ICUF Senior Visiting Professor gives public lecture in the University of Toronto
Lecture: “National Identity and the Pagan Past: An Irish Poet’s Perspective c. AD 1000”
Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann (Peter Smith) will discuss the reconstruction of the pre-Christian Irish past by the medieval Irish scholar-poets. He will also consider the ways in which those scholar-poets reconciled their pagan past with their Christian present. His specific focus will be Éitset áes ecna aíbind (‘Let the pleasant company of scholars listen’), a poem written by Eochaid Úa Flainn around the year 1000, which aims to provide its audience with a synthesis of the prehistory of Ireland from the time of the Flood until the death of legendary king of Tara, Óengus Olmuccaid
Time: Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 6 p.m.
Location: Robert Madden Auditorium, Carr Hall, St. Michael’s College, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
Peter J. Smith of University of Ulster is the Ireland Canada University Foundation Visiting Professor 2010-2011 with the Celtic Studies Program in The University of St Michael’s College, The University of Toronto.
Free admission – all welcome – no registration required
Further information: phone 416-926-7145 or email celtic.studies@utoronto.ca