El encuentro se realizará como acto previo a la concesión de la medalla honorífica de la Universidad a Mary McAleese, presidenta de Irlanda.

PROGRAMME
9:30-9:45 Opening words by Professor Fernando Galván, Rector of the University of Alcalá

9:45-10:30 On History
Óscar Recio (U Complutense) and Thomas O’Connor (NUI Maynooth): "Power Strategies: Spain and Ireland, 1600-1800"

10:30-11:15 On Literature and Music
Inés Praga (U Burgos): “The Space of a Song: Some Examples of Music and Literature”

On the Irish language
Anne Gallagher (Language Centre, NUI Maynooth): “The Irish Language Today”

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-12:30 On Literary History
Margaret Kelleher (“An Foras Feasa”, NUI Maynooth): “The International Impulse in Irish Literary History”

On Cinema
Rosa González (U Barcelona): "The Changing Face of Rural Ireland on Screen"

12:30-13:30 Poetry Reading
Beatriz Villacañas and Mary O’Donnell