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Examining the impact of ancient Greece and Rome on the formation of Irish identities. Funded by @erc.europa.eu. Tweets by @clic-erc.bsky.social research team @au.dk

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Ireland’s fascination with ancient Greece, from our origin legends to Joyce’s Ulysses Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical world

The latest volume from the CLIC project is in the Irish Times! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... The article by PI Isabelle Torrance discusses Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity from the earliest mentions in Ireland to Ulysses.

11.02.2026 11:39 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Tá mé thar a bheith buíoch den eagarthóir iontach @clic-erc.bsky.social a lig dom an oiread sin íomhánna a úsáid; an-sásta go bhfuil an chaibidil ar fáil saor in aisce ar líne chomh maith le bheith ar fáil i ríocht leabhair.

20.01.2026 09:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity Ireland has an estimated diaspora of approximately 70 million people, ten times the actual population of the island, with a history of migration dating back to the medieval period. Why should we consi...

The volume Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity is now out! Available, open access, from the following link, the volume covers such topics as the early medieval Irish migrant scholars to Joyce’s Ulysses. With a foreword by Mary McAleese. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

20.01.2026 07:43 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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PI Isabelle Torrance kicks off the Politics of Linguistic Inclusion and Exclusion in Ireland conference over the next two days with an overview of the project and the results

27.11.2025 08:40 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New: Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture - Classics Ireland Classics Ireland vol. 31 (2024) is now published! This is a themed volume on Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture, edited by Ciarán Rua O’Neill, University College Dublin, and ...

Classics Ireland vol. 31 (2024)
New publication on the complex interconnections between classical antiquity and Irish visual aesthetics.
Research project: @clic-erc.bsky.social
Funding: @erc.europa.eu and @carlsbergfondet.dk
Online and open access: classicsireland.ie/new-graeco-r...

24.09.2025 09:58 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Feliks will speak on 'Placing Ireland in the archipelagic and European contexts: the representations of the Irish past in the seventeenth-century Irish Catholic writings'

24.09.2025 09:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ciaran will present: 'Greek and Roman Sources and Irish Culture: Towards a Hierarchy of Nineteenth-Century Irish Knowledge Production in the Ordnance Survey Letters'

24.09.2025 09:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Project member @metamedievalist and CLIC affiliate Feliks Levin are both presenting at the biennial Nordic Irish Studies Network conference in Uppsala, organised by fellow affiliate Gregory Darwin.

24.09.2025 09:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Reimagining Ireland 2.0 Reimagining Ireland 2.0 shares knowledge from scholars and affiliated researchers at the Centre for Irish Studies at Aarhus University with listeners around the

Delighted to share the second series of the podcast "Reimagining Ireland 2.0" from the Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus!! Listen to the AMAZING @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social now in the first two episodes: www.spreaker.com/podcast/reim...

24.09.2025 09:33 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for coming and contributing so brilliantly!

26.04.2025 06:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our final speaker today is Andrew MacKillop of the University of Glasgow on legal records and what they tell us about identities.

24.04.2025 14:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our final session on Mobilities and Identities begins with @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social on national and religious identities in early modern Ireland

24.04.2025 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Our final speaker in this panel is Leith Davis from Simon Fraser University on 'Unsettling Empire form within: Jacobitism, cultural memory, and Robert Forbes's "The Lyon in Mourning" manuscript.

24.04.2025 11:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Next up is Marc Caball of @ucddublin.bsky.social History
discussing the poetry of Aogán Ó Rathaille

24.04.2025 11:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Our next session is on Empire in early modern literature, chaired by @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social. Kicking us off is Pat Palmer of the MacMorris project.

24.04.2025 11:34 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Our final speaker on this panel is Feliks Levin on creating composite monarchy and empire in early modern Irish poetry and historical writing

24.04.2025 08:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Our next speaker is Karin Bowie from the University of Glasgow on Scottish responses to the Union.

24.04.2025 08:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Our next speaker is Philip Schwyzer from the University of Exeter on Humphrey Llwyd and what role he played in the creation of a British imperial identity.

24.04.2025 08:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The first panel 'Responses to Regal Unions and Empire', chaired by Pat Palmer, begins with Huw Pryce from Bangor University discussing Early Modern Welsh history writing, Union and Empire.

24.04.2025 08:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Today the Centre for Irish Studies in Aarhus hosts
Feliks Levin's panel discussion 'Sources from the Margins: Reflections on the Empire in Ireland, Scotland and Wales (1530s–1790s)'. Here begins live tweeting of the event.

24.04.2025 08:10 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0