20.50 Professor Luke Gibbons
University of Notre Dame
Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare:
From Ruins to Republicanism

Seisiún / Session 1

Cath / Chair Professor John Waddell
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh NUI Galway

09.30 Diarmuid Ó Catháin
Independent Scholar
Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare:
An outline sketch

10.10 Jeremy Williams
Conservation Architect
Dr. Kieran O’Conor
NUI Galway
Ballinagare Castle and The Hermitage

10.50 Ceisteanna / Questions

11:00 Tae / Caifé Tea / Coffee

Seisiún /Session 2

Cath / Chair Professor Tadhg Foley
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh NUI Galway

11.30 Dr Clare O’Halloran
University College Cork
A Revolution in our Moral and Civil Affairs: Charles O’Conor and the creation of a community of scholars in late eighteenth-century Ireland

12.10 Dr Olga Tsapina
The Huntingdon Library, California
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare: an analysis of the first biography of Charles O’Conor written by his grandson

12.50 Ceisteanna / Questions

13:00 Lón / Lunch

Seisiún / Session 3

Cath / Chair An tOllamh Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh / NUI Galway

14:00 An tOllamh Mícheál Mac Craith
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh / NUI Galway
Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare and the Macpherson controversy

14.40 Dr Nollaig Ó Muraíle
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh / NUI Galway
Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare and the Irish manuscript tradition

15.20 Ceisteanna / Questions

15.30 Tae / Caifé - Tea / Coffee

Seisiún /Session 4

Cath / Chair Pyers O’Conor-Nash
Clonalis House

16:00 Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál, Luimneach
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Charles O’Conor’s contribution to Irish language scholarship

16.40 Professor Joep Leersen
University of Amsterdam
Charles O’Conor and Cultural Transfer

17.20 Fr John F Wrynn
St Peter’s College, New Jersey
Charles O’Conor’s ‘Philosophical’ History’

18:00 Ceisteanna / Questions

18.10 Plé / Discussion
Cath / Chair Professor Luke Gibbons
University of Notre Dame

18.30 Turas roghnach / Optional Tour
Turas siúil ar Mhainistir Ros Comáin agus Chaisleán Ros Comáin
Walking Tour of Roscommon Abbey and Roscommon Castle
Dr Kieran O’Conor
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh / NUI Galway

20.30 Dinnéar / Dinner
Óráid Fáilte / Welcome Address – John Connor MCC
Aoi-chainteoir iar-dhinnéar
After Dinner Speaker – Desmond O’Conor Don

Dé Domhnaigh
Sunday 9 Aibreán/April

16.00 Conference Close