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Fourteenth International Symposium of
Societas Celtologica Nordica
Uppsala University 29-30 May 2015
FRIDAY 29 MAY 2015
VENUE:
ENGLISH PARK CAMPUS (ENGELSKA PARKEN), ROOM 7-0042.
09.30-09.55 Registration
09.55-10.00 Welcome
Session 1
10.00-10.30 ‘How to become a Christian nation? – The Irish and the memory of conversion.’
Katja Ritari, University of Helsinki.
10.30-11.00 ‘Conquering Ériu : Sex and the naturalization of social order in Cath Maige Tuired.’
Nikolai Fullman, University of Oslo.
11.00-11.30 Coffee
Session 2
11.30-12.00 ‘Gaels in Iceland and aspects of their influence on Old Norse Language and
Literature.’
Séamus Mac Mathúna, University of Ulster.
12.00-12.30 Sgéalta Mhuintir Luinigh and the Folklore of Tyrone
Séamus Ó Catháin, University College Dublin.
12.30-14.00 Lunch and SCN meeting
Option to visit the W.B. Yeats exhibition at the Karin-Boye Library, English Park
Campus.
Keynote Lecture
14.00-15.00 ‘Celebrating the female in Classical Irish poetry: the wife.’
Damian Mc Manus, Trinity College Dublin.
15.00-15.30 Coffee
Session 3
15.30-16.00 ‘Observations on the citations in IGT V.’
Gordon Ó Riain, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies.
16.00-16.30 ‘Observations on the Irish Manuscripts in Box STO 1413 at the Huntington Library,
California.’
Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil, University of Ulster.
16.30-18.00 Book launch and wine reception, Department of English.
SATURDAY 30 MAY
VENUE:
KONSISTORIERUMMET, UNIVERSITY MAIN BUILDING
Session 4
09.30-10.00 ‘A nineteenth-century poem on conversion by Séamus Goodman.’
Niamh Ní Shiadhail, Uppsala University.
10.00-10.30 ‘How peripheral was letter-writing in Irish before 1900? A preliminary scoping
exercise.’
Liam Mac Mathúna, University College Dublin.
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Session 5
11.00-11.30 Later Irish ‘sonnetry’ in the North – Indian summer or flash in the pan?
Seosamh Watson, University College Dublin.
11.30-12.00 'Stair Mlaise ar Dartraighibh by Sigraid Ó Cuirnín, ollamh of West Bréifne.’
Peadar Mac Gabhann, University of Ulster.
12.00-12.30 ‘The Book of Ballymote: patron, scribes, sources and purpose’
Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Maynooth University.
12.30-14.00 Lunch hosted by Ambassador Orla O’Hanrahan.
Keynote Lecture
14.00-15.00 ‘Literary links and cultural networks in the reign of King Cnut.’
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge.
15.00-15.05 Closing remarks by the Ambassador of Ireland to Sweden, Her Excellency Orla
O’Hanrahan.
15.15-17.00 Guided tour of the University Museum and historical centre of the university.
19.00
Conference Dinner at Peppar peppar, Sutungs gränd 3, 75 319 Uppsala.