Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium in UCG, 1991

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JPEG

Title

Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium in UCG, 1991

Identifier

VHG0045

Depiction

A large group of people posing for a photograph

Description

A Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium took place in UCG, Mar. 1991. The event was inspired by a symposium on Irish and Scottish migratory legends held in UCD in 1988, and in turn, the 2nd such Conference held in Galway became the inspiration for an expanded Nordic-Celtic-Baltic conference held in the University of Copenhagen in 1993. Those with UCG affiliations in the group conference picture included Mícheál Mac Craith (3rd from left in front row), Séamas Ó Catháin (6th from left in front row), Pádraig Ó Héalaí (7th from left in front row), Mark Wringe (3rd from the right in the row above the front row), and Lillis Ó Laoire in the 2nd row from the top, and to the right of the person with a blue top - they all were in the Dept. of Nua-Ghaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe.

The Conference picture also included Bo Almqvist (2nd from the right in the front row), Dept. of Folklore, UCD and many other folklore scholars from a range of countries. The conference papers dealing with the history, function and form of folk legends in the relevant geographical areas were subsequently published in Béaloideas, Vols. 60-3, 1992-5.

References

Personal communication: Padraig Ó Héalaí via email correspondence in Nov., 2023
Béaloideas, The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society, Vols. 60-3, 1992-5

Contributor

event

Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium

Bibliographic Citation

Patsy Clancy, Padraig Ó Héalaí, S.G. Jennings, ‘Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium in UCG, 1991’, Visual History Retired Staff Collection, University of Galway Digital Collections, Asset Id 14311, Archival Record Id VHRS

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Temporal Coverage

Period

1990s

Category

colour
group
on-campus
outdoors

Keywords

Folklore

Language

English
Irish

Publisher

University of Galway Library

Rights

This image may be used for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-SA
see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/