Early Modern Ireland:

Culture, Politics, and Plantation

One-Day ConferenceMoore InstituteNational University of Ireland, GalwayTuesday 6 September 2011

Programme:

Session 1: 1pm.

Andrew Hadfield (Sussex): ‰Û÷Spenser on the Munster Plantation’ 1.30-2.15

Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge): ‰Û÷Francis Bacon, Ireland, and the Classical Theory of Colonisation’

Pause – tea break (3-4pm)

Session 2: 4pm.

Marie-Louise Coolahan (NUI Galway), ‰Û÷Renaissance Dublin and the Literary Construction of Authorship’

Daniel Carey (NUI Galway): ‰Û÷Ireland and the Art of Travel’

All are welcome.

For further information contact Daniel Carey (daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie)”Texts, Contexts, Culture” is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 http://www.hea.ie

The conference is supported by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org).