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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Freemen out with the Tribe
Description: Monday, 15 November 2021, 7 – 8pm
Freemen out with the Tribe: Exiles for Christ from Saints Patrick to Kilian
Online Lecture by Dr Alexander O'Hara, Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures, Harvard University in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. The event will be chaired by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub.
This year marks the 15th centenary of the birth of Saint Columcille/ Columba of Iona, born in 521 in Co. Donegal into the royal Uà Néill dynasty. In 563 he left northern Ireland for northern Britain where he established a monastery on the island of Iona in the...