WEEK ONE: Sunday, June 10 Participants arrive in Dublin Check into UCD accommodation before 2pm Monday, June 11 9.30am 10.00am 11.30am 12.00-1.30pm 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. 1.30-3.00pm (see recommendations) 3.00-4.30pm 4.30pm Ciaran Brady, Spenser s View Official IRISH Seminar 2018 Photograph 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. Reception to follow Tuesday, June 12 9.30am 10.00am 11.30am 12.00-1.30pm 1.30pm 3.00-4.30pm 5.00pm Declan Kiberd, Swift, Gulliver and Gaelic Tradition Ailbhe Darcy, Swift and Muldoon John Sitter, " Placing Swift's Poetry Book Launch: Insistence (Bloodaxe Books) by Ailbhe Darcy. Launched by Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
Venue: O Connell House 7.30pm Love à la Mode after Charles Macklin Smock Alley Theatre. Wednesday, June 13 9.15am Meet at St. Patrick s Cathedral, St. Patrick s Close, Wood Quay, D8. Venue: Marsh s Library 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 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. Venue: O Connell House 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 Independent Research TBC Evening of traditional music at the Cobblestone Saturday, June 16 Suggested Bloomsday itinerary Sunday, June 17 Independent Research Day
WEEK TWO: Kylemore Abbey Monday, June 18 8:00am 8:15am 11:00am 12.30am Bus pick up at UCD Bus pick up at O Connell House Brunch at Glenlo Abbey Bus to Kylemore Abbey 2:00 pm Tour of Kylemore with Li s a Caulfield Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, "Hidden Ireland: Hidden, Popular, Subaltern?" 4:30 pm break 5:00-6:15pm Aileen Dillane The Cosmopolitan Bard: Sounding out Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), then and now Check into accommodation 8pm Dinner at the Notre Dame Centre Tuesday, June 19 9:00am Irishmen Breakfast at the Notre Dame Centre Declan Kiberd, "Merriman's Midnight Court " Jim Smyth, Henry Joy McCracken, Belfast and the United 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 9:00am Breakfast at the Notre Dame Centre James G. Buickerood, Berkeley s Querist
Daniel Carey, Berkeley, Swift and Money 1:30 3:00pm 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 7:15am Breakfast at the Notre Dame Centre 8.15am Bus to leave Kylemore Abbey 9.00am 10.00am 1.00pm 1.30pm 5.00pm 5.45pm 7pm Cleggan Pier Inishark Tour of archaeological excavation with Ian Kuijt 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 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 Independent Research Morning
3:00pm Park. Sunday, June 24 2:00pm Optional visit to Marsh s Collection at Farmleigh House, Phoenix Independent Research Morning Optional Tour of 17 th & 18 th Century Paintings held at the National Gallery of Ireland. WEEK THREE Monday, June 25 9:30am 6:00pm Graduate student research presentations Vincent Morley, English print or Irish Verse? A Case Study 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. Venue: O Connell House Tuesday, June 26 9:30am Christopher Fox, Edgeworth s The Grateful Negro Thomas Bartlett, 1798 in 1916: The Influence of the 1798 rebellion on the Easter Rising of 1916 Sara Maurer, "How does Castle Rackrent refer to Ireland?" At the Drawing Room : an evening of 18 th Century music and words Wednesday, June 27 9:30am
Claire Connolly, Irish print culture in the making: Castle Rackrent and its afterlives Patrick Geoghegan, "Ireland 1798-1801" 6:00pm 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 Venue: O Connell House Closing Dinner at Bang Restaurant, Merrion Row. Thursday, June 28 Independent Research Day Friday, June 29 Independent Research Day TBC Farewell drinks at a nearby watering hole. Saturday, June 30 Participants to check out of UCD accommodation