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.
A version of the wildly licentious 18th century comic poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) adapted to a dialect of Irish no longer spoken has been discovered in a manuscript by a linguist in Dublin. #DIASDiscoversrte.ie/news/2018/0926…
Leagan de Chúirt an Mheán Oíche i nGaeilge Ros Comáin aimsithe.
Tá leagan den dán grinn graosta Cúirt an Mheán Oíche scríofa i gcanúint Ghaeilge Chonnachtach nach labhraítear níos mó aimsithe i lámhscríbhinn ag teangeolaí i mBaile Átha Cliath rte.ie/news/nuacht/20…
Did you know that the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies at @tcddublin offers postgrad courses in Old Irish? With some of the most renowned Irish language manuscripts housed under our own roof, our students are perfectly placed to become experts in the subject. #smugfaceRetweeted by
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@EarlyIrishMU Research Seminar today:
Prof Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge @Department_ASNC ) on ‘Irish & Norse Otherworlds: Immram to Hvítramannaland’.
17:00, John Hume Lecture Theatre 4
@MaynoothUni
Followed by a 🍷reception (i.e. everyone will receive 🍷) Retweeted by
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A beautiful day to re-visit Killeen Cormac - a multiple ogham site close to the Kildare/Wicklow border. Looking forward to bringing a class from a local primary school to explore the site, its treasures & stories next week @HerInSchools@KildareHeritage#EYCH2018Retweeted by
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Recently launched 'Filíocht Ghaeilge an Athar Maonas Ó Ruairc (c.1658–1750)' in eagar ag Pádraig de Brún is now available from our online bookshop. books.dias.ie/index.php?main…
Thank you to all for attending a riveting seminar on #insularcodicogy given by the excellent John Gillis yesterday @DIAS_Dublin. You were a fantastic audience! 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
Today at 5pm @DIAS_Dublin The Icelandic rímur Presented by M.J. Driscoll (Copenhagen University) dias.ie/2018/10/10/the… …
Colin Hogg, School of Cosmic Physics came up with the idea of weusemaths.ie it shows how maths is used in many ways, how it links back into the maths curriculum and how students can select CAO courses for a specific career.irishtimes.com/news/science/w… #DIASdiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
A version of the wildly licentious 18th century comic poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) adapted to a dialect of Irish no longer spoken has been discovered in a manuscript by a linguist in Dublin. #DIASDiscovers rte.ie/news/2018/0926…
Leagan de Chúirt an Mheán Oíche i nGaeilge Ros Comáin aimsithe. Tá leagan den dán grinn graosta Cúirt an Mheán Oíche scríofa i gcanúint Ghaeilge Chonnachtach nach labhraítear níos mó aimsithe i lámhscríbhinn ag teangeolaí i mBaile Átha Cliath rte.ie/news/nuacht/20…
Registration is now open for #rbgseminar2018 'Curating Special Collections Exhibitions' taking place 30/11/2018 at @CBL_Dublin and accredited for CPD by @LAIonline. Book now! #specialcollections #exhibitions Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Did you know that the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies at @tcddublin offers postgrad courses in Old Irish? With some of the most renowned Irish language manuscripts housed under our own roof, our students are perfectly placed to become experts in the subject. #smugface Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
@EarlyIrishMU Research Seminar today: Prof Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge @Department_ASNC ) on ‘Irish & Norse Otherworlds: Immram to Hvítramannaland’. 17:00, John Hume Lecture Theatre 4 @MaynoothUni Followed by a 🍷reception (i.e. everyone will receive 🍷) Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
A beautiful day to re-visit Killeen Cormac - a multiple ogham site close to the Kildare/Wicklow border. Looking forward to bringing a class from a local primary school to explore the site, its treasures & stories next week @HerInSchools @KildareHeritage #EYCH2018 Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
CFP: Tales & Transmissions: Storytelling in #Irish & #Scottish #Gaelic AD700–present @Cambridge_Uni 26–28 Apr 2019 Abstract deadline 14 Dec Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
The Icelandic rímur Presented by M.J. Driscoll (Copenhagen University) Thursday 18th October 2018 at 5pm @DIAS_Dublin dias.ie/2018/10/10/the…
Tionól 2018 will take place on Friday November 2nd and Saturday November 3rd @DIAS_Dublin Full programme and abstracts now available. #SCSTionól2018 #LoveIrishResearch dias.ie/celt/celt-conf…
Cataloguing Internship // @SCSLibrary #LISJobsIE #internship buff.ly/2Pk58xm Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Today's new addition to go live from Trinity College Dublin @DIAS_ISOS @TCDResearchColl TCD 1337/1, H.3.18 (p. 33 Part of the beautiful and perfect copy of the book of Ogams isos.dias.ie/libraries/TCD/… … #irishmanuscript #ISOS Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Recently launched 'Filíocht Ghaeilge an Athar Maonas Ó Ruairc (c.1658–1750)' in eagar ag Pádraig de Brún is now available from our online bookshop. books.dias.ie/index.php?main…
Thank you to all for attending a riveting seminar on #insularcodicogy given by the excellent John Gillis yesterday @DIAS_Dublin. You were a fantastic audience! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Components of the codex - the materials. Parchment, timber, leather, vegetable fibre and papyrus/paper #InsularCodicology
Introduction to today's seminar on #InsularCodicology by @ChantalKobel
Follow hashtag #InsularCodicology for our Seminar this afternoon. We look forward to seeing you there.
The programme of the Research Seminar in @NuaGhaeilgeOMN @MaynoothUni for semester 1. Tá fáilte romhaibh uilig! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library