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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC)

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Examining the impact of ancient Greece and Rome on the formation of Irish identities. Funded by @erc.europa.eu. Tweets by @clic-erc.bsky.social research team @au.dk

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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The latest volume from the CLIC project is in the Irish Times! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... The article by PI Isabelle Torrance discusses Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity from the earliest mentions in Ireland to Ulysses.
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Ireland’s fascination with ancient Greece, from our origin legends to Joyce’s Ulysses
Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical world
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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Tá mé thar a bheith buíoch den eagarthóir iontach @clic-erc.bsky.social a lig dom an oiread sin íomhánna a úsáid; an-sásta go bhfuil an chaibidil ar fáil saor in aisce ar líne chomh maith le bheith ar fáil i ríocht leabhair.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The volume Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity is now out! Available, open access, from the following link, the volume covers such topics as the early medieval Irish migrant scholars to Joyce’s Ulysses. With a foreword by Mary McAleese. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity
Ireland has an estimated diaspora of approximately 70 million people, ten times the actual population of the island, with a history of migration dating back to the medieval period. Why should we consi...
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
PI Isabelle Torrance kicks off the Politics of Linguistic Inclusion and Exclusion in Ireland conference over the next two days with an overview of the project and the results
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Classics Ireland vol. 31 (2024) New publication on the complex interconnections between classical antiquity and Irish visual aesthetics. Research project: @clic-erc.bsky.social Funding: @erc.europa.eu and @carlsbergfondet.dk Online and open access: classicsireland.ie/new-graeco-r...
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New: Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture - Classics Ireland
Classics Ireland vol. 31 (2024) is now published! This is a themed volume on Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture, edited by Ciarán Rua O’Neill, University College Dublin, and ...
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Feliks will speak on 'Placing Ireland in the archipelagic and European contexts: the representations of the Irish past in the seventeenth-century Irish Catholic writings'
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ciaran will present: 'Greek and Roman Sources and Irish Culture: Towards a Hierarchy of Nineteenth-Century Irish Knowledge Production in the Ordnance Survey Letters'
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Project member @metamedievalist and CLIC affiliate Feliks Levin are both presenting at the biennial Nordic Irish Studies Network conference in Uppsala, organised by fellow affiliate Gregory Darwin.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Delighted to share the second series of the podcast "Reimagining Ireland 2.0" from the Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus!! Listen to the AMAZING @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social now in the first two episodes: www.spreaker.com/podcast/reim...
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Reimagining Ireland 2.0
Reimagining Ireland 2.0 shares knowledge from scholars and affiliated researchers at the Centre for Irish Studies at Aarhus University with listeners around the
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Thank you for coming and contributing so brilliantly!
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our final speaker today is Andrew MacKillop of the University of Glasgow on legal records and what they tell us about identities.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our final session on Mobilities and Identities begins with @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social on national and religious identities in early modern Ireland
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our final speaker in this panel is Leith Davis from Simon Fraser University on 'Unsettling Empire form within: Jacobitism, cultural memory, and Robert Forbes's "The Lyon in Mourning" manuscript.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Next up is Marc Caball of @ucddublin.bsky.social History discussing the poetry of Aogán Ó Rathaille
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our next session is on Empire in early modern literature, chaired by @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social. Kicking us off is Pat Palmer of the MacMorris project.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our final speaker on this panel is Feliks Levin on creating composite monarchy and empire in early modern Irish poetry and historical writing
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our next speaker is Karin Bowie from the University of Glasgow on Scottish responses to the Union.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our next speaker is Philip Schwyzer from the University of Exeter on Humphrey Llwyd and what role he played in the creation of a British imperial identity.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The first panel 'Responses to Regal Unions and Empire', chaired by Pat Palmer, begins with Huw Pryce from Bangor University discussing Early Modern Welsh history writing, Union and Empire.
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Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) @clic-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Today the Centre for Irish Studies in Aarhus hosts Feliks Levin's panel discussion 'Sources from the Margins: Reflections on the Empire in Ireland, Scotland and Wales (1530s–1790s)'. Here begins live tweeting of the event.
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