Grímur Thorkelin’s Irish and Icelandic Manuscripts

Two eventful days about Grímur Thorkelin’s Irish and Icelandic Manuscripts,

Programme

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

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