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Public Events

Seminars take place in the Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies at 4.00pm unless otherwise stated.

Seminar Series 2010

Thursday 1st July: Prof Eugene Hynes, "Stories of Faith" (Author of Knock: The Virgin's Apparition in Nineteenth Century Ireland)

Wednesday 23rd June: Dr Heather Laird, "Daniel Corkery as Postcolonial Critic: An Analysis"

Monday 14th June 2.00pm: Prof Robert Savage, "Writing Irish Media History: Radharc, the Catholic Church and cultural shift in modern Ireland"

Thursday 27th May: Dr William Jenkins, "Homeland Crisis and Local Ethnicity: the Toronto Irish and the Cartoons

of the Evening Telegram in the Early Twentieth Century"

Thursday 13th May: Dr Marion McGarry, "Irish 'castle' design: meaning and identity in Norman Revival architecture of the nineteenth century"

Thursday 6th May: Dr Raymond Madden, La Trobe University, "From Divine to Dishlicker: How Humans Imagine Greyhounds".

Thursday 22nd April: Dr Katie Gough, Dept of Theatre, Film & Television Studies, University of Glasgow "Whose 'folk' are they anyway?: Lady Gregory & Zora Neale Hurston in the Atlantic World".

Wednesday 24th Feb Terrence Mc Donough (NUIG) and Eamonn Slater (NUIM) 'Ireland in the 19th Century: New Perspectives on Feudalism and Colonialism'

Thursday Feb 11th: Dr Fintan Vallely, Dundalk institute of technology and An Foras Feasa 'Hunting for borr- án: shaking a stick at theories on the famous Irish drum'

Thursday, 28th January: Seán Donnelly 'Piping in Galway during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'

Seminar Series 2009

Thursday 5 February: Ruairí Ó Conchúir from the BurrenLIFE project 'The Burren - A Living Landscape of International Importance’

Thursday 19 February: Jim Donnelly, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “Activist Lay Leadership in a Time of Clerical Domination: Knock Shrine, ca. 1940-79”

Thursday 12 March: Dr David Nally, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge "A colonial famine policy? The Irish Experience, 1845-52"

Thursday 30 April: Dr Robert Portsmouth, Department of History, NUIG "The Defeat of Conciliation in Ireland: 1808-1830, and the Irish 'Invention' of Modern Parliamentary Conservatism"

Thursday 25 June: Jim Donnelly, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison "Bishop Browne (1937-76) of Galway and the Shaping of Public Morality”

Thursday 22nd Oct: Gerald Porter, Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Vaasa, Finland 'Where women wept loudest and prayed': Elizabeth Bowen and the Armagh Women' s Prison

Thursday 5 Nov: Seán Mac Aindreasa in conversation with Lillis Ó Laoire.

Thursday 26 Nov: Dr John Eastlake, IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow at Roinn an Bhéaloidis and Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, University College Cork. 'A religion truly Catholic and Œcumenical': Jeremiah Curtin's Science of Mythology

Thursday 3 Dec: Ann Heyman 'The Early Irish Harp, c. 800–1800; A Changing But Unbroken Tradition'

Thursday 17th Dec: Brian Ó Conchubhair, Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies 'To wipe out the civilized race’: Modernity, An Gúm and the Irish Language in the Free State

Seminar Series 2008

Date Time Title and Speakers Venue

Monday, 24th November 1.00pm

Seminar: " Bringing Hope to Northern Ireland's Civil Society: Bill Clinton's Belfast Visits, 1995 and 1998".

Speaker: Dr Catherine Shannon, Westfield State College, Massachusetts

Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Thursday, 4 th December 4.00pm
Seminar: "Archaeological excavations at Caherconnell, Burren, Co. Clare - a preserved landscape".

Speaker: Dr Michelle Comber, Centre for Irish Studies
Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Thursday, 6th November 4.00pm
Seminar: "Competitive Irish Dancing: A Body Language Approach".

Speaker: Dr Frank Hall, University of Indiana
Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Thursday, 16th October 4.00pm
Seminar: "That dangerous serpent: Garibaldi and Ireland 1850-1870".

Speaker: Dr Anne O'Connor, Department of Italian
Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Thurdsay, 5th June

4.00pm
Seminar: "How the Advanced Nationalist Press Invented the New Journalist Sex Scandal, 1882-1895".

Speaker: Dr Margot Backus, University of Houston and IACI Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies
Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Thursday, 13th March 4.00pm
Seminar: Irish Ethnology and Cultural Critique in the Nineteenth Century Ordnance Survey.

Speaker: Dr Stiofan Ó Cadhla, UCC

Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Monday, 18th
February

5.00pm
Seminar: Changing Hearts and Minds? The Media and Conflict Transformation in the North.

Speaker: Dr Greg McLaughlin, University of Ulster
Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Thursday, 24th January 4.00pm
Seminar: More Useful Washed and Dead. James Connolly, the 1990s clergy scandals and the sexual political of Easter 1916.

Speaker: Dr Margot Backus, University of Huston and IACI Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Irish Studies
Seminar Room,

Centre for Irish Studies

Seminar Series 2007

Date	Time	Title and Speakers	Venue
Wednesday, 13 June	2.00pm	Seminar: Aindrias Mac Craith and Liam Inglis: Macaronic Mack Daddies?" Speaker: Professor Sarah McKibben, University of Notre Dame.	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies
Tuesday, 15th May	4.00pm	Seminar: The Crown of Ireland Speaker: Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla, University of Notre Dame The seminar will be followed by a reception to mark the publication of Professor Ó Buachalla's *The Crown of Ireland,* the third in an occasional series of research papers commissioned by the Centre for Irish Studies.	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies
Monday, 2nd April	4.00pm	Seminar: Loan-sharks, ham-fisted hyperbole and testing the limits of 'public service' broadcasting. The 1969 '7 Days' Tribunal Speaker: Professor Rob Savage, Boston College	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies

Seminar Series 2006

Date	Time	Title and Speakers	Venue
Thursday, 16th November	3.30 pm	Seminar: The use of love themes in some Irish Bardic Poems Speaker: Dr. Michelle O'Riordan, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies
Thursday, 30th November	4.00 pm	Seminar: The Origins of the Rockite Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24 Speaker: Professor Jim Donnelly, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison and Arts Faulty Research Fellow	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies
Friday, 8th December	4.00 pm	Seminar: The Irish College in Rome Speaker: Professor Clare Carroll, IACI Visiting Fellow and CUNY	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies
Thursday, 14th December	4.00pm	Seminar: From Kitchen Cuaird to Global Stage: The Role of Women in Irish Traditional Music. Speaker: Dr. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies, Professor of Music, Centre for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis	Seminar Room, Centre for Irish Studies

Archive of Past Events

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