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Colum Cille 1500: Téacsanna agus Traidisiúin / Columba 1500: Texts and Traditions

When

Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 13:00 - Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 13:00

Where

online

Tickets

Free online event: booking essential

Library Lunchtime Lecture Series, in collaboration with Coiste Léann na Gaeilge, Litríocht na Gaeilge agus na gCultúr Ceilteach, celebrating the 1500th anniversary of the birth of St Colum Cille. 

Dé Céadaoin ag am lóin 1.00-2.00i.n./ Wednesday at lunchtime 1.00-2.00pm

25 Lúnasa/ August:

Timothy O'Neill: 'The Cathach, Colum Cille and the foundation of the manuscript tradition'

1 Meán Fómhair/ September: 

  • Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha and Jacopo Bisagni: ‘Politics, Piety and Poetry: Early Columban Texts and Traditions’
  • Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha: ‘The achievements of Adomnán’
  • Jacopo Bisagni: ‘The Latin background of Amrae Coluimb Chille’.

8 Meán Fómhair/ September:

Thomas Owen Clancy: ‘ “Tír, tráig, tuile“Land, strand and tide”: Colum Cille’s voice and the poetics of place’

15 Meán Fómhair/ September:

  • Charles Dillon agus Colm Ó Cuaig: ‘Colm Cille: Lúireach agus Beatha’
  • Charles Dillon: ‘Sciath Dé do nim umam: Lúireach Cholm Cille’
  • Colm Ó Cuaig: ‘Beatha Cholaim Chille: An téacs, a fhoinsí agus a údar’

29 Meán Fómhair/ September:

  • Brian Lacey agus Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill: ‘Colm Cille: An Oidhreacht Seandálaíochta agus Béaloidis’
  • Brian Lacey: ‘Colm Cille: An Oidhreacht Seandálaíochta’
  • Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill: ‘Colm Cille i dtraidisiún béil na Gaeltachta ó thus an 20ú haois i leith’

6 Deireadh Fómhair/ October:

Ann Buckley: ‘Devotion to Colum Cille in the Medieval Liturgy’

Lectures will take place on Zoom.

The Cathach of Colum Cille: The story of an ancient Irish manuscript

 

 

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