Wednesday was rather full, I attended all but one presentation, since Malachi spoke to us about the future of Northern Ireland during the afternoon. I greatly enjoyed the poetry of Iggy McGovern, which contained great puns and lots of correlations to the sciences. The poems about his youth were my favorites. Ian Knox presented on his cartooning, all of which were very informative. There was a tense moment during a comic that showed a man arguing for slavery and another 100 years later arguing for the hunting of hares. Knox did not mean to equate the lives of black people to those of hares, but he meant to show that the same type of arguments, that have been shot down before, are being utilized again and again to justify wrong acts. The Irish people in the audience showed their collective concern and embarrassment, as many came up to us an apologized after the presentation. Malachi brought up the interesting notion that one day Britain might just leave the union, and Northern Ireland wouldn’t really be missed by current administration if it left, unlike Scotland. That night, we saw Two Sore Legs directed by Martin Lynch was an exceptional one-woman play about a woman growing up and dealing with love and out-of-wedlock children, her range of characters was very strong. The show goes onto Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival next month. We ended the night with a poetry reading performed by a gang of Belfast students accompanied by Paul Maldrun.