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Irish in Europe International Conference

Awakening Irish Identities: The Ulster Earls in Baroque Europe

Féiniúlacht Éireannach ar múscailt: Iarlaí Uladh san Eoraip bharócach

Hosted by

Pontifical Irish College, Rome, The Irish Embassy to Italy and the Irish Embassy to the Holy See

Academic Programme by Irish in Europe Project, NUI Maynooth

Friday 26 October – Sunday 28 October 2007   

This conference and the associated events mark the 400th anniversary of the departure of the Ulster earls for Europe, an event of significance in the evolution of Ireland’s links with its continental neighbours. Participants follow the earls and their entourage on their journey to the European heartland, taking the measure of strengthening European influences on a changing Ireland and assessing the Irish contribution to baroque Europe’s rich inheritance.

Early booking is strongly recommended:

Contact thomas.oconnor@nuim.ie or marian.lyons@spd.dcu.ie or Irish College, Rome

Travel and accommodation advice to follow

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Friday, 26 October

• 11am Coffee and registration
• 11.30am Welcome by Mgr Bergin, Rector, Pontifical Irish College, Rome
• 11.45 am Prof Joseph Bergin ( Manchester): Baroque Europe and Ireland: an evolving relationship
• 12.30pm Lunch L’800
  Chairman: His Excellency Seán Ó hUiginn
• 2.30pm: Dr Steve Murdoch (St Andrew’s): People on the Move in early modern Europe
• 3.15 pm: Dr Bruno Boute (Belgian Institute, Rome): Peter Lombard and the Irish Presence in Leuven University
• 4 pm: Coffee
• 4.45pm Round table forum:
  Chair: Prof Bergin:
  Keynote speakers: Prof Raymond Gillespie (NUI Maynooth): The local and the global in early modern Irish society
  with Drs Bruno Boute, Steve Murdoch and participants
• 5.45pm Pause
  Chair His Excellency Philip McDonagh
• 6.pm Dr Carla Benocci ( Rome): illustrated talk on Baroque Rome in the time of the Earls

Dining arrangements: restaurants will be recommended shortly

DAY 2

Saturday 28 October 2007

• 09.45am Keynote and Chair: Prof Colm Lennon (NUI Maynooth)
• 10.15 am Prof Laurence Brockliss ( Oxford): Irish education networks in Baroque Europe
• 10.45am coffee
• 11.15am Dr Jason Harris (UCC): Irish writing in Baroque Latin: The Dempster affair
• 11.45am Prof Ruairí Ó hUiginn (NUI Maynooth): Irish language culture in the Low Countries in the Baroque age
• 12.30pm Lunch L’800
  Chair: TBA
• 2.30pm Prof Martin Stone (Leuven) : Irish scholasticism in early modern Europe
• 3.15pm Dr Gráinne McLoughlin, ( Ulster) Latin language in the Irish Diaspora
• 4.00pm Coffee
• 4.30pm : Round Table Forum:
  Chair. TBA
  Keynote speaker: Dr Hiram Morgan (UCC): Hugh O’Neill, Europe and Irish Identities
  With Profs Bergin, McLoughlin and Stone
• Interlude
• 6.00pm Keynote Address: Prof Ciaran Brady (TCD): The Flight of the Earls: between fact and fancy
• 7.00 pm Launch of an Dr Nollaig Ó Muráile’s (Queen’s, Belfast) new edition of Ó Cianán's diary of the Earls’ European journey followed by a cultural evening

DAY 3

Sunday, 28 October 2007

Memorial Mass for the earls and their entourage in S. Pietro de Montorio

Celebrant: TBA

Guest Preacher: TBA

Commemorative event

Coffee

Close of Conference