The Burren Law School 2013

 

Ireland's Place Among the Nations
- Irish Identity in the 21st Century

A Contemporary & Brehon Perspective
James Hamilton, Guest Director

Friday May 3rd to May 5th 2013

 

Programme

 

Friday 03 May

7.15pm: Registration and Reception &
“A plate of food for the traveller”

8.00pm: Official Launch of The School
A Brief Brehon Welcome in Newtown Castle Tower
Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin

8.15pm: Opening Session
Speaking in Tongues: Multiple Identities, with
Micheal O’Siadhail, Poet9.15pm: Informal networking

Saturday 04 May

7.30am: Michael Greene’s Morning Walk

9.30am Irish Identity- a Brehon Perspective
Prof. Donnchadh Ó Corráin

10.15am: The Binchy Memorial Lecture
International Criminal Justice and the Responsibility to Protect - the Challenges for International Law in Protecting Civilian Populations
Patricia O’Brien, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel

11.15am: Coffee Break

11.30am: Immigrants and the Law in Ireland
Hilkka Becker, Senior Solicitor, Immigrant Council of Ireland
Siobhán Stack B.L

12.30pm: Q and A and Discussion

1.00pm: Lunch – Castle Café

2.00pm: Ireland and the European Union
Shane Ross, TD, Independent, Dublin South
Patrick Smyth, Foreign Policy Editor, Irish Times

3.00pm: Q and A and Discussion

3.15: Depart by bus for Field trip to Michael Cusack centre and walk to Cahercomaun Fort.

8.30pm: Conference Dinner

Sunday 05 May

10.00am ‘Land Meets Sea – Great Irish seafarers from Edward Bransfield to Damian Foxall’
Marcus Connaughton, Author and broadcaster – Producer of Seascapes

10.45am The Constitution of Ireland and Irish Identity - Citizenship, Nationality, Language
The Hon. Mr Justice Frank Clarke, Supreme Court

11.30am: Coffee Break

11.45am Northern Ireland - Justice in a Divided Society
(Speaker to be announced)

12.15 pm: “British,Irish or both”- Identity after the Belfast Agreement?
Professor Paul Bew, Professor of Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast, Member of the House of Lords
The Hon Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness, Former Judge of the Supreme Court, Former Chair of the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation

1.15pm: Q and A and Discussion

1.45pm: Concluding Remarks from Guest Director, James Hamilton

Closing of Conference – Committee Speaker

3.00: Field Trip returning to Ballyvaughan

 

 

A note for next year’s diary
May 2- 4 2014.
Burren College of Art 20th celebration year.

 

Committee:
Senator Ivana Bacik, Paddy Brennan, Maura Butler, Mary Hawkes-Greene,
Martin Hawkes, Kieran McGrath, Aengus Ó Corráin, Peter Ward.

 

Burren Law School 2013 programme.