DATE: October 2015 - March 2016
VENUE: University College Dublin
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 a suggestive point of departure for talks by experts in a wide range of fields on the transformative effects of the events of 1916 on music, literature, economics, architecture, visual arts, film & media and theatre.
The lectures will take place at 7pm in Theatre R, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield.
*15 October 2015: Peadar Ó Riada, on Music
12 November 2015: Dr Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, on the Visual Arts
10 December 2015: Professor Máirín Nic Eoin, on Literature
21 January 2016: Tarla MacGabhann, on Architecture
**19 February 2016: Dr Jerry White, on Cinema
3 March 2016: Dr Regina Uí Chollatáin, on the Media
7 April, 2016: Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, on Economics
*Léacht Uí Chadhain 2015.
**A bilingual lecture at 7pm in the Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham, as part of the conference Torthaí na Réabhlóide, organised by the UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore
This project has been funded by
Senior Lecturer, UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore and Linguistics
ABOUT:
Caoimhín was previously a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He has published books and essays on various aspects of literature in the Irish language, both medieval and modern. These publications include contributions to two recent collections he co-edited, both deriving from symposia held at UCD on major figures in twentieth-century literature in Irish: Fill Arís: Oidhreacht Sheáin Uí Ríordáin (2013) and Mo Ghnósa Leas an Dáin: Aistí in Ómós do Mháirtín Ó Direáin (2014). He has also written extensively on contemporary art, both in Ireland and internationally. He has curated exhibitions in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and New York and was a juror for the 2005 Turner Prize.
ABOUT:
Scoláire agus criticeoir is ea Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, atá ina léachtóir le Gaeilge le fada sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath. Bhí sé ina léachtóir ar feadh tamaillín roimhe sin i Roinn na Ceiltise in Ollscoil Dhún Éideann. Tá leabhair agus aistí foilsithe aige ar ghnéithe éagsúla de litríocht na Gaeilge idir shean is nua. I measc na bhfoilseachán is déanaí dá chuid tá aistí in dhá chnuasach a raibh sé mar chomheagarthóir orthu, a d’eascair as comhdhálacha lae a eagraíodh sa Choláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ar bhert de shárscríbhneoirí na nualitríochta: Fill Arís: Oidhreacht Sheáin Uí Ríordáin (2013) agus Mo Ghnósa Leas an Dáin: Aistí in Ómós do Mháirtín Ó Direáin (2014). Is criticeoir ealaíne é freisin a bhfuil aistí iomadúla foilsithe aige ar an ealaín chomhaimseartha in Éirinn agus thar lear. Tá taispeántais eagsúla eagraithe aige thar na blianta i mBaile Átha Cliath, i Londain, in Amsterdam agus i Nua Eabhrac, agus bhí sé mar mholtóir ar Dhuais Turner na bliana 2005.
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