Programme Schedule

WEEK 1

Sunday 14 June
	Check in to Accommodation
3-4pm	Eimear will be at Accommodation to assist check in

Monday 15 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Kevin Whelan - Heaney and History: North
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Bríona Nic Dhiarmada - Writing ‘Home’ in
	Contemporary Irish Language Poetry
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Joe Cleary - Elizabeth Bowen - The Big House
4.45-5.30pm	Tour of O'Connell House and Library

Tuesday 16 June	Bloomsday
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Kevin Whelan - Friel and History: Translations
11.30-12pm	Introductions, House Rules and Registration
12-1pm	Pizza lunch
1-3pm	Walking tour of Joycean Dublin led by Luke Gibbons
5.30pm	Seminar Photograph
6-8pm	Opening Reception at O'Connell House & Field Day
	Publication Launch

8.30-10pm	Screening of John Huston's The Dead -
	Introduced by Luke Gibbons. Venue: Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Temple Bar

Wednesday 17 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Joe Cleary - Conor Cruise O’Brien—Empire,
	Enlightenment, and Apocalypse
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Kevin Whelan - Deane and History: Reading in the
	Dark
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Stephen Rea - Readings from Irish Literature

Thursday 18 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Joe Cleary - The Field Day Pamphlets—Modernism
	and Imperialism
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2pm	Proclamations, Posters, Politics & Power: 400 Years
	Mary Broderick (Optional) Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-5pm	Special Screening of Doubt. Introduced by Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

7pm	PUBLIC LECTURE
	Elizabeth Butler Cullingford - Catholicism in Crisis: Representing the Abuse Scandals in Ireland and Irish-America Venue: National Gallery of Ireland

Friday 19 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Joe Cleary - Declan Kiberd, Pascale Casanova—From
	Postcolonialism to World Literature
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Elizabeth Butler Cullingford - The Sense of a
	Protestant Ending: Only Children in Bowen, Johnston, and Trevor
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4pm	Royal Irish Academy, Treasures Exhibition
	Venue: Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street

Saturday 20 June
9.30am-3pm	Walking Tour of Dublin’s Contemporary Architecture
	with Michael Cullinan Meeting Point: O'Connell House

WEEK 2

Monday 22 June
	Research Day

Tuesday 23 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Laura O’Connor - Irish Feminist Poetics in an
	International Frame: Eavan Boland
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Declan Kiberd - Yeats: Male Writers and the Female
	Voice I
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Breandán Ó Buachalla - Land, Sovereignty and
	Governance

6.45pm	Introduction to the Abbey Theatre by the Director,
	Fiach Mac Conghail Meeting point: Foyer of the Abbey Theatre, Abbey Street

7.30pm	Abbey Theatre - The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by
	Tom Murphy Venue: Abbey Theatre, Abbey Street

Wednesday 24 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Laura O’Connor - Without the Pronoun ‘I’: Eiléan Ní
	Chuilleanáin
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Declan Kiberd - Joyce: Male Writers and the Female
	Voice II
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Breandán Ó Buachalla - The King-Hero

8pm	Stephen Collins, Political Editor of The Irish Times
	in conversation with broadcaster Bryan Dobson (Optional) Venue: National Library of Ireland

Thursday 25 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Laura O’Connor - Reproduction and Poetics: Medbh
	McGuckian
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Luke Gibbons - From National to World Literature:
	History, Form and Irish Modernity
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Breandán Ó Buachalla - Ireland’s Consort
5.45-6.45pm	Tour of the National Gallery of Ireland's Irish Collection
	with Marie Bourke

7pm	PUBLIC LECTURE
	Declan Kiberd - After Ireland: The Death of a National Literature? Venue: National Gallery of Ireland

Friday 26 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Declan Kiberd - The Fate of Reading: McGahern and
	Friel
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Laura O’Connor - Issues of Translation: Nuala Ní
	Dhomhnaill
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Breandán Ó Buachalla - "This Injured Nation"

Saturday 27 June
9am-6pm	Field Trip to Monaghan and South Armagh. Led by
	local historian Brian McDonald. Includes visit to Patrick Kavanagh Centre, Inniskeen. Departs 9am sharp: O'Connell House

Sunday 28 June
3-4pm	Feargha Ní Bhríon: Sarah Purser, An Túr Gloine and
	other Irish stained glass artists. (Optional) Venue: National Gallery of Ireland

WEEK 3

Monday 29 June
	Research Day

Tuesday 30 June
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Luke Gibbons - Form as Utopian Gesture: The Proto-
	Modernity of Irish Romanticism
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Katarzyna Bartoszynska - Utopian Ironies - Readings
	in Swift and Krasicki
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Screening of RTE documentary Out of the
	Marvellous to celebrate the 70th birthday of Seamus Heaney. Director: Charlie McCarthy, Producer: Clíona Ní Bhuachalla

5pm	Synge Summer School wine reception at the Abbey
	Theatre to celebrate the publication of Mary Burke’s ‘Tinkers’: Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford University Press, 2009) Venue: Abbey Theatre

Wednesday 1 July
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Luke Gibbons - Dublin Dialogues: Ulysses, The City
	and Inner Speech
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Jason King - Remembering Famine Orphans:
	Catastrophe and Mobility
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4.30pm	Nuala Ní Dhomhaill - A poetry reading


Thursday 2 July
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30am	Luke Gibbons - Many Unhappy Return: James Joyce
	and the Phantoms of the Future
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	Joe Cleary interviews Paul Bové on his Poetry Against
	Torture (2008)
2.30-3pm	Coffee
3-4pm	Joe Cleary - Fukuyama's End of History?
4-5pm	Screening of Out of the Marvellous (Chapter 3 only)

7pm	PUBLIC LECTURE
	Paul Bové - Misprisions of Utopia—Messianism, Apocalypse, and Allegory Venue: National Gallery of Ireland

Friday 3 July
9.30-10am	Coffee
10-11.30pm	Luke Gibbons - From Residual to Emergent:
	Raymond Williams, Postcolonialism and Celtic Modernism
12-1pm	Lunch
1-2.30pm	A Seminar on the Work of Edward Said led by Paul
	Bové

6.30-9pm	Closing Dinner
	Venue: Whelan Family Home, 30 Heytesbury Street, Dublin 8

Saturday 4 July
10-11am	Check out of Accommodation

NOTE: This is a provisional schedule and is subject to change.