Rossnowlagh's Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School draws closer

The 2024 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School is drawing closer and takes place on the weekend of the 10-12 May. 

This year’s theme is Words, Language and lore / Focail, Teanga agus Seanchas.

The early decades of the 17th Century in Ireland saw a time of major social change. 

The power of the older Gaelic and Anglo-Norman nobility was being replaced by centralised government control, initially instigated by the Tudor monarchs and continued by the Stuarts, that differed in religion, language and attitude that would ultimately lead to the religious wars later in the century.

The work and travels of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh took place in this period from 1623 to 1636 and the efforts of his group of chroniclers, was an attempt to preserve as much of the history, language, poetry and lore of Ireland before the impending destruction, that he foresaw, of the culture of the nation.

The 2024 Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Summer School with the theme of Words, Language and Lore will examine how words and language collided in Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's Ireland with talks given by expert historians about this period of Irish history.