ISSN 2009-2237
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the Issue 13The 50th Consecutive Conference - 13th - 15th April, 2012
at Mount St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
FRIDAY 13th APRIL
6.00 Snack supper and registration
6.45 Reception hosted by Roscrea Heritage Society
7.25 Welcome: Dom Richard Purcell, ocso, Abbot of Mt St Joseph
7.35 Official opening of the 50th Conference
The Cistercian World Today
Dom Eamon Fitzgerald, ocso, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order
8.10 The Region of the Isles
Dom Richard Purcell
8.40 The Monastery and the Academy: Brief remarks on a 12th Century turbulence.
Dr Pádraig Hogan, Education Dept., NUIM
8.50 Are we there yet? From Citeaux to Roscrea and beyond.
Dr John Feehan, author, botanist, geologist
9.10 A Cistercian colophon
George Cunningham
9. 20 Hospitium
SATURDAY 14th APRIL
3.45 Optional rise for vigils
7.30 An early morning walk on the landscape of Mt St Joseph
John Feehan
9.30 Religion and Higher Learning: Reflections on the Spirituality of Bernard of Clairvaux
Pádraig Hogan
10.05 The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland: a Benedictine perspective
Dr Colmán Ó Clabaigh, osb, Glenstal Abbey
10.40 Fr Luke Wadding OFM and his Cistercian contacts in Italy and Ireland, c1618- c1657
Dr Ben Hazard, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, UCD
10.55 Coffee
11.25 The Cistercians return to Ireland – early days at Mount Melleray
An tAthair Uinseann Ó Maidín, ocso, archivist, Mt Melleray
11.55 The Story of Mount St Joseph, Roscrea - Part 1
Dom Richard Purcell, ocso, Dom Laurence Walsh, ocso
12.55 The Cistercian Nuns of the Isles
Sr Lily Scullion, ocso, Farm Manager, Glencairn Abbey
1.25 Discussion
1.35 Snack Lunch
3.00 Launch of A Carnival of Learning…celebrating 50 conferences at MSJ.
Edited by Peter Harbison and Valerie Hall.
Official launch by Dom Eamon
5.30 Vespers
5.55 Sherry Reception: honouring the recent publication of A Monastic Landscape: the Cistercians in Medieval Ireland by Dr Breda Lynch.
6.35 Dinner
8.15 Celebrating 50 conferences
9.15 Hospitium
SUNDAY 15th APRIL
9.30 The Story of MSJ, Roscrea – part 2
Dom Richard, Dom Laurence
10.30 Concelebrated High Mass
11.30 Coffee
11.55 Going forth from Roscrea – the story of its daughter houses
Dom Peter Garvey, Abbot of Bolton Abbey, Moone
12.25 The scholarship of 50 Roscrea Conferences: reflections
a) Leaves on trees and leaves in books - joining the evidence.
Valerie Hall, Professor Emerita of Palaeoecology,
QUB
b) Dead saints resurrected; Roscrea 1987-2012
Pádraig Ó Riain, Professor Emeritus of Early and
Medieval Irish, UCC
c) The Fastest Conference Ever Seen — Nought To Fifty In Fifteen Minutes
An tOllamh Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Roinn na Staire,
NUIG
Fête Accompli
Professor Peter Harbison, author and art historian
1.40 Summing up and close of conference
George Cunningham
