WEEK ONE Location: Dublin Sunday, June 10 Participants arrive in Dublin & Check into UCD accommodation Monday, June 11 9.00am 9.30am 10.45am 11.00-12.30pm 12.45-2.30pm 2.30pm 3.00-4.30pm Registration and coffee Welcome and introduction: Christopher Fox, Executive Director Rory Rapple, From Roanoke to Dublin: how one man's service nearly destroyed Elizabeth I's hold on Ireland. Lunch on own (see recommendations) Official IRISH Seminar 2018 Photograph Ciaran Brady, Spenser s View 4.45 5.45pm National Library of Ireland Orientation 6.00pm Madden-Rooney Lecture: Reading by Paul Muldoon Introduction by Christopher Fox and Ailbhe Darcy Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St. Tuesday, June 12 9.30am 10.00am 11.30am 12.00-1.30pm 1.30pm 3.00-4.30pm 5.00pm 7.30pm Update on Student Research Christopher Fox, Edgeworth s The Grateful Negro Ailbhe Darcy, Swift and Muldoon Lunch on own John Sitter, "Placing Swift's Poetry Book Launch: Insistence (Bloodaxe Books) by Ailbhe Darcy. Launched by Bríona Nic Dhiarmada Love à la Mode after Charles Macklin Smock Alley Theatre.
Wednesday, June 13 Marsh s Library 9.15am Meet at St. Patrick s Cathedral, St. Patrick s Close, Wood Quay, D8. 9.30-11.00am Ciarán Brady & Peter McQuillan, "Ancient Irish Histories: writing Ireland in the 1630s" 11.00am and tour of Marsh s Library with Keeper Jason McElligott 11.30-1.00 pm Ian McBride Swift Against the Empire 1.00-3.00 pm Lunch on own 3.00-4.30 pm David Dickson, "The Irish city in the long eighteenth century" Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: Hearing the Spoken Voice: Gender and Orality by Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O'Donnell Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame. Thursday, June 14 Independent Research Morning 3pm Walking tour of 18th century Dublin with Pat Liddy Book Launch: From Enlightenment to Rebellion: Essays in Honor of Christopher Fox ed. James G. Buickerood. Friday, June 15 11am Visit to Dublin City Library, Pearse Street. Independent Research Saturday, June 16 8.30am 11.00am 3-5pm Bloomsday Swim, Sandycove (optional) Declan Kiberd Ulysses: Joyce's Bright Book of Life Venue: Newman University Church, 87A St. Stephen s Green Sth. An Italian Bloomsday at the National Library of Ireland Sunday, June 17 Independent Research Day
WEEK TWO Location: Kylemore Abbey, Connemara Monday, June 18 8:00am 8:15am 11:00am 12.30am Notre Dame Global Centre Bus pick up at UCD Bus pick up at Brunch at Glenlo Abbey Bus to Kylemore Abbey 2:00 pm Tour of Kylemore with Lisa Caulfield 4:30 pm break 5:00-6:15pm 8pm Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, "Hidden Ireland: Hidden, Popular, Subaltern?" Aileen Dillane The Cosmopolitan Bard: Sounding out Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), then and now Check into accommodation Dinner at the Notre Dame Centre Tuesday, June 19 9:00am 12:00-1:30pm 1:30-3:00pm Notre Dame Global Centre Breakfast at the Notre Dame Centre Declan Kiberd, "Merriman's Midnight Court" Jim Smyth, Henry Joy McCracken, Belfast and the United Irishmen Lunch at the Notre Dame Centre Michael Griffin, "Local attachment and Cosmopolitanism: Oliver Goldsmith and eighteenth-century Ireland" Shuttle bus to Clifden for evening. Wednesday, June 20 Notre Dame Global Centre 9:00am Breakfast at the Notre Dame Centre James G. Buickerood, Berkeley s Querist
12:00-1:30pm Daniel Carey, Berkeley, Swift and Money 1:30 3:00pm Lunch at the Notre Dame Centre 3:00-4:30 pm Amy Mulligan, "Political Protest and Pre-Modern Lament: Caoineadh and Remembering Ireland s Heroes" 8pm Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: "Rebel Acts: Voices of a Hidden People" by Declan Kiberd, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame. Dinner at the Notre Dame Centre Thursday, June 21 Inishark & Inisbofin 7:15am 8.15am 9.00am 10.00am 1.00pm 1.30pm 5.00pm 5.45pm 7pm Breakfast at the Notre Dame Centre Bus to leave Kylemore Abbey Cleggan Pier Inishark Tour of archaeological excavation with Meredith Chesson & Ryan Lash Ferry to Inisbofin Tour of Cromwell s Barracks Ferry to Cleggan Bus to Kylemore Abbey Dinner and music performance with Colm Mac Con Iomaire at Kylemore Abbey. Friday, June 22 8.30am 9.30am 11.30am 12:00pm 2:30pm Notre Dame Global Centre Breakfast at Kylemore Centre Meeting point: Kylemore bus park Bus departs from Kylemore Drop off in Galway Bus departs for Dublin Arrive in Dublin Saturday, June 23 3:00pm Independent Research Morning Visit to Marsh s Collection at Farmleigh House, Phoenix Park (optional)
Sunday, June 24 2:00pm Independent Research Morning Tour of 17 th & 18 th Century Paintings held at the National Gallery of Ireland (optional)
WEEK THREE Location: Dublin Monday, June 25 9:30am 12:00-1:30pm 1:30-3:00pm 6:00pm Graduate student research presentations Vincent Morley, English print or Irish Verse? A Case Study Lunch on own Michael Brown, "The Irish Enlightenment of Edmund Burke" Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: "Honey, He Shrunk the Kids: Gulliver's Travels as Children's Literature" by Declan Kiberd, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies. Tuesday, June 26 9:30am 12:00-1:30pm 1:30-3:00pm Carmen Veronica Borbely, Irish Studies as a Global Enterprise Thomas Bartlett, 1798 in 1916: The Influence of the 1798 rebellion on the Easter Rising of 1916 Lunch on own Sara Maurer, "How does Castle Rackrent refer to Ireland?" A Musical Tribute to Jonathan Swift by @the Drawing Room. Venue: 12 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1. Wednesday, June 27 9:30am Claire Connolly, Irish print culture in the making: Castle Rackrent and its afterlives 12:00-1:30pm Patrick Geoghegan, "Ireland 1798-1801"
1:30-3:00pm 6:00pm Thursday, June 28 Friday, June 29 Saturday, June 30 Lunch on own Patrick Griffin, "Ireland, America, and the Entanglements of a Revolutionary Age" Madden-Rooney Public Lecture: "How the Local can be Global and the Global Local: Ireland, Irish People and European Overseas Empires" by Nicholas Canny, Director of the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies Closing Dinner at Bang Restaurant, Merrion Row. Independent Research Day Independent Research Day Participants to check out of UCD accommodation