Centre for Irish Studies Newsletter

 Nuachtlitir Ionad an Léinn Éireannaigh                                  Issue 6    Summer 2008

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Presentations delivered to Meitheal during the Academic Year 2007/2008

October 3rd, 2007
Liam O'Callaghan, Institute for Northern Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University     
’Rugby football and Irish politics: an appraisal’

October 17th, 2007
Margot Backus,  University of Houston         
“’The Cracked Looking glass of a Servant’: The Oscar Wilde Scandal and Irish Nationalist Print Counter publics”.  

October 31st, 2007
Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, IRCHSS, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
’Fleadh Cheoil: Festivity and ritual, 1951-1972’.

November 14th, 2007
Jenny McCarthy, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
“Jack B. Yeats, ’Life in the West of Ireland’ and John Sloan's 'New York City Life': A Comparison".

January 16th, 2008
Xuan Gong, Nanjing University , China
’Homeland: Nation-State as Narrative Space in the Barrytown Trilogy’.

January 30th, 2008
Liz Ball, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
’Who fired first?: Representing Bloody Sunday’.

February 13th, 2008
Leo Keohane, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
’Anarchism for the housewife’.

February 27th, 2008
Paul Maguire, University of Ulster
’Dancing to a different drum: The prevalence of non-traditional social dancing in Irish dancehalls in the 1950s and 1960s’.

March 12th, 2008
Dr Nessa Cronin, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
'Narrating Nation and Conquest: The Symbolic Spaces of the Map Cartouche in Late Sixteenth-Century Ireland’.

April 9th, 2008
David Doyle, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
"'Reprobates or Hussies or Both': Reasonable Mistake and Statutory Rape, A Historical Appraisal".

May 7th, 2008
Tim Collins, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway
'A place for space in the regional music of Slieve Aughty’.

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