Irish Studies Seminar Archive

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2000-2001:

SPRING: Irish Newspapers and Periodicals
31 January 2001: Dr Marie-Louise Legg (BBK), 'The Gaelic Revival? The past in the 19th Century Irish provincial press'

7 February 2001: Ian Sheehy (Hertford College, Oxford), '"Home Rule in Fleet Street": T.P. O'Connor and The Star'

21 February 2001: Dr Nicholas Allen (TCD), 'Radical Consolidation: cultural journals and the foundation of the Irish Free State'

7 March 2001: Maurice Walsh (Goldsmiths), '"Home and Away": British correspondents and the Anglo-Irish war'

SUMMER: Revising the Literary Revival
2 May 2001: Katherine Mullin (St Hugh's Oxford), '"Rescue of Fallen Women": vice-crusading in Joyce's Nighttown'

16 May 2001: Dr Sinead Garrigan-Mattar (Pembroke College, Cambridge), 'Celticism, Science and the Literary Revival'

2001-2002:

Irish Periodicals
17 October 2001: Professor Norman Vance (Sussex)
31 Octoner 2001: Dr Karen Steele (Texas Christian University)

Revising the Literary Revival
14 November 2001: Dr Catherine Morris (St John's College, Oxford)
28 November 2001: Dr Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths)

Trends in Contemporary Criticism and Historiography
23 January 2002: Professor Joep Leerssen (University of Amerstam), 'White Skin, Black Masks'
6 February 2002: Professor Bill McCormack (Goldsmiths), 'Casement: The making of the Forgeries Theory'
20 February 2002: David Dwan (QMUL), 'Theorizing Cultural Nationalism'
6 March 2002: Dr Lance Pettitt (Leeds Metropolitan), 'Writing Irish Media History'
24 April 2002: Dr Conor McCarthy (NUI Galway), 'The History of English Studies in Ireland'
8 May 2002: Professor Edna Longley (QUB), 'Yeats and Anthologies'

2002-2003:

23 October 2002: Dr Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway), 'Rethinking Irish Theatre History: Theatre and Agency'

20 November 2002: Dr Steve Enniss (Emory University), 'Derek Mahon'

4 December 2002: Professor Shaun Richards (Staffordshire University), '"The outpouring of a morbid, unhealthy mind": the critical condition of Synge and McDonagh'

29 January 2003: Dr Stephen Regan (Royal Holloway), 'Francis Ledwidge and the Poetry of Easter 1916'

12 February 2003: Declan Kiberd

26 February 2003: Professor Meg Harper

12 March 2003: Professor Denis Donoghue (NYU)

7 May 2003: Pat Palmer (University of York), 'Language and Colonisation'

2003-2004:

6 September 2003: Irish Studies in the Curriculum:
Patrick O'Sullivan (University of Bradford); Lucia Boldrini and Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths), 'In the Dark?... Students Reading Joyce'; Siobhán Holland (English Subject Centre) and Aidan Arrowsmith (Staffordshire University, 'Troubled Relations: Irish Texts and English Students'; Jayne Steel (University of Lancaster), 'Irish Studies and Disciplinary Boundaries'; Daragh Minogue (Saint Mary's College), 'Lessons from an Irish Studies Programme'

22 October 2003: Professor Richard English (QUB), "Force will get us nowhere"? The Politics of the IRA'

5 November 2003: Dr Antonia McManus (TCD), 'The Irish Hedge School, 1695-1831: "Penny Merriments" and "Penny Godlinesses"

19 November 2003: Ultan Gillen (Exeter College, Oxford), on 'Irish Political Culture and the Outbreak of the French Revolution'

3 December 2003: Dr Richard Bourke (QM) on 'Edmund Burke, Ireland, and the Empire'

28 January 2004: Yuri Yoshino (Goldsmith's College, University of London): 'Maria Edgeworth's Patriotism: The Absentee (1812) and Patronage (1814)'

11 February 2004: Professor Terence Brown (Trinity College, Dublin): 'Culture, History and Memory in the 1990s'

25 February 2004: Dr Gillian Wright (Nottingham Trent): 'Reading Early Modern Irish Women: Mary Molesworth Monck in Context'

10 March 2004: Dr Ronan McDonald (University of Reading) ?

19 May 2004: Lucie Pereira (St John's, Oxford): 'the Father of the Literary Revival: Standish J. O'Grady and his Victorian Versions of the Deirdre Legend'; Wim Van-Mierlo (IES): 'Exile or Emigrant? James Joyce and the Irish Diaspora'

2004-2005:

20 November 2004: The Early Nineteenth Century: Text and Society
Dr Niall Ó Ciosáin (NUI, Galway), ‘Listening like a State: the Irish Poor Inquiry and Social Investigation’; Dr Emer Nolan (NUI, Maynooth), ‘The Emergence of Fiction by Irish Catholics in the 1820s’

11 December 2004: Conflict and Reconciliation
Professor Paul Bew (QUB), 'The Northern Irish Peace Process'; Dr Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes), 'Political Parallels? The Uses of Southern Africa in Irish Politics'

29 January 2005: Visual and Material Culture in the Free State
Professor Mike Cronin (Leicester de Montfort University), ‘Projecting the Irish Nation: Free State Governments and Visual Culture’; Lisa Godson (Royal College of Art), ‘The Material Culture of Public Events in the Irish Free State 1922-1939’

19 February 2005: Race and Migration
Dr William O’Reilly (NUI Galway and Kings College, Cambridge), 'Irish Migration in the Atlantic World: A Comparative Perspective, 1700-1850; Professor Kevin Kenny (Boston College), ‘Race, Violence and Anti-Irish Sentiment in the Nineteenth Century’

28 May 2005: The Penal Laws
Dr Ian McBride (Kings College, London), ‘What were the Penal Laws for?’; Professor Breandán Ó Buachalla (Notre Dame) ‘Ní hí an bhochtaineacht is measa liom ...’: The Penal Laws and Irish Poetry'

25 June 2005
One Day Conference for scholars and graduate students in Irish Studies

4 March 2006
Dr Catherine Nash (Queen Mary), 'Irish DNA: Population Genetics, Popular Genealogy, Cultural Politics'; Dr Aidan Arrowsmith (Manchester Metropolitan), 'Postmemory and Diasporic Identity'

6 May 2006
Professor Seamus Deane (Notre Dame), 'John Toland: Republicanism Not Mysterious'
Respondent: Professor Justin Champion, Royal Holloway, University of London

1. Partition: Siobhán Kilfeather (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Flashbacks: Structuring History in Cinema, 1946-8'; Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary) 'Palestine/Israel Revisited: From Politics to Fiction'; 2. Migration: Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary) '"We have met before": Reflections on the Migrant Caribbean Voice'; Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge), '"Nothing inevitable, nothing predestined": The Indo-Pakistani Novel and The Burden of History'; Alex Padamsee (University of Kent) 'The Story of Partition: Narratives from South Asia'; 3. Metropolis: Alan Sinfield (University of Sussex), ''Funding Letters: The H or izon Questionnaire'; Ian Patterson (Queen's College, Cambridge), 'Confronting the Ghosts of Modernism in the Poetry of the Late 1940s'; Elleke Boehmer (Royal Holloway), 'White Writing in Crisis: The Post-War Liberal Novel'

2006-2007:

3 November 2006
Richard Kirkland, 'Northern Revivals: Music Hall and Cultural Nationalism in Belfast 1900-1920'

1 December 2006
Maria Luddy (University of Warwick)
'Sexual fear and the regulation of Irish society, 1850-1920'

Friday 12 January 2007: The Beveridge Hall, Senate House
Irish Studies Seminar Distinguished Lecture (a John Coffin Memorial Event)
Colm Tóibín, 'Beckett's Irish Voices'

2 February 2007
Ben Levitas (Goldsmith's College), 'The Playboy Riots: A Centenary Perspective'

9 March 2007
Rob Savage (Boston College), 'Loansharks and the limits of public service broadcasting: The 1969 Seven Days Tribunal'

27 April 2007
Elke D'hoker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), 'Beyond the Stereotypes: Mary Lavin's Irish Women'

Saturday 12 May 2007: Irish Historiographies Symposium:
Professor Hugh Kearney, (Amundson Professor of British History Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh): 'In Search of Irish History'; Professor Ciaran Brady (Dept. of History, TCD), 'Retarded Developments: Academic Professionalisation and the Roots of Revisionism, 1848 - 1938'; Dr Graham Dawson (Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton),'The Intractable Past: Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles'; Professor Angela Bourke (University College Dublin, and Parnell Fellow, Cambridge), 'Inadvertent Histories'; Professor Joe Lee (Glucksman Ireland House, NYU), Closing Reflections

2007-2008:

05 October 2007: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Dr Norman Vance (University of Sussex), 'Ireland and European Modernism: the Case of George Reavey'

02 November 2007: Room NG14 (Senate House)
Dr Tim Bowman (University of Kent), 'The Ulster Volunteer Force, 1910-22: New Perspectives'

07 December 2007: Room NG15 (Senate House)
Lauren Arrington (St. Hilda's College Oxford), 'Adding the Half-Pence to the Pence: Subsidy and Censorship of the Abbey Theatre 1915-1939'

08 February 2008: Room NG15 (Senate House)
Dr Brian Hanley (NUI Maynooth), 'Researching the Official Republican Movement'

07 March 2008: Room NG15 (Senate House)
Paige Reynolds (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA), ''The Audiences f or Irish Modernism'

25 April 2008: Room NG15 (Senate House)
Dr Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh), 'Outsiders? The Irish in Post-War Britain'