Friday 29th

Kane Building, Lecture Theatre G18

2.20pm

Opening remarks

            Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork

Session One

2.30pm

The politics of erasure: Lehmann James Oppenheimer and the Honan chapel, Cork

            James Cronin, School of History, University College Cork

2.55pm

Revisiting three historical paintings by Jack B. Yeats

            Patricia Curtin-Kelly, Freelance art historian

3.20pm

Coffee break

Session Two

3.50pm

Pirate poetry

            Morgan Daniels, Queen Mary, University of London/Arcadia University, London Centre

4.15pm

‘The nation is ashamed of its past’: Patrick Pearse and the quest for the ‘authentic Ireland’

            Conor MacNamara, National University of Ireland Galway

4.40pm

Session ends

Official Opening

Aula Maxima

7.45pm

Welcoming address

            David Ryan, Chair, School of History, University College Cork

8.00pm

‘Where folk and art meet’: Carolan, Ó Riada, and the music of cultural mediation

            Micheál Ó Suilleabháin, Professor of Music, University of Limerick

9.15pm

Session ends

Saturday 30th

Boole I lecture theatre

9.45am

A plaque on both your houses: monuments of the Easter Rising

            Ray Bateson, author

10.45am

Coffee break

11.00am

Theatre and revolution, experiences of a theatre producer/writer

            Maria Young, Theatre producer

12.00pm

A standing army of poets

            Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin

1.00pm

Lunch break

2.15pm

Film and the Irish revolution

            Kevin Rockett, Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College, Dublin

3.15pm

Coffee Break

3.30pm

Literature and the Rising

            Irina Ruppo Malone, Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway

4.40pm

Representing the Rising

            Robert Ballagh, artist

5.40pm

Closing remarks