Éamon de Valera was an ardent devotee of the public lecture as a form of intellectual entertainment, and it was his firm desire that the Institute which he was founding should provide a regular programme of public lectures on specialist topics. He proposed initially that all members of staff at professorial level should have to give six such public lectures a year. This would have been a formidable task, and it would have completely frustrated the purposes for which special arrangements for Irish Studies research had been planned. When de Valera was drafting specifications for his Institute, he had a much closer rapport with physicists, and had more regular exchanges with them, than with any senior scholar in Irish Studies. He particularly relied for advice and guidance on Arthur W. Conway, Professor of Mathematical Physics at University College, Dublin. Conway attempted to dissuade de Valera from stipulating the provision of public lectures. He argued plausibly that (1) a public lecture on a topic of advanced research would probably be understood in a small centre like Dublin by perhaps two people, and (2) the provision of more popular lectures is a specialized activity to which, in any case, only some subject areas are amenable. This reasoning had some effect, and the statutory requirement was eventually reduced to a general exhortation that occasional public lectures be organized by each School and, specifically, that arrangements be made for:
… the delivery in alternate years in University College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin, of one or more public lectures on subjects or branches of knowledge in respect of which study or research is being carried on in or under the authority of the School … (Establishment Order 17.2).
It is these annual lectures, alternating between University College and Trinity College in Dublin, which have come traditionally to be called the `Statutory Public Lectures’. From the beginning, the Statutory Public Lecture requirement has been interpreted as permitting the practice, established by the School of Irish Learning, of providing an opportunity for experts from outside the School and, whenever possible, from overseas, to lecture on aspects of their research.
Previous Statutory Public Lectures
2017
Thomas Charles-Edwards: Early Irish law and the laws of Western Europe, 400–800
What do the early Irish texts tell us about the history of music in this country? The main emphasis in this lecture will be on the period between the coming of Christianity in the 5th century and the Anglo-Norman invasion in the late 12th century. Topics to be discussed include the identification of the stringed instruments crot and timpán, the use of wind-instruments in military contexts, the development of bag-pipes, the functions of percussion instruments, and the various styles of singing mentioned in the texts. There will also be an account of the evidence for dancing in early Christian Ireland.
The lecture will conclude with a summary of the role of music in early Irish society, and a discussion of the Church’s attitude towards different types of music, as well as an account of the frequent association between music and the supernatural in early Irish literature.
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Tionól 2018 Call for Papers #SCSTionol2018
This year’s Tionól will take place on 2nd and 3rd November @DIAS_Dublin. Papers will relate to any aspect of Celtic Studies, and will be 30 minutes in duration. dias.ie/2018/06/06/tio…
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Patrick Sims-Williams' newest book, an edition of the Middle Welsh Buchedd Beuno "Life of St Beuno" was launched yesterday. Vol 15 of @SCSLibrary's red series. Retweeted by
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A few snaps from the launch of Patrick Sims-Williams' new edition of Buchedd Beuno - an important contribution to the famous "red books" of the medieval & modern Welsh series @SCSLibrary@DIAS_DublinRetweeted by
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John Carey (@uccsmghaeilge) sets up the slide show for his paper on "Beyond Angels and Ancients: Saints & their Uncanny Interlocutors" Retweeted by
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Waidler, presently O'Donovan scholar at @SCSLibrary and organiser of the conference, has so far analysed 106 such anecdotes - only a fraction of the extant material. Retweeted by
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We continue after the sunny lunch break with Sarah Waidler (@SCSLibrary@DIAS_Dublin), speaking about "Demons, Ghosts & Angels: Independent Anecdotes of Irish Saints" Retweeted by
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Reporting today from the conference "Defining the Boundaries of Celtic Hagiography: Textual Sources outside Lives & Martyrologies" at DIAS @SCSLibrary.
1st speaker Alan Macquarrie (Uni Edinburgh) Retweeted by
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Statutory Public Lectures
About Statutory Public Lectures
Éamon de Valera was an ardent devotee of the public lecture as a form of intellectual entertainment, and it was his firm desire that the Institute which he was founding should provide a regular programme of public lectures on specialist topics. He proposed initially that all members of staff at professorial level should have to give six such public lectures a year. This would have been a formidable task, and it would have completely frustrated the purposes for which special arrangements for Irish Studies research had been planned. When de Valera was drafting specifications for his Institute, he had a much closer rapport with physicists, and had more regular exchanges with them, than with any senior scholar in Irish Studies. He particularly relied for advice and guidance on Arthur W. Conway, Professor of Mathematical Physics at University College, Dublin. Conway attempted to dissuade de Valera from stipulating the provision of public lectures. He argued plausibly that (1) a public lecture on a topic of advanced research would probably be understood in a small centre like Dublin by perhaps two people, and (2) the provision of more popular lectures is a specialized activity to which, in any case, only some subject areas are amenable. This reasoning had some effect, and the statutory requirement was eventually reduced to a general exhortation that occasional public lectures be organized by each School and, specifically, that arrangements be made for:
It is these annual lectures, alternating between University College and Trinity College in Dublin, which have come traditionally to be called the `Statutory Public Lectures’. From the beginning, the Statutory Public Lecture requirement has been interpreted as permitting the practice, established by the School of Irish Learning, of providing an opportunity for experts from outside the School and, whenever possible, from overseas, to lecture on aspects of their research.
Previous Statutory Public Lectures
Handout
What do the early Irish texts tell us about the history of music in this country? The main emphasis in this lecture will be on the period between the coming of Christianity in the 5th century and the Anglo-Norman invasion in the late 12th century. Topics to be discussed include the identification of the stringed instruments crot and timpán, the use of wind-instruments in military contexts, the development of bag-pipes, the functions of percussion instruments, and the various styles of singing mentioned in the texts. There will also be an account of the evidence for dancing in early Christian Ireland.
The lecture will conclude with a summary of the role of music in early Irish society, and a discussion of the Church’s attitude towards different types of music, as well as an account of the frequent association between music and the supernatural in early Irish literature.
Part of Tionól 2013
Part of Tionól 2012
Part of Tionól 2011.
Part of Tionól 2010.
Part of Tionól 2009
Part of Tionól 2008
Part of Tionól 2007
Part of Tionól 2006
Part of Tionól 2005
Part of Tionól 2004
Part of Tionól 2003
Part of Tionól 2002
Part of Tionól 2001
Part of Tionól 2000
Brian Ó Cuív: ‘Personal Names, Epithets and Nicknames in Irish’
Brian Ó Cuív: ‘The Linguistic Training of the Mediaeval Irish Poet’
Daniel A. Binchy: ‘A Thousand Years of Irish – Corpus Iuris Hibernici’
Daniel A. Binchy: ‘The Book of Rights and Irish Pseudo-History’
Daniel A. Binchy: ‘The Ritual Hunger Strike in Ancient Ireland’
Myles Dillon: ‘Linguistic Borrowing and Historical Evidence’
School of Celtic Studies
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Professor Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Director of The School of Celtic Studies @DIAS_Dublin recently spoke at @UlidiaFinn2018 In this interview for @BBCRnG he talks about Cú Chulainn, the female warrior Sgáthach and Scythia. twitter.com/UlidiaFinn2018…
Today we're marking #DIASday as we celebrate 78 years of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies! Here is just a small selection of some highlights from down through the years #DIASDiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Tionól 2018 Call for Papers #SCSTionol2018 This year’s Tionól will take place on 2nd and 3rd November @DIAS_Dublin. Papers will relate to any aspect of Celtic Studies, and will be 30 minutes in duration. dias.ie/2018/06/06/tio…
Working in the library @DIAS_Dublin @SCSLibrary today and really loving the tribute to Schrödinger's "What is Life?" lectures, given 75 years ago, on the outside of the building. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
3D Printing of Ogham stone - 40 Painestown @NdeFaoite youtu.be/115c-0vtcLM Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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Patrick Sims-Williams' newest book, an edition of the Middle Welsh Buchedd Beuno "Life of St Beuno" was launched yesterday. Vol 15 of @SCSLibrary's red series. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Patrick Sims-Williams (@CelticAber) on "Saints and Early Welsh Charters", helpfully supplying a detailed map Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Dr Marie-Luise Theuerkauf (@DIAS_Dublin @SCSLibrary) speaks on the fascinating poem Baile Moling. #CelticHagiography Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
A few snaps from the launch of Patrick Sims-Williams' new edition of Buchedd Beuno - an important contribution to the famous "red books" of the medieval & modern Welsh series @SCSLibrary @DIAS_Dublin Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
John Carey (@uccsmghaeilge) sets up the slide show for his paper on "Beyond Angels and Ancients: Saints & their Uncanny Interlocutors" Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Waidler, presently O'Donovan scholar at @SCSLibrary and organiser of the conference, has so far analysed 106 such anecdotes - only a fraction of the extant material. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
We continue after the sunny lunch break with Sarah Waidler (@SCSLibrary @DIAS_Dublin), speaking about "Demons, Ghosts & Angels: Independent Anecdotes of Irish Saints" Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Reporting today from the conference "Defining the Boundaries of Celtic Hagiography: Textual Sources outside Lives & Martyrologies" at DIAS @SCSLibrary. 1st speaker Alan Macquarrie (Uni Edinburgh) Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Dr Sarah Waidler kicks off the DIAS Celtic hagiography conference! @SCSLibrary @DIAS_Dublin Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Professor Barry Lewis (@SCSLibrary @DIAS_Dublin) gives the first plenary lecture on "Some vernacular expressions of the cult of saints in Wales". #CelticHagiography Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library