CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND
May 2017
The annual CAI Summer School will take place in CORK on 18-20 August, 2017 Register on www.classicalassociation.ie
‘Maritime Matters’ is the theme of the Conference, to be held at the Cork Education Support Centre, Western Road. Programme of Events Friday, 18 August 17.30
Registration and Reception
19.00
CAI Annual General Meeting
19.50 Official Opening PROF. WILLIAM O’BRIEN Head, School of the Human Environment (UCC) 20.00 Keynote Lecture: ‘Ostia and Portus: new light on the harbour cities of Imperial Rome.’ PROF. MARTIN MILLETT Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College (University of Cambridge)
15.15
15.30 ‘Ars artium est cura animarum: the care of souls in late medieval Ireland.’ BR COLMÁN Ó CLABAIGH, O.S.B. (GLENSTAL ABBEY) 19.30
Evening Reception
20.00
CAI Dinner at The River Lee Hotel. Sunday, 20 August
Saturday, 19 August 9.00
CAI Central Council meeting
10.00 ‘Remote Sensing and the Roman City.’ PROF. MARTIN MILLETT (CAMBRIDGE) 11.00
Coffee/Tea break
11.30 ‘Piracy in Classical Antiquity.’ DR PHILIP DE SOUZA (UCD) 12.30
Lunch
13.20 ‘Spinning a Yarn.’ MR JOHN BARRY (UCC) 14.15 ‘Seaboard of the Ancient Steppe: Greek and Roman Voyages in the Black Sea.’ DR RAOUL McLAUGHLIN 4
Coffee/Tea break
10.00 OUTING TO KILCREA FRIARY, near Macroom The Friary was founded for the Franciscan Order in 1465 by Cormac Laidir McCarthy, Lord of Muskerry. Interred within its walls is the penal martyr, Art O’Leary, captain of Hungarian Huzzars in the service of the Empress Marie Theresa. 11.45 Coffee/Tea break, Castle Hotel, Macroom 13.00 VISIT TO ST GOBNAIT’S WELL, Ballyvourney St Gobnait was a 6th century saint credited with saving the people of Ballyvourney from the plague. 14.30
Lunch, Abbey Gate Hotel, Ballyvourney
17.20
Approximate time of arrival in Cork