Exhibition commissioned by Foras na Gaeilge, was compiled by Dr Fionntán de Brún, lecturer in Irish at the University of Ulster and Dr Eamon Phoenix, Stranmillis University College. 2008-2009 Research Seminar Series

'Linguistic Elitism and Gender in the Irish Labour Market: How much advantageis there to workers in Ireland speaking Irish and being male?'
Professor Vani Borooah, Wenesday 29 April 2009, D089 Coleraine at 2.00pm

'The Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement., 1969-1975.'.
Professor Gearóid Mac Eoin, Monday 2 February 2009, Connor Lecture Hall at 6.00pm & at Coleraine Campus L117 at 11.30am.

'Rosnat: A Sixth Century Celtic University.'
Dr Andrew Breeze, Wednesday 11 February 2009, Courtroom at 3.00pm.

'Readings from Mícheál Ó Conghaile’s published work in the context of Contemporary writing in Irish.'
Mícheál Ó Conghaile, Tuesday 24 February 2009, LT6 at 1.00pm & Wednesday 25 February 2009, Video Conferencing Suite Belfast at 7.30pm.

'Macha: the invention of a Myth'
Professor Greg Toner, Thursday 5 March 2009, J501 Tower Building Coleraine at 3.00pm

'The Flotsam and Jetsam of Medieval Voyage Literature'
Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna, Tuesday 10 March 2009, J501 Coleraine Campus at 1.00pm

'The Relevance of the theories of Georges Dumezil for Celtic Studies'
Professor Dean Miller, Tuesday 24 March 2009, H215 Coleraine Campus at 12.00pm

'Problems of complexity and morpheme count: the case of Old and Middle Irish'
Professor Hildegard Tristram, Thursday 2 April 2009, Courtroom Cleraine at 3.00pm

'Linguistic Typology and Morpheme Count in Old Irish'
Professor Hildegard Tristram, Wednesday 1 April 2009, Magee Campus at 2.30pm

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2007-2008 Research Seminar Series

'News from Bobbio: St Columbanus and Early Irish Monasticism'.
Professor Michael Richter, 19 October, 2007, in the Courtroom, Coleraine, at 11.30am

'Prepositional Possessive Constructions in Celtic Languages (and Celtic Englishes)'.
Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, 13 November, 2007, in Magee College, at 4.00pm

'1908 agus bunú Scoil Éanna [‘1908 and the founding of St Enda’s]'
Dr Fionntán de Brún, 14 November, 2007, in the Riverside Lounge, Coleraine, at 11.30am

'Meaning in Context'
Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, 21 November, 2007, in the Courtroom, Coleraine.

'Imíonn focail le Gaoth: Modheolaíocht do staidéar ar athrú diacrónach agus ar staid shioncrónach Ghaeilge Chloch Chionn Fhaola'
Gearóid Ó Domagáin (Research Student, Coleraine), 12 February, 2008, in the Courtroom, Coleraine, at 11.15am

'The power of words in medieval Ireland: aspects of performance'
Dr Jacqueline Borsje, 11 February, 2008, in the Courtroom, Coleraine

'Lexicographer or Sorcerer's Apprentice? The dictionary-writer in the electronic age'
Dr Anthony Harvey, 28 February, 2008, in room J401, Coleraine, at 10.00am.

'Professor John Strachan and the Manchester School of Celtic Studies'
Professor Emrys Evans, 10 March, 2008, in room H254, Coleraine, at 12.15pm.

'Imtheachta na nÓinmhideadh'
Professor Gearóid Mac Eoin, 30 April, 2008, in room H254 Coleraine at 12.15pm.

'Hindu Thought Systems and 'Wisdom''
Professor Kapil Kapoor, 27 June, 2008, at Belfast campus, at 5.00pm.

'St Máedóc's Bed and Some Other Aspects of Early Irish Hagiography'
Alexander Korolev, 10 July, 2008, in the Courtroom, Coleraine at 11.00am.

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2006-2007 Research Seminar Series

'Holy fairs, Satire and Dialect: An eighteenth-Century Semi-Phonetic Scottish Gaelic Text'.
Robby Ó Maolalaigh (Glasgow), Friday 27 October 2006, in the Courtroom, Coleraine, at 11.00am.

'Powerful Words of St. Patrick: Curse, Blessing and Spell'.
Jacqueline Borsje (Ulster and Amsterdam) Wednesday 21 February 2007, in the Courtroom, Coleraine, at 2.00pm.

'Sláintí Óil na hÉireann'
Séamas Ó Catháin (UCD) Thursday 27 March 2007, in LT12 at 4.15pm.

'The Formation of an Irish Folklorist: The Case of James Hamilton Delargy'
Séamas Ó Catháin (UCD) Friday 29 March 2007, in the New Lecture Theatre, Belfast Campus, at 7.30pm.

'Sanskrit Language Direct Method 1'
Dr Santosh Shukla (Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy, New Dehli) Thursday 24 May 2007, in the Courtroom Coleraine, at 2.00-5.00pm.

'Sanskrit Linguistics'
Professor Kapil Kapoor (Jawaharlal Nehru Univerisity, New Dehli) Monday 28 May 2007, in the Courtroom Coleraine, at 10.00am.

'Sanskrit Language Direct Method 2'
Dr Santosh Shukla (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli) Monday 28 May 2007, in the Courtroom Coleraine, at 11.00am.

'Celtic and Germanic Linguistic Contacts'
Tatyana Mikhailova (Moscow State University & Russian Academy of Sciences) Tuesday 29 May 2007, in the Courtroom Coleraine, at 1.00pm.

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2005-2006 Research Seminar Series

'Druids, deer and words of power: coming to terms with evil in Medieval Ireland'.
Jacqueline Borsje (Ulster and Utrecht), Tuesday, 29 November 2005, in LT17 at 4.15 pm.

'Preached at the Raft Swamp: the first printed Scottish Gaelic Sermons'.
Donald Meek (Edinburgh), Wednesday, 15 February 2006, in the Courtroom at 2.00 pm.

'King in Exile in Airne Fíngein (‘Fíngen’s Vigil’): power and pursuit in Early Irish Literature'
Grigory Bondarenko (Ulster), Wednesday, 5 April 2006, in the Courtroom at 3.15 pm.

'The Provenance of the Book of Leinster'
Gearóid Mac Eoin (Galway), Wednesday, 10 May 2006, in J203 at 11.00 am.

'The variant readings of Aided Derbforgaill'
Kicki Ingridsdotter (Uppsala), Thursday, 11 May 2006, in the Courtroom at 1.00 pm.

'St Munnu’s voyage to paradise: locating the promised land in early Irish voyage narratives'
Jonathan Wooding (Lampeter), Thursday, 19 May 2006, in the Courtroom at 11.00 am.

'Welsh Penrhyn Blathaon - the oldest name of the northernmost point of Britain'
Iwan Wmffre (Ulster), Thursday, 25 May 2006, in B247 at 11.00 am.

'Miraculous magic in Medieval Ireland'
Jacqueline Borsje (Ulster and Utrecht), Tuesday, 20 June 2006, in B247 at 11.00.

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