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Reimagining Ireland (English version) · Sep 30, 2025 · 21 min

9 Polyphonic History with Pat Palmer

What did Ireland sound like before conquest? In this two-part conversation, Professor Pat Palmer guides us into the vibrant world of early modern Ireland, where bardic poets, Gaelic lords, Spanish captains and Elizabethan officials all left their mark. From flourishing schools of poetry to the sudden rupture at Kinsale, these episodes invite us to reimagine the past through many voices and rediscover what was lost in the making of modern Ireland. https://macmorris.maynoothuniversity.ie Pat Palmer took part in the workshop “Sources from the margins: reflections on the empire in Ireland, Scotland and Wales (1530s-1790s)" organized by Marie Curie researcher Feliks Levin (Postdoctoral Fellowship under contract number 101105224) Reimagining Ireland is presented by Katrine Nyland Sørensen and produced for the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project, funded by the European Research Council 818366 and hosted at the Centre for Irish Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark. https://cisa.au.dk

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What did Ireland sound like before conquest? In this two-part conversation, Professor Pat Palmer guides us into the vibrant world of early modern Ireland, where bardic poets, Gaelic lords, Spanish captains and Elizabethan officials all left their mark. From flourishing schools of poetry to the sudden rupture at Kinsale, these episodes invite us to reimagine the past through many voices and rediscover what was lost in the making of modern Ireland.

https://macmorris.maynoothuniversity.ie

Pat Palmer took part in the workshop “Sources from the margins: reflections on the empire in Ireland, Scotland and Wales (1530s-1790s)" organized by Marie Curie researcher Feliks Levin (Postdoctoral Fellowship under contract number 101105224)

Reimagining Ireland is presented by Katrine Nyland Sørensen and produced for the Classical Influences and Irish Culture project, funded by the European Research Council 818366 and hosted at the Centre for Irish Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.

https://cisa.au.dk
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