Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) is an ERC-funded project investigating the sustained diachronic relevance of classical material from ancient Greece and Rome to the formation of socio-political Irish identities from the medieval period to the present day.

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Image: The Crowing of the Victors by James Barry (1791), Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Upcoming events

Tue 10 Nov: 09:00-17:00 | Union Club, New York
RESCHEDULED NOV 2021: The Trojan War in Irish Drama
The Peradotto Sessions (Isabelle Torrance)

Past events

Tue 21 Apr: 14:00-17:30 | Colloquium on Euripides' Bacchae, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Euripides' Bacchae in Ireland
Isabelle Torrance
Wed 25 Mar: 17:00-19:00 | National University of Ireland, Galway
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture
Classical Influences and Irish Culture (Isabelle Torrance)
Wed 18 Mar: 13:15-15:00 | Aarhus University, Nobelparken 1481-366
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Uses of the Past: ERC-Funded Research
Classical Influences and Irish Culture (Isabelle Torrance)

Event archive

Project themes

The project is structured around nine central themes

Database

Explore classical allusions in Irish literature

Project Publications

Associated Publications

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Revised 29.06.2020