Major Offaly figure in national revival to be subject of lecture
Bulfin’s premature death in 1910 robbed Offaly and Ireland of a leader in cultural nationalism
A LECTURE on William Bulfin will take place on Monday, September 28 at 7 30 p.m. at Offaly History Centre, Bury Quay, Tullamore.
The lecture will be given by Timothy Moloney and is entitled “William Bulfin: his Life and Works.” All are welcome
Timothy Moloney describes the life of William Bulfin using his works as a frame in which to set the biographical details.
Drawing on his as yet unpublished biography, Timothy surveys his main works, Tales of the Pampas and Rambles in Eirinn, but he also pays attention to his lesser-known creations ̶ ‘Sketches of Buenos Aires’ and a novel A Man of the Pampas, as well as a series of articles he wrote on a trip to the Andes in 1905.
He accompanies the lecture with interesting slides showing samples from Bulfin’s oeuvre and pictures from his time and of his family members.
Bulfin was an important figure in Irish Ireland of the early 1900s. His premature death in 1910 robbed Offaly and Ireland of a leader in cultural nationalism who might well have been a senator and perhaps a candidate for the presidency. The family have lived in County Offaly since at least the 1800s if not much earlier. Bulfin was buried in the Eglish churchyard
Upcoming lectures include:
19 October: Neasa MacErlean on The third revolutionary: David Quinn who was from Clara, County Offaly. The ‘scientific revolution’ in Irish history is generally seen as the brainchild of two professors but, in fact, there were three. David Beers Quinn was the third who, with Robert Dudley Edwards of UCD and Theo Moody of Trinity, established the professional basis for the study of the subject which remains in place today.
16 November at 7. 30 p.m. Dr Jane Maxwell, Manuscripts Curator, The Library of Trinity College, Dublin on 'Letters Say: nineteenth-century women's personal letters'