Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh Through his Letters

This Lunchtime Lecture ‘Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh through his letters: a learned Gaelic chief and his Oxford friend in 1700’ was delivered by Dr Richard Sharpe, Professor of Diplomatic at Oxford and author of Roderick O’Flaherty’s letters 1696-1709 (RIA, 2013).

Roderick O’Flaherty (born 1629) was an Irish aristocrat, historian and antiquarian. O’Flaherty’s life was active both intellectually and politically: he lost his estate under Cromwell and was further dispossessed when King William began to control Galway in 1696. Previously unseen correspondence was discussed, including O’Flaherty’s exchanges with the Welsh lexicographer Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709), and the Irish philosopher William Molyneux and his son Samuel.

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