Free evening lecture in Derry/Londonderry on Friday evening: ‘Crossing the Sruthar-na-Mailé Chinntiré: connections between the northwest of Ireland and Scotland before 1600’ The University of Ulster is pleased to be hosting a series of public lectures between June and October 2013, funded by the Ministerial Advisory Group Ulster Scots Academy (MAGUS). These lectures will focus on the history, heritage and culture of Scottish settlers in northwest Ulster and their local, national and international significance. The series will look at how Scots crossed the North Channel, Sruthar-na-Mailé, long before the Plantation of Ulster and forged bonds between the Gaelic inhabitants of Ulster and Scotland which had profound consequences for the English Crown and its attempts to impose its sovereignty upon Ireland. Later lectures in this series by world renowned historians will explore the role of Scottish settlers in the northwest of Ulster in the Plantation of Ulster, the Stuart Civil Wars of the 1640s & 1650s, the siege of Derry in 1689, liberal Presbyterianism in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries, emigration from the port at Londonderry, as well as their literary and cultural heritage. Further details about the lecture series will be available in due course. The first lecture in this series will take place in the Martha Magee lecture theatre (room MD008) at the University of Ulster, Magee Campus on Friday 28 June 2013 at 7.00pm. The opening lecture will be given by Dr Alison Cathcart (University of Strathclyde), entitled ‘Crossing the Sruthar-na-Mailé Chinntiré: connections between the northwest of Ireland and Scotland before 1600’. There is no cost to attend this lecture or any future lectures in the series. Everyone is most welcome to attend. If anyone has any questions or would like more information please contact Dr Andrew Robinson ([email protected]) or Dr Billy Kelly ([email protected]).
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:21:16 +0000
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