The Royal Irish Academy

Speaker: Ruairí Ó hUiginn MRIA is professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth University and Head of its School of Celtic Studies. He has published on many different aspects of Irish language and literature and is currently Chair of the Management and Editorial Committees of the Royal Irish Academy’s Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge.

The Book of Ballymote (BB), compiled between the late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, is one of the most remarkable Irish manuscripts we have. Its size and extent, the range of material it contains and its striking illumination all mark it out as an important work of late medieval learning. Its 251 folios contain, among many other works, texts such as Lebor Gabála Érenn, Lebor na Cert, Dindshenchas Érenn, Banshenchas Érenn, Cóir Anmann, extensive genealogical tracts listing the pedigrees of some of the most prominent Irish population groups and families, lists of saints, biblical texts and adaptations of classical material.

There are many questions that can be asked about this remarkable codex and the society in which it came into being. What was the intent of the scribes and scholars who compiled it? Why were the texts found in the BB so chosen? What sources were used in its compilation? Why was it so extensively and richly decorated? How does BB relate to other medieval manuscripts, in particular, the slightly later Great Book of Lecan? What do we know of the later history of BB?

The book Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymoteis available to buy here: www.ria.ie/codices-hibernenses…i-i-lebor-na-huidre

Location: Academy House

Date: 5 February, 2015

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Professor Mary Daly, MRIA. Fourth lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.'

Professor Daly’s lecture looks at the membership of the Academy c.1910, its current research projects and intellectual interests and how this evolved over the decade. She also discusses the decision to expel Eoin MacNeill from the Academy and his reinstatement.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 4 May, 2016

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Professor Daly is one of Ireland’s most prominent senior historians and is a member of the government’s Expert Advisory Group on Commemorations. She is emeritus professor of history at UCD and served for seven years as Principal of UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies; she has also held visiting positions at Harvard and Boston College. She is the first female President of the Royal Irish Academy in its 229-year history and was elected in March 2014. From 2000 to 2004 she was Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy and vice-chair of the Academy’s Working Group on Higher Education. She has served on the National Archives Advisory Council and the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Professor Daly was involved in the commemoration of the sesquicentenary of the great famine 1995-97, and with Dr Margaret O’Callaghan she directed a research project on the Golden Jubilee of the 1916 Rising, resulting in the publication of a major edited work: 1916 in 1966: commemorating the Easter Rising (2007). Over the course of her distinguished career, Professor Daly has researched widely and published prolifically, notably: Dublin, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1914 (1984); Women and Work in Ireland (1997); The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920-1973 (2006); and, with Theo Hoppen, Gladstone: Ireland and Beyond (2011).

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Lawrence White, Research Assistant and Copy Editor on the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography project. Third lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.'

The writings of Desmond Ryan (1893-1964) were particularly influential in shaping the story of the Easter rising and its participants through the first half of the twentieth century. This talk explores the historiography of the rising through the work of Desmond Ryan.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 27 April, 2016

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Lawrence White is Research Assistant and Copy Editor on the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography project. He is co-editor (with James Quinn) of 1916: portraits and lives (2015), a selection of DIB articles pertinent to the Easter rising.

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Regina Uí Chollatáin, Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore in University College Dublin. Second lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.'

The title of this lecture refers to an article written in 1909 which reflects the orthographical challenges of this period which dictated much debate in language usage in the public sphere of the media. This talk will present an overview of the themes, content and Irish language journals between 1910-1920, examining the impact of developments in Irish language print media on the intellectual life and on the understanding of culture and identity. This is particularly relevant in the context of Intellectual life in Ireland during this period where Revivalist ideology and the language movement helped to make new developments a reality. New writing practices and processes which evolved as a result of new writing styles and print forums were central to the creation of an Irish reading public and a modern Irish literature.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 6 April, 2016

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Regina Uí Chollatáin is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore in University College Dublin. Her main areas of research are Irish language media, print culture and language revival. She has published widely in academic journals nationally and internationally. Her monograph on the first Irish language newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis agus Fáinne an Lae 1899-1932 (2004) was awarded the Donnchadh Ó Súilleabháin Oireachtas award. Recent publications include co-editor of Litríocht na Gaeilge ar fud an domhain (2015) the first comprehensive study of Irish language literature in a global context, Cnuasach Comhar 1982-2012 (2014), An Greann sa Ghaeilge (2013). She was the recipient of the Senior Visiting Professor award from the Ireland-Canada University Foundation om 2011-12 and she is currently the Chair of the National Irish Language Development Forum.

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Chantal Kobel. First lecture in a series on ‘Intellectual life in Ireland 1910-1920.'

This lecture reflects on the influential career of Prof. Eleanor Knott, one of the first women to be made a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and her important contributions to scholarship in the area of Celtic Studies.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 9 March, 2016

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Chantal Kobel obtained her B.A. in Old and Modern Irish in TCD and went on to achieve a Masters in Archives and Records Management in UCD. She recently completed her PhD in Early Irish at Trinity College Dublin. She lectures at the Department of Irish and Celtic Languages at Trinity College Dublin and the Department of Early Irish at National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research interests centre on Old and Middle Irish language, the development of the language, early Irish literature and poetry, and textual editing.

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile, NUI Galway.

In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 1 April, 2015

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Library Lunchtime Lecture series by Dr Liam Mac Amhlaigh, Maynooth University. Introduced by Dr Deirdre D'Auria, Eagarthóir Cúnta, Foclóir na Nua-Ghaeilge.

In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 25 March, 2015

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Library Lunchtime Lecture series by Dr Linde Lunney, Dictionary of Irish Biography.

In Spring 2015 the Library, in collaboration with the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) and Foclóir Na Nua-Ghaeilge (FNG), organised a series of lectures entitled ‘‘1815, 1915: Centenaries and bicentenaries: Celticists, lexicographers and antiquarian scholars.’ The series looks at the contributions made by some nineteenth-century scholars to the development of Celtic Studies, the Irish language, lexicography, archaeology and antiquarian research, textual studies and Irish history.

Location: Academy House

Date: Wednesday 11 March, 2015

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by RIA Librarian Siobhán Fitzpatrick.

Third lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'

Location: Academy House

Date: October 2015

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Library Lunchtime Lecture by Tim O’Neill, artist, scribe and historian.

Second lecture in a series organised in association with Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork, to accompany the exhibition ‘Scribing for Ireland: the Ó Longáin family and the Royal Irish Academy.'

Location: Academy House

Date: October 2015

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