FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER / DÉ HAOINE 17 SAMHAIN

09.00 OPENING

09.00–09.35 PETER MCQUILLAN
Approaches to ‘nationhood’ in seventeenth-century Irish

09.35–10.10 PAUL TEMPAN
The etymology of Ir. bán, ‘white’ – a loan from Latin or early Romance?

10.10–10.45 CHRISTOPHER LEWIN
Ní ach botún beag é: semi-negatives and the copula in the Gaelic languages

10.45–11.15 TEA/COFFEE

11.15–11.50 SÉAMAS DE BARRA
Merriman, Donnchadh Ruadh, agus sinn féin

11.50–12.25 SEÁN UA SÚILLEABHÁIN
The story of Diarmaid and Gráinne: Amhlaoibh Ó Loingsigh’s ‘notorious competition version’

12.25–13.00 HENAR VELASCO LÓPEZ
‘Blood drinking: love and revenge’

13.00–14.15 LUNCH

14.15–14.50 VIKTORIIA KRIVOSHCHEKOVA
Exegesis on Pentecost in medieval Ireland

14.50–15.25 COLIN BRADY
Brehon Law and succession in the Carew Manuscripts

15.25–16.00 HANNAH MAC AULIFFE
Alternate succession in the Munster sources: a form of political propaganda in the early medieval period?

16.00–16.30 TEA/COFFEE

16.30–17.05 GAËLLE CLION
The poets strike back: defences of poetry in thirteenth- and fourteenth- century Ireland

17.05–17.40 CIARA NÍ MHURCHÚ
Two seventeenth-century poems for Tadhg Mac Con Mara

LÉACHT REACHTÚIL / STATUTORY PUBLIC LECTURE

20.00 Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

‘The whole landscape a manuscript’: reading the environment in dindshenchas texts.
Theatre R, Newman Building UCD, Belfield.

SATURDAY 18 NOVEMBER / DÉ SATHAIRN 18 SAMHAIN

09.00–09.35 DARIA ILGOVA
The visual structure of the Old Irish poem Rop tu mo baile

09.35–10.10 ROISIN MCLAUGHLIN
Reader’s aids in Irish manuscripts I

10.10–10.45 CAOIMHÍN BREATNACH
Reader’s aids in Irish manuscripts II

10.45–11.15 TEA/COFFEE

11.15–11.50 ANTHONY CANDON
‘Scottish’ women in the Irish annals, 600–1200

11.50–12.25 SEÁN Ó HOIREABHÁRD
Horse-trading and wife-swapping: dynastic marriage in twelfth-century Ireland

12.25–13.00 POLINA MIKHAILOVA
Cenél nGabráin through the historical prism: role and origins

13.00–14.15 LUNCH

14.15–14.50 J. SHALES
The Breton dialogue between King Arthur and Guynglaff, Celtic ‘wild man’ traditions, and Brittonic Arthurian legends

14.50–15.25 MYRZINN BOUCHER DURAND
Le Bisclavret, a re-examination of the etymology for Marie de France’s werewolf character

15.25–16.00 DEWI ALTER
Welsh cultural memory in foreign tongues

16.00–16.30 TEA/COFFEE

16.30–17.05 NATASHA SUMNER
Fionn, Ossian, and John Francis Campbell

17.05–17.40 DANIEL WATSON
Irish philosophy before Alcuin