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#Lectures - Derry City and Strabane District Council’s lunchtime lecture series Island Voices returns to the Tower Museum this autumn to explore the ancient genetic, cultural and linguistic links which exist between Ireland and Scandinavia.

‘Northern Confluence: Where Celtic and Nordic Worlds Meet’ reflects on the shared heritage of Ireland, Iceland and Scandinavia and explores our unique relationships, past and present.

This year’s series opens on Friday 22nd September with an hour-long lecture by Professor Dan Bradley from Trinity College, Dublin who will deliver ‘A Tale of Two Islands: Ireland, Iceland and Viking genetic legacy’ – a talk which provides an overview of the genetic legacy that binds the island nations of Ireland Iceland and which tells the story of the Gaelic presence in Iceland and the impact of Norse ancestry in Ireland.

Two further lectures are scheduled in the series: ‘Commonalities in the Linguistic Traditions of Ireland and Iceland’ with Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil which takes place on Friday 20th October 2017, and the closing lecture ‘Voices of the North: The Languages of Northern Europe’ by Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna, which takes place on Friday 17th November.

All lectures take place at the Tower Museum, are free of charge and include lunch.

Lunch will be from 12:30pm-1:00pm and lectures run from 1:00pm-2:00pm.

Island Voices is funded by Derry City and Strabane District Council’s Good Relations Programme.

For more information or to book your place please contact the Tower Museum on (028) 7137 2411 or email: [email protected]

Published in Coastal Notes

Coastal Notes Coastal Notes covers a broad spectrum of stories, events and developments in which some can be quirky and local in nature, while other stories are of national importance and are on-going, but whatever they are about, they need to be told.

Stories can be diverse and they can be influential, albeit some are more subtle than others in nature, while other events can be immediately felt. No more so felt, is firstly to those living along the coastal rim and rural isolated communities. Here the impact poses is increased to those directly linked with the sea, where daily lives are made from earning an income ashore and within coastal waters.

The topics in Coastal Notes can also be about the rare finding of sea-life creatures, a historic shipwreck lost to the passage of time and which has yet many a secret to tell. A trawler's net caught hauling more than fish but cannon balls dating to the Napoleonic era.

Also focusing the attention of Coastal Notes, are the maritime museums which are of national importance to maintaining access and knowledge of historical exhibits for future generations.

Equally to keep an eye on the present day, with activities of existing and planned projects in the pipeline from the wind and wave renewables sector and those of the energy exploration industry.

In addition Coastal Notes has many more angles to cover, be it the weekend boat leisure user taking a sedate cruise off a long straight beach on the coast beach and making a friend with a feathered companion along the way.

In complete contrast is to those who harvest the sea, using small boats based in harbours where infrastructure and safety poses an issue, before they set off to ply their trade at the foot of our highest sea cliffs along the rugged wild western seaboard.

It's all there, as Coastal Notes tells the stories that are arguably as varied to the environment from which they came from and indeed which shape people's interaction with the surrounding environment that is the natural world and our relationship with the sea.