Canna Lecture 2024

In brief

Date - 19 November 2024

Venue - Room G.06, 50 George Square

Speaker - Dr Anja Gunderloch (Celtic & Scottish Studies)

Title - The Gaelic Ways of Life in the Poetry of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre

About the event

The Scottish Gaelic Texts Society (SGTS) invites you to the annual Canna Lecture, co-hosted by Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Anja Gunderloch (Lecturer in Celtic, Celtic and Scottish Studies) who will discuss the ways of life in Gaelic communities as revealed through the poetry of Donnchadh Bàn Macintyre, a renowned Gaelic poet who played a key part in the 18th century golden age of Gaelic poetry.

About the speaker

Dr Anja Gunderloch graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1990 as the first student who took the then new degree in Scottish Ethnology and Celtic. She followed this up with a PhD on The Cath Gabhra Family of Ballads: a Study in Textual Relationships in 1997.

After four years as a lecturer in the Department of Celtic at the University of Glasgow, she returned to Edinburgh to take up a lectureship in Celtic in 2001, and has since been doing her best to introduce students to the wonders of Gaelic literature (and a little bit of grammar or metrics now and again, for variety). When she needs to calm down after all the excitement of teaching and research, she knits.

How to attend

This event is open to all, and free to attend. No registration is required - simply come along!

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