Louis MacNeice Conference & Celebration Programme
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and School of English
Queen's University, Belfast
12-15 September 2007
Wednesday 12 September 2007
Plenary Talks
John Stallworthy: Louis in Love
Jonathan Allison: "Ink is a God-damned frigid medium, isn't it?": Reading Louis MacNeice's letters
First BBC Louis MacNeice Memorial Lecture
Peter McDonald: The Pity of it All
Launch of exhibition on MacNeice and the BBC
'Castles in the Air'
QUB Visitor's Centre
Poetry Reading
Paul Farley, Sinead Morrissey, Don Paterson, Paul Muldoon
Buffet Reception
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, MacNeice House, 77 Malone Road
Thursday 13 September
Plenary Talks
Terence Brown: Weaving his Journey: MacNeice & Travel
Clair Wills: Post-war MacNeice
Parallel Sessions
MacNeice and Documentary Film 1
Plenary Talk
Paul Muldoon: The Perning Birch: Yeats, Frost, MacNeice
Poet's Panel
Derek Mahon, Sinead Morrissey, Don Paterson
Chair: Patrick Crotty
Book Launch
That Island Never Found: Essays and Poems for Terence Brown
eds Nicholas Allen & Eve Patten
Poetry Reading
Paul Farley, Nick Laird, Simon Armitage
Buffet Reception
British-Irish Secretariat, Windsor House
Friday 14 September
Plenary Talks
Valentine Cunningham: Richard Murphy
Neil Corcoran: MacNeice and Thirties Classical Pastoralism
Parallel Sessions
The Same Again?: Repetition and Refrain in MacNeice
Faber Book Launch
Launch of reprint of The Strings are False, with new introduction by Derek Mahon
Poetry Reading
Contemporaries & Successors, Thomas McCarthy, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Longley
Conference Dinner
Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Saturday 15 September
Visit to Christ Church, Carrowdore
Readings at the grave of Louis MacNeice
Official Opening
MacNeice Centenary Exhibition, Carrickfergus Museum
opened by the Mayor of Carrickfergus
Civic Dinner
'A Centenary Celebration to honour the poets Louis MacNeice and John Hewitt'
Belfast City Hall