Date: Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Location: Theatre 2

Presenters: Dr Sorcha de Brún and Dr Iarla Ó Lionáird

Chair: Dr Aileen Dillane

Dr Sorcha de Brùn is an Associate Professor of Irish in the School of English, Irish, and Communications in UL who specialises in masculinities in Irish Language literatures.

Dr de Brún will present “A pine deal board for our bed”: Ecology, Masculinities and Amhráin Ghrá na Gaeilge”, exploring tensions between the language of seduction and coercive intent in the Irish language love song genre, drawing upon a number of 'big' love songs in Irish that represent a unique aspect of masculinitie (fireannachtaí), where ecology functions to distract the object of desire from danger.

Dr. Iarla Ó Lionáird

Dr Iarla Ó Lionaird is a composer, singer, and scholar who completed his Arts Practice PhD in UL and is currently working on a book about the poetics of place, performance, and coming 'home'.

Dr O Lionaird will present “Homegoing: Song-writing Ecologies in Making Peace with Place”, where tribal belonging and identity in the poetry of Seán Ó Riordáin is given new voice within the framework and aesthetics of contemporary sean nós practice.