Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna
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Staraí/Scríbhneoir - Historian/Writer Scoláire iardhochtúireachta IRC in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe / iarscoláire Fulbright 19th c. US history; Fenianism; Irish language in the US; Irish folklore
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Táim ar bís le bheith ar ais i nDún Éideann don cheardlann seo - ag dúil go mór leis na páipéir uilig / Looking forward to what promises to be a great day of conversations on the Gaelic Atlantic !
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'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇
Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm. 10.00 
Introduction and welcome

10.30-12.00 
Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706

Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640

Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song 

 12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-14.30 
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts 

Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow

Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book

14.30-15.00 
 Coffee

15.00-16.00  
Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla 

Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined?

16.00-17.00 
Round table  
Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh) 
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway)

17.00 
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