#  Kelleher Lecture: “The noise of their talk would make a nearby miller deaf”: Ethnic Identities and Ethnic Politics in the Gaelic Diaspora 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 9, 2025** 

 05:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Loeb House (Harvard Yard)**  

 [17 Quincy St.   
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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Host: Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures

**John V. Kelleher Memorial Lecture**

Speaker: **Robert Dunbar**, Chair of Celtic Language, Literature, History and Antiquities at the University of Edinburgh

Reception to follow, 6:00-8:00pm, Loeb House.  
At 6:30, a Festschrift will be presented, in honor of Catherine McKenna, Margaret Brooks Robinson Research Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.

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[ More information.](https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/colloquium-program-schedule)



 

 



 

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