This is a past event
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies,
University of Aberdeen 20 October 2012
Programme
9.30-11.00
Charlene Small (QUB): 'I came into my own/ Masquerade as a man of property': the function of the Glanmore Cottage in Seamus Heaney's poetry'
Adam Hanna (Aberdeen): Seamus Heaney’s Uncertainty at the Threshold
Faye McDermott (Aberdeen): The Poetry of Michael Longley and Ciaran Carson
Tea/Coffee
11.20-12.50
Blake Anderson (Aberdeen): Silences in Derek Mahon’s Poetry
Megan Minogue (QUB): 'He's at the crucial age': The Performance of Masculinities in Gary Mitchell's Drama
Emma Grey (Aberdeen): Titanic Narratives
Lunch
2.00-3.30
Niall Gillespie (TCD): The Literature of the Orange Order, c. 1795-1815.
Joe Lines (QUB): The British/Irish Picaresque in Tobias Smollett's 'Roderick Random' (1748)
Jennifer Harwood-Smith (TCD): Escaping the Ghetto: The Potential Integration of Science Fiction into the Irish Literary Canon.
Tea/Coffee
3.50-5.20
Anne Sappington (TCD): The Many Deaths of George Buchanan
Shane Strachan (Aberdeen): ‘Now this is a true story, my man,’ quo the auld wife: Orality and Truth in the Works of Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg
Victoria Connor (Aberdeen): Our Boys and Dear Daughter: (Re)Constructing the Past in Irish Drama-Documentary
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen