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Dr Jackson Armstrong John Barbour is most celebrated as the ‘father’ of Scots poetry: he wrote The Brus, the epic poem which immortalised Robert I as the quintessential Scottish monarch, and which famously rejoiced in the troublesome idea of freedom (that ‘noble thing’). But Barbour was also archdeacon of the diocese...

Anne Michelle Slater (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Padhraig Higgins (Mercer County Community College, New Jersey) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

For further information please contact Dr Dan Wall: d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen 20 October 2012 Programme 9.30-11.00 Charlene Small (QUB): 'I came into my own/ Masquerade as a man of property': the function of the Glanmore Cottage in Seamus Heaney's poetry' Adam Hanna (Aberdeen): Seamus Heaney’s Uncertainty at the Threshold Faye McDermott (Aberdeen): The Poetry of...

Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

(For information please contact Dr Tim Baker t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk)

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies Workshop in association with Civil Law Centre and Society and Culture in the North Sea World Law and Governance in Renaissance Scotland Friday 18 - Saturday 19 May Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds, Aberdeen, 18–19 May 2012   Programme Friday 18 May 1.00-1.45 pm Arrival &...

Monica Germanà (University of Westminster) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Dr John Morrison