A request: It would be very helpful if ticket holders were seated in the marquee fifteen minutes before the first talk each day.
WEDNESDAY 2oth July | THURSDAY 21st July | FRIDAY 22nd July
WEDNESDAY 2oth July
10.00 am
Kevin Finnerty
What has Arti!cial Intelligence and
Transhumanism got to do with Percy French?
10.50 am
Professor Gerard Casey
What’s a nice soul like you doing with a body like this?
11.45 am Tea/Coffee
12.05 pm
Larissa Nolan
Where am I?
Reflections on finding the authentic voice in Irish media
12.45 pm
Michael Hardiman
Carl Jung’s Modern Man in Search of a Soul
1.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
Eileen Coyle (Soprano) & Frasier Hickland (Piano)
Con Anima–More Soul Music
4.00 pm Gardens Open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
THURSDAY 21st July
10.00 am
Bernadette Lowry
Percy French, the subject of the
Most Extravagant Wake in Human History
10.50 am
Sarah Carey
Who is my neighbour?
How primal fear of Other People is holding us back
11.45 am Tea/Coffee
SEAN FREYNE 1935-2013
12.05 pm The Sean Freyne Memorial Lecture
Martin D Henry
Nietzsche’s Questions to Christianity
Chair Fr Vincent Twomey
12.45 pm
Paul Kingsnorth
Silicon Transcendence versus Roots in The Land
1.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
The Unwanted Cathy Jordan, Seamie O’Dowd, Rick Epping
Music: the Caper, Call & Cry of the Soul
4.00 pm Gardens open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
FRIDAY 22nd July
PERCY FRENCH, THE NEXT GENERATION
10.00 am
Charles Piecyk
From Kant to Transhumanism:
human nature in (post)modernity
10.50 am
John F Deane
Three Strange Angels
11.45 am Tea/Coffee
12.05 pm
Máirín McCarron
Saints, Scholars, and Science in Medieval Ireland
12.50 pm
Summing-up & Panel Discussion
Máirín MacCarron, Charles Piecyk, John F Deane
1.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
Col Ceathair
A little ‘soul’ music
3.30 pm Gardens open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
