The Royal Irish Academy Library holds the largest collection of medieval manuscripts containing medical texts in Irish. Through these manuscripts, a new exhibition aims to highlight a lesser known aspect of medieval Irish society and the range of medical learning to which Irish doctors had access and which they made their own.
A series of lunchtime lectures by the Royal Irish Academy Library and the Irish Text Society to accompany the latest exhibition 'Gaelic medical manuscripts from the Academy collections', 13:00 on Wednesday from 4 November to 2 December.
4 November Dr Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha, DIAS: ‘Medical writing in Irish, 1350-1650: treatises on pathology’
11 November Dr Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, UCD: ‘Lucht leighis: healers and healing in Irish popular tradition’
18 November Dr David Edwards, UCC: ‘The changing world of a Gaelic medic: Dermot O'Meara and early Stuart Ireland’
25 November Dr Clare O'Halloran, UCC: ‘Sylvester O'Halloran (1728-1807): romantic, antiquary and surgeon’
2 December Diarmaid Ó Catháin: ‘Dr John Fergus: eighteenth-century doctor and book collector’