Abstracts

DIARDAOIN 16.06.11 THURSDAY

11:30 - 13:00


Buidheann A1 / Session A1


Alan Titley, University College Cork
Somhairle MacGill-Eain and the Imagination of Excess
 
Iain S. MacPherson, University of Ulster

‘Le Cimitière Marin de Paul Valery et Hallaig’

 
Peter Mackay
Temptation in the Woods: ‘Coilltean Ratharsair’
 

Buidheann A2 / Session A2


Emma Dymock, University of Edinburgh
With You for Alba: The Sorley MacLean-Douglas Young Correspondence
 
Ray Burnett: Honorary Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Island Studies, University of the West of Scotland
Sorley MacLean and the Quest for Alba Aigeannach nan Saor
 
Timothy Neat, Film-maker and Author
Sorley MacLean: and the Modern Panegyric
 

DIARDAOIN 16.06.11 THURSDAY
14:00 - 15:00


Buidheann B1 / Session B1


Iona MacDonald, Fèisean nan Gàidheal
Through the window: domestic notes from the Maclean household
 
Cailean MacLean, Isle of Skye
A’ beothachadh na cuimhne aosda, Kindling ancient memory
 

Buidheann B2 / Session B2


John Purser, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sorley and the Music of the Bards
 
Margaret Bennett, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
Hallaig:  planting the seeds and harvesting the music
 

Dihaoine 17.06.01 Friday
11:00 - 12:30


Buidheann C1 / Session C1


Maoilios Caimbeul, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Mion-mhothachadh ann am Bàrdachd Shomhairle MhicGill-Eain
 
Màiri Sìne Chaimbeul, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Songs of Lochalsh and Kintail
 
Hugh Cheape, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
The poet as historian: the importance of Sorley MacLean's historical research
 

Buidheann C2 / Session C2


J. Derrick McClure
'The difficulties and responsibilities of translating Sorley MacLean into Scots'
 
Norman Bissell, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics

‘Nature, Socialist Politics and Love in the Poetry of Sorley MacLean’

 
Sandra Byrne, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

'Sorley Maclean and the role of the bard in twentieth century Gaelic Poetry.'