INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES

Dear IASIL Delegate,

The final programme for the conference is available for your information. There have been minor changes to the programme since the first draft was published. Also available for viewing online is the book of abstracts and the programme of film screenings.

REGISTRATION AND LOCATION - MONDAY

Registration will open at 2pm on Monday 26 July and will close at 5.30 pm; registration on Monday will take place in the foyer of the new Humanities and Social Sciences Building, North Campus (building 41 on the NUI Maynooth campus map).

Note: From 3pm to 5.30pm on Monday a series of short films from the IFI Irish Film Archive will be screened and arriving delegates are encouraged to drop in and out. Full details will be provided at registration.

The opening lecture and reception on Monday evening will also take place in the Humanities and Social Sciences building.

REGISTRATION AND LOCATION - TUESDAY

From Tuesday morning onwards, registration will take place in Pugin Hall on the South Campus (building 8 on the NUI Maynooth campus map).

Individual panels, beginning Tuesday morning, will also take place on the South Campus; see conference programme and map for locations.

CULTURAL EVENTS

The reading and interview with Sinéad Morrissey on Tuesday at Castletown House is now fully subscribed; a screening of This Other Eden (1959) will take place on campus at the same time on Tuesday evening. Buses to Castletown will leave the South Campus gate at 5.30pm and return at 7.45pm.

We are pleased to announce that the Irish Film Institute has kindly agreed to generate a collection of Irish films for the IASIL conference. The collection will include films that are referenced throughout film literature but which to date have been virtually inaccessible outside of the IFI Irish Film Archive. In addition to the programme of auditorium screenings, films will be available for individual viewing by delegates for the duration of the conference in supervised viewing "booths" provided on-site by NUIM. Details will be provided at registration.

On Wednesday afternoon, delegates are invited to two events in Dublin: firstly, a private pre-release screening of a new Irish feature for IASIL Delegates: Nothing Personal (2010) at the Irish Film Institute at Temple Bar, beginning at 4pm. At 6pm, all are invited to Dublin Castle for a reception for IASIL delegates hosted by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin T.D. (Dublin Castle is 5 mins walk from the Irish Film Institute).

On Thursday evening, a reading by Claire Keegan will take place on the Maynooth campus, beginning at 7.30 pm. At 6pm that evening, the launch will take place of the Bibliography of Irish Literary Criticism, including a reception for IASIL delegates.

The conference dinner (for which delegates have paid an additional charge) will be held in Barberstown Castle on Friday evening. Buses will leave the South Campus at 7.15pm.

IASIL AGM

IASIL's AGM will take place on Friday at 3.30pm. All members welcome.

POWERPOINT FACILITIES

Powerpoint facilities with laptop, and projection facilities, will be available in each room for panels. We ask delegates to bring powerpoint presentations on a USB stick and to allow sufficient time in advance of the panel to set up the presentation. A student volunteer will be available in each room to provide assistance and you may wish to liaise with her/him in advance of your panel.

GETTING TO MAYNOOTH

For information regarding getting to Maynooth, see the NUI Maynooth transport page.

The train to Maynooth takes between 30 and 40 mins; when you arrive, turn left at the train station and cross the footbridge. Walk to the top of the avenue (5 mins), turn left and ahead you will see the gates of the South Campus. The conference office is located just inside the college gates: immediately ahead you will see the eighteeenth-century Stoyte House, with an arch on each side. The conference office is located under the left arch.

Buses arrive to the Main Street of the village, and the main gate of the South Campus is at the western end of the street.

The Humanities and Social Sciences building is located on the North Campus, c. 10 mins walk from the front gate. Turn right inside the front gate and follow the walkway, bearing right, past the library, over the pedestrian bridge, straight ahead past the John Hume building on your right and the building is the last on your right.

Margaret Kelleher, on behalf of IASIL Committee