Conference Programme > Thursday, June 17

• 9h - Openings
  
  • University of Caen Normandy President Prof Lamri Adoui
    
  • Ambassador of Ireland to France Her Excellency Patricia O’Brien
    
  • His Eminence Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
    
  • ERIBIA-GREI President Prof Françoise Baillet
    
    

Chair: Jérôme aan de Wiel

• 10h -  Lisbon and the internationalisation of the Irish Church, 1560–1615 – Thomas O’Connor
  
  
• 10h25 - Leuven, the new Donegal, twinned with Prague and Rome -Mícheál Mac Craith OFM
  

Q&A over coffee

Chair: Eamon Maher

• 11h10 - Searching for the Irish in the Congregation of the Mission, 1625-60 – Alison Forrestal
  
  
• 11h35 - Irish colleges, students and migration to France, 1691-1789 – Liam Chambers
  
  
• 11h55 - De jour en jour’: Glimpses of the Lives of Irish students in the Schools and Colleges of Nineteenth Century France – Grace Neville
  

Q&A

Lunch break

Chair: Alexandra Slaby

• 14h  - A virtual presentation of the archives of the Collège des Irlandais – Nora Hickey M’Sichili
  
  
• 14h25 - ‘Ireland’s Empire’ in the Age of New Imperialism: Catholic Missions Shaping the Nation - Timothy G. McMahon
  

Q&A over tea

• 15h45 - Thanks to your Noble Shadow – a documentary about the last Irish missionary in Japan – by and with James Creedon
  
  
• 16h00 - Film projection : Thanks to your noble shadow (James Creedon)