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IRSCL CONGRESS 2005 ~
Saturday 13th August
2.00pm onwards
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Registration of delegates |
6.00pm |
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Opening reception sponsored by the O'Brien Press, Dublin |
7.00pm |
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Supper in Dining Hall, Trinity College |
8.30pm |
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Storytelling |
Sunday 14th August
9.00am |
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Remarks |
9.15am |
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Childhood and Ireland - Declan Kiberd |
10.15am 10.45am |
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Coffee |
10.45am - 12.45pm |
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Children's Lives: Children's Literature', led by Sheila Greene with Gillian Cross, Siobhán Parkinson and Pádraic Whyte.
Concurrent Paper presentations |
2.00pm-4.00pm |
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Concurrent Paper presentations |
4.00pm -4.30pm |
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Tea |
4.30pm 6.00pm |
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Concurrent Paper presentations |
6.00pm |
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Meeting of affiliated societies |
8.00pm |
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Hooley Old Jameson Distillery (optional only by pre-booking) |
Monday 15th August
9.00am |
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Remarks |
9.15am |
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Home and Away Writing and Performing Poetry for Children' - Michael Rosen |
10.15am 10.45am |
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Coffee |
10.45am - 12.45pm |
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Perspectives on the work of Hans Christian Andersen' 1. A panel presentation led by Nina Christensen with members of the NorChiLit group
Concurrent Paper presentations |
2.00pm 4.00pm |
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Perspectives on the work of 'Hans Christian Andersen' 2. A panel presentation led by Nina Christensen with members of the NorChiLit group
Concurrent Paper presentations |
4.00pm -5.00pm |
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IRSCL General Membership Meeting |
6.00pm |
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Reception in
the Mansion House, official residence of Dublin's Lord Mayor
and in Dublin City Library and Archive, housed in a historic Victorian building on Pearse Street. |
8.00pm |
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Optional walking tours around Dublin led by O'Brien Press authors |
Tuesday 16th August
9.00am |
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Remarks |
9.15am |
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Childhood Innocence: Then and Now' - Anne Higonnet |
10.15am 10.45am |
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Coffee |
10.45am - 12.45pm |
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The World and/of Irish Picturebooks, led by Sandra Beckett with artists Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, Niamh Sharkey and P.J. Lynch
Concurrent Paper presentations |
2.00pm 3.30pm |
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Concurrent Paper presentations |
3.30pm 4.00pm |
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Tea |
4.00pm -5.30pm |
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Concurrent Paper presentations |
6.00pm-7.30pm |
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Reception in the National Library of Ireland |
8.00pm |
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Film Night: The Boy from Mercury'
starring Hugh O'Conor, Rita Tushingham, Tom Courtenay and directed by Martin Duffy, in the Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College . |
Wednesday 17th August
9.00am |
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Remarks |
9.15am |
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Paul Muldoon |
10.15am 10.45am |
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Coffee |
10.45am - 12.45pm |
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'Poetry and Children Today' Led by Morag Styles and Jane O'Hanlon with Seamus Cashman, Rita Anne Higgins, Áine Ní Ghlinn and Mary Shine Thompson
Concurrent Paper presentations |
2.00pm 3.30pm |
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Concurrent Paper presentations |
3.30pm 4.00pm |
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Tea |
3.45pm -5.30pm |
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Concurrent Paper presentations |
7.30pm |
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Pre-dinner reception |
8.00pm |
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Conference dinner |
10.00pm |
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Music |
In addition it will be possible to visit the Book of Kells on the campus of Trinity College, view the Prints and Drawings collection at the National Library of Ireland by special arrangement with the Library, and courtesy of the Electricity Supply Board, tour Number 29, one of Dublin's fine Georgian houses.
It will be possible to purchase Children's Literature: Global and Local, papers from the 16 th IRSCL congress, at the conference.
Books by speakers and other publications of interest to IRSCL congress delegates will be stocked at the designated congress bookshop.
Supporters of the 2005 congress:
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