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Book Launch: The Irresistible Frank O’Meara by Mary Stratton Ryan

Nerilie Duffey — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:05:57 +0000

‘The Irresistible Frank O’Meara’

Wednesday, September 11th, 6-8pm.

Book signing from 6pm with tea & coffee.

Talk by Mary Stratton Ryan at 7pm in Cobden Hall, Carlow College, College St., Carlow, R93 A003.

The Carlow Art Collection and Carlow College warmly invite you to the launch of Mary Stratton Ryan’s new book ‘The Irresistible Frank O’Meara – An Irish Artist in France’.

Frank O’Meara (1853-1888) was born on Dublin Street, Carlow. He trained in Paris, before becoming a central figure in the artists’ colony of Grez-sur-Loing, 70 km south of the City. He was a founder of the Grez school of painting, and he taught and encouraged other artists in the style of painting that he had skilfully developed. Although his life was short, and in the end he struggled with ill-health, he produced a series of wonderful paintings which combine plein-air naturalism with a symbolist mood, and he reached a high degree of excellence in his work. His work is represented in museums Nationally and Internationally. A selection of sketches by Frank O’Meara from The Carlow Art Collection will be on exhibition in Carlow College on the night.

Mary Stratton Ryan, an artist and art historian was also born in Dublin Street. She has spent many years researching O’Meara. “The Irresistible Frank O’Meara” published with Gandon Editions, is a beautiful hardback book full of images and detail of O’Meara’s life and times. Mary will sign copies of her book (€20 on the night), and she will give a talk on Frank O’Meara’s Carlow connections at 7pm in Cobden Hall.

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Book Launch: Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster

Nerilie Duffey — Fri, 10 May 2024 10:44:27 +0000

Carlow College, St. Patrick’s is delighted to host the launch of Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster, the second poetry collection to be published by poet and Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, Derek Coyle.

The event will be opened by Carlow College Vice President, Dr Eric Derr and the collection to be officially launched by poet, Darren Donohue. All are welcome to attend.

Please register your attendance below.

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Carlow College Lecturer’s New Book Sheds Light on the Earliest Writings about Saint Patrick

Nerilie Duffey — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:12:46 +0000

In a groundbreaking exploration of the most influential writings on Saint Patrick, Carlow College Lecturer in Medieval History, Dr Elizabeth Dawson, launched her latest book, Lives and Afterlives: The Hiberno-Latin Patrician Tradition, 650-1100. This compelling work delves into the early texts and offers an invaluable contribution to understandings of this central figure in the medieval Irish church and, indeed, Irish culture and history.

Published by Turnhout, Brepols in late 2023, Lives and Afterlives is a meticulous study that explores some of the earliest and most influential writings focused on Saint Patrick, and asks how successive generations forged, sustained and redirected aspects of the saint’s persona in order to suit their specific religious and political needs.

In this book Elizabeth Dawson, for the first time, treats the Hiberno-Latin vitae of Patrick as a body of connected texts. Seminal questions about the corpus are addressed, such as who wrote the Lives and why? What do the works tell us about the communities that venerated and celebrated the saint? And what impact did these Lives have on the success and endurance of the saint’s cult? Challenging the perception that Patrick’s legend was created and sustained almost exclusively by the monastic community at Armagh, she demonstrates that the Patrick who emerges from the Lives is a varied and malleable saint with whom multiple communities engaged.

Speaking at a public lecture marking the publication of her new book, Dr Dawson pointed to the significance of this body of literature and the insights they offer on the cult of Patrick, stating, “these Lives were known and shared by successive generations of Irish and non-Irish communities. They offer a window into the beliefs, concerns and traditions of medieval Christians and are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the veneration of saints in the medieval world. This book, for the first time, explores the ways in which these writings individually and collectively explain why and how Patrick became an enduring symbol of the Irish Church and Irish Christians.”

Lives and Afterlives: The Hiberno-Latin Patrician Tradition, 650-1100 is available for purchase online from Brepols here: https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503606040-1

About the Author

Dr Elizabeth Dawson is a medieval historian with an expertise the early medieval history of Ireland. She has lectured at University College Dublin, Queen’s University Belfast and most recently, Carlow College, St. Patrick’s. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the NUI Grant for Early Career Academics and IRC postdoctoral fellowship, and has worked with the Discovery Programme, the UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and the Royal Irish Academy.

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