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
2018
Liam Breatnach: Poetry on the edge: marginal verses in mediaeval Irish manuscripts
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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Today's new addition to go live from National Library of Scotland @DIAS_ISOS@natlibscot MS 14966. Autograph notebook, 1943, of poems by Sorley MacLean (a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era") Retweeted by
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Today's new addition to go live from National Library of Scotland @DIAS_ISOS@natlibscot MS 14881, containing poetry of Allan Stewart of Innerhadden. f. 32.. Song headed "Luineagh le Ian Mc Mhurcha' – chaidh air Sal' do' America bho' Chintail' 1776"isos.dias.ie/libraries/NLS/…#ISOSRetweeted 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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Ogham stones are among Ireland's most remarkable national treasures, with inscriptions in the uniquely Irish Ogham alphabet. Our #OghamIn3D project, digitises and records as many as possible of the approx. 400 surviving Ogham stones. More at bit.ly/2Tz1sKn #DIASdiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
@DIAS_Dublin Approx. 150 of the 400 have been digitised thanks to funding from @DeptAHG (2012-2015). Unfortunately without further funding the digital corpus will never be completed. @josephamadigan surely one for the Cultural Digitisation Scheme? Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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Today's new addition to go live from National Library of Scotland @DIAS_ISOS @natlibscot MS 14966. Autograph notebook, 1943, of poems by Sorley MacLean (a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era") Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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A ‘rare and special’ #manuscript Dr Elizabeth Boyle in the Sunday Independent today talking about the Book of Ballycummin & upcoming conference. Tickets available - ria.ie/little-remnant… Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
A medical manuscript from the mythical Island of Hy Brasil, so the story goes🤔Like the phantom island this manuscript is on view for a short time only - pop in today for a look! bit.ly/1nSotqX #ManuscriptMonday Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Very happy that @Real_Deniscasey & I have been successful in our application for a SPUR project @MaynoothUni - we shall be recruiting 2 undergraduates to work as paid researchers on 6-week summer project to produce an index to the Annals of Ulster @EarlyIrishMU! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Today's new addition to go live from National Library of Scotland @DIAS_ISOS @natlibscot MS 14881, containing poetry of Allan Stewart of Innerhadden. f. 32.. Song headed "Luineagh le Ian Mc Mhurcha' – chaidh air Sal' do' America bho' Chintail' 1776"isos.dias.ie/libraries/NLS/… #ISOS Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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