Politics of Linguistic Inclusion and Exclusion in Ireland

27-28 November 2025, Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus University

Preliminary Programme

Venue: Antikmuseet

Thursday 27 November

9:00-9:30        Coffee and registration

9:30-9:45        Welcome (Isabelle Torrance, Director, Centre for Irish Studies)

9:45-10:30    Chair: Gregory Darwin (University of Uppsala)

‘The Sociolinguistic Relationship between Irish and Latin in the Early Medieval Ireland’ (Jasmim Drigo, University of Galway)

10:30-11:15  Chair: Simon Ó Faoláin (Independent Scholar)

‘Classical and English Influence on Irish-language Love Poetry: Divergent Approaches’ (Síle Ní Mhurchú, University College Cork)

11:15-12:00  Chair: Feliks Levin (Aarhus University)

‘English and Latin in Seventeenth-Century Irish-language Literature: Alienation vs. Identification’ (Gregory Darwin, Uppsala University)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:45 Chair: Ciaran Fiona McDonough (Aarhus University)

‘On the Politics of the Epigraph in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Irish or Latin?’ (Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Edinburgh)

13:45-14:30 Chair: Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh)

‘Irish, the Classics and a Hierarchy of Language in the Nineteenth Century’ (Ciaran Fiona McDonough, Aarhus University)

14:30-15:15 Chair: Stephen Joyce (Aarhus University)

‘Fables and Fantastical Tales: Irish-language translations of Greek texts for wide audiences in the early twentieth century’ (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University)

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

18:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 28 November

9:00-9:30        Coffee

9:30-10:15    Chair: Dominic Rainsford (Aarhus University)

‘The Politics of Access: Multilingualism and Exclusion in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake’ (Ronan Crowley, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

10:15-11:00  Chair: Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus University)

‘The Inclusion and Exclusion of Latin in Irish Education, Ancient and Modern’ (Pádraic Moran, University of Galway)

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:15 Chair: Síle Ní Mhurchú (University College Cork)

‘Ancient texts and minority language: can two negatives make a positive? A personal experience of translating classical literature into Irish in the 21st century’ (Simon Ó Faoláin, Independent Scholar, Award-Winning Translator)

12:15-13:15  Lunch