Monday 27th July

12 noon – 5.30 pm	Registration	Entrance Hall, 4 University Gardens
2.00 pm onwards	Visits to the Hunterian Gallery and the nearby Kelvingrove Gallery
5.30 pm	Conference Opening and Welcome Professor Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor of English Literature, Dean-elect of Arts, University of Glasgow	University Concert Hall
5.45	Opening Plenary Lecture Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Trinity College Dublin): “Translation and Ireland"	University Concert Hall
7.15 - 9.45	Welcome Reception (kindly sponsored by the Irish Consulate General to Scotland)	University Concert Hall Antechamber
8.15 - 9.15	Poetry reading - Alan Gillis : Maurice Harmon	University Concert Hall
10.30	"Six Shooter" (Martin McDonagh, 2004)	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
11.00	"In Bruges" (Martin McDonagh, 2008) (screenings sponsored by the Irish Film Institute)
10.00 - 2.00	Late Bar	The Lane Bistro, Ashton Lane

 

Tuesday 28th July

9.30 - 11.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
11.00 - 11.30	Morning Coffee	University Gardens
11.30 - 1.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
1.00 - 2.30	Lunchtime with the Writers: Tom Leonard	The Loft Restaurant, Ashton Lane
3.30 - 5.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
5.30 - 7.00	Plenary lecture Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University) “Who’s Irish? Henry James, Colm Toibin, James Joyce, Gish Jen”	University Concert Hall
7.30 - 9.30	Civic Reception from the City of Glasgow	Glasgow City Chambers, George Square
10.00	What is "Irish Reels"? - Alicia McGivern (Head of Education, Irish Film Institute)	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
10.30	"Song for a Raggy Boy" (Aisling Walsh, 2003) (screening sponsored by the Irish Film Institute)	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
10.00 - 2.00	Late Bar	The Lane Bistro, Ashton Lane

 

Wednesday 29th July

9.30 - 11.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
11.00 - 11.30	Morning Coffee	University Gardens
11.30 - 1.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
1.00 - 2.30	Lunchtime with the Writers: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin	The Loft Restaurant, Ashton Lane
3.00	Excursion to NEW LANARK (UNESCO heritage site)	Coach departure from Main Gate, Glasgow University
4.15 - 6.45	Tours of New Lanark: the model village, the forest, the waterfalls	New Lanark
6.45 - 7.45	Supper in Utopia: local delicacies in Robert Owen's mill pantry	New Lanark
8.00	Return from New Lanark to Glasgow (arriving approx. 9.15)
10.00	"Here Come the Tattie Howkers" (2009) director: Jennifer Stoddart	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
10.30	“Kings” (Tom Collins, 2007) (screening sponsored by the Irish Film Institute)	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
10.00 - 2.00	Late Bar	The Lane Bistro, Ashton Lane

 

Thursday 30th July

9.30 - 11.00	IASIL General Meeting	University Concert Hall
9.30 - 11.00	"The Rising of the Moon" (John Ford, 1957) (screening sponsored by the Irish Film Institute)	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
11.00 - 11.30	Morning Coffee	University Gardens
11.30 - 1.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
1.00 – 2.30	Lunchtime with the Writers: Glenn Patterson	The Loft Restaurant, Ashton Lane
3.30 - 5.00	Seminar Panels	University Gardens
5.30 - 7.00	Plenary lecture Malgorzata Semil-Jakubowicz (University of Warsaw) "Irish drama – world stages"	University Concert Hall
7.45 for 8.00	Conference Dinner (with kind support from the Irish Consulate General to Scotland)	The Loft Restaurant, Ashton Lane
10.30	“The Secret of Kells” (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, 2009) (screening sponsored by the Irish Film Institute)	Grosvenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
10.00 - 2.00	Late Bar	The Lane Bistro, Ashton Lane

 

Friday 31st July

10.30 - 12.00	Closing Plenary Willie Gillies (Edinburgh University) "Ireland and Scotland"	University Concert Hall
1.00 -2.30	Lunchtime with the Writers: Bernard McLaverty	The Loft Restaurant, Ashton Lane
2.45	Post-conference visit to the Burrell Collection (coach departure from Main Gate, Glasgow University) (return coach 5.15, arriving Glasgow University 5.45)

 

EXHIBITIONS

Daily throughout the conference from 9.30 to 5.00

• An Leabhar Mor, First Floor, Department of Celtic Studies, 3 University Gardens
  
• Edvard Munch: Prints, a major loan exhibition from the Munch Museum, Oslo, now at the Hunterian Art Gallery (co-sponsored by the Norwegian Government and the Scottish Government)