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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' |
