|  | 1995-08-01'The world-view of an Irish Jacobite - Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín'
 read at:
 ECSSS annual conference, University of Aberdeen.
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|  | 1996-04-13'Differing perspectives: the expression of Jacobitism in the Gaelic literatures of Ireland and Scotland'
 read at:
 10th Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, University of Bristol.
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|  | 1999-07-30'The final phase of Jacobitism in the Gaelic literatures of Ireland and Scotland'
 read at:
 10th International Congress on the Enlightenment, UCD, Dublin.
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|  | 2002-01-19'Réabhlóid Mheiriceá i litríocht na Gaeilge'
 a léadh ag:
 Comhdháil Ghaeilge an ECIS, Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál, Ollscoil Luimnigh.
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|  | 2003-05-03'Ó "Thuireamh na hÉireann" go "Seanchas na Sceiche"'
 a léadh ag:
 Comhdháil bhliantúil an ECIS, Coláiste na Tríonóide, BÁC.
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|  | 2003-09-26'Views of the past in Irish vernacular literature c.1800'
 read at:
 Conference on 'Unity and diversity in European culture c.1800', British Academy, London.
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|  | 2004-02-21'Do shagartaibh agus do mhinistirí - léargas ar mheon na Rightboys'
 a léadh ag:
 Comhdháil Ghaeilge an ECIS, Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál, Ollscoil Luimnigh.
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|  | 2004-06-19'Concepts of Britain in Gaelic and Irish literature'
 read at:
 ECIS and ECSSS joint annual conference, Trinity College Dublin.
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|  | 2004-09-10'The American revolution in Irish political song'
 read at:
 Bi-annual conference of the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative, University of Edinburgh.
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|  | 2005-06-10'Popular historical consciousness in 18th-century Ireland'
 read at:
 ECIS annual conference, University of Limerick.
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|  | 2006-06-07'An frithríogachas i litríocht na Gaeilge'
 a léadh ag:
 First Galway Conference of Irish Studies, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh.
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|  | 2006-06-17'The continuity of disaffection in eighteenth-century Ireland'
 read at:
 ECIS annual conference, Magee College, University of Ulster, Derry.
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|  | 2007-08-17'The earls in popular memory'
 read at:
 'The Flight of the Earls' conference, Letterkenny Institute of Technology.
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|  | 2008-06-14'Stair Chéitinn i gcultúr an ochtú céad déag'
 a léadh ag:
 Comhdháil bhliantúil an ECIS, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh.
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|  | 2008-08-21'Aodh Buí Mac Cruitín - file agus staraí'
 a léadh ag:
 Scoil Samhraidh Merriman, Inis, Co. an Chláir.
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|  | 2008-10-10'The formation of Irish historical consciousness'
 read at:
 Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend.
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|  | 2008-11-13'Of birds and bats: homology and analogy in the 1790s'
 read at:
 'United Islands? Multi-lingual radical poetry and folk song in Britain and Ireland 1770-1820' conference, Queen's University Belfast.
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|  | 2009-09-05'The Penal laws in Irish vernacular literature'
 read at:
 Annual Conference of the ECIS, UCD, Dublin.
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|  | 2010-06-25'Amhrán poblachtach ón mbliain 1795'
 a léadh ag:
 Comhdháil bhliantúil an ECIS, Ollscoil Luimnigh.
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|  | 2013-02-21'Na Péindlíthe i Litríocht na Gaeilge'
 a léadh ag:
 cruinniú de Chumann Béaloidis Chonamara, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, an Cheathrú Rua.
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|  | 2013-05-24'Príosúnú Aodha Bhuí Mhic Cruitín'
 a léadh ag:
 seimineár dar teideal 'Saothrú na Gaeilge scríofa i suímh uirbeacha na hÉireann, 1700-1850' in Institiúid an Léann Daonna, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath.
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|  | 2013-06-07'The "Wild Geese" in Irish song and verse'
 read at:
 ECIS annual conference, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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|  | 2014-07-02'The Irish past in the vernacular imagination'
 read at:
 Irish Seminar 2014, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, O'Connell House, Dublin.
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|  | 2016-06-11'Athspléachadh ar bhunús na gcúirteanna éigse'
 a léadh ag:
 Comhdháil bhliantúil an ECIS, Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh.
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|  | 2017-06-30'Irish Jacobitism: a reading from a forthcoming chapter'
 read at:
 The Fourth International Conference of Jacobite Studies, Maynooth University.
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|  | 2018-06-25'English print or Irish verse? A case study'
 read at:
 Irish Seminar 2018, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, O'Connell House, Dublin.
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|  | 2019-09-26'Irish literature and the historiography of 18th-century Ireland'
 read at:
 Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Society House, Merrion Square, Dublin.
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|  | 2021-02-19'English print or Irish verse? Two case studies'
 read (via Zoom) at:
 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute seminar, UCD, Dublin.
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|  | 2021-12-15I made a five-minute contribution to a panel on 'Languages and coloniality in the archive' as part of an on-line event entitled 'The Coloniality of the Archive in Irish History' hosted by University College Cork. A recording of the panel is available here.
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|  | 2022-03-11'Mar a chum Seán Ó Conaill stair na hÉireann'
 a léadh ag:
 Ionad na Dromada mar chuid d'Éigse na Brídeoige, 2022.
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|  | 2022-04-06'An téarmeolaíocht agus scríobh na staire'
 a léadh ag:
 'An Ghaeilge agus an Téarmeolaíocht', siopóisiam lae a reachtáladh i gCampas Phádraig, DCU. Is féidir éisteacht leis an bpáipéar a léas anseo. (Tá caighdeán na fuaime go dona ag tús na cainte ach téann sé i bhfeabhas.)
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|  | 2024-04-20I delivered a keynote paper on 'The Hidden Ireland and the historians' at a conference to mark the centenary of Daniel Corkery's The Hidden Ireland, held in the Imperial Hotel, Cork.
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|  | 2024-12-03I gave the annual Breandán Ó Buachalla Memorial Lecture, an on-line event jointly organised by the Irish Texts Society and the National Library of Ireland. The title of my lecture was ‘The courts of poetry: bardic relics or something else?’. The lecture was recorded and it will be made available at this page in due course.
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