Grímur Thorkelin’s Irish and Icelandic Manuscripts
Two eventful days about Grímur Thorkelin’s Irish and Icelandic Manuscripts,
Programme
Thursday, 2 June
Panorama Hall, The Royal Library
| 16:15 | Emily Ghadimi, Deputy Head of Mission at the Irish Embassy to Denmark | Opening remarks |
| 16:30 | Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Copenhagen/Prifysgol Aberystwyth) | The story of Denmark's Irish manuscripts Followed by the launch of Hidden harmonies: Manuscript and print on the North Atlantic fringe, edited by M.J. Driscoll and Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil, an exhibition of The Royal Library's Irish manuscripts and a reception |
Friday, 3 June
Room 27.2.23 (“Salen”), The Arnamagnæan Institute
| 10:00 | An Icelander abroad | |
| Margrét Gunnarsdóttir (National Archives of Iceland) | Emissary of Icelandic heritage and Old Norse: The journey of Grímur Thorkelin to Britain and Ireland, 1786–1791 | |
| Bjarni Gunnar Ásgeirsson (University of Iceland) | Grímur Thorkelin, Thomas Astle, and the disappearance of Icelandic manuscripts from Copenhagen | |
| 11:30 | Copenhagen's Irish manuscripts | |
| Chantal Kobel (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) | Scribal practices and the circulation of law texts in late medieval Ireland: Maghnus I and the 'Book of Domhnall Ó Duibhdábhoireann' | |
| Pádraig Ó Macháin (University College Cork) | The Poem Book of Cú Chonnacht Mág Uidhir (NKS 268 b 2°) | |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45 | Scribes, patrons and antiquarians | |
| Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil (University of Ulster) | Charles Vallancey, Muiris Ó Gormáin and the patron-scholar interface | |
| Ciaran MacDonough (University College Dublin) | Theophilus O’Flanagan: An antiquarian and scribe in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Ireland | |
| 15:00 | Tour of Den Arnamagnæanske Samling | |
| 15:30 | Thorkelin's Icelandic manuscripts | |
| Ulrike Hogg (National Library of Scotland) | The Thorkelin collection in the National Library of Scotland | |
| Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen) | The Johnstone collection of Icelandic manuscripts at Trinity College Library | |
| 16:45 | Close |