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Gaelic Medical Manuscripts from the academy collections

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03 Nov 2015 / 23 Dec 2015 Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
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Royal Irish Academy website

The Royal Irish Academy Library holds the largest collection of medieval manuscripts containing medical texts in Irish. Through these manuscripts, a new exhibition aims to highlight a lesser known aspect of medieval Irish society and the range of medical learning to which Irish doctors had access and which they made their own.

 

A series of lunchtime lectures by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Text Society to accompany the latest exhibition 'Gaelic medical manuscripts from the Academy collections', 13:00 on Wednesday from 4 November to 2 December.

 4 November         Dr Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha, DIAS:  ‘Medical writing in Irish, 1350-1650:  treatises on pathology’

11 November 
      Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, UCD:  ‘Lucht leighis:  healers and healing in Irish popular tradition’

18 November   
    Dr David Edwards, UCC:  ‘The changing world of a Gaelic medic:  Dermot O'Meara and early Stuart Ireland’

25 November       Dr Clare O'Halloran, UCC:  ‘Sylvester O'Halloran (1728-1807):  romantic, antiquary and surgeon’

 2 December         Diarmaid Ó Catháin:  ‘Dr John Fergus:  eighteenth-century doctor and book collector’

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03 Nov 2015 / 23 Dec 2015 Royal Irish Academy, Dublin
More information:

Royal Irish Academy website