CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND
Spring 2015: Dublin All meetings take place in Room K217, Newman Building, University College Dublin, at 7.30pm. Tuesday, 17 February Latin Reading Group Joan Wright ‘The Venerable Bede’s account of King Edwin of Northumbria’s conversion to Christianity’ Thursday, 19 March Latin Reading Group Louise Maguire ‘Livy’s account of the Rape of the Sabine Women’
Thursday, 26 March Branch Lecture Gordon Campbell (NUI Maynooth) ‘Humans and Animals in Ancient Thought: Are we Different?’ Thursday, 23 April Latin Reading Group Alexander Thein ‘Tacitus on Civil War and the Capitoline Fire of A.D. 69’ Thursday, 30 April Branch Lecture Andrew Smith (UCD) ‘The birth of enquiry: the first Greek philosophers’ Saturday, 16 May Day Trip To Co. Meath, including Trim Castle
The 6th annual play-reading at The Orchard Yard took place on Saturday, 7 June. We chose the oldest surviving Greek tragedy, Aeschylus’ The Persians, first staged in 472 BC. Our attempts to recreate the open-air Greek theatre proved quite successful, despite persistent threats from Zeus to inundate us with thundershowers! Patrick J. Ryan (Photos: Orla Coffey and Jennifer O’Donoghue)
Spring 2015: Galway The Classical Association Ireland Galway Branch will hold its relaunch on Tuesday, 24 March. Dr Pádraic Moran of NUIG will deliver his paper ‘The Survival of Greek Learning in Early Medieval Ireland’. The paper will be given in the Hardiman Research Building on the Arts Concourse of NUIG at 6.30pm (venue TBC).
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February 2015 Latin and Greek Languages Summer School The 2015 CAI Languages Summer School will take place 15-26th of June at Trinity College, Dublin. Courses will be for Beginner and Intermediate levels. For further information please contact Dr Cosetta Cadau: cadauc@tcd.ie
CAI LIMERICK The Limerick Branch continues to project itself as one of the organisations that keep the torch of culture very much aflame in the South-West. We celebrated Limerick as 2014 City of Culture with a special series of lectures given, in all cases but one, by local lecturers. The adult Greek and Latin were well attended and are set to continue in the Limerick Education Centre, under the excellent tutelage of Patrick Ryan. We have a mixture of lectures on offer for the current term. Apart from Mr Patrick Ryan in early February and Dr Matthew Potter, our local speakers, it will be our privilege to welcome Professor George Huxley once more. We are also delighted to have Dr Rachel Finnegan coming and Dr John Curran, of QUB, on his first visit to speak to the branch. The full programme is set out below. Details of the branch Annual Dinner and other fringe events will be available later. Tom Seaver (Hon Sec.)
Spring 2015: Limerick All lectures take place on Wednesdays (except Friday, 24 April), at the Limerick Education Centre, Marshall House, Dooradoyle, Tel. 061 585060, at 8pm. 4 March Dr Matthew Potter (Limerick Museum and Archives) ‘The Ptolemies: 305-30 B.C.’
25 March Dr Rachel Finnegan (Literary Editor and Proofreader) ‘The eastern and ‘curious’ collections of Richard Pococke (1704-1765)’ 15 April Prof. George Huxley (TCD) ‘War and Exile in the Poetry of Alcaeus’ Friday, 24 April Dr John Curran (Queen’s University, Belfast) ‘ius vitae necisque (the right of life and death) and the politics of killing children’