29 & 30 October - Scél lem dúib: Gerard Murphy's Early Irish Lyrics Revisited
Department of Early and Medieval Irish
- Professor John Carey, University College Cork
- Professor Emerita Susan Crane, Columbia University, New York
- Professor Emerita Máire Herbert, University College Cork
- Professor Maeve Callan, Simpson College, Iowa
- Professor Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Professor Thomas Owen Clancy, University of Glasgow Associate
- Professor Emeritus Daniel Melia, University of California, Berkeley Associate
- Professor Paul Siewers, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania Dr Geraldine Parsons, University of Glasgow
- Dr Kevin Murray, University College Cork
- Professor Emeritus Seán Ó Coileáin, University College Cork
- Professor Emeritus Séamus Mac Mathúna, University of Ulster
- Dr Brian Frykenberg, Cumann na Gaeilge, Boston
29-30 October, 2021 [Friday from 12.15pm to 6pm and Saturday from 12pm to 5pm]; Cavanagh Pharmacy Building LG 51 and the Aula Maxima (for limited numbers)
Themes and topics will include the reception of Murphy's edition of Early Irish Lyrics during the course of the last 65 years, the monastic figure living with his cat Pangur Bán, St Colum Cille on his 1,500th birthday, St Íte and the infant Christ, the Caillech Bérri or the Old Woman of Beara, the thwarted lovers Liadain and Cuirithir, nature poetry, vision poetry, pit-falls when translating medieval texts, poems from Agallamh na Seanórach or the Colloquy of the Ancients and the Finn Cycle, love poetry, lament, otherworld poems and Suibne Geilt or Mad Sweeney. The symposium will conclude with readings of a selection from the anthology in the original Old Irish side-by-side with readings of Modern Irish or English versions of the poems. This particular session will also include some music and one or two other surprises.