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Marking Time - The Ritual Year in Ireland

Mitchelstown Heritage Society is continuing its series of free, online public talks on subjects of local and national heritage, in keeping with Covid-19 restrictions. The first of these for the new year is organised for next Tuesday, 18th January at 8pm, this is being organised using the Zoom app.

Religion formed part of the warp and weft of life in medieval Ireland. This upcoming talk explores the impact that it had on notions of time and how the Church’s liturgy provided a framework that invested the day, the week, the seasons and the year with symbolic significance. It explores how time was measured and how the complexities of the liturgical calendar were calculated. It also examines the significance of feasting and fasting and how these gave meaning to the lives of medieval Irish Christians.

Our speaker for the talk is renowned author, historian and author Brother Colmán Ó Clabaigh. Mitchelstown Heritage Society is delighted to see Brother Colmán return to give another talk this year. He had the distinction of giving the society’s first socially distanced talk last year, attracting over 100 participants from across the globe, a mark of his renown as well as his entertaining, informative and engaging delivery. He will be drawing on his own life as monk in Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick and a medievalist specialising in the history of religion and monasticism. He is currently working on a book on religion and society in medieval Ireland.

CONNECT

For those wishing to join us for this talk, first go to the Zoom website, click on join meeting. You will be asked for a meeting ID and passcode, these are: meeting ID: 820 4872 1530; passcode: 222342.

The meeting will open 15 minutes before the talk, everyone is asked to mute their microphones during the talk to prevent background noise interrupting the speaker. Questions and answers will be dealt with at the end of the talk.

If anyone has any other questions or has issues connecting to this meeting, please e-mail andrewdineen1@gmail.com

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