Irish Studies Public Lectures: 2001-2003

Public Lectures in Irish Studies 2001 / Léachtaí Poiblí le
Léann na hÉireann 2001

Images and Imaginings: Perspectives in Irish Studies
Samhlaíocht agus Samhlacha: Léargais i Léann na hÉireann

Monday 19 February Dé Luain 19 Feabhra   

’The Burning of Bridget Cleary: from Folklore to the Internet.’   Angela Bourke (NUI, Dublin)

Wednesday 28 February Dé Céadaoin 28 Feabhra 

’The Art and Politics of Aloysius O’Kelly: Citizen Artist'.  Niamh O’Sullivan (National College of Art & Design)

Wednesday 7 March Dé Céadaoin 7 Márta

’Elsewheres of possibility and small rude gestures: the practice of translation in contemporary Ireland'. Panel discussion with Biddy Jenkinson, Eva Bourke, Karen Vandevelde and Catherine O’Brien. Chaired by Louis de Paor.

Wednesday 14 March Dé Céadaoin 14 Márta

'This Injured Nation: Identity and History in 18th Century Ireland'. Breandán Ó Buachalla (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 21 March Dé Céadaoin 21 Márta

'Whose language is it anyway?  The Irish and the English Language'.  Tony Crowley (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 28 March Dé Céadaoin 28 Márta

Stolen Children, White Lies and Good Habits: Aboriginal children and the Irish nuns who ’grew them up’.  Siobhán McHugh  

All lectures will take place in the Ó Tnúthail Theatre, Millennium Arts Building and begin at 8.00p.m.  The series is open to members of the public and admission is free of charge.  Saorchead isteach agus fáilte riomh chách.

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Public Lectures in Irish Studies 2002 / Léachtaí Poiblí le
Léann na hÉireann 2001

Tuesday 19 February Dé Máirt 19 Feabhra         

John McGahern reads from his new novel, That They May Face the Rising Sun.

Tuesday 26 February Dé Máirt 26 Feabhra           

' Has Ireland more than one Constitution?’  Micheál Ó Cearúil (Author of Bunreacht na hÉireann: A Study of the Irish Text).  Respondent: Thomas O’Malley (Dept of Law, NUI, Galway)

Tuesday 5 March Dé Máirt 5 Márta

’Whose language is it anyway? The Irish and the English Language’.  Tony Crowley (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 12 March Dé Máirt 12 Márta

’The Classicisation of Irish Music’.  Fintan Vallely (Author of The Companion to Irish Traditional Music)

Tuesday 19 March Dé Máirt 19 Márta    

'Venus winked at the man in the moon: the poetry of Irish Australia' .  Vincent Woods (Co-editor of The Turning Wave: Poems and Songs of Irish Australia)  

All the above lectures will take place in the Ó hEocha Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, 8.00 p.m.

Saorchead isteach agus fáilte roimh chách.

Cúirt Interantional Festival of Literature

Wednesday 24 April Dé Céadaoin 24 Aibreán  

’Having a field day with the canon’

Panel discussion of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Vols 4&5: Women’s Writing and Traditions with Siobhán Kilfeather, Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha, Mary O’Dowd et al. Moderator: Doireann Ní Bhriain.

Hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies and Women's Studies Centre, NUI Galway.  Town Hall Theatre, 6.00 - 7.30 p.m.

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Public Lectures in Irish Studies 2003 / Léachtaí Poiblí le
Léann na hÉireann 2003

Wednesday 26 February Dé Céadaoin 26 Feabhra    

John McGahern:  The Uses of Tradition Tradition . Declan Kiberd (NUI, Dublin)

Wednesday 5 March Dé Céadaoin 5 Márta  

Being Between:  A Condition of (Irish) Thou ght?  William Desmond (Catholic University of Louvain)

Wednesday 12 March Dé Céadaoin 12 Márta

What is my language? John McGahern (Adjunct Professor, Centre for Irish Studies)

Wednesday 19 March Dé Céadaoin 19 Márta 

From Female Pickpockets to Falling Angels:  The Autobiography of the Irish in Britain.  Liam Harte (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster)

All the above lectures will take place in AM200, Arts Millennium Building, 8.00 p.m.

Tuesday 25 March 19 March Dé Máirt 25 Márta

Our Shelter and Ark ?  Identity and the Republic. Piaras Mac Éinrí (Irish Centre for Migration Studies, NUI, Cork)

Ó Tnúthail Theatre, AM150, Arts Millennium Building, 8.00 p.m.

Saorchead isteach agus fáilte roimh chách

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