| Sunday 21st June 2009 |
| 7.00pm-9.00pm |
Informal Reception (Bannview Dining Room) |
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| Monday 22nd June 2009 (LT9) |
| 8.30-9.15 |
Registration |
| 9.15 |
Conference Welcome: Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Dedication to Prof. P.L. Henry: Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna |
| 9.30-10.00 |
The Archaeology of the Ulster Cycle on the North Coast
Thomas McErlean |
| 10.00-10.30 |
Death, visions and the Otherworld in Echtra Nera
Gregory Toner |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Magic and Narrative: Ulster Cycle Texts as Historiolae
Philip Bernhardt-House |
| 11.30-12.00 |
A spell called éle
Jacqueline Borsje |
| 12.00-12.30 |
Blind luck in the killling of kin: foster brothers and the ‘x and non-x’ motif.
Stuart Rutten |
| 12.30-2.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00-2.30 |
The Ulster Cycle and the Gaelic Revival
Caitlyn Schwartz |
| 2.30-3.00 |
From Medb to the Decemberists: The Táin in Concept Album Rock
Laura Lee Templeton |
| 3.00-3.30 |
Tradition and Translation: The Táin Bó Cúailgne translations of Thomas Kinsella and Ciaran Carson
Andrew Shanafelt |
| 3.30-4.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 4.00-4.30 |
The Migration of the Soul and the function of knowledge in De chophur in dá muccida and Compert Con Culainn
Grigory Bondarenko |
| 4.30-5.00 |
Some Thoughts on Medb, the typology of warlike goddesses, and Pausanias l.xiv.7
Matthias Egeler |
| 5.15 |
Official Reception and launch of Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle. (Riverview Link Lounge) |
| 7.00-7.30 |
Images of the Ulster Cycle Tales in Art and Popular Culture (LT9)
Mary Mac Kenna |
| 7.30pm |
Dinner (Bannview Dining Room) |
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| Tuesday 23rd June 2009 (LT8/LT9) |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Cú Chulainn on the Couch: Character Portrayal in Táin Bó Cúailnge
D.R. Edel |
| 9.30-10.00 |
Poetry in Brisleach mhór Mhaighe Muirtheimhne agus Deargruathar Chonaill Chearnaigh considered
Laura Malone |
| 10.00-10.30 |
Is the Táin a record of a close comet?
Patrick McCafferty |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Mother knows best: The role of Nes in Compert Conchobuir
Joanne Findon |
| 11.30-12.00 |
A Trusted Outsider: Leborcham in the Ulster Cycle
Esther Le Mair |
| 12.00-12.30 |
Medb of Connaught in place-names
Kay Muhr |
| 12.30-2.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00-2.30 |
Muirchú and the Ulster Cycle
John Carey |
| 2.30-3.00 |
Cú Chulainn and the Otherworld
Mary Leenane |
| 3.00-3.30 |
Dubtach Dóel Ulad and other insects in the Ulster Cycle
Nina Chehonadskaya |
| 3.30-4.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 4.00-4.30 |
Cú Chulainn: a watch-dog of Ulster
Tatyana Mihailova |
| 4.30-5.00 |
Cú Chulainn’s Lunacy: The Nocturnal Nature of Ulster’s Hound
Kay Retzlaff |
| 5.00-5.30 |
Multi-word verbs in the LU and LL Táin texts
Patricia Ronan |
| 8.00pm |
Conference Dinner (Royal Court Hotel Portrush). Bus leaving from Octagon Entrance at 7.15. |
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| Wednesday 24th June 2009 |
| 9.00am |
Conference Trip
Visiting the inauguration site of the O’Neills at Tullaghoge; Armagh Cathedral; St. Patrick’s Trian at Armagh; and Navan Fort. Lunch is included. Return estimated 6.00pm. |
| 7.30pm |
Dinner (Bannview Dining Room) |
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| Thursday 25th June 2009 (LT8/LT9) |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Paradigms of Polity according to Serlige Con Culainn
Maxim Fomin |
| 9.30-10.00 |
The Táin-Complex in B.M. Egerton 1782
Abigail Burnyeat |
| 10.00-10.30 |
The Ulster Cycle in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, First Series, 1853-1862
Patrick Ford |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 11.00-11.30 |
The Banshenchas: geneology and women of the Ulster Cycle
Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin |
| 11.30-12.00 |
Parallel Wives: Conchobor, Deirdriu and Luaine in Tochmarc Luaine ocus Aided Athairne
Katie Louise Mathis |
| 12.00-12.30 |
The impact of emotion in the Ulster Cycle
Kicki Ingridsdotter |
| 12.30-2.00 |
Lunch |
| 2.00-2.30 |
The Debate: A Blueprint for Society
Marion Deane |
| 2.30-3.00 |
Eamhain Macha, cidh diatá? The name Emain Macha and other Emain Name
Micheál Ó Mainnín |
| 3.00-3.30 |
Dá n-ó mele ocus cuitbiuda in-so: What DID Derdriu say to Noísiu?
Sharon Arbuthnot |
| 3.30-4.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| 4.00-4.30 |
The Cauldron: A Symbol of Sacrifice in Early Irish Tradition?
Caroline McGrath |
| 4.30 |
Conference Close |
| 7.30pm |
Dinner (Bannview Dining Room) |
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