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Iomramha/ Voyages
Three Talks on Medieval and Modern Seafaring

sponsored by NUI, Galway and Údarás na Gaeltactha

as part of the VOLVO Ocean Race Week
JULY 2012, Galway

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Professor Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha
School of Humanities, NUIG

"Medieval Irish Seafaring: realities and visions"

Chair: Mary O'Malley, Poet, Galway

Wednesday 4 July 2012
at 6.00pm
Global Village, Claddagh, Galway

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An Dr Crístóir Mac Cárthaigh
Cnuasach Bhéaloideas Éireann, UCD

"A Rí na Foidhne, glac iad ar láimh:
Ár mBáid Dúchais agus an tIascach"

Cathaoirleach: An Dr Pádraig Ó Héalaí, Scoláire Gaeilge & Béaloidis,
OÉ Gaillimh

Déardaoin 5 Iúil 2012
ag 6.00pm
Srádbhaile na Cruinne, An Cladach, Gaillimh

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Dr Edward Collins, Universidad Pablo De Olavide, Sevilla, Espana, and UCD

"Science and the Age of Discovery: Spain, Portugal and International Atlantic in the 15th - 16th Centurie"

Chair: Dr Enrico Dal Lago, History Department, NUI, Galway

Friday 6 July 2012
at 6.00pm
Global Village, Claddagh, Galway

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GUEST LECTURE

Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards
University of Oxford

"Some thoughts on transport and travel in early-medieval Ireland"

Friday 30 March 2012
at 12.00 noon
Applied Optics Seminar Room, NUI, Galway

Co-Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish and CAMPS

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GUEST LECTURE

Dr Róisín McLaughlin
School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

"Early Irish Satire"

Thursday 22 March 2012
at 5.00pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room

Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish

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GUEST LECTURE

Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh
Dept of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC

"Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha's specula principis for Donnchadh Ó Briain: possible motives and influences"

Thursday 8 March 2012
at 5.00pm
Applied Optics Seminar Room, NUI, Galway

Co-Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish and CAMPS

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GUEST LECTURE

Dr Jonathan West
formerly of University of Newcastle

"The enduring allure of lexicography: how Renaissance Latin dictionaries shaped the early modern German lexicon"

Thursday 16 February 2012
at 4.00pm
Applied Optics Seminar Room, NUI, Galway

Co-Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish and CAMPS

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GUEST LECTURE

Dr Máire West
formerly of University of Newcastle

"A re-evaluation of the concept of ideal kingship in the tale Togail Bruidne Da Derga"

Thursday 16 February 2012
at 6.00pm
Applied Optics Seminar Room, NUI, Galway

Co-Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish and CAMPS

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GUEST LECTURE and BOOK LAUNCH

Professor Emeritus Pádraig Ó Riain
Dept of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC

"The Irish origins of St Fursa: Connacht or Ulster?"

and the launch of

Pádraig Ó Riain, A Dictionary of Irish Saints (Four Courts)

by the Ven. Gary Hastings, Rector of Galway

Tuesday 31 January 2012
at 7.00pm
Galway City Museum

Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish

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GUEST LECTURE

Professor David Dumbille
Prof of History, Paleography and Celtic, University of Aberdeen

"Conversations with an Irish Penguin"

Thursday 14 April 2011
at 6.00pm
Moore Institute Seminar Room, NUI, Galway

Sponsored by Old and Middle Irish

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Old and Middle Irish and Celtic Philology
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