Events

14 August 2013

• Dr Maxim Fomin spoke on ‘Scéalta na Farraige agus Fuaimeanna na Mara’ (Maritime Memorates and Sounds of the Sea) at the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2013. The lecture was convened at the University of Ulster, Magee campus.

05 August 2013

• Dr Maxim Fomin presented a paper ‘Towards the analysis of maritime memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic folklore traditions’ at the First European Symposium in Celtic Studies. The lecture was convened at the University of Trier, Germany. The lecture opened the public exhibition on ‘Stories of the Sea in Ireland and Scotland’ which was subsequently hosted by the University of Trier between 04 August – 03 September 2013.

10 May 2013

• The project’s team hosted a second public outreach event — a project showcase at Ionad Chaluim Cille Ìle on the Isle of Islay, Scotland. Dr Maxim Fomin, Principal Investigator of the project, and Prof Séamus Mac Mathúna, Co-Principal Investigator of the project, gave a talk on ‘Stories of the Sea of Scotland’ at the centre. The talk was accompanied by an exhibition displaying stories collected by the project at NFC and SSSA. The consultants to the project, Mr Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Archivist, NFC, Dublin and Dr John Shaw, formerly Senior Lecturer in Ethnology at the University of Edinburgh, were also present.

19 November 2012

• The second meeting of the Advisory Board of the project was held at the University of Ulster, Belfast Campus.

28 June 2012

• Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna presented a paper ‘Towards an Analysis of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic Corpus of Maritime Memorates’ at the VI International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica, held at St. Petersburg on 28 June 2012.

11 June 2012

• Dr Maxim Fomin speaks about ‘The Supranormal and Supernatural in Maritime Memorates of Ireland and Scotland’ at the XII International Symposium of Societas Celtologica Nordica, held in Helsinki 11–13 June 2012.

19 November 2012

• Dr Maxim Fomin presented a paper on ‘Códaistriú i dtradisiún béil in Éirinn agus in Albain’ (Code-switching in oral tradition of Ireland and Scotland) at the TEANGEOLAÍOCHT NA GAEILGE XIV / LINGUISTICS OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGES XIV, held in UCC, Cork, 20–21 April 2011.

27 October 2011

• Dr Maxim Fomin presented a paper on ‘Charms, Omens and Apparitions of Storms in Maritime Tradition of Ireland’ at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research’s (ISFNR) Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming, held in Moscow 27–29 October 2011.

04 October 2011

• Language, Literature and Art in Cross-Cultural Contexts: III International Congress of the Armenian Association of English Studies (Yerevan, 4–8 October 2011)
  The panel “Celtic Studies: Celto-Armenian Parallels (Water Mythology)” (Chair: Dr M. Fomin):

  Time	Presenter	Title
  15.30	Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna (University of Ulster)	‘Collecting Personal Experiences at Sea with a Specific Emphasis on Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’
  16.00	Dr Críostóir Mac Carthaigh (University College Dublin)	‘The Social Context of Supernatural Narratives in Fishing Communities’
  16.30	Dr Alvard Jivanyan (Yerevan State University)	‘Parallels between Armenian and Irish Sea Spirits: The Rhetoric of the Supernatural’
  17.00	Dr Maxim Fomin (University of Ulster)	‘Portents, Omens and Apparitions of Storm in Maritime Tradition of Ireland’

02 August 2011

• XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies (Dublin, 1–5 August 2011)
  The panel “Stories of the Sea in Celtic Folklore and Narrative Traditions”:

  Time	Presenter	Title
  09.30	Professor Liam Mac Mathúna (University College Dublin)	‘Setting the Scene: Lexical and Liminal Encounters As Land Meets Sea’
  10.00	Dr John Shaw (University of Edinburgh)	‘Some Sea-Legends from the West of Scotland’
  10.30	Dr Anna Muradova (Institute for Linguistics, Moscow)	‘The Mermaids in Breton Folklore Tradition’
  11.00		Tea/Coffee
  11.30	Dr Maxim Fomin and Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna (University of Ulster)	‘Collecting, Digitizing and Providing Access to Personal Experiences at Aea with a Specific Emphasis on Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’
  12.00	Dr Críostóir Mac Carthaigh (University College Dublin)	‘The Social Context of Supernatural Narratives in Fishing Communities’
  12.30	Dr Maria Koroleva (Moscow State University)	‘Bàta, a Boat, in Gaelic Scotland and the Russian North’

23 June 2011

• Dr Maxim Fomin presented a paper on ‘Issues and Pitfalls of the Maritime Memorates Project: Collecting and Digitising’ at the ‘Alexander Carmichael: Collecting, Controversy and Contexts’ conference held by The Carmichael Watson Project: Pròiseact MhicGilleMhìcheil MhicBhatair between 23–24 June at the University of Edinburgh.

07 May 2011

• The Project’s first outreach event was held at the Inishowen Maritime Museum (Greencastle, Co. Donegal) between 2–4pm. The exhibition contained displays of the works of art of local artists, of a collection of memorates from printed sources, and of the multimedia resources – ‘Boats of Ireland and Scotland’, by the project consultant, Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, and the project's website.

06 May 2011

• The first meeting of the Advisory Board of the project was held at the conference room of the Limavady Roe Park Hotel. There was a seminar, workshop and collaborative activities.

20 April 2011

• Dr Maxim Fomin and Prof. Séamus Mac Mathúna gave a joint presentation entitled ‘Stories of the Sea: Maritime Memorates in Modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic Folklore Traditions’ at the Panel 314 ‘Coasts of the future’ within the confines of the International Congress of SIEF 2011 ‘People make places’, held between 16–22 April in Lisbon, Portugal.

07 April 2011

• Dr Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart (University of Edinburgh & Sabhail Mór Ostaig Millennium Institute) presented an invited talk on Coleraine campus entitled ‘Maritime memorates in the folklore collection of Alexander Carmichael’. Dealing primarily with the data collected primarily in the Hebrides, he surveyed accounts of personal nature about happenings in coastal areas, such as fishing for cearban ‘the basking shark’ and various encounters with otherworldly maritime creatures (e.g. crodh mara ‘sea-cattle’ and mermaids).

15 December 2010

• Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh gave a public lecture, ‘An tOsnádúr sa Seanchas i measc Phobail Iascaireachta Iarthar na hÉireann’ (The Supernatural in the Lore of the Fishing Communities of Western Ireland), at the William Conor Lecture Theatre, Belfast Campus, University of Ulster, York Street.