Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminars
The Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation, University College Dublin is a leading research institute in the field of Irish studies. It was founded in 2000 as part of the UCD-OFM (Order of Friars Minor) Partnership which also initiated the transfer of the priceless Irish Franciscan archive to University College Dublin. The Institute supports researchers in their pursuit of major projects and theses and promotes Irish studies among academics and the public through conferences, seminars and publications.
Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm in K114 (History Boardroom), UCD School of History, John Henry Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4.
20 January
Professor Pierre Delsaerdt, University of Antwerp
‘Printing in the Southern Netherlands in the early modern period’
27 January
Professor Tadhg O’Keeffe, UCD
‘Public versus private: hall versus chamber – re-thinking Irish castle architecture’
3 February (le Scoil na Gaeilge)
An t-Ollamh Mícheál Mac Craith, Coláiste S. Isidoro, An Róimh
‘Teicht do Róimh. Mór saído, becc torbai?: Tadhg Ó Cianáin agus Turas na dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn’
10 February
Dr Jason McElligott, Marsh’s Library, Dublin
‘”A Stagnant Bay”? The future for Marsh’s Library and its collections’
17 February
Dr Anthony Harvey, Royal Irish Academy
‘Cambro-Romance? Hiberno-Latin’s British counterpart’
Dr Nora White,
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
‘Ogham in 3D’
24 February
Dr Denis Hamon
‘Dindshenchas: landscape as seen from a medieval Irish mind’
Click here to download January and February 2012 events information in PDF format [PDF 84K]
30 March
Dr Juliet Mullins, UCC School of English
‘Seeing is believing: gazing upon Christ on the Cross in early medieval Ireland’
13 April
Dr Margaret Murphy, Carlow College
‘The grain trade in medieval Ireland’
27 April
Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe, NCAD
‘Visualizing saints by artists of the Arts & Crafts and Celtic Revival movement in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century’
Friday 23 March & Saturday 24 March
‘From Ireland outwards: interactions between Ireland and western Christendom in the late medieval period’
This is the 3rd review of late medieval studies in Ireland jointly organised by the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, the Dublin Medieval Society & UCC School of History.
Venue: UCC, details tbc
Friday, 20 April
4th annual Donatus Mooney seminar
Venue: K114, UCD, programme tbc
Click here to download March and April 2012 events information in PDF format [PDF 108K]
For further details contact: mocleirigh@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/mocleirigh/
http://www.writingirishhistory.eu/