• ‘Fifty Years with an Oral Poem: Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire/The Funeral Lament for Art O’Leary’
  • Emerita Prof. Angela Bourke, UCD

Chair: Prof. Nicholas Allen, Endowed Professor and Director of the Willson Center at the University of Georgia

• ‘Oral Compositional practice and anti-colonial voice in the ‘Lament for Art O’Leary’’
  • Prof. Tríona Ní Shiochain, Maynooth University
• Gender and Sexuality in late 18th century Ireland  (provisional title)
  • Dr. Rebecca Barr, Jesus College, Cambridge
• ‘Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire / Lament for Art O’Leary: textual problems, solutions, translations’
  • Dr. Seán Ua Súilleabháin, University College Cork

Chair: Dan Mulhall, Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge

Research Panel 2:

• Mourning and the Performance of Grief in Contemporary Poetry
  • Fran Lock, Poet, Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, Cambridge
  • Mícheál McCann, Poet
  • Martina Evans, Poet

Chair: Prof. Angela Leighton, Poet and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge

• ‘Translating the Lament’
  • Paul Muldoon, Poet, Ireland Professor of Poetry
  • Vona Groarke, Poet, Writer in Residence, St John’s College, Cambridge

Chair: Prof. Clair Wills, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

• Excerpt from opera of ‘Lament for Art O’Leary’
  • Irene Buckley, Composer:
• Settings of ‘Lament for Art O’Leary’
  • Composition Students, St. John’s College
• Short film screening (8 mins): ‘The Lament for Art O’Leary’ by Marcella O’Connor