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Roots of Irish Identity: Celts to Monks by Marc C. Conner

Roots of Irish Identity: Celts to Monks

by Marc C. Conner

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This lecture is part of a course from The Great Courses called The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature taught by Professor Marc C. Conner, Ph.D.. This course and over 300 other courses can be accessed with a subscription to Wondrium.


The Great Courses have added over 50 free lectures from their latest courses to their YouTube channel. One of the lectures they added comes just in time for St. Patrick's Day. The lecture is called "Roots of Irish Identity: Celts to Monks" from their course Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature taught by Professor Marc C. Conner, Ph.D.. In the lecture Professor Conner introduces the course by tracing Irish identity back to the Celts as he details their mythology. He also provides the background of Saint Patrick and of the monks who "saved civilization" by writing out much of the knowledge of Greek and Roman literature after the collapse of the Roman Empire. You'll probably want to watch this lecture as it contains some beautiful imagery of Ireland and aspects of Irish civilization. Get in the Irish spirit with this free lecture from The Great Courses.


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