be delivered by Padraig Yeates on the Dublin Lockout, the past year of commemoration and lessons drawn from the experience. On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of ...
This talk will look at the place of the Irish woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction and examine how Irish writers have demonstrated a sustained interest in recovering the story of the Irish woman emigrant, a story that until relatively recently was absent or under-represented in both historical accounts and literary representations of Irish emigration. In spite of the fact ...
Whores, Wenches, and the Blake Family in the Early Modern Irish Atlantic World Professor Jenny Shaw will explore the lives of two women: one an indentured Irish servant (the "whore"); one an enslaved woman (the "wench") who labored in the household of Irish merchant John Blake in Barbados 1675. She explores the techniques historians use to write the lives of ...
Dr Kennedy's recent book Ireland, the UN and the Congo takes a fresh look at Ireland's part in the UN’s disastrous mission in the Congo in the early 1960s. In summer 1961 Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O'Brien was appointed UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's Special representative in the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga. In ONUC, its biggest peacekeeping mission to ...
