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I received this from Michael Potterton at the Discovery Pogramme in Dublin
and thought it might be of interest to members of the list, though I
realise its short notice for people who would have to travel
Dr. Sarah May
Senior Archaeologist
Archaeological Projects
English Heritage
(02392) 856751
‘Ireland in the Renaissance’
An Interdisciplinary Conference
Helen Roe Theatre, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion
Square, Dublin
8 January 2005
8:30 COFFEE/TEA/JUICE
8:50 Welcome: Michael Potterton (Discovery Programme, Dublin)
PART I: ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND MATERIAL CULTURE (9AM-3PM)
SESSION 1: Ulster (Presider: Hiram Morgan, University College Cork)
9:00 Joseph McLaughlin: “The Making of a Spenserian Network of
Forts/Manors in Early 17th-Century Ulster”
9:20 Valerie McGowan-Doyle: “Attainting Shane O’Neill: Sir Henry Sidney’s
New Ireland”
9:40 Discussion
SESSION 2: Kilkenny (Presider: John Bradley, NUI-Maynooth)
9:50 Paul Cockerham: “Renaissance Ideals in Irish Funeral Monuments”
10:10 Colm Lennon: “Pedagogy and Reform: Peter White’s Influence on Irish
Scholarship in the Renaissance”
10:30 Discussion
10:50 – 11:10 COFFEE
SESSION 3: The Archaeology of Sidney and Spenser (Presider: Heather King,
Duchas)
11:10 Sharon Weadick: “Fortified Houses of the 16th and 17th Centuries:
Their Design and Place in Time”
11:30 John Bradley: “The Sidney Stones: A Galling Experience for the Gael”
11:50 Eric Klingelhöfer: “Edmund Spenser at Kilcolman: The Archaeological
Evidence”
12:10 Discussion
12:30 – 1:40 LUNCH
SESSION 4: Cartography (Presider: Aidan O’Sullivan, University College
Dublin)
1:40 Nessa Cronin: “Desocialising Native Space: Renaissance Maps of the
West of Ireland”
2:00 Jane Ruffino: “Plantation and Performance: Maps, Landscape and Social
Identity in Renaissance Ireland”
2:20 Thomas Herron: “Richard Bartlett’s Ulster Maps: A Reconsideration”
2:40 Discussion
PART II: LITERATURE AND CEREMONY (3-6:30PM)
SESSION 5: Bardic Poetry and Shakespearean Drama (Presider: Mary Valante,
Appalachian State University)
3:00 Salvador Ryan: “A Scriptural Stethoscope: The Pulse of Preachers and
Poets in Late Medieval Ireland”
3:20 Stephen O’Neill: “1599: Drama, Nation and the Burden of War”
3:40 Discussion
3:50 – 4:10 COFFEE
SESSION 6: Neo-Latinity (Presider: Colm Lennon, NUI-Maynooth)
4:10 Jason Harris: “The Idea of ‘Nation’ in Irish Renaissance Latin”
4:30 David Caulfield: “O’Sullivan Beare and the Scotic Debate”
4:50 Discussion
5:00 – 5:10 BREAK
SESSION 7: Seventeenth-Century Narratives (Presider: Anne Fogarty, UCD)
5:10 Jean Bocharova: “The ‘Barbarous Dispossessors’ of Milton’s History of
Britain”
5:30 Dougal Shaw: “Restoration Through Ritual in Ireland: The Celebrations
of 1661”
5:50 Naomi McAreavey: “ ‘Besieged Englishness’: Women Writing During the
Irish Rebellion of 1641”
6:10-6:30 Discussion
Supported by the RSAI, The Discovery Programme, Dublin, and Hampden-Sydney
College, Virginia
Information: Michael Potterton ([log in to unmask]) and/or
Thomas Herron ([log in to unmask])
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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