From
Quayside to
Distances
and Dialogue
American
Conference for Irish Studies
Fall Meeting
October
16,17,18 2003
This meeting
is held in honor of Dr.
Lawrence W. McBride, Professor of History,
Hosted by
The Midwest
Region of the American Conference of Irish Studies
will be holding its annual meeting
The conference is
titled From Quayside to Main Street: Distance and Dialogue and
its theme will be the ongoing nature of the Irish diaspora, how despite
enormous distances, a “greater Ireland” has developed, moving not only
in
spatial and political terms, but intellectual and cultural ones as well. A feature of this meeting will be plenary
sessions by Gary Owens (Huron College, Univ. of Western Ontario),
William H. A.
Williams (The Union Institute, Cincinnati), and Joan FitzPatrick Dean
(Univ. of
MO-Kansas City).
Thursday
,October 16
Governor
Fifer Courtroom,
Hosted by
Charles Sheehan, Consul General of
Friday,
October 17
At
8 - 9:15 “Mythic and
Realist Views of
Chair:
Tyler Farrell,
Nainsí
Houston,
“‘Superstitious
Prejudice’ and ‘Fancied Evils’: Magic, Superstition,
And
Class in Lady Morgan’s The Wild Irish Girl”
Eva
Rose White,
“The Celtic
Connection:
Anne
Enenbach,
Notre Dame
“Synge’s
Rural Realism: Nora or Cathleen?”
Chair:
Gary Owens,
Timothy
O’Neill,
“Defining the
Revolution: Sinn Fein and Labour, 1917-1918"
Emily
Brunner,
“Citizenship,
National Belonging, and the Decline of
Irish-American
Nationalism: 1918-1925"
Fr.
William T.
Corcoran,
“Imagining a
Future: The Reassertion of Irish Identity
In
Speaker,
Joan
FitzPatrick Dean,
“A Taxonomy
of Irish Stage Censors: Usual and Unusual Suspects”
Chair,
Sandra
Manoogian Pearce,
Annual Business Meeting Luncheon
and Regional Representative Election.
Tribute to
Chair:
José
Lanters,
“Irish
Tinkers and Travelers in American Children’s Fiction”
Catriona
Malony,
“The Irish in
Donna
Hart,
“Gendered Tropes and the Nation in
Edna
O’Brien’s
House of
Splendid Isolation”
Break
Chair:
Timothy O’Neill,
Ryan
Dye,
“The Irish
Flood - Famine, Philanthropy, and the Emergence of the
Bryan
McGovern,
“The Re-Invention
of John Mitchel: Culture, Race, and Nationalism in
Mid-Nineteenth
Century
James
P. Walsh,
“ The
Leadville Irish”
Chair:
Anne
Enenbach, Notre Dame
Donna
Potts,
“
Katherine
Parr,
“Poetic
Landscapes and Irish Romanticism”
Jack
Morgan,
“Hinchey’s
Travels: An Irish Artist’s Sketches of Missouri
Life in the
19th Century”
Winter
I
In winter there comes a hush
as if illness had swerved towards
us.
We speak of it in quieter tones
believing we can accept harsher
weather.
Saturday
October 18
At
Speaker,
Gary
Owens,
“Social
Memory and an Irish cause celebre: The Carrickshock Incident”
Chair,
Seán
Farrell Moran,
Chair,
August
Gering,
James
Rogers,
“‘Someone
watching your back’: Guardian Angels in Michael
Patrick
McDonald’s All Souls”
Tyler
Farrell,
“A Religion
that Consoles: Austin Clarke’s Poetic Use of Catholicism”
Beth
Rips,
“Marriage,
Alcoholism, and Disappointment in Our Lady of
Chair:
Donna
Potts,
August
Gering,
“‘Not to Me,
but through Me’: Bardic Tradition and Traumatic
Interpolation
in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon”
Daniel
Tobin,
“The Need for
Routes: Genealogy and Irish American Poetry”
James
Liddy,
“‘There’:
Michael Hartnett, Laureate of Rural
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch, on your own
Speaker,
William
Williams, Union Institute
"Five Points
-- The Musical: The Theater and Songs of
Edward Harrigan."
Chair, James Rogers,
American
Women
Writers,” Roundtable Discussion
Chair,
Joan
FitzPatrick Dean,
Participants: Kathleen McInerney,
Sally Ebest,
Mary Ann
Ryan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Beatrice
Jacobsen,
Adlai Stevenson II Historic House,
Conference
Hotels
We have set
special
conference rates for two properties, The Chateau,
The Château
and Eastland Suites, are both one block east of
McLean
County Museum of History is at
blocks west
Adlai
Stevenson II Historic House is 13 blocks east of the
museum on
Restaurants
we like:
Lucca Grill, Old timey
bar and
grill with Italian menu, Guinness usually on-tap. Dinner reservations
recommended Walking distance from the museum
Crazy Planet, Kinda
slow, hip
cuisine, good pricing, winces and beers, Dinner reservations recommended
Walking distance from the museum
Taqueria El
Porton, Great
Mexicanplace, nearly home style cookery. No beer of wince, 7 blocks
north of
the museum at 901 N.
Tachibana, With our
local
Mitsubishi plant comes a pretty decent Japanese Restaurant, sushi,
sashimi,
tempura, plan on spending a few bucks. Dinner reservations recommended.
Located
on one block south of
Biaggis, Hip Itlaian,
well
prepared, noisy active, young crowd. Wines Located one block east of
Franchise
places: For some
reason Bloomington-Normal attracts lots and lots of franchise
restaurants. Most
of them are located along Veterans parkway
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