Tower Seminar - Introducing The Oxford Handbook of Irish Song 1100-1850

Presenters: Professor Moyra Haslett and An t-Ollamh Lillis Ó Laoire

Chair: Dr Conor Caldwell

The Oxford Handbook of Irish Song 1100-1850 is a landmark publication on the history of singing in Ireland. The project includes essays from more than thirty distinguished and emerging scholars on a broad range of song styles and topics. In this seminar, the three co-editors discuss the collection as a whole and their own contributions. There will be live performance as part of the seminar.

Professor Moyra Haslett (Queen's University, Belfast) - Moyra Haslett is a Professor of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature, with a particular focus on women's fiction. Her many monograph publications include Pope to Burney, Scriblerians to Bluestockings (Palgrave, 2003) and Byron’s Don Juan (Clarendon Press, 1997), for which she was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay prize by the British Academy.

An t-Ollamh Lillis Ó Laoire (Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) - Ollamh pearsanta le Gaeilge é i Scoil na dTeangacha, na Litríochtaí agus na gCultúr in Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh. Mar ábhar taighde, tá suim aige sa Bhéaloideas agus go háirithe san amhránaíocht. Tá go leor foilseachán aige ar an amhránaíocht, leabhar ar an amhránaí mór le rá sean-nóis, Seosamh Ó hÉanaí ina measc. Stiúraigh sé an fhoireann a chuir suíomh idirlín le chéile tiomnaithe d'ábhar ó Chartlann Sheosaimh Uí Éanaí fosta. Is féidir an suíomh seo a fheiceáil ach dul go dtí an nasc seo: www.joeheaney.org

Admission is free and all are welcome.