Wednesday 13 March 2024 at 7:45am (AEDT) on Zoom
Prof. Moyra Haslett, QUB
A Brief History of Irish Song, pre-1800
Moyra Haslett, Professor or Eighteenth-century and Romantic period literature at Queen’s University Belfast, will present a paper on “A Brief History of Irish Song, pre-1800”. Her most recent project has been on the AHRC-funded “Historical Typology of Irish Song”, as part of which she has been editing The Oxford Handbook of Irish Song, 1100-1850 with Professor Lillis O’Laoire and Dr Conor Caldwell. The volume comprises 39 chapters covering the diversity of Irish song pre-1850. This paper will introduce the work of the volume.
John Kerrigan
Eamon Duffy
Vona Groarke
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Elizabeth Hession
Cambridge Group for Irish Studies
