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Supported by the British Association for Irish Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, Queen Mary University of London, King's College London, and Goldsmith's College University of London.
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Irish Studies Seminar
2008-2009
Fridays at 6.00pm
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03 October 2008: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Lucy Mcdiarmid (Montclair State University), 'Soccer, Masculinity and the Irish Family: Damien O'Donnell's 35 A-Side'
07 November 2008: Room NG14 (Senate House)
William McCormack (Worth Library, Dublin), '"We Irish"? - Yeats, Joseph Hone, and George Berkeley's "Mob"'
05 December 2008: Room NG15 (Senate House)
Frances Flanagan (Balliol College, Oxford), ''The Memory of the Irish Revolution, 1922-1932'
16 January 2009: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Joep Leerssen,
'Cultural Transfer and philology: Appropriating the Gaelic past in the nineteenth century'
06 February 2009: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Matthew Kelly (Southampton), 'The "Irish People": the Fenians as mid-Victorian radicals'
06 March 2009: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Kevin Bean (Liverpool University), 'The new politics of Sinn Fein?'
03 April 2009: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Ciarán Swan (National College of Art and Design), 'Re-imagining Ireland: The development of state visual imagery on the island of Ireland in the early to mid 20th Century'
23 April 2009: 6.00pm
Venue: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E
Irish Studies Distinguished Lecture by Frank McGuinness: 'Where Do We Turn To? Irish Theatre and Europe'
20 June 2009: 10.00am-5.30pm
Irish Studies Symposium: Popular Culture and Revolution
Venue: Lock-Keeper's Cottage, Queen Mary University of London. Click here for directions.
| 10.00am |
Registration |
| 10.30am |
Elaine Sisson, 'Toto Cogley's Cabaret: The Stage and the Post-Revolutionary Generation 1922-1932' |
| 11.15am |
Ben Levitas, 'Popular performance and the War of Independence' |
| 12.00 |
Break |
| 12.15pm |
James Moran, 'Negotiating Irish Politics in Birmingham' |
| 1.00pm |
Lunch |
| 2.00pm |
P.J. Mathews, 'Riverdancing at the Meeting of the Waters' |
| 2.45pm |
Gerardine Meaney, 'From the Taboo to the Popular: Howard Brenton, The Romans in Britain and Spooks' |
| 3.30pm |
Break |
| 4.00pm |
Martin McLoone, 'Drama out of a Crisis: Film, Television and the Northern Ireland Troubles' |
| 4.45pm |
Closing discussion |
If you would like to attend please contact Jon Millington at the Institute of English Studies; tel. 0207 664 4859.
Organizers: Dr Ian McBride (King's College London), Professor Clair Wills (Queen Mary, University of London) and Dr Ben Levitas (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
Venue : Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (No Smoking Building)
Enquiries : Institute of English Studies; Tel: 020 7862 8675; Fax: 020 7862 8720; email: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk
CLICK HERE FOR THE IRISH STUDIES SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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