The Parnell Summer School 2003

Avondale, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Theme: Reflections on Romantic Nationalism

17-22 August 2003

In this bicentennial year of Robert Emmet’s death the Parnell Summer School takes its cue from Emmet’s contribution to Irish history. As well as exploring the political and cultural dimensions of Emmet’s legacy this year’s school will also explore recent developments and debates in the study and representation of republicanism in Ireland.

Major themes will include: the Parnell legacy, commemorating Robert Emmet, ethnicity and romantic nationalism, the United Irishmen and the anti-slavery movement, theories of civic republicanism, the Irish Famine Curriculum, the writer and society, James Clarence Mangan remembered, filming Irish history, recent trends in the scholarship of Irish republicanism, and reflections on the Peace Process.

Sunday 17 August
14.30-15.30Registration

16.00Reception at Avondale House

16.30Official Opening: 

17.00Keynote address: Tom Nairn (RMIT Univ., Melbourne),

‘Ethnicity and Romance: Nationalism in Retrospect’ 

Chair: Declan Kiberd (UCD)
20.30Informal social evening at the Woodenbridge Hotel, Avoca

Mon 18 August 
9.30Lyn Innes (Univ. of Kent at Canterbury), 

‘The United Irishmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement’

Chair: Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame)

11.00‘A Place Among the Nations’:

Ireland, Europe and the New World Order

Dick Roche TD (Minister for European Affairs)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Irish Anti-War Movement)

Patricia McKenna MEP (Green Party)

Alan Dukes (Institute European Affairs)

13.00Lunch: Avondale

14.30Guided coach tour with local historian Pat Power

20.30Wooden Bridge Hotel: Documentary Film Premier

‘Emmet’Mint Productions / RTE

Tuesday 19 August 
9.30Donal McCartney (UCD)

Parnell Memorial Lecture

Chair: Leeann Lane (Mater Dei Institute)

11.00Teaching the Great Irish Famine Curriculum

Maureen O. Murphy (Hofstra Univ., NY)

Alan Singer (Hofstra Univ, NY)

Judith Singer (Long Island Univ.)

Chair: Margaret MacCurtain

1.00Lunch: Avondale

14.30Chris Morash (NUI Maynooth)

‘Emmet on Stage and Screen’

Chair: Derek Hand (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)

20.30Illustrated Lecture: Jimmy Robinson

‘James Laurence Carew MP, Parnellite: 1853-1903’

Wednesday 20 August  
9.30Patrick Geoghegan (TCD),

‘Robert Emmet: A Life’

Chair:Daire Keogh (St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)

11.00James Clarence Mangan Remembered

Robert Welch (Univ. Ulster)

Sean Ryder (NUI Galway)

David Wheatley (Univ Hull)

Chair: Noreen Doody (UCD)

1.00Lunch: Avondale

14.30Guided coach tour with local historian Pat Power

20.30Traditional Music session, Woodenbridge Hotel

Thursday 21 August 
9.30Iseult Honohan (UCD) 

‘Civic Republicanism and Citizenship’

Chair: Elaine Sisson (Dun Laoghaire IADT)

11.00Recent Trends in the Scholarship of Irish Republicanism

Owen McGee (UCD)

Linda Connolly (UCC)

Brian Hanley (NUI Maynooth)

Brian Feeney (St Mary’s Univ College, Belfast )

Chair: Tom McGurk (RTÉ)

1.00Lunch: Avondale

14.30Afternoon Tour

20.30Summer School Annual Dinner, Woodenbridge Hotel, Avoca

Friday 22 August 
 
9.30 Paul O’Brien
‘Shelley and Revolutionary Ireland’
Chair: Catherine Morris (St John’s College, Oxford)

11.00Reflections on the Peace Process

Mark Durkan (SDLP)

Gerry Adams (Sinn Féin)

Dermot Nesbitt (UUP)

Chair: Aine Lawlor (RTÉ)

13.00Lunch: Avondale

Summer School Director: P.J. Mathews, Dept of English, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, Ireland.Email: pj.mathews@spd.dcu.iePh: +353-1-8842147

Booking Secretary: Deirdre Larkin, 5 Churchview Park, Killiney, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Email: dlarkin@parnellsociety.comPh: +353-1-2852113

The Parnell Society reserves the right to amend the Summer School programme schedule where necessary.

Visit www.parnellsociety.com

Student Scholarships Available—Contact Summer School Director