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Ireland's Lost Renaissance? Wednesday 23 March G10, Civil Engineering Building, UCC Main Campus, Public Lecture.
Ireland's Lost Renaissance? Wednesday 23 March G10, Civil Engineering Building, UCC Main Campus, Public Lecture.
Public Lecture
Ireland 's Lost Renaissance?
or,
Humanities in a Time of Crisis
by Dr. Jason Harris
School of History,UCC
6pm
Wednesday 23 March
G10, Civil EngineeringBuilding,
UCC Main Campus
As Ireland continues to descend into economic decline with potentially dire consequences for the humanities, the Ad Fontes project offers a retrospective view of a period of crisis in early-modern Ireland when a thriving intellectual culture was overthrown and almost written out of history by an insurgent political elite under the rubric of reform and modernisation.
Dr. Harris will focus upon the extent to which the latest European Renaissance ideals had developed in Irelandprior to this reversal of fortune and will examine why they appear not to have put down firm roots. At the core of this talk is a consideration of the relationship of the humanities to educational policy and state ideology, both past and present.
Emer Purcell,
School of History,
UniversityCollegeCork.
Tel. 021 490 3087
Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland: Emer Purcell