Friday June 4th, 2010
University of Lausanne, INTERNEF building, room 275
The Symposium is supported by the Embassy of Ireland to Switzerland.
Symposium programme
10.15 Opening
Session I / Irish Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
10.30 The Sociolinguistics of Modern Irish — Brian Ó Catháin (Maynooth)
11.15 Dealing with Irish, English and Hiberno-English in The Poor Mouth: A (Hiberno-) English translation of Flann O’Brien’s An Béal Bocht — Gisela Zingg (Geneva)
11.45 Notes on the Figura Etymologica in Old Irish — Karin Stüber (Zürich)
12.15 Lunch
Session II / Medieval Irish Literature
1.15 Inventing a European Identity in Medieval Ireland — Michael Clarke (Galway)
2.00 Lug’s incantation in Táin Bó Cuailgne – its form and function — Hildegard L.C. Tristram (Freiburg i. Brsg.)
Session III / Modern Literature
2.30 The (Irish) Language Issue — Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (Dublin)
3.15 A United Irishman in the Alps: William James MacNevin’s A Ramble Through Swisserland — Patrick Vincent (Neuchâtel)
3.45 Coffee Break
Session IV / Irish English Linguistics
4.30 The English Language in Present Day Ireland — Raymond Hickey (Duisburg-Essen)
5.30 “Ah, laddie, did ye really think I’d let a foine broth of a boy such as yerself get splattered …?” – Representations of Irish English speech in the Marvel universe — Shane Walshe (Zürich)