(Updated 2022-11-07: Note the addition of a talk by Colmán Etchingham on Friday evening, and the Statutory Public Lecture as announced earlier)

Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th November

DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4.

Please find below the programme of talks. Entry is free, all welcome!

THURSDAY 17th NOVEMBER / DÉARDAOIN 17 SAMHAIN

14.00 OPENING
14.00 – 14.30 MARION DEANE: The acallam and metamorphosis in Aislinge Óengusa
14.30 – 15.00 COLIN IRELAND: The explanatory power of the ‘Caldron of Poesy’
15.00 – 15.30 ART HUGHES: Saltair na Rann as both an Old and New Testament of the Gaelic verb

15.30 – 16.00 TEA/COFFEE

16.00 – 16.30 IWAN WMFFRE: An introduction to the mixed accentuation of Breton in the Intermediate Zone
16.30 – 17.00 EMMET TAYLOR: How to get ahead: the social function of headhunting in medieval Irish heroic literature
17.00 – 17.30 ANNE MARIE O’BRIEN & CHANTAL KOBEL: Irish Script on Screen: New website

FRIDAY 18th NOVEMBER / DÉ HAOINE 18 SAMHAIN

09.00 – 09.35 FANGZHE QIU: Rhyming syllabic verses in early Irish law texts
09.35 – 10.10 CHELSEY COLLINS: Was polygyny tolerated in early Irish law?
10.10 – 10.45 HANNAH MAC AULIFFE: Alternate succession in the north-eastern kingdoms of early medieval Ireland

10.45 – 11.15 TEA/COFFEE

11.15 – 11.50 VANESSA IACOCCA: Constructions of the ‘celtic race’ post-ossian: negotiating nationalist agendas through racialization in the late eighteenth century
11.50 – 12.25 GAËLLE CLION: A lucht chumas bhréig san dán: a reassessment of anti-poetry arguments in Early Modern Irish verse
12.25 – 12.50 PHILIP MAC A’ GHOILL: An focal as mó feidhm: cás-staidéar ar chuibheas breise, athrá agus macalla mar ornáidíocht i bhfilíocht na scol

13.00 – 14.15 LUNCH

14.15 – 14.50 ANNA CHACKO: Dialectic, interrogatio, and radical uncertainty in the ‘B’ version of Aislinge Meic Con glinne
14.50 – 15.25 NINA CNOCKAERT-GUILLOU: The dog of Irúath: creativity and familiarity in medieval Ireland
15.25 – 16.00 ROAN RUNGE: Crime, punishment, and transformation between species in medieval Irish hagiography

16.00 – 16.30 TEA/COFFEE

16.30 – 17.05 BERNHARD BAUER: ‘That’ll be the day’: analysing Celtic and Latin parallel glosses on Bede’s computistical works
17.05 – 17.40 OISÍN Ó MUIRTHILE: On the historical metaplasmic techniques of Irish Traveller Gammon-Cant (Shelta)
17.40 – 18.15 COLMÁN ETCHINGHAM: Briugu ‘Hospitaller’, a ‘Mysterious Hierarch’: the Evidence of the Lawbooks

LÉACHT REACHTÚIL / STATUTORY PUBLIC LECTURE

THOMAS DAVIS THEATRE, ARTS BLOCK, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
20.00 LIAM BREATNACH: The Limitations of Satire in Medieval Ireland

SATURDAY 19th NOVEMBER / DÉ SATHAIRN 19 SAMHAIN

09.00 – 09.35 JOSEPH SIMPSON: The syntactic distribution of three Old Irish relativising particles
09.35 – 10.10 ADRIAN DOYLE: Word-separation and tokenisation for diplomatically edited Old Irish text
10.10 – 10.45 CHRISTOPHER LEWIN: ‘The trouble of transposing into Manx’: translation, diglossia and linguistic competence in eighteenth century Manx sermons

10.45 – 11.15 TEA/COFFEE

11.15 – 11.50 NICHOLAS THYR: The death of Maelgwn Gwynedd
11.50 – 12.25 DIARMUID Ó SÉ: The evolution of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
12.25 – 13.00 BRIAN Ó CATHÁIN: M.A. O’Brien / Micheál Ó Briain (1896-1962): saol agus saothar

13.00 – 14.15 LUNCH

14.15 – 14.50 COLINE RUIZ DARASSE: The digitisation of Gaulish in the RIIG project
14.50 – 15.25 NORA WHITE: Digitisation of ancient and medieval Celtic epigraphical sources
15.25 – 16.00 DAVID STIFTER & DEBORAH HAYDEN: The digitisation of ancient and medieval Celtic languages

16.00 – 16.30 TEA/COFFEE

16.30 – 17.05 CHANTAL KOBEL: Maghnus I and the Book of Domhnall Ó Duibh dá Bhoireann
17.05 – 17.40 PÁDRAIG Ó MACHÁIN: The initial letters in the Book of Lismore
17.40 – 18.15 TATIANA SHINGUROVA: There are never enough Davids, Maurices and Joans: contributing to the discussion of the patrons of the Book of Fermoy