Dr David Mitchell gives keynote lecture at conference on language and conflict

The two-day international conference was held in Trinity Long Room Hub on 5 and 6 October 2023 and was entitled ‘From Homer to Hate Speech - A Humanities View on Language in Conflict’. It was organised by postgraduate students in Trinity’s School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies.

01 Oct 2023

Dr Mitchell’s talk was on ‘Irish language, conflict, and reconciliation in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It explored the contentious symbolic and political status of the Irish language in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process, and discussed the impact of the Turas project in Belfast which is seeking to revive interest in Irish among people of a Protestant unionist background.