John Mitchell Kemble died on his visit to Dublin in 1857. Since 2005, the School of English, at Trinity College, Dublin, has hosted a series of 'Kemble Lectures' on Anglo-Saxon studies.
2005 Jane Roberts, 'On the disappearance of Old English'
2006 Eric Stanley
2007 Tom Shippey, 'Kemble, Beowulf, and the Schleswig-Holstein question'
2008 Martin Carver, 'On reading Anglo-Saxon graves'
2009 Simon Keynes, 'John Mitchell Kemble (1807-58): Apostle, Revolutionary, and Anglo-Saxonist'
2010
2011
2012
The texts of the first four lectures are published in:
Jane Roberts, et al., The Kemble Lectures on Anglo-Saxon Studies 2005-8, ed. Alice Jorgensen, Helen Conrad-O'Briain and John Scattergood (Dublin: School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, 2009).
Available from Dr Helen Conrad-O'Briain, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin.