4/17/02
Preliminary
Program
ACIS
2002
Marquette
University
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Wednesday,
June 5
5:00-7:30:Registration, East
Hall, Marquette University
3:00-6:00:Executive Committee
Meeting, Irish Fest Headquarters.
7:30-10:30:Opening Reception,
Irish American Cultural Center
Thursday, June 6
8:30-4:30:Registration, Straz
Hall, Marquette University
8:30-4:30Book Exhibit, Straz
Hall,442 and 488.
9:00-10:15Welcome,
David Straz Hall, Rm. 105Rev. Robert Wilde, S.J., President, Marquette
University,Plenary Address,Thomas
Hachey, Boston College, “Irish Independence and the Rites of Passage.”Introduced
by Lawrence McCaffrey, Loyola University.
10:30-11:45:Session I
Irish Philosophy, David Straz Hall,
Rm. 565
Chair:
Michael Liston, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Bill Starr,
Marquette University.“Burke and Connolly and Political
Philosophy.”
Thomas
Duddy, National University of Ireland, Galway.“The
Notion of Irish Philosophy.”
Ted Cooke,
Belmont Abbey College.“Berkeley’s Irish Connection.”
Ireland and America I, David Straz
Hall, Rm. 550
Chair: Eileen Fitzgerald, Marquette Univeristy
Timothy M.O’Neil,
Central Michigan University, “Patrick H.O’Brien: The Working Man’s Advocate.”
Daniel Tobin, Carthage College,“‘In
a Dynasty of Fire’: The Poetry of Lola Ridge.”
Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America,
“Abie’s Irish Enemy?: Irish and Jews, Social and Political Realities and
Media Representation in the 20th Century.”
Oscar Wilde, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Maureen O’Connor, Claremont College.
Sean O’Brien,
University of Notre Dame. “Public and Political Aesthetics: Oscar Wilde
and the 19th Century Irish Political Prisoner.”
Neil Sammells, Bath Spa University College.
“Be Cool: Wilde and Dandyism from Baudelaire to Bowie.”
David Rose,
Goldsmith College, University of London.“Looking
at Wilde through Casements.”
12:00-1:15:Session
II
Rebellion, Union, and Identity in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Novels,
David Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair: Margot Backus, University of Houston
Elizabeth
Kim, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.“Maria Edgeworth’s
The Grateful Negro: Negotiating Rebellions.”
Dan Ross,
Columbus State University. “Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee: Anglo-Irish
Identity and the Problem of Union.”
Andrew
Smyth, Plymouth State College. “Edgeworth’s Spensers: Fostering a Literary
and Political Identity.”
Contemporary Fiction I, David Straz
Hall, Rm. 550
Chair:Robert Rhodes.
Vivian
Valvano Lynch, St. John’s University.“Something Special:
Iris Murdoch’s Joycean Odyssey.”
Caitriona
Moloney, Bradley University.“Uncovered Memories in
Eilis Ní Dhuibhne’sSummer Pudding.”
James McDonnell,
Carleton College.“On the Edge of Things: Anglo-Irish
Humor in the Stories of William Trevor.”
Ireland and America II, David Straz
Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America.
David Callon,
Washington University.“‘I Think I am Turning Paddy’:
Orestes Brownson and the Construction of Antebellum Irish-America.”
Lauren Onkey, Ball State University.“The
Irishman in Alabama: Representation of the American
South in The Boston Pilot.”
Brendan
Buttimer, Armstrong Atlantic State University.“Irish
and Irish American Associational Life in Savannah, Georgia.”
1:15-2:30:Lunch
1:15-2:30:Screening: Irish
Destiny, Film Center, East Hall
Post-screening
talk and discussion: Ruth Hegarty, Royal Irish Academy.“Slanders
and Triumphs -- The Making and Reception of Irish Destiny.”
2:30-3:45:Session III
Generations of Irish Playwrights, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
John P. Harrington, The Cooper Union
Eileen
O’Halloran, University of Wisconsin-Madison.“From
Cailins to Crones: Samuel Beckett and the Figure of Mother Ireland.”
Joan Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas
City.“Brian Friel’s Dramaturgy of Failed Ritual.”
Barbara
A. Farrelly, University of Dayton.“The New-Code
Heroin Irish
Drama.”
Northern Ireland Peace Process, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Chair,
Kathleen Kalish
Johnny
Connolly, West Belfast. “The Future of Policing in Northern Ireland: Reforming
the Formal and Formalizing the Informal.”
William
A. Hazelton.“The Clinton Administration’s Role in
the Belfast Agreement.”
Andrew
J.Wilson, Loyola University Chicago.“Doing
the Business: The Clinton Administration’s Economic Support 1994-2000."
James White
McAuley, University of Huddersfield.“(re)Constructing
Ulster Loyalism after the Peace Process.”
Ethnography, David Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Michael O’Shea, Assumption College
Ray Cashman.
“The Role of Storytelling in Remembering the Dead and Imagining Community
in County Tyrone.”
Cara Delay,
Brandeis University.“Community Lives Here: The Catholic
Chapel in Turn-of-the-Century Ireland.”
Timothy
G. McMahon, Marquette University. “‘To Mould an Important Body of Shepherds’:
Gaelic Summer Colleges and the Teaching of Irish History.”
4:00-5:15:Session
IV
On the Margins of the Gaeltacht: Rethinking
Irish Speaking Communities in Contemporary Ireland, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Liam O Dochartaigh, University of Limerick
Elizabeth
Fine, University of Wisconsin.“Linguistic Effects
of Mapping the Gaeltacht.”
Nancy Stenson,
University of Minnesota.“Gaeltacht, Galltacht, and
the Global Linguistic Community: Rethinking the Roles.”
Peter McAuley,
University of Minnesota. “From Armalites to Language Rights: The Emergence
of the West Belfast Gaeltacht.”
20th
Century Drama:Women Playwrights, David Straz
Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Helen Lojek, Boise State University
Deirdre
O’Leary, City University of New York. “After Easter’s Afterbirth: Choric
Contractions in Anne Devlin’s After Easter.”
Charlotte
J. Headrick, Oregon State University“‘Give Me Your
Hand’: The Plays of Anne LeMarquand Hartigan.”
Maria Kurdi, Central Washington University“A
Female Version of the Memory Play: Elizabeth Kuti`s Treehouses”
Open-Eyed, Full-Throated: A Showcase of ACIS Poets, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Ben Howard,
David Lloyd, Eamon Wall, and Ethna MacKienrnan
6:00-7:00 Irish
Artists in New York: Panel Discussion of an Exhibit at the Haggerty Museum
of Art, Panel discussion, Cudahay
Hall.
Chair:
Annemarie Sawkins, Associate Curator, Haggerty Museum.
Elizabeth
Martin, New York City.
David
Gardiner, Creighton University.
Charlotte Headrick, Oregon State University.
7:00-8:00Reception,
Haggerty Museum, Sponsored by Wake Forest University Press
8:30-10:00Yeats
Plays, Haelfer Theater
Friday,
June 7
8:30-2:30:Registration,
Straz Hall, Marquette University
8:30-4:30Book
Exhibit, Straz Hall,442 and 488
9:00-10:15:Session
V
Contemporary
Cultural Expectations, David Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas
Aibhlin
Dillane, University of Chicago.“‘Into the West’:
Cowboys and Country Music in Irish Culture.”
Carole
Zucker, Concordia University. “Sensual Meaning: performance in the Films
of Neil Jordan.”
Gerard
Furey, Chappaqua, New York. “Ireland in the Eyes of Earlier Emigrants:
An Informal Social Survey.”
Michael
J. Curran, Trinity College Dublin. “From Wembley to Wimbledon -- The Psychosocial
Adaptation of the Irish in London.”
James Joyce, David Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:Gordon
McConnell, Marquette University
Jonathon
Graas, Washington University. “Reflected Self in Stephen’s Lacanian Mirror.”
Matthew
Nicholas, Washington University. “Patronage and Plagiarism: Stephen’s Art and
the Complexity of Literary Debt and Credit.”
Frank C.
Manista, Michigan State University. “The Meanings of That Other World:
Joycean Translations.”
Essayists and Autobiographists, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Chair:Erin
Finneran, Washington Universtiy
Billy Gray,
Lulea University, Sweden. “The Ravages of Second-hand Experience: Hubert
Butler’s Perception of Universalism and Distance.”
James
Rogers, University of St. Thomas. “Recent Irish Spiritual Autobiography.”
Elizabeth
Grubgeld, Oklahoma State University. “Abusing the Ancestors: Satires of
Family History in the Anglo-Irish Autobiography.”
10:30-11:45:Session
VI
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Valarie Murrenus
Donna
Potts, Kansas State University. “‘When Ireland Was Still Under a Spell’:
Miraculous Transformations in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.”
Lucy McDiarmid,
Villanova University. “Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s English-in-Irish.”
Liam O
Dochartaigh, University of Limerick. “‘Bóbair dom A Near Miss’:
Traditional Belief in Irish Language Literature.”
English-Irish Relations, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Jason Knirck, Humboldt State University.
Paul A.
Townend, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.“Ireland
and Empire: Nationalists Respond to the Zulu War, 1878-81.”
Michael
de Nie, Texas Christian University. “Britannia’s Sick Sister: Irish Maladies
and British Cures.”
Contemporary Irish Fiction II, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Chair:
Eamonn Wall, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Anne Farrelly,
Ohio State University. “Out of the Ashes: Memory and Autobiography in Frank
McCourt.s Angela’s Ashes.”
Sally Ebest, Univerity of Missouri-St.Louis.
“Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Women Novelists.”
Dirk Killen,
Washington University. “Underpinnings of Celtic Samhain in William Kennedy’s
Ironweed.”
12:00-1:00:Plenary
Address,David Straz Hall, Rm. 105
Charles Fanning, Southern Illinois University,
“A Hidden Flowering: Irish America in the Depression Years.”Introduced
by Emmet Larkin, University of Chicago
1:00-2:30:Lunch
1:00-2:30:Screening:
Irish Destiny, Film Center, East Hall
Post-screening talk and discussion: Ruth
Hegarty, Royal Irish Academy.“Slanders and Triumphs
-- The Making and Reception of Irish Destiny.”
2:30-3:45:Session
VII
The Written Word and Irish Historical Memory, 1870-1922, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Lawrence W. McBride, Illinois State University
Anne E.
Kane, University of Texas-Austin.“The Popular Press
and Political Consciousness: The Role of Newspapers 1879-1882.”
Gregory
Castle, Arizona State University.“Nobler Forms: Standish
O’Grady’s Imaginative History and the Irish Literary Revival.”
Jose Lanters,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.“Reading the Future
in the Celtic Past: T. W. Rolleston and the Politics of Myth.”
Lawrence
W. McBride, Illinois State University.“Reading and
the Construction of Irish Historical Memory, 1870-1922.”
First Encounters, Missed Encounters: Trauma Theory and the Irish Colonial
Condition, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Margot Backus, University of Houston.
Joseph
Valente, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “The Feel of Not to
Feel It.”
August
Gering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.“‘Calling
Out in Gaelic’: Bardic Tradition, Traumatic Transmission, and Postcolonial
Solidarity in Paul Muldoon.”
Anne M.
Enenbach, University of Notre Dame. “Not Bloody Likely: On the Interchangeability
of Colonial and Class Trauma.”
Contemporary Poetry, David Straz Hall,
Rm. 550
Chair:
Lucy McDiarmid, Villanova University.
Fitz Smith,
Washington University. “‘As He Conjugates the Verb To Have':
The Maps of Muldoon’s Madoc.”
Ben Howard,
Alfred University. “A Belfast Contemplative: Michael Longley’s The Weather
in Japan.”
Eamonn
Wall, University of Missouri-St. Louis. “‘Over a Blue Sound':
Sean Lysaght’s The Clare Island Survey.”
Guinn Batten,
Washington University. “The Temporalities of Modern Irish Poetry.”
4:00-5:15:Session
VIII
A Workshop on Teaching Celtic Studies
in the 21st Century: Traditions and Technologies, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Nancy Madden Walczyk, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Liam O
Cuinneagain, Oideas Gael, Glencolumcille, Co. Donegal.
Niall Keegan
and Sandra Joyce, Irish World Music Center, University of Limerick.
John Gleeson,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Irish Film, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
James MacKillop, Past President ACIS.
Valerie
Murrenus, Marquette University. “The Impervious Blackness of Nothing: The
Death of Myth in the Film Lamb.”
James P. Farrelly, University of Dayton.“The
Irish on Film: Cultural Identity Emerging in the Dark.”
Catharine
Gartelos, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Greening the Screen: Stock
Irishness in Recent Irish Short Films.”
The Women Writer in Ireland, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 5 David Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Chair:
Donna Schuster, Marquette University.
Mary Ann
Ryan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “‘When Lilacs Last at the Gaol
Gate Bloom’d’: Mary Lavin’s Fiction.”
Virginia
Mack, Central Washington University. “The Aesthetics of Radical Ambiguity
in the Fiction of Val Mulkerns and Mary Beckett.”
Stacia
Bensyl. “Emma Donoghue: Novelist and Scholar.”
8:00-11:00An
Evening of Irish Music and Dance with Leahy’s Luck and the Cashell-Denehy
Dancers.
Saturday,
June 8
8:30-12:00:Registration,
Straz Hall, Marquette University
8:30-4:30Book
Exhibit, Straz Hall,442 and 488
9:00-10:15:Session
IX
Contemporary Drama, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Sanford V. Sternlicht, Syracuse University.
Kathleen
A. Heininge, University of California, Davis. “Negotiating Irishness Through
Narrative.”
Maria Doyle,
University of West Georgia. “Rural Ruin and Ghostly Voices: Gothic Drama
and Modern Irish Identity.”
Scott Boltwood,
Emory and Henry College. “In Friel’s Shadow: Staging Northern Identity.”
Literary Traditions, David Straz
Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Phyllis Carey, Mount Mary College
Elizabeth
Gilmartin, Monmouth University. “Charles Lever, Irish Identity, and Empire.”
James H.
Murphy, De Paul University. “Curious Canon: Social, Cultural, and Literary
History.”
Maureen
O’Connor, Claremont Colleges. “Speaking Nation From the Horse’s Mouth in
Somerville and Ross’ The Real Charlotte.”
Mary Bryson,
Montana State University “Iris Murdoch and the Irish Literary Canon.”
Interpreting Independent Ireland: Neutrality and Sovereignty, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Chair:
Robert Savage, Boston College.
John Day
Tully, Ohio State University. “Ireland, Irish Americans, and Irish Neutrality.”
Gary Murphy,
Dublin City University. “From Rome to Nice: Irish Sovereignty Revisited.”
10:30-11:45:Session
X
Contemporary Irish Fiction III, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Ed Madden, University of South Carolina.
Joseph
F. Connelly, Thomas More College.“The Ethic of Aesthetics
in John Banville’s Freddie M.”
Patrick
Hicks, University of St. Thomas.“The Language of
the Tribes in Brian Moore’s Black Robe.”
Kersti
Tarien, University of Oxford. “‘Good morning, I am god’: The Genesis
of John Banville’s Birchwood.”
Irish Disciplines, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:William
Starr, Marquette University
Mary Rita Grady, Regis College. “Miss Cobbe’s
Moral Intuitionism.”
Scott Breuninger,
University of Wisconsin. “The ‘Irish School’ of Economics Revisited.”
Nadia Smith,
Boston College. “Women, Nationalism, and Popular History in the Irish Free
State: The Careers of Helena Concannon, Rosamond Jacob, and Dorothy Macardle.”
David Barnwell,
Linguistics Institute of Ireland. “MatthiasO’Conway:
Linguist and Lexicographer.”
Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 550
Chair:
Katharine Malloy, Mount Mary College.
Kieran
Quinlan, University of Alabama at Birmingham. “‘To Pretend We Never Die’:
Seamus Heaney’s Afterlife.”
Helen Lojek,
Boise State University. “A Woman, A Man, and A Soldier: Responses to Gendered
Iconography in Heaney’s ‘In Memorium Francis Ledwidge’ and Boland’s ‘Heroid’.”
Andrew
Auge, Loras College. “The Birth of a Nation: Maternity and Nationalism
in Eavan Boland’s Poetry.”
12:00-1:00:Plenary
Address,David Straz Hall, Rm. 105
Nancy Curtin,
Fordham University.“Fabricating Masculinity:
The Making of Republican Man in Late 18th Century Ireland.”Introduced
by James Donnelly, University of Wisconsin.
1:00-2:30:Lunch
1:30-2:30:ACIS
Annual Business Meeting
2:30-3:45:Session
XI
Irish Revivals, David
Straz Hall, Rm. 565
Chair:
Jose Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Susan Johnston
Graf, Pennsylvania State University. “AE, Theosophical Radical.”
Dawn Duncan,
Concordia College. “Lady Gregory’s Challenge Via the Feminine Journey.”
Paige Reynolds,
College of the Holy Cross. “Nationalist Sentiment and the Irish Audience.”
Elizabeth
Frances Martin, The Graduate Center, CUNY. “Nathaniel Hone, Nineteenth-Century
Irish Landscape Painter.”
Nationalisms, David Straz Hall, Rm.
554
Chair: Sean Farrell Moran, Oakland University
James G. Patterson.“A Very Dangerous
Influence: Republican Resistance in Galway, 1798-1807."
Brian P. Tann.“Lantern Dance:
A Cosmological Overview of 19th Century-Irish Nationalism.”
Jason Knirck, Humboldt State University, “Kevin O’Higgins
and the Counter-Revolution.”
Bookmen and Booksellers, David Straz Hall,
Rm. 550
Chair:
Amy Branam, Marquette Univeristy
Kariann
Yokota, Yale University. “Selling the Empire: Ireland’s Role in American
Post-Colonial Identity.”
Clare Hutton,
University of London. “Re-reading the Dubliners Controversy.”
Thomas
Dillon Redshaw, St. Thomas University. “Printing a Second Revival: Liam
Miller’s First Dolmen Editions, 1966.”
4:00-5:15:Session
XII
Revival Retrospectives, David Straz Hall,
Rm. 565
Chair:
Thomas F. Shea, University of Connecticut.
Rachel
V. Billigheimer. “Breaking National Boundaries: Conflict and Violence in
the Middle and Later Poetry of W.B. Yeats.”
Kristine
Byron, Michigan State University. “Fashioning the Female Revolutionary
Self in Maud Gonne’s Autobiography.”
Bill Kerwin,
University of Missouri. “Peadar O’Donnell, Donegal, and the Politics of
Economic Change.”
Celtic Studies: Resources for Teaching,
David Straz Hall, Rm. 554
Chair:
Philip Freeman, Washington University
Patricia
Kelly, University College, Dublin.“Thesaurus Linguae
Hibernicae: Data and Desiderata.”
Francis
W. Lovett, Ohio University-Chillicothe.“Project CELT:
A Powerful Tool.”
Philip
Freeman, Washington University.“Celtic Resources
for Irish Studies Graduate Studients.”
6:00-7:00Reception,
War Memorial Center
7:00-11:00 Banquet, Nola’s
on the Lake
Banquet
Address: David Norris. “The Green Carnation and the Queer Nation-- Oscar
Wilde Reclaimed.”
The conference organizers wish to express their particular thanks to the
following individuals and organizations for their support:
Ms. Jane Anderson
The Cashel-Dennehy Dancers
Professor Curtis Carter
The Irish Cultural and Heritage Center
The Irish Fest Foundation
The Lawrence Haggerty Foundation
Council General Eamonn Hickey
Ms. Amy Johnson
Ms. Colleen Kennedy
Leahy’s Luck
Professor Tim Machan
Dean Michael McKinney
Mr. John Maher
The Marquette English Department
The Marquette University Haggerty Museum of Art
The Marquette Performing Arts Department
Ms. Valerie Murrenus
Professor Phyllis Ravel
Ms. Nancy Rogers
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Celtic Studies
Program
Wake Forest University Press
Mr. Edward Ward