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The conference will feature talks by Irish and international scholars from Sweden, Armenia and further afield on the diverse topics relating to Irish oral and material traditional culture.
We will close by the annual Bo Almqvist lecture to be delivered by Dr Guy Beiner of Ben Gurion University on “Penetrating Social Forgetting:
The Challenges of Collecting Ulster Folk History Traditions in the Mid-Twentieth-Century”.
| 9:30am | Welcome |
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| 9:40am to 11:10am | Panel1 Fionnán Mac Gabhann (UCD) Popular Justice at Shrovetide in Ireland Sebastian Graham (QUB) "The Men Through the Stour": Memories and Forgotten Words of the Ulster Flax Scutchers Luke Murphy (UCD) “Remember Brave Bodyke”: Eviction in Irish Tradition |
| 11:10am to 11:25am | Tea and coffee |
| 11:25am to 12:25am | Panel 2 Aoiffe Kenny (UCD) An Examination of the Female Hero's Journey in some Co. Longford Folktales Alvard Jivanyan (Yerevan State University) Anthropomorphic Dolls as Otherworldly Helpers in the International Folktale |
| 12:30pm to 1:30pm | Panel 3 Ailbhe Nic Giolla Chomhaill (UL) “Sin mo scéalsa agus codlaígí”: Cíoradh ar chúrsaí cumhachta i scéalta iontais Shorcha Chonaill Nic Grianna Seaghan Mac an tSionnaigh (University of Uppsala) “Is iad na focail chainte chéanna a bhíonn aige gach uair”: Insintí éagsúla ar scéalta i gcorpas Sheáin na Cille Mhic Criomhthain |
| 1:30pm to 2:30pm | Lunch |
| 2:30pm to 3:30pm | Panel 4 Ciarán Walsh (Maynooth University) The Go Between: Alfred Cort Haddon and a Forgotten Engagement Between Irish Folklore and Anarchist Ethnology Anne Byrne (NUI Galway) Woolfs in Ireland: The Lure of Language and Place |
| 3:40pm to 4:40pm | Panel 5 Tomás Mac Conmara (UCC) "Always in the Human Consciousness": The Oral Heritage of the Irish War of Independence Deirdre Nuttall (Independent Researcher) Protestants in Independent Ireland Talk about Land and Landscape |
| 4:40pm to 5pm | Tea and coffee |
| 5pm to 6pm | Almqvist Lecture / Léacht Almqvist Guy Beiner (Ben Gurion University) Penetrating Social Forgetting: The Challenges of Collecting Ulster Folk History Traditions in the Mid-Twentieth-Century |
| 6pm to 7pm | Reception |
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Saturday 17 November
9am to 6pm
Connor Lecture Theatre