Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture

The ITS/NLI Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture is held annually.

The next Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture will be given online on 3rd December 2024 at 6.30p.m. by Dr Vincent Morley, on ‘The courts of poetry: bardic relics or something else?’.

More information at the National Library of Ireland Events. Booking (free) on Eventbrite

The Society has embarked upon a programme to publish these talks under its Occasional Lecture Series.

 

Lectures

2023: Prof. Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut, ‘Bardic poets and the early modern world’.

2022: Dr Katharine Simms, MRIA, FTCD, ‘Mixed Marriages in Medieval Ireland’

2021: An tOllamh Máire Ní Annracháin (Prof. Emerita, UCD), ‘Polishing diamonds: How modern Irish poetry came to gleam’
2019: Cathal Goan (formerly RTÉ and Teilifís na Gaeilge TG4), ‘Collecting the Fragments: Breandán Ó Buachalla in Cape Clear (1959–2009)’
2018: Dr Bernadette Cunningham (Library, Royal Irish Academy), ‘Pilgrims and poets in fifteenth-century Gaelic Ireland’
2014: Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle (Roinn na Gaeilge, NUI Galway), ‘The Irish genealogies — Irish history's poor relation?’
2013: Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford), ‘Lyrics in two languages: the short Irish poem in the twentieth century’

2012: Professor Pádraig Ó Riain (UCC), ‘Forty years a-growing: the Dictionary of Irish Saints’

2011: Dr John Carey (UCC), ‘The Wanderings of the Battle of Moytirra’