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Wednesday 17th June

9:30am-10:00am Late Registration (Foyer of IADT)
10:00am-10:30am Official Opening

Parallel Session 1 (Room ) 10:30am-12:30pm
Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism
Chair: Dr. Cathy McGlynn (IADT)

Andrew J. Auge (Loras College)
Kavanaghs Parochialism: A Catholic Poetics of Place.

Sarah Balen (NCFIS/IADT)
Prayers of Consciousness: Spirituality in the Poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and Peter Sirr.

Michael Howlett (Waterford Institute of technology)
Sean Dunne (1956-1995): The Road to Silence: A Path to understanding Catholicism.

Parallel Session 2 (Room ) 10:30am-12:30pm
Pilgrims, Missionaries, and Ritual
Chair: Dr. Padraig o Giollagain

M. Corporal (Radboud University of Nijmegen) and Christopher Cusask (University College London)
A Missionary and a Martyr in the New World as well as the Old: The Representation of Priests in Irish (Diaspora) Literature of the Great Famine Generation.

Angela Robinson (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Ways of Believing: Mi'kmaw Catholicism and Traditionalism in Nova Scotia.

Eugene Hynes (Kettering College)
Knock versus Lourdes in the 1880s.

12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch

Keynote Address 1 (Room ) 2:00pm-3:00pm
Chair: Dr. Andrew Auge (Loras College)

James Donnelly (Professor Emeritus of History,
University of Wisconsin)
Bishop Browne (1937-78) of Galway and the Shaping of
Public Morality.

Parallel Session 3 (Room ) 3:15pm-5:15pm
Trade Unionism, Workers and Catholicism
Chair: Mags O'Brien (SIPTU College) (to be confirmed)

Harry Browne (Dublin Institute of Technology)
The Catholic Worker in Ireland: Seed on Stony Ground.

Peter Murray (NUI Maynooth)
A Shop Steward is as remote as a Baluba Tribesman: Bringing Catholic Social Principles into the Irish Business and Trade Union Worlds, 1945-1965.

Josephine Browne (IADT)
The Catholic Worker’s College, Industrial relations, Employment Law and the Jesuits in 1950s Ireland.

Parallel Session 4 (Room ) 3:15pm-5:15pm
Visual Cultures, Art and Catholicism
Chair : Dr. Linda King (To be confirmed)

Roisin Kennedy (UCD)
Irish Catholicism and Perceptions of Visual Art in the Emergency.

Tom Hubbard (NUI) and Mark Aheren (Hugh Lane Gallery)
A Ukrainian Woman painter in late 19th Century France.

Nick Hayes (Saint John's University, Collegeville)
Water Colors in Limestone: An Irish American Architect and Modernism in the Catholic Architecture of the Upper Mid-West.

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Plenary addresses will be delivered by

Mary Reichardt Professor of Catholic
Studies & Literature, University of St. Thomas, USA.→

James Donnelly Professor Emeritus of
History, University of Wisconsin, USA. →

Martin MacLoone Professor of Media Studies, University of Ulster. →

Daryl Jones Senior Lecturer of English,
Trinity College, Dublin. →

Patsy McGarry Columnist & Religious
Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times.