All sessions held in Connolly House unless otherwise indicated.
Wednesday, April 6
5 – 7pm
Burns Library
Reception
Opening reception with Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith, with dramatic readings by David Gullette (Poets’ Theatre)
7 – 8:30pm
Gasson Hall 100
Keynote
Keynote: Kevin Barry Lowell Lecture series reading
8:30pm
Dinner on your own/pick-up groups
Thursday, April 7
9 – 9:30am
Breakfast
Connolly House
Continental breakfast (provided)
9:30 – 11:00am
Panel Session
DINEEN, DECADENCE, AND DIASPORA
Chair: Kelly Matthews (Framingham State University)
Speaker bios
Andrew Kuhn (Penn State University)
“‘The Brother’s Taken to the Books Again’: The Volumes of the Cruiskeen Lawn”
Dominic Harkin (Queen’s University Belfast) “Des Esseintes in Dublin: Flann O’Brien’s Decadent Science Fiction”
Stanley Gontarski (Florida State University)
“‘Well, cut my legs off and call me Shorty’: Flann O’Brien and the American Mythos”
11 – 11:30am
Coffee
Coffee break
11:30am – 12:30pm
Keynote
Keynote: Frank McNally (Irish Times)
“The Hiberno-Nolan Dictionary of Insult: Usage and Abusage in Ireland’s First Unofficial Language
12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch
Lunch (provided)
1:30 – 2:00pm
Performance
“Slí na gCopaleen: Gortahork Here we Come:” with Deirdre Learmont and Oisín Ó Nualláin
2 – 3pm
Break and walk to Burns Library
3 – 3:15pm
Presentation
Burns Library
Presentation of Augmented Reality app “On the Trail of the Third Policeman”
3:15 – 4:15pm
Presentation
Burns Library Flann O’Brien archives exploration
4:15 – 5:30pm
Reception and Performance
Light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres with performed excerpts from Flann’s work by Here Comes Everybody Players
5:30pm
Speakers’ Dinner departure
Others: dinner on your own/pick-up groups
Friday, April 8
9 – 9:30am
Breakfast
Connolly House
Continental breakfast (provided)
9:30 – 11:00am
Panel Session
WIRELESS, TV, AND THE RISING TIDE
Chair: Rachael Young
Speaker bios
Tobias W. Harris and Joseph LaBine (Birkbeck; University of Ottawa)
“Brian O’Nolan and ‘Wireless Imagination’ in 1930s Ireland”
Elliott Mills (Trinity College Dublin)
“The Dead Spit of Two in One: Repackaging O’Nolan”
Germán Asensio Peral (University of Almería, Spain)
“‘… the 51st of the United States’: Cruiskeen Lawn, Seán Lemass, and John F. Kennedy”
11 – 11:30am
Coffee
Coffee break
11:30am – 12:30pm
Keynote
Keynote: Maebh Long (University of Waikato)
“Listening to Brian O’Nolan”
12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch
Lunch (provided)
1:30 – 3:00pm
Panel Session
FRAUDULENCE, FISTICUFFS, ANDVENDETTAS
Chair: Ian Ó Caoimh (University College Dublin)
Speaker bios
Thomas O’Grady (University of Massachusetts Boston)
“A Cold Case of Irish Facts: Re(:)visiting John Stanislaus Joyce”
Joseph LaBine (University of Ottawa)
“‘Nárbh’ é an fear bocht míámharach a scríobh é sin!’: Ó Conaire/O’Nolan, After-hours Pubs, Plays and Fisticuffs”
Deirdre Learmont (Ollscoil na mBréag) and Oisín Ó Nualláin
“Bitter Vendettas and How to Resolve Them”
3 – 3:15pm
Coffee
Coffee break
3:15 – 4:15pm
Film
An Béal Bocht screening with kind permission, Nervecentre, Derry/Londonderry, followed by discussion
4:15 – 4:30pm
Walk from Connolly House to Higgins Hall
4:30 – 6:15pm
Performance
Higgins Hall 300
Arán agus Im (“Bread and Butter”) theatrical presentation on the Irish language and breadmaking by Manchán Magan
6:15 – 6:30pm
Walk from Higgins Hall to Connolly House
6:30 – 9:00pm
Reception/Dinner
Connolly House
Conference cookout (registered attendees only) at Connolly House, with remarks by IFOBS president Paul Fagan
Saturday, April 9
9 – 9:30am
Breakfast
Connolly House
Continental breakfast (provided)
9 – 11:00am
Panel Session
SKINS, SPECIES, AND SEWER GAS
Chair: Matt Brown (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Speaker bios
Paul Fagan (Salzburg University)
“‘A lacuna in the palimpsest’: The Nonhuman Skin of At Swim-Two-Birds
Holly Connell Schaaf (Boston University)
“Birds in At Swim-Two-Birds: Contemporary Ecology and Myths of Cross-Species Identification”
Therese Cox (Columbia University)
“Downward Houses and Machines for Living: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Invention in Cruiskeen Lawn“
11 – 11:30am
Coffee
Coffee break
11:30am – 12:30pm
Keynote
Keynote: Catherine Flynn (University of California, Berkeley)
“Flann, Myles, and the Young Irish State”
12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch
Lunch (provided)
1:30 – 2:45pm
Roundtable
“The Ethical Journalist in this Troubled Time,” discussion on ethics and newspapers today with Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times), Frank McNally (Irish Times) and Charles Sennott (Ground Truth Project), (im-)moderated by Joseph Nugent
2:45 – 3:30pm
Walk from Connolly House to McMullen Museum
3:30 – 5pm
Gallery Tour
McMullen Museum
“Fintan on Parr”: Martin Parr exhibition tour with Fintan O’Toole
5 – 6pm
Break and walk to Waterworks Museum
6 – 9:30pm
Reception
Waterworks Museum
“Third Policeman’s Ball,” closing gala reception in partnership with Consulate General of Ireland in Boston with Fintan O’Toole book launch, champion fiddle player Andrew Caden, trad musicians music by Conor O’Brien and Gregory Grene, BC Irish dancers, recitations, and more. Attendance by advance registration and invitation only.