Time: 5:00-6:00pm
Speaker: Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB (Glenstal Abbey)
Title: Let me count the ways I love you: sex and marriage in late medieval Ireland
Colmán Ó Clabaigh is a monk of Glenstal Abbey and a medievalist specialising in the history of monasticism, popular religion, liturgy and theology.
His publications include The Franciscans in Ireland, 1400–1534: from Reform to Reformation (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), The Friars in Ireland, 1224-1500 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012) and edited collections of scholarly essays (with Martin Browne), The Irish Benedictines: a history (Dublin: Columba Press, 2005), with Salvador Ryan and Rachel Moss, Art and Devotion in Medieval Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), with Martin Browne, Soldiers of Christ: the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller in Medieval Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015), and with Martin Browne, Tracey Collins, and Bronagh Ann McShane, Brides of Christ: Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2023).
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Time: 6:00-7:15pm
Speaker: Sandrine Tromeur (PhD in History candidate, Maynooth University)
Title: Irish migrants and their integration into eighteenth-century France: the MacCarthy family in La Rochelle, 1715-89
Sandrine Tromeur is completing her PhD in History at Maynooth University. An Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar, she won the 2024 Liam Swords Foundation bursary.
For an insight into Sandrine’s doctoral research, see her contribution to RTÉ’s Brainstorm ‘Who were the Irish people who moved to La Rochelle in the 17th century?’ here: Brainstorm link