A commemorative series of seven public lectures in Irish on various aspects of life and culture in Ireland in the wake of the Easter Rising, 1916. The series title is borrowed from that of a celebrated short-story collection by one of early twentieth-century Ireland’s most beloved writers, Pádraic Ó Conaire. The ambiguity of the keyword ‘bua’, which can be translated as ‘triumph’ or ‘quality’, provides … Continue reading The Seven Qualities of the Rising