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National/religious allegiances and political thought. Old motifs and new models in the early modern Irish-language poetry and historical writing

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Time

Friday 29 August 2025,  at 09:00 - 10:30

Panel: National/religious allegiances and political thought. Old motifs and new models in the early modern Irish-language poetry and historical writing

Venue: Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, Department of Celtic Studies, Bonn University 

Speakers:

1) Gregory Darwin (Uppsala University)

Cairt chloidhimh, cá cairt is fearr?: a Gaelic perspective on “surrender and regrant”

2) Philip Mac a’ Ghoill (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)

Switching Sides: Religious identity and Christian teaching in Gaelic literature 1575–1625

3) Feliks Levin (Aarhus University)

Contemplating composite monarchy in Irish verse and historical writing in the 1580s-1630s