Conference on "Brexit: A New Frontier" / Seamus Heaney 'Scaffolding"

1. For those of you who could not attend the Conference on Brexit (22 March 2017), you may watch it on replay on the "Law and Humanities" Facebook page.

2. In his presentation, Declan Lawn referred to the poem "Scaffolding" (by Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney):

Seamus Heaney reading "Scaffolding"

Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding;

Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points,
Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.

And yet all this comes down when the job’s done
Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.

So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
Old bridges breaking between you and me

Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall
Confident that we have built our wall.