Schedule
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Registration, Terrence
Murphy Hall
WEDNESDAY JUNE 4
3:00 p.m: Executive Committee Meeting, Terrence
Murphy Hall 254
7:00 -9:30 p.m.: Opening Reception, Atrium,
Terrence Murphy Hall
Music by the Showed-Up String Band
Hosted by Hon. Charles Sheehan, Consul General of Ireland, Chicago
Beer and Wines provided by THE LOCAL Irish Pub
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Book sales, Terrence Murphy Hall, Room 254
Shadows From the Pale: Portrait of an Irish Town Photographs of Athy, County Kildare by John Minihan. Art space gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall.
"Irish Poetry and Prose in Fine Press Printings" O'Shaughnessy Educational
Center Auditorium lobby. Works by Irish authors as presented by the
Cuala Press, the Dolmen Press, and Traffic Street Press. The materials
for the exhibit are drawn from the Celtic Collection of the University
of St. Thomas Libraries.
THURSDAY JUNE 5
SESSION ONE 8:30 a.m. to 9:50
a.m.
Windows on the Irish Literary Revival
Room TMH 250
Chair: Audrey S. Eyler, Pacific Lutheran University
Marc C. Conner, Washington and Lee University
"News of the Invisible World": The Gnostic Lady Gregory
Rob Doggett, SUNY College at Potsdam
Setting Ireland's House in Order: Performances of Gender and Nationhood
in Yeats's Deirdre
Maureen O'Connor, Pitzer College
The Spectre of Genre in Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost"
Northern Poets
Room TMH 253
Chair: Eamonn Wall, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Brendan Corcoran, Emory University
The Ridiculous at the Heart of the Sublime: Derek Mahon's Elegiac Poetics
August Gering, University of Illinois
The Hidden Northern Ireland: Colonial Trauma and Bardic Tradition in
the Poetry of Derek Mahon
Carol Tell, University of Michigan
Ciaran Carson's Songs of Belfast
The Contemporary Irish Novel
Room TMH 255
Chair: Donna Potts, Kansas State University
Jonathan Bolton, Auburn University
Barrytown Bildung: Suburban Environments in Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke
Ha Ha Ha
Vivian Valvano Lynch, St. John's University (New York)
"The Accident of Origins": Two Women and Irish Environments in
the Novels of Annabel Davis-Goff
Thomas Shea, University of Connecticut
Folklore and the Canon: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Appropriates
James Joyce
Inevitable Success? The Uneven Journey of Irish America
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University
David Noel Doyle, University College, Dublin
The Phoenix Rising from Angela's Ashes: Culture Shock vs. Achievement
in Irish America
Bill Mulligan, Murray State University
Irish Copper Mining, 1840-1880: The End of an Industry
Thomas P. O'Keefe, independent scholar
The Artistic Legacy of Henry McIlhenny of Philadelphia, Irish-American
Philanthropist and Art Collector
9:50-10:05 a.m. Coffee
SESSION TWO 10:10 AM -11:20 AM
Landscapes, Imagined and Real
Room TMH 250
Chair: Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore College
Jill Brady Hampton, Washington University
Contemporary Irish Poets and American Landscapes
Karen Holland, Providence College
Quilting the Irish Landscape and Culture
Matthew Jockers, Stanford University
From the Parks of Menlough to Menlo Park: Irish Writing in California
Rethinking the Familiar
Room TMH 253
Chair: Sean Farrell Moran, Oakland University
Edward A. Hagan, Western Connecticut State University
The Irish Rebellion: Who Won? The Truth of Roy Foster's The Irish
Story
Timothy G. Lynch. California Maritime Academy, CSU
Fenianism Reappraised
Oisín Nieciecki, New York University
Dialectical Landscaping -- Toward a Revolution in the Environment
of Irish History
Sovereignty in Ireland:
A Philosophical Analysis
Room TMH 255
Philosophers Bill Starr (Marquette University); Ted Cooke (Belmont-Abbey College); and Kevin Sullivan (Mercyhurst College) examine the concepts of Irish sovereignty expressed in the documents and practice of the early Free State, the contemporary Republic of Ireland, and in post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland.
Romantic Ireland: Political Writing, 1800-1848
Room TMH 352
Chair: Frank A. Biletz, Loyola University Chicago
Tim Keane, National University of Ireland, Galway
"Ireland's wrongs as England's grievance": The Irish Element
in 19th- Century English Radicalism
Catherine McClenahan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"A Maniac Maid": Shelley's 1812 Irish Campaign and A Mask of Anarchy
Shelley Meagher, St Hugh's College, Oxford University
Political Satire: A Postcolonial Discourse? James Clarence Mangan
and Politics in the Irish Press in the 1830s and 1840s
Varieties of Historical Narrative
Room TMH 354
CHAIR: Timothy McMahon, Marquette University
Jerome Joseph Day OSB, St. Anselm's College
Tracing the Footprint of a Famine Memorial
Sebastian Knowles, The Ohio State University
"The Last Words of Dying Persons": Thomas Edison and Krapp's
Last Tape
Catharine Gartelos, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Cinema and History: Mapping "Irish History" in Bloody Sunday
Irish for the Anglo-Irish Scholar
Thornton Auditorium
CHAIR: Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew, University of Pennsylvania
Introduction
Mary Roguski, University of Minnesota
Decoding Irish Spelling
Nancy Stenson and Ann Mulkern, University of Minnesota
The form and meaning of Irish names
Will Kenny, Gaeltacht Minnesota
Can you Trust Your Translator?
11:30 AM - 12:30 Plenary Session
Thornton Auditorium
Tim Robinson, Folding Landscapes, Roundstone, Connemara
"The Irish Echosphere"
Introduced by John P. Harrington
LUNCH AT AREA RESTAURANTS
SESSION THREE 2:00 p.m -3:40 p.m.
Ireland in Popular Culture
Room TMH 250
Chair: Maureen O'Connor, Pitzer College
Garland Kimmer, Bridgewater State College
"Stay Back, Human": Artemis Fowl, Harry Potter, and the
Re-Invention of Irish Fantasy
Lance Pettitt, Leeds Metropolitan University
Drag, Dames and Dirty Washing: Cross-Dressing Comic Performance
Deirdre O'Leary, City University of New York
My parents went to the Border and all I got was this lousy tee shirt:
John Byrne's "The Border Itself"
The Early Abbey
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: John Greene, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Brian Cliff, Georgia Institute of Technology
"The Abbey made it different": The Influence of Publicity on Critical
Responses to Irish Theatre
Joan FitzPatrick Dean, University of Missouri - Kansas City
The Theatre of Ireland: Shuilers, Fiddlers, and Metempsychotics
Albert J. DeGiacomo and Jonas Friddle, Berea College
Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell, Dramatist and Senator, and the Development
of Irish Amateur Dramatic Movement (1926-1946).
Paige Reynolds, College of the Holy Cross
An Audience of Readers: The Occasional Publications of the Abbey Theatre
Irish Sobriety(!?): New Perspectives
Room TMH 255
Chair: Lawrence McCaffrey, Loyola University, Chicago
George Bretherton, Montclair State University
Irish Temperance: A Sense of Class
John Quinn, Salve Regina University
"Father Mathew's Legacy: the American Temperance Movement, 1849-1920."
Paul A. Townend, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
'Heretical Plants of Irish Growth:' Thomas Chisholme Anstey, the Oxford
Movement, and the Problem of Mathewite Temperance
Communities in Change
Room TMH 253
Chair: Daniel Gahan, University of Evansville
Dominic Bryan, Institute of Irish Studies (QUB)
Where have all the Orangemen gone?: Protestant Identities and Northern
Politics
Michael J. Curran, Trinity College, Dublin
From Wembley to Wimbledon: the Psychosocial Adaptation of the Irish
in Britain
James J. Kennelly, Skidmore College
Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" Economy: Can it Foster an Ethic of Sustainable
Enterprise?
East, West, and In-Between: Regional Perspectives
in Irish-American Historiography
Room TMH 352
Chair: William Mulligan, Murray State University
Mary Lethert Wingerd, Macalester College
The St. Paul Experience: Politics, Faith, and Place in St. Paul
Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America
An East Coast Response to the Midwestern Irish
David Emmons, University of Montana
The Many Layers of Irishness in the American West
Éilís Ní Dhuíbhne
Room TMH 353
Chair: James Smith, Boston College
Kelly McGovern, Boston College
From Dirty Splodge to Bright Poppy: Feminine Substances, Éilís
Ní Dhuibhne, and Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction
Sara E Stenson, Boston College
Map Metaphors: Ní Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing
Erin Paszko, Boston College
The Old System Was Easier: Complications of Tradition and Modernity
in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Dancers Dancing
3:40 p.m. Coffee break
SESSION FOUR 3:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Irish Identities in the Classroom and Beyond
Room TMH 352
Chair: Jose Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, University of Colorado-Boulder
'That's the difference between boys and girls:' Depictions of Childhood
and Youth in Two Roddy Doyle Novels
Bob Nowlan, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Teaching 'Cinematic Representations of Ireland and the Irish'
Nicole Pepinster Greene, Xavier University of Louisiana
Teaching 'Irish Identities' in Southwest Louisiana
Revising the Irish Maternal Myth:
Queer, Infertile and Menopausal Women
Room TMH 250
Chair: Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin
Colleen Hynes, The University of Texas at Austin
'A Song for Every Child I Might Have Had': Infertility and Maternal
Loss in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry
Maeve Cooney, The University of Texas at Austin
Mean Mothers and Dysfunctional Daughters: Maternal Figures in the novels
of Molly Keane.
Ellen Crowell, University of Texas at Austin
Nothing Comfortable About This Love: Emma Donoghue's 'Words for
Things.'
Veronica House, University of Texas at Austin
"Cadences of Change and Mortal Pain": Earth Mother and Aging Mother
in Eavan Boland's Poetry
Influential Pairings in Irish Literature
Room TMH 253
Chair: Nora McGuinness, University of California-Davis
Joseph Connelly, Thomas More College
The Charmed Life: Jack B Yeats's Echo of Dante's Purgatorio
John Desmond, Whitman College
Gravity, Grace, and Poetry: Seamus Heaney and Simone Weil
Kathleen Heininge, University of California, Davis
Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Jack Butler Yeats's The Old Sea
Road
John Redmond, Macalester College
Fighting for Balance: The Influence of Ted Hughes on Michael Longley
Revisiting J. M. Synge
Room TMH 255
CHAIR: Mary Trotter, Indiana University -- Purdue
Anne M. Enenbach University of Notre Dame
Aesthetics and Anesthetics: J.M. Synge and the Irish Subconscious
Michael J. O'Shea, Assumption College
Synge, the Inner Landscape, and Nature
Nelson O`Ceallaigh Ritschel, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
J. M. Synge and the Rewriting of G. B. Shaw: The Playboy
Irish Environments in Fiction:
Readings from ACIS Fiction Writers
Thornton Auditorium
James Doan, Nova Southeastern University in Florida
Patrick Hicks, Augustana College (South Dakota)
Eileen Sullivan, University of South Dakota
David Ray Vance, University of Houston
Catherine Kasper, University of Texas at San Antonio
7:30 PM
Thornton Auditorium
Poetry Reading by Eamon Grennan, Vassar College:
Introduction by Thomas Dillon Redshaw
Reception and book signing hosted by Graywolf Press to follow.
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
SESSION 1: 8:30 a.m. to 9:50 a.m
Geographical Visions in Irish Poetry
Room TMH 250
Chair: Jill Brady Hampton, Washington University
Andrew J. Auge, Loras College
'Slow, Downstreaming Dead': Rivers and History in Thomas Kinsella's
Poetry
Ben Howard, Alfred University
`Thereness is all': Form and Vision in the Art of Eamon Grennan
Christian Michener, St Mary's University (Minnesota)
The Irish Environment and Michael Longley's Classical Sensibilities
Women and Irish Journalism
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: Robert Craig, University of St. Thomas
Nainsí J. Houston Creighton University
"Mainly for Women": Two Months in 1960
Úna Ní Bhroiméil, Mary Immaculate College
"Angel of the house" - Advice to Irish Women in Late Nineteenth-Century
Catholic Periodicals
Karen Steele, Texas Christian University
Maud Gonne and the Poetics of the Advanced Nationalist Press
The Harp and the Loon: Minnesota's Irish Connections
Room TMH 253
Chair Michael Funchion, South Dakota State University
Patrick O'Donnell, Normandale Community College
Irish Theater in Minnesota
Eileen R. McCormack, Hill Reference Library
In Her Own Name: The Catholic Philanthropic Activities of Mary T. Hill
Ann Regan, Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota's Irish: A Story Still Being Told
Staging Race and Ethnicity: Irish, Jewish
and African American Representation and Social Protest, 1850-1920
Room TMH 255
Chair: Matthew Guterl, Brown University
Lauren Onkey, Associate Professor, Ball State University
The Irish in the Red Summer: Studs Lonigan and the Threat to Whiteness
M. Alison Kibler, Franklin and Marshall College
Paddy and Shylock: Irish and Jewish Campaigns against American Mass
Culture
Robert Nowatzki, Ball State University
Paddy Jumps Jim Crow: Irish-Americans and Blackface Minstrelsy
Transgressions
Room TMH 350
Chair: James S. Donnelly, University of Wisconsin
Seán Farrell, College of St Rose
The Burning of Freeduff Presbyterian Church, 1743: Settlement, Religion
and Violence in Eighteenth-Century South Armagh
Benjamin Myers, Washington University
Woolly Bully for Britain: Spenser and the Wild Man in Ireland
Katherine Parr, North Central College
The Man Unmasked: Poets Behind the Veil in The Nation
Éire/Land: Political, Visual, and Literary Perspectives
Room TMH 351
A roundtable on teaching an interdisciplinary Irish Studies course with
Vera Kreilkamp,
Katherine Nahum, and Robert Savage of Boston College.
9:50-10:05 a.m Coffee
SESSION TWO 10:10 a.m. -11:20
a.m.
Irish Theatre Spaces and the Construction of National Identity:
Astley's Amphitheatre Royal, Smock Alley, the Abbey
Room TMH 250
Chair: Margot Backus, University of Houston
Susan Cannon Harris, University of Notre Dame
Clearing the Stage: The Battle for the "Freedom of the Scenes" in Dublin's
Smock-Alley Theater
Helen M. Burke, Florida State University
From Imperial Ring to Revolutionary Space: Astley's Dublin Amphitheatre
in the 1790s
Mary Trotter, Indiana University - Purdue
Bringing Down the National House? Reception, Rental and Rejection at
the Abbey Theatre, 1929
The Symbolic Environment of Irish History
Room TMH 351
CHAIR: Margaret Preston, Augustana College (South Dakota)
James Patterson, Centenary College
Divergent Veins of Discontent: Ireland, 1798-1803
Daire Keogh, Dublin City University
Robert Emmet: The Triumph of Failure
Anne E. Kane, University of Texas (Austin)
Losing Hegemony: the British, the Irish and Symbolic Control of "Constitutionalism"
during the Land War
Against the Establishment
Room TMH 253
Chair: Robert Lowery, Irish Literary Supplement
Jerrold Casway, Howard Community College
The Irish and Jim Crow Baseball
Dennis McNulty, New York University,
Rethinking Irish Political Environments: Early 20th -century Irish
and Black Radicals
Marie Regina O'Brien, SUNY- Stony Brook
Women on Top: Mary Gordon's Irish-American Females
Voices from National Margins
Room TMH 350
Chair: Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University
Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta, University of Connecticut
Troubled Bodies: Symbols of Sectarian Strife in North and "Hunger Strike"
Eamon Maher, Tallaght Institute of Technology
Shifting Environments of Reception of the Work of John McGahern
Lachlan Whalen, Marshall University
"A Thought in the Night": The Prison Writings of Bobby
Sands and Gerry Adams and The Role of Long Kesh in Shaping Republican and
IRA Strategy
Irish Political Controversies
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: Thomas Hachey, Boston College
Gary Murphy, Dublin City University
Political Corruption or merely Political Scandal: The Flood and Moriarty
Tribunals of Inquiry
Timothy O'Neil, Central Michigan University
Call of the Bailiff: Peadar O'Donnell and the Anti-Annuity Campaign,
1927-1931
James M. Smith, Boston College
The Origins of a State-Inscribed Containment Culture: The Criminal
Law
Amendment Act (1935) and the Carrigan Commission (1931)
Retelling Rebellion: 1875-1916
Room TMH 255
Chair: Karen Steele, Texas Christian University
Joseph Lennon, Manhattan College
"Something Deeper than Sorrow": James Cousins's Portraits of Easter
Rising Participants in New India
Sean O'Brien, University of Notre Dame
Transforming Imprisonment into Resistance: Thomas Clarke's Prison Narratives
Nathan Wallace, University of Notre Dame
Fenian Jailbreak and the Rules of Melodrama in Dion Boucicault's The
Shaughran (1875)
11:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m. Plenary Session
Jeanne Smith Ward Memorial Lecture
Thornton Auditorium
Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch, National Gallery of Ireland
"Visualizing the Irish Landscape: Interpretation and Meaning"
Introduction, Lawrence McBride, Illinois State University
LUNCH AT AREA RESTAURANTS
SESSION THREE 2:00 p.m -3:40 p.m.
Quare as Folk: Homocolonial Entanglements
Across the Centuries
Room TMH 250
Chair: Lance Pettit, Leeds Metropolitan University
Sarah McKibben, University of Notre Dame
Warding Off Colonial Penetration: A 16th Century Challenge to Anglicization
Ed Madden, University of South Carolina
Topping the Top's Bottom: Queering the Act of Union in Gay Irish Literature
Margot Gayle Backus, University of Houston
Homocolonialism: Evil Homoerotics in Eoin McNamee's Resurrection
Man
James Joyce
Room TMH 253
Chair: Patrick Hicks, Augustana College (South Dakota)
Alan W Friedman, University of Texas (Austin)
Vying for Artistry in Ulysses
Marguerite Quintelli-Neary Winthrop University
Recreating the Wake in Foucault's Pendulum
Terri Topness, University of St. Thomas
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Alchemist: Mixing Elements
of Art, Autobiography and Alchemy in James Joyce's Portrait and Ulysses
Irish Cinema
Room TMH 255
Chair: James MacKillop, Syracuse University Press
Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University
Irish Film After The Quiet Man
Díóg O'Connell, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art
Characters that 'say and do' and characters that 'see and hear' in
Irish cinema: Disco Pigs and Accelerator
Donna Decker Schuster, Marquette University
The Irish Pastoral Elegy: "Some Mother's Son" as Resistance to Literary
Modernism
Nature and Nationalism in Ireland -
Past and Present
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: William H. A. Williams, The Union Institute
Stuart McLean, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin
Local Landscapes in Translocal Spaces: Visual Media and Conservation
Debates in Contemporary Ireland
Steve Coleman, N.U.I. Maynooth
The Vengeful Landscape: Topology and Dis-Topology in Irish-Language
Discourse
Máirín Ní Cheallaigh University College
Dublin
Phoenician fire-temples or Christian bell towers: the round tower in
19th century Ireland
Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin
National Parks and Irish National Identity?
A View from Chicago
Room TMH 354
Chair: Emmet Larkin, University of Chicago
Douglas Kanter, University of Chicago
Whig Political Thought and the Making of British Unionism
Robert F. Cummins, independent scholar
Severe and Anxious: Rigorism in the Irish Church
Mary Donoghue, University of Chicago
The Genius of Thomas N. Burke, O. P.
John Banville
Room TMH 203
Chair: Gregory Castle, Arizona State University
William Martin, Arizona State University
Banville's Necessary Angel: Reality and the Imagination in Banville's
Eclipse
Ann Weekes, University of Arizona
Mothers in Joyce and Banville
Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas
The Treacherous Bodies of Banville's The Untouchable
Ulysses: Words and Image.
Room TMH 401
A performance piece based on paintings by Tommy Mew and the writings of James Joyc; John Countryman, Berry College; Charlotte Headrick, Oregon State University
3:40 Coffee
SESSION FOUR 3:50 p.m - 5:30 p.m.
The 'Other' Irish in the 'Other' Colony:
Transatlantic Environments and Early Irish Protestant
Migration to America
Room TMH 250
CHAIR: David Noel Doyle, University College Dublin
Kerby Miller, University of Missouri, Columbia
Ulster Presbyterians and the 'Two Traditions' in Ulster and America
Patrick Griffin, University of Ohio
Translating Papists and Savages: Irish Transatlantic Constructions
of Human Difference
Michael Griffin, Notre Dame University
Crouching Tigers, Hidden Indians: Georgia in The Deserted Village
Putting Ireland On (the) Stage
Room TMH 253
Chair: Elizabeth Gilmartin, Monmouth University
Natasha Casey, Webster University
The Attractions and Uses of Irishness: An End in Sight?
Mary Grace Gainer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Speaking as Signifier in Irish Drama: Bending English to the Reality
of the User
Claire Norris, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Evolving Face of Ireland: From Cathleen ni Houlihan to Football
and the Celtic Tiger
Irish Women Writers at Home and Abroad
Thornton Auditorium
Chair: Kristine Byron, Michigan State University
Wanda Balzano, University College Dublin
Religious Environments: The Liturgy of Gender in Kate O'Brien's The
Land of Spices
Marisa Glaser, independent scholar
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paula Meehan's Approaches to the Divided
Female Subject
Kathleen McInerney, Chicago State University
Love, Transgression and Re-invention of Identity: The 'Other Woman'
in the Fiction of Elizabeth Cullinan
Michael Harris, Central College
Relocation and Dislocation in Edna O'Brien's House of Splendid Isolation
Surveying An Teanga
Room TMH 354
Chair: Colin Ireland, Arcadia University
Liam Ó Cuinneagáin, Údarás na Gaeltachta
Contemporary Irish-Language Communities: Challenges to Survival, Remedies
for Maintenance
James J. Blake, WFUV (New York)
Nonfiction Prose in the Irish Language Today
Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew, Ollscoil Phennsylvania
An Teanga "Godhelic" a Bhí ag Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, A Bheag
nó a Mhór, Agus Ról na Teanga Sin i Ranna agus i gCláracha
"Léann Éireannach" i Meiriceá Thuaidh
The Literature of Fact:
Readings in Creative Nonfiction
Room TMH 203
A session in which ACIS writers of creative nonfiction share from work-in-progress. Readers include Marc Conner, Washington and Lee University; Charles Fanning, SIU-Carbondale; Shawn Gillen, Beloit College; Donna Potts, Kansas State University: and James Rogers, University of St Thomas
SATURDAY JUNE 7
ALL SESSIONS ON ST PAUL CAMPUS:
SHUTTLE SCHEDULE TO BE POSTED
SESSION ONE 9:00 a.m - 10:20 a.m
The Literature of the Diaspora
Room OEC 203
Chair: Matthew Jockers, Stanford University
Mary Haslam, National University of Ireland, Galway
Love in a Time of Cholera? Ireland and the Irish in Early Nineteenth
Century French-Canadian Writing
Eileen Kearney, Texas A & M University
Emigrant Dreams: The Drama of the Irish Diaspora
Katie Kane, University of Montana
"America was Born in the Streets": Violence, The Irish in American
Cinema, and the Wages of Assimilation and Belonging
Other Ways of Looking at the North
Room OEC 206
Chair: Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas
Patricia Lundy, University of Ulster, Jordanstown
Mark McGovern, Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk, UK
'Truth-Telling and Transition': Oral History, Rights and Transitional
Justice in Northern Ireland
Peter McAuley, University of Minnesota
Féile an Phobail: Republicanism, Culture, and the Politics of
Community Festivals in Northern Ireland
Bernard McKenna, University of the Virgin Islands
Irish Art & The Troubles: Trauma and Recovery
Jessica Scarlata, New York University
Archives of Grief: Recalling Bloody Sunday in Museums, Cinemas and
Living Rooms
Nineteenth-Century Landscapes
Room OEC 204
Chair: Eileen Sullivan, Irish Educational Association (Florida)
Jeffrey Baggett, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina
Croker, Carleton and Ferguson and the Nineteenth-Century Irish Landscape
Eugene Hynes, Kettering University
Pre-Apparition Knock: Some Links and Chains
Patricia A. Lynch, University of Limerick
Herbal and General Medicine in Irish Rural Life 200 Years Ago: a Case
Study
Ways of Knowing in Irish Writing
Room OEC 207
Chair: William Starr, Marquette University
Billy Gray, Lulea University (Sweden)
"The Ravages of Second-Hand Experience": Hubert Butler's Perception
of Universalism and Distance
Catherine Kalish, Marquette University
Habitual Habiliment: Dress as Discourse in Finnegans Wake
Barbara A. Suess, William Paterson University
No Child Left Behind: Religious and Scientific Metaphor in Pearse's
Educational Writings
Contemporary Irish Fictions and Memoirs
OEC Auditorium
Chair: Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, University of Colorado -Boulder
Amanda Fields, University of Minnesota
Dermot Healy's Bordering Texts
Jose Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Irish and Scottish Traveller (Auto)Biographies
Caitriona Moloney, Bradley University
Recovered Memory in Kate O'Riordan's The Boy in the Moon
Early Modern Ireland and After
Room OEC 208
Chair: David Gardiner, Creighton University
Monica A. Brennan, St. Joseph's College (NY)
Clerical Conformity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Tyler Crogg, University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale
Early Seventeenth Century Irish Historiography: Time, Identity and
Nation, 1630-1662
Colin Everett, independent scholar
Wastelands in Tudor and Stuart Ireland
10:20 a.m. Coffee
SESSION TWO 10:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
New Viewpoints on Irish Drama
Room OEC 203
Chair: Joan Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Ann Farrelly, The Ohio State University
Violent Worlds Apart: Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan
and J. M. Synge's Riders to the Sea
John P Harrington, Rennsalaer Polytechnic Institute
Canonization and the Irish Theatre Diaspora
Frank Manista, Michigan State University
Any Irish In You?: The Crises of Irishnesses in Contemporary Irish
Drama
A Celebration of Mary McCarthy
Room OEC 208
Chair: Charles Fanning, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Ron Ebest, University of Missouri-St. Louis
"Le Premier Pas": McCarthy and Kate Chopin
Mary Mueth, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Personal is Political, Philosophical, and Literary: Mary McCarthy's
Marriages and Relationships
Sally Barr Ebest, University of Missouri-St. Louis
The Fledgling Feminist: McCarthy's The Group
Irish High Culture After 1900
Room OEC 204
Chair: Josef Altholtz, University of Minnesota
Nicholas Allen, Dublin Institute of Technology
States of Mind: Science, Culture and the Irish Intellectual Revival,
1900-30
Frank A. Biletz, Loyola University Chicago
Arnold Bax and the Celtic Note in English Orchestral Music
David Gardiner, Creighton University
Yeats's Fleas: The Maunsel Poets
Traditional Music
in the Old World and the New
OEC Auditorium
Chair: Patrick Coleman, Minnesota Historical Society
Rebecca Troeger, Boston College
"A Map of a Tune": Identity and Authenticity in Literary Representations
of Irish Music
Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Boston College
Civil War Soldier Christopher Byrne in Minnesota Writes to his Brother
Patrick, the Harper
Sally Sommers-Smith, Boston University
Patrick Byrne: From the Great House to the Public Stage
Irish Immigrant Networks
Room OEC 207
Chair: Craig S. Piper, Mississippi State University
David T. Gleeson, College of Charleston
'The Ferocity of his Patriotism': Irish Immigrant Networks in Charleston,
South Carolina
Brendan J. Buttimer, Mississippi State University
'Perverting, Confounding, and Eluding the Law': Irish Entry into
the
Legal Profession in Georgia, 1865-1925
Matthew J. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Crisis and Cooperation: Cross-Channel Networks during the Second
World
War, 1939-1945
Northern Irish Politics
Room OEC 206
Chair: Alan Ward, College of William and Mary
Richard Jordan, Louisiana State University
Discrimination and Geography: Derry and the Northern Ireland
"Troubles"
Penny Pardoe, Salford University
Northern Nationalist Convergence: Post-Nationalism or the Same Old
Nationalism in Disguise?
Constance B. Rynder, University of Tampa
Terrorism and the Woman Politician: Anne Dickson and the Northern
Ireland 'Troubles'
11:50 a.m.- 1:30 p.m. Lunch (on campus or at area restaurants)
1:30 p.m.- 2:25 p.m. ACIS BUSINESS MEETING
OEC AUDITORIUM
SESSION THREE 2:30 p.m -4:10 p.m.
[3:00 p.m. NEW ACIS EXECUTIVE COMMITEE MEETS
(Room 0EC 210)]
Beyond Ireland's Borders
Room OEC 206
Chair: Seán Farrell, College of St Rose
Michael de Nie, Texas Christian University
Paddy, Baboo, and John Bull: The British Press and Self-Government
in India and Ireland in the 1880s
Timothy G. McMahon, Marquette University
Pro-Boers or Little Irelanders? Assessing Attitudes about the
Second South African War in Provincial Ireland
Lee A. Smithey, University of St. Thomas
Irish Nationalist Identity, Strategic Decisions, and Arthur Griffith's
Hungarian Plan
American Voices, Irish Backgrounds
Room OEC 203
Chair: Lori Gallagher, University of St Thomas (Houston)
Charles Duffy, Providence College
Edwin O'Connor's Years as a Television Reviewer
Joseph Heininger, University of Michigan
From Ireland to America and Back Again: The Poetry of Thomas Lynch
and Eamonn Wall
Ciarán Mac Murchaidh, St Patrick's College
Bishop James Gallagher's Irish Sermons (1736): Dialogue, Doctrine and
an American Edition
Sexuality and Identity
OEC Auditorium
Chair: Katherine Parr, North Central College
Moira Casey, University of Connecticut
Lesbians in the Big House: Molly Keane's Devoted Ladies
Kevin Coogan, Manhattan College
Freedoms/Identities, the Personal and the National in the Irish Consciousness
in At Swim Two Boys
Donna Potts, Kansas State University
Celt/Saxon dichotomies in Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin
Jessica Tomell-Presto, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
Real (Reel) Men: Femininity and Homosexuality in Irish Dance
Contemporary Irish Playwrights
Room OEC 204
Chair: Patrick O'Donnell, Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin
"He Do the Police in Different Voices": Sebastian Barry and the
Poetics of Southern Loyalism
Sanford Sternlicht, Syracuse University
Midland Memories: Maria Carr's By the Bog of Cats
Mary Ann Ryan, Chicago State University
Ironic Ramifications: Limning the Landscape of Eruption in Vincent
Woods' At the Black Pig's Dyke.
Language and Song in Brian Friel
Room OEC 207
Chair: Scott Boltwood, Emory and Henry College
James P. Farrelly University of Dayton
Decoding the Mysteries of Brian's Songs: "Give Us Your Answer,
Do!"
Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University
"Something is being eroded": The Decline of the Agrarian Irish Community
and its Antimodern Worldview in Brian Friel's Translations
Irish Writers and the Use of the Natural World
Room OEC 208
Chair: John Desmond, Whitman College
Jeanne Armstrong, Western Washington University
Bogs and the Repressed Feminine in Irish Literature
Fred Miller Robinson, University of San Diego
Digging Ireland: Céide Fields and Heaney's Bog Poems
Eamonn Wall, University of Missouri-St.Louis
"Sailing to an Island": Richard Murphy's Ecology
SESSION FOUR 4:20 p.m - 5:40 p.m.
Ireland in Europe
Room OEC 203
Chair: Dominic Bryan, Queen's University Belfast
William Kerwin, University of Missouri- Columbia
Irish as European: The Writings of Carlo Gebler
John A. Merchant, University of Chicago
More on the Irish-Polish Connection
Eugene O'Brien, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick,
'Iro-European ascendances': The Imagined Irelands of Yeats, Joyce and
Heaney
The Locales of Irish-American Life
Room OEC 204
Chair: Jack Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla
Sara Brady, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Gaelic Park, the Bronx: A Pocket of a Resistant and Resilient 'Irishness'
Arthur Mitchell, University of South Carolina
Hugh O'Brien and the Rise of the Boston Irish
Ellen Skerrett, University of Illinois at Chicago
Irish Material Culture in Chicago's Hull-House Neighborhood
Irish Visual Arts
Room OEC 206
Chair: Kathleen Daniels, College of St. Catherine
Sheila Dickinson, University College Dublin
Irish Environments in the art of Kathy Prendergast, Alice Maher, and
Katie Holten
Riann Coulter, Courtauld Institute, University of London
Translating Modernism: Manie Jellett, Ireland and the Search for a
Modernist Language
Dónal O'Donoghue, Mary Immaculate College (Limerick)
The Construction and Representation of 'Irishness' in Visual Culture
Windows on the Nineteenth Century
Room OEC 207
Chair: Francis Carroll, University of Manitoba
Patricia C. Howe, University of St. Thomas
Anglo-Irish Relations and Home Rule After the Death of Parnell
Deirdre Joyce, University of Wisconsin
Fashionable Values: Taste, Mobility, and the 'New Model" Irish
Woman
The Last Word Belongs to Poets:
A Showcase of Open-Eyed, Full-Throated ACIS Poets
OEC Auditorium
Participants may include Nathalie Anderson, Ben Howard, Kathryn Kirkpatrick,
David Lloyd, Ed Madden, Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Eamonn Wall, Beth Oness,
Ethna McKiernan, John Redmond and others
Evening Events
Reception 6:30 pm hosted by Center for Irish
Programs, Boston College
Banquet, 7:30 p.m. Opus Hall 201-202
Banquet Speaker: Liam Ó
Dochartaigh, University of Limerick