Thursday 31 August

9.15 Welcome (Aula Magna, Facoltà di Lingue, 85, Via Santa Maria, Pisa)

Chair: Tony Bareham

9.30 – 10.25: Opening Lecture by John Sutherland: The Double Decline of Charles Lever

10.30 – 11.00 Bob Barnard: Lever’s “The Martins of Cro’ Martin”

11.10 – 11.35 George Boyce: Lever, Landlords, and the Protestant Nation

11.45– 12.15 Tom Stark: Lever’s Ireland – Fiction as Fact

Brief questions session.

01.00 pm LUNCH, Ristorante I Santi, Via Santa Maria, 71-73

Afternoon Free / Guided Tour of Pisa

07.30 pm DINNER, Ristorante Turiddo, 12, Via & Piazza San Frediano (facing the Church

dedicated to the Irish monk known as the swamp drainer, this street leads you from

Piazza dei Cavalieri to the riverside)


Friday September 1st

08.00: Coach leaves for Bagni di Lucca from Piazza Carrara (this square is just off Lungarno Pacinotti at the river end of Via Santa Maria)

09.30: Welcome by Bagni di Lucca authorities in the Library (formerly the Anglican Church)

Chair: Ms Helen Perry, Coleraine Borough Council representative.

10.00 – 10.45 Valerie Lester: Lever Phizzes

10.50 – 11.25 Donnell Deeny: The Education of Charles Lever

11.30 – 12.20 Tony Bareham: Rebels and Reactionaries

12.30: Concluding remarks, followed by LUNCH

2.30 - 4.30 pm Tour of Bagni di Lucca, British Cemetery, and Lever’s house.

4.30 pm Departure for Lucca, guided tour of Villa Mansi, and open air readings from Lever’s works by Des Cranston and Tony Bareham.

6.30 pm: Departure for Pisa