Thursday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. EST, the Irish Embassy in Canada will virtually host St. Michael's Interim Principal Dr. Mark McGowan for a lecture titled “In Search of the 1490: Tracking the Famine Migrants from Strokestown to Canada in 1847." The event will take place live on the embassy's Youtube channel.
Principal McGowan is pleased to announce that St. Michael’s College and the Celtic Studies program have been awarded a Thomas D’Arcy McGee Beacon Fellowship from the Ireland Canada University Foundation. We warmly welcome Dr. Darragh Gannon of Queen’s University Belfast as our visiting Fellow, who will deliver a lecture titled “In Search of Global Ireland: […]
Saturday, Oct. 23 at 9:20 a.m., join us for a daylong conference sponsored by the Celtic Studies program at St. Michael's: Canada and the Irish Revolution 1919-21. For Zoom access, please contact the Office of the Principal.
On Thursday, Oct. 28 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., the Celtic Studies Program will present "Of War and Peace: Stories from the Northern Ireland Peace Process," a conversation with Ambassador of Ireland to Canada Dr. Eamonn McKee. This lecture is being made possible by a grant from the Irish Cultural Society of Toronto. Please contact […]
Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 6 p.m., join us online for "Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the lost tapes that reveal the hunt for Ireland's Nazi spies," a lecture by Marc McMenamin. This event is sponsored by the University of St. Michael's College and the Irish Cultural Society of Toronto. To register and receive […]
Prof. Anthony Trindle (Celtic Studies, St Michael’s College) Windows to the Past, Warnings for the Future: Lessons to be learned from Irish Placenames and Native Terminology. Ireland's rich landscape of placenames and unique terminology has been steadily eroded by the advance of colonialism and the English language over the course of several centuries. We will […]
