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Poets and Poetry

Virtual Seminar Series, 1 February - 3 May 2022

'Poets and Poetry in the Middle Irish Period'

This seminar series has concluded. The seminar papers will be published in an edited collection of essays in due course.
A copy of the seminar schedule and abstracts may be downloaded from here.

Dáta \| Date	Cainteoir \| Speaker	Teideal an tSeimineáir \| Seminar Title
1 February	Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (UCC)	'Contextualizing Saltair na Rann within the Tradition of Biblical Paraphrase'
8 February	Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha (NUI Galway)	'The Invention of Aurard (†990) mac Coisse'
15 February	Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (Cambridge)	'The Life and Work of Cináed úa hArtacáin'
22 February	Clodagh Downey (NUI Galway)	'Composition and Authorship in the Poetry of Cúán úa Lothcháin'
1 March	Eystein Thanisch (Indep.)	'Who is Flann Mainistrech?'
8 March	Peter Smith (UU)	'Góedel Glas ó tát Goídil by Gilla Cóemáin'
15 March	John Carey (UCC)	'Gilla in Choimded Úa Cormaic: A Scholar and his Books'
22 March	Kaarina Hollo (Sheffield)	'Talking to God in Middle Irish'
29 March	Kevin Murray (UCC)	'Gilla Mo Dutu Úa Caiside and the Irish Historical Verse Tradition'
5 April	Mikael Males (Oslo)	Metrical and Lexical Hibernicisms in Old Norse Poetry'
12 April	Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth)	'Welsh Poetry and Ireland, c. 800 X 1100'
19 April	Thomas Owen Clancy (Glasgow)	‘“Imbed n-ingnad ós ler lindglass / An abundance of wonders on the blue ocean”: The Verse Versions of Two Immrama’
26 April	Pádraig Ó Macháin (UCC)	'The Seanchas Poem in the Post-Middle-Irish Period'
3 May	Ann Dooley (Toronto)	'Loving the Place of Many Waters: Poets and Poetry in Acallam na Senórach'