Name: John Bannerman Lecture - Dr Deborah Hayden
Start: 2025-03-13T17:15:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-13T18:30:00+00:00
Location: University of Edinburgh

John Bannerman Lecture - Dr Deborah Hayden

Please note that the final venue and ticket link are not yet confirmed.
The lecture series - co-hosted between the departments of History and Celtic & Scottish Studies - continues the aims of the John Bannerman Seminar on the History of Gaelic Scotland which ran for several years from around 2010, to promote the study of the history of Gaelic Scotland and the wider Gaelic world. Dr John Bannerman (1932–2008) joined the Department of Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh in 1965, where he worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer for over thirty years before retiring in 1997 to work full-time on his farm. Described as ‘the 20th century’s foremost historian of Gaelic Scotland’, Dr Bannerman’s work included studies of pre-Viking Dál Riata, monumental sculpture and inscriptions in the West Highlands, the Lordship of the Isles, late medieval Gaelic language and learning, and Gaelic medical traditions.
The lectures are free and open to all. They are hybrid events, with joining instructions circulated to those who register in advance.
Dr Deborah Hayden
Dr Deborah Hayden, Associate Professor in Early Irish at Maynooth University. Dr Hayden is the Principal Investigator on the project ‘LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World’ which charts the vernacular translation and transmission of medical texts across Ireland and Scotland, c. 1350–1700.