The Royal Irish Academy

Speaker: Professor Ciarán Brady, MRIA Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of...

Speaker: Dr Hiram Morgan Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, o...

Speaker: Dr Marc Caball Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls, ou...

Speaker: Dr Ruth A. Canning Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless opponent, a skilled negotiator, a power seeker par excellence, an innovator. He died at Rome on 20 July 1616. On the four-hundredth anniversary of the passing of the last of the earls...

Speaker: Professor Nicholas Canny, MRIA Royal Irish Academy Library Seminar In association with the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Remembering Hugh O'Neill, 1616-2016. Fostered in the Pale after his father’s murder on Shane O’Neill’s orders, Hugh O’Neill, c. 1550-1616, 2nd earl of Tyrone, is portrayed alternately as charismatic, Machiavellian, a ruthless oppon...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Paul Mullarkey, National Museum of Ireland. Second lecture in a series on topics related to the Book of Fenagh exhibition 'Book of Fenagh 500th anniversary' The Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26), an Irish manuscript commissioned in 1516, tells the story of the life of St Caillín, founder of the early Christian monastic community at Fenagh. The manuscript reflects the...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Pádraig Ó Riain, MRIA, Professor Emeritus, UCC. First lecture in a series on topics related to the Book of Fenagh exhibition 'Book of Fenagh 500th anniversary' The Book of Fenagh (RIA MS 23 P 26), an Irish manuscript commissioned in 1516, tells the story of the life of St Caillín, founder of the early Christian monastic community at Fenagh. The manuscript reflects t...

Speaker: Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn Library Lunchtime Lecture organised in association with the Irish Texts Society as part of Heritage Week. Bairbre Ní Fhloinn lectures and is Head of Subject in Irish Folklore, in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore at University College Dublin. Her research interests include folk medicine, occupational belief and practice, the role of tradition in contem...

Speaker: Uáitéar Mac Gearailt is Head of the Irish Department at St Patrick's College Drumcondra, Dublin. His research focuses on the language and literature of the Middle Irish period. He has published numerous papers on texts such as Recension 2 of Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Recension 3 Táin, Cath Ruis na Ríg, Mesca Ulad, Scéla Laí Brátha, Sex Aetates Mundi, and Togail Troí. He is joint-editor of Stu...

Speaker: Elizabeth Duncan's research interests cover palaeography, codicology and manuscript production in the Celtic world. She was awarded her PhD. at the University of Aberdeen in 2010 for her dissertation on the development of Gaelic script in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most r...

Speaker: Karen Ralph received her PhD. in medieval art history from Trinity College Dublin last year. Her doctoral research focused on the patronage of Irish illuminated manuscripts during the late Middle Ages. For the past year she has been living in Paris working as a museum educator and will shortly begin a teaching role at the American University of Paris. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled...

Speaker: Deborah Hayden is a postdoctoral O'Donovan Scholar at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an importan...

Speaker: Pádraig Ó Macháin is Professor of Modern Irish, and Head of the School of Irish Learning, University College Cork. Formerly director of Irish Script on Screen, his publications (in Irish and English) include manuscript catalogues, textual editions, and local history studies. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most...

Speaker: Raymond Gillespie, MRIA, teaches history at Maynooth University. He is author of Reading Ireland: print, reading and social change in early modern Ireland (Manchester, 2005) co-author of Stories from Gaelic Ireland: microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals (Dublin, 2003). Dr Bernadette Cunningham is author of The world of Geoffrey Keating (Dublin, 2000), and The Annals of th...

Speaker: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, MRIA, is emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College Cork. He has published on many aspects of medieval Irish history: genealogy, law, literature, politics, institutions, and the Viking wars. His Clavis litterarum Hiberniae will appear shortly. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of th...

Speaker: Nollaig Ó Muraíle, MRIA, has recently retired as senior lecturer in Irish at NUI Galway. Among his publications is an edition of Dubhaltach Mac Fhir Bhisigh’s Great Book of Genealogies. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contai...

Speaker: Máire Ní Mhaonaigh is a Reader in Celtic in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumin...

Speaker: Elizabeth Duncan's research interests cover palaeography, codicology and manuscript production in the Celtic world. She was awarded her PhD. at the University of Aberdeen in 2010 for her dissertation on the development of Gaelic script in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most r...

Speaker: Ruairí Ó hUiginn MRIA is professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth University and Head of its School of Celtic Studies. He has published on many different aspects of Irish language and literature and is currently Chair of the Management and Editorial Committees of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge. The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fift...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Mary Daly, MRIA. Fourth lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' Professor Daly’s lecture looks at the membership of the Academy c.1910, its current research projects and intellectual interests and how this evolved over the decade. She also discusses the decision to expel Eoin MacNeill from the Academy and his reinstatement. Location:...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Lawrence White, Research Assistant and Copy Editor on the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography project. Third lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' The writings of Desmond Ryan (1893-1964) were particularly influential in shaping the story of the Easter rising and its participants through the first half of the twentieth century...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Regina Uí Chollatáin, Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore in University College Dublin. Second lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' The title of this lecture refers to an article written in 1909 which reflects the orthographical challenges of this period which dictated much debate in language usage in...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Chantal Kobel. First lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.' This lecture reflects on the influential career of Prof. Eleanor Knott, one of the first women to be made a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and her important contributions to scholarship in the area of Celtic Studies. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 9 March, 2016 Speaker...

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, NUI Galway. In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century s...

Library Lunchtime Lecture series by Dr Liam Mac Amhlaigh, Maynooth University. Introduced by Dr Deirdre D'Auria, Eagarthóir Cúnta, Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge. In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and an...