IASIL 2004 Timetable

20-23 July

Monday 19 July

14.30-16.30                   IASIL Executive Meeting, Seminar Room, CHSHC.

14.00- 18.00                  Registration, Arts Millennium Building Atrium, NUI Galway

18.00 – 19.30                Opening Reception with buffet, Atrium, Arts Millennium Building.


Tuesday 20 July

8.30 – 9.00                     Registration, Arts Millennium Building Foyer  

9.00 – 11.00         6 Panels, (4 speakers each)

11.00 – 11.30       Coffee

11.30 – 13.00       Opening Ceremony, (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre)

Presentation of Student Scholarships,

Plenary Lecture by Professor Kevin Barry, (National University of Ireland, Galway), “James Joyce and Misunderstanding”

Chair: Dr Riana O’Dwyer

13.00 – 14.00       LUNCH, NUI Galway College Restaurant.

14.00 – 15.30       6 Panels (3 speakers)

Reading by Joan McBreen and Mike McCormack.

15.30 – 16.00       Coffee  

16.00– 17.00        6 Panels (2 speakers)

                             Screening of Aqua

17.30 – 18.30       Reception, Kenny’s Bookshop


Wednesday 21 July

8.30 – 9.00                    Late Registration

9.00– 11.00          6 Panels (4 speakers)

11.00 – 11.30       Coffee

11.30 – 12.45       Plenary Lecture (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre), Dr Margaret Kelleher (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), “Irish Literature, 10 Vols, 1904: the Forgotten Anthology”

                             Chair:          Professor Patricia Coughlan

12.45 – 14.00       Lunch at NUI Galway Restaurant.

14.00 – 15.15       A Reading by John McGahern, Concourse Lecture Theatre

15.15– 15.45        Coffee

15.45 – 16.45       7 Panels (2 speakers)

17.00 – 18.30       7 Panels (3 speakers)

Reading by Patricia Burke Brogan and Eilis Ní Dhuibhne.

From 19.00                    Barbeque, NUI Galway Bar


Thursday 22 July

8.30– 10.30                    7 Panels (4 speakers)

10.30 – 10.45       Coffee

10.45– 12.00        Plenary Lecture (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre) by Dr Antoinette Quinn “Patrick Kavanagh: Towards a Centenary Edition of the Collected Poems

                             Chair: Professor Nicholas Grene

12.00 – 13.30       7 Panels (3 speakers)

13.00 – 14.00       Packed Lunch available for collection from Arts Millennium Building Foyer

From 13.30           Free afternoon and evening for optional events and attendance at Galway Arts Festival

Optional Events

13.30 – 14.15       Gallery Press and Creighton University Press present the launch of John Montague, The Drunken Sailor and TD Redshaw, Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague, including a reading by John Montague.  Reception follows. 

14.15                    Corrib Boat Trip (for those who have pre-booked tickets)

Walking tour of Galway (for those who have pre-booked tickets)


Friday 23 July

9.00 – 11.00                  6 Panels (4 speakers)

11.00 - 11.30       Coffee

11.30 – 13.00       7 Panels (3 speakers)

Reading by John Menaghan and Tony O’Dwyer

13.00 – 14.00       Lunch

14.00 – 15.15       Plenary Lecture (Ó’hEocha Lecture Theatre) by Professor Christopher Murray (University College Dublin), “Echoes down The Corridor”: the Abbey Theatre Centenary,

                             Chair: Professor Hubert McDermott

Closing Ceremony

15.15 – 15.30       Coffee

15.30 - 17.30       IASIL Annual General Meeting

19.00 –                 Buses depart for closing banquet (optional ticketed event), Clarenbridge Court Hotel


Full list of panels

The following pages including full listings for all IASIL 2004 Panels

Tuesday 20 July

9.00 – 11.00           6 Panels, (4 speakers each)

14.00 – 15.30           6 Panels (3 speakers)

Reading by Joan McBreen and Mike McCormack.

16.00– 17.00:          6 Panels (2 speakers)

                             Screening of Aqua

Wednesday 21 July

9.00– 11.00 –          6 Panels (4 speakers)

15.45 – 16.45 –        7 Panels (2 speakers)

17.00 – 18.30 –        7 Panels (3 speakers)

Reading by Patricia Burke Brogan and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne.

Thursday 22 July

8.30– 10.30             7 Panels (4 speakers)

12.00 – 13.30          7 Panels (3 speakers)

Friday 23 July

9.00 – 11.00            6 Panels (4 speakers)

11.30 – 13.00          7 Panels (3 speakers)

Reading by John Menaghan and Tony O’Dwyer


Tuesday 20 July

9.00 – 11.00 – 6 Panels of 4 speakers: Panels 1 – 3

 

PANEL 1

PANEL 2

PANEL 3

 

Modern Irish Fiction (1)

Contemporary Irish Poetry (1)

Abbey Centenary (1): Women Writers at the Abbey

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

Chair

Dr John Kenny

Professor TD Redshaw

Dr Anne Fogarty

Speakers

Blaithin Conneely-Allain (University of Brest, France) "The Illusion of Time in Irish Writing"

Roisin Ní Ghairbhi (National University of Ireland, Galway) "'Confused, derivative, lyrical, hysterical posturing?': Michael Hartnett and 'A Farewell to English"

Ms. Ann Butler (Boston College) "The Abbey Theatre Years of Una Troy (Elizabeth Connor): Irish Playwright and Novelist"

 

Dr. Conci Mazzullo, “Station Ireland: Passion Play According to Conal Creedon"

Dr. Barbara Brown () "Text and Context: Five Poems by Richard Murphy"

Dr. Taura Napier (Wingate University) "Lady Gregory's 'Emigrant's Notebook': Autobiography, Drama and the Inception of the Irish Literary Revival

 

Dott. Gioia Gamerra (Universita degli Studi di Firenze) "'Memories [as] a mixture of stories, truths, untruths and other people's memories': Narrative and cinematographic strategies in Passion Play by Conal Creedon"

Dr. Nicholas Allen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "The Proper Word: The Writings of Gerald Dawe"

Eglantina Remport (Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest) "'See a play as a picture': Lady Gregory's Pictorial Spectacle"

 

Professor Michael Kenneally (Concordia University, Montreal) "Crossing into Exile: Landscape and the Construction of Identity in Brian Moore's The Luck of Ginger Coffey"

Elin Holmsten (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, Sweden) "'Words/That Overwhelm Me': Signs of Encounters in Medbh McGuckian's Poetry"

Ms. Mika Funahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University) "Analysing the Wounds Caused by the Mother: Marina Carr's Theatre and a Short Story"


Tuesday 20 July

9.00 – 11.00 – 6 Panels of 4 speakers: Panels 4-6

 

PANEL 4

PANEL 5

PANEL 6

 

New Perspectives on The Irish Revival

Ireland in Theory

The Theatre of Martin McDonagh

Room

AM 110

AM 203

AM 112

Chair

Dr Mary C. King

Dr Eugene O’Brien

Dr Rosa Gonzalez  

Speakers

Dr. Malcolm Ballin (Cardiff University) "'Not to Mention Paddy Kelly's Budget: Some Periodicals that Bloom could have Read on June 16 2004"

Ms Paula Murphy, (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Mythic and Modern: the Drama of Marina Carr"

Laura Eldred (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Martin McDonagh's Blend of Tradition and Horrific Innovation"

 

Dr. Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin) "A Tale of Becoming: Seumas O'Kellys 'The Weaver's Grave'"

Ms Cathy McGlyn, (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) 'Multiple Mollys: Deconstruction in Joyce's "Penelope"'

Dr. Werner Huber (Chemnitz University of Technology) "'More gallous stories and dirty deeds': The Un-Irishing of Martin McDonagh: Some Observations on The Pillowman"

 

Dr. Liam Mac Mathuna (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "Seadna: New Medium and Novel Message"

Mr Brian Walsh (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick), “The Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Gender”

Dr. Frank Molloy (Charles Sturt University) "Comedy and Cats: The Lieutenant of Inishmore comes to Sydney"

 

Dr. Susan Johnston Graf (Pennsylvania State University) "One Last Glimpse of Twilight: AE's Divine Vision of 1904 (includes visual presentation)

Mr Damien Shortt (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) “Dermot Bolger, Paradigms of Irishness”

Dr. Ondrej Pilny (Charles University Prague) "Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman as Puppet Theatre"


Tuesday 20 July

14.00 – 15.30 – 6 Panels (3 speakers), and one Reading – Panels 1 -4

 

PANEL 1

PANEL 2

PANEL 3

PANEL 4

 

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Contemporary Irish Drama (1)

John McGahern

Samuel Beckett

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

AM 110

Chair

Dr Christina Hunt Mahony

Dr Werner Huber

TBC

Dr Seán Kennedy 

Speakers

Ms. Cary Shay (University of Kent) "Courting the Muse: Aesthetic Standards in the Work of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill"

Clare Wallace (Charles University Prague) "Solitary Micronarratives and Language Games in Conor McPherson's Drama"

Professor Noriko Ito (Tezukayama University, Japan) "The Lake in McGahern's Writing"

Reiko Taniue (Kansai Gaidai University) "Samuel Beckett's All that Fall: Enter the Great Mother"

 

Ms. Aida Rosende Perez (University of Vigo) "Re/possessing the female body in Ireland: Cindy Cummings, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Amelia Stein's Triur Ban"

Jason King, (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Performing Inter-Culturalism on Stage: The Portrayal of Immigrant Experiences and Irish Historical Memories of Migration in recent Irish Theatrical Productions

Dr. Eamon Maher (IT Tallaght) "John McGahern's Fictions: A Chronicle of Four Decades of Change in Ireland"

Mr. Raymond Mullen (University of Ulster) "The Disintegration of the Stage/Stock Irishman in Beckett's Early Fiction"

 

Professor Margaret Burke (Hofstra University) “Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Symbol Of The Contemporary Irish Woman”

Michal Lachman (University of Lodz, Poland) "Traumatic Spaces in the plays of Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, and Conor McPherson"

Mr. Stanley van der Ziel (University College Dublin) "The Aesthetics of Redemption: John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun"

Professor Jeremy Parrott (Szeged, Hungary) "I Often Thought of My Bees”… The Authorial Name at Work at and at Play in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy


Tuesday 20 July

14.00 – 15.30 – 6 Panels (3 speakers) and one reading – Panels 5 and 6 and IASIL Reading

 

PANEL 5

PANEL 6

READING

 

European Perspectives on the Revival

Irish Writing and Irish Culture – Intermedial Perspectives

IASIL READINGS

Room

AM 112

AM 203

Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre

Chair

Dr. Susan Johnston Graf

Dr Patricia Lynch

Dr John Kenny

Speakers

Professor Mary C. King (National College of Ireland) "A Synge for our times: Yeats's enquiring man revisited"

Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka, (University College Dublin) "Fanfiction in Ireland"

Joan McBreen

 

Mr. Jerry Nolan (British Association of Irish Studies) "Edward Martyn's path from Greece to Ireland"

Dr. Magda V.F. Tolentino, (Universidade Federal de Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil), "The Irish Stereotype in Ballads"

Mike McCormack

 

Ms. Rosalinde Schut (Trinity College Dublin) "Yeats, Pirandello, and Italy"

Dr. Asier Altuna-Garcia de Salazar (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Gleanings from the Basque in Irish Literature"

 

Tuesday 20 July

16.00 – 17.00– 6 Panels (2 speakers) and Film Screening

Screening and Panels 1 -3

 

Screening

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

 

A Screening of Aqua by Nina Fitzpatrick

Eilís Ní Dhuibhne (1)

Abbey Centenary: Tom Murphy’s the Gigli Concert

The Poetry of WB Yeats (1)

Room

Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

Chair

Professor Lucy McDiarmid

Dr Derek Hand

Professor Helen Lojek

Dr Nicholas Allen

Speakers

Introduction: Lucy McDiarmid

Dr. Beth Wightman (California State University, Northridge) "Lost in Space? Architecture, Geography, and Culture in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's The Bray House"

Dr. Chiara Sciarrino (IULM, Milan) "Intertextuality, Interpretation or Translation and Fiction in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert"

Professor Ciaran Murray (Chuo University, Japan) "Heaven Blazing into the Head: The Background to Satori in Yeats"

 

Discussants: Kevin Barry and Riana O'Dwyer

Dr. Ann Owens Weekes (University of Arizona) "Re-membering the Past to Construct the Future"

Dr. Alexandra Poulain (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne) "'O Paradiso': Talking, Writing, Singing in Tom Murphy's The Gigli Concert"

Dr. Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University, Seoul) "Rereading Yeats Reading the History of the Soul: From Typology to Typography"


Tuesday 20 July

16.00 – 17.00– 6 Panels (2 speakers) and Screening

Panels 4-6

 

PANEL 4

PANEL 5

PANEL 6

 

New Perspectives on Irish Cultural and Literary Studies

Thomas Kinsella

Shaw and Irish Drama

Room

AM 110

AM 112

AM 203

Chair

Dr. Dawn Duncan

TBC

Dr Mary Massoud

Speakers

Dr. James M. Cahalan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) "Mercier's Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of Irish Cultural and Bilingual Studies"

Mr. Sean Crosson (National University of Ireland, Galway) "The Performance of Irish Traditional Music and Song in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella"

Dr. Radmila Nastic (University of Srpsko, Sarajevo) "Irishmen with a Diference: Irish Imagination and the Aesthetics of the Political in the Dramatic Work of W.B. Yeats and G.B. Shaw"

 

Professor Brandie Siegfried (Brigham Young University) "Nationalist Glosses in Irish School Editions of Hamlet and Yeats's Player Queen"

Professor Thomas D. Redshaw (University of St. Thomas) "Liam Miller and the Making of The Great Táin"

Dr Rosalie Rahal Haddad (University of São Paulo) "Bernard Shaw - Past, Present and Future"


Wednesday 21 July

9.00– 11.00 – Panels – 6 panels of 4 speakers, Panels 1 – 3

 

Panel 1

PANEL 2

PANEL 3

 

Gender and Space in Contemporary Irish Drama

Seamus Heaney

Modern Irish Fiction (2)

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

Chair

Ms Enrica Cerquoni

Dr Rui Carvallo Homem

Dr Rosa Gonzalez

Speakers

Dr. Maria Kurdi (University of Pecs) "Spatialising the Renewal of Female Subjectivity in Marie Jones's Women on the Verge of HRT"

Miss Sukanya Basu (University of Aberdeen) "'Stretched between Politics and Transcendence': Seamus Heaney and Osip Mandelstam"

Mr. Gergely Kovacs (University of Debrecen) "The Goddess and the Angel: Real and Fantastic Space and Place in Jennifer Johnston's Two Moons

 

Mark Schreiber (International University Bremen, Germany) "'Bedbound Beauty Queens': Negotiating Space and Gender in Contemporary Irish Drama"

Dr. Ljiljana Bogoeva-Sedlar (University of Arts, Belgrade) "Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy"

Mr. Eoin Flannery (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) "Necessary Fictions: The liminal drama of Colum McCann's Songdogs and This Side of Brightness"

 

Ms. Carmen Szabo (University College Dublin) "The Liminality of the House as Political Space in Stewart Parker's Pentecost"

Dr. Elena Cotta Ramusino (University of Pavia) "In the Air: Seamus Heaney's Stepping Free into Space"

Jodie Medd (Carleton University, Canada) "'Patterns of the Posible': Irish Historical Fictions and Future Queer Imaginings in Jamie O'Neill's At Swim, Two Boys"

   

Dr., Eugene O'Brien, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Senior Lecturer, "Apprentice Mages and Arch-Poets: Towards a Conflation of the Thought of Yeats and Heaney"

Mr. Tony Murray (London Metropolitan University) "Curious Streets: Desmond Hogan's London Irish Stories"


Wednesday 21 July

9.00– 11.00 – Panels – 6 panels of 4 speakers, Panels 4-6

 

PANEL 4

Panel 5

Panel 6

 

Historicising Beckett (1)

Forum on John Banville

Abbey Centenary: The Drama of Frank McGuinness

Room

AM 110

AM 112

AM 203

Chair

Dr Seán Kennedy

Laura Izarra (Convenor)

Dr Anthony Roche

Speakers

SE Gontarski (Professor, University of Florida, Tallahassee) "Reading Beckett through Beckett’s Reading"

Dr. Hedwig Schwall (Kuleuven/Kulak) "Mirror Mirrored onMirror is all the Show: The figure of the Double in John Banville's Novels"

Dr Kenneth Nally,(National University of Ireland, Galway) "'Celebrating Confusion': Frank McGuinness's Formal Strategies"

 

Dr Sinéad Mooney (Lecturer, NUI, Galway) "Beckett Reading ‘Recent Irish Poetry’"

John Kenny (National University of Ireland, Galway) Connoisseur of Silences: Banville and the Belief in Autonomy

Professor Donald E. Morse (University of Debrecen) "Dolly West's Kitchen: The Daring Drama of Frank McGuinness"

 

A Special Presentation by Professor Everett Frost (New York University) "Ireland Writing Beckett: Cataloguing Beckett's Student Notebooks at Trinity College, Dublin"

Dr. Hedda Friberg (MidSweden University) "John Banville's Shroud"

Dr. Helen Lojek (Boise State University) "Observe the Sons of Ulster: Historical Stages"

 

Dr. Laura Izarra (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "Disrupting cultural identities: fictional memoirs as historiographic critique?"

Professor Amal Mazhar (Cairo University) "Self/Other in Past and Present Irish Writing: The Cases of G.B. Shaw and Frank McGuinness"

   

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

 

Wednesday 21 July

15.45 – 16.45 – Panels – 7 panels of 2 speakers, Panels 1 – 4

 

PANEL 1

Panel 2

PANEL 3

PANEL 4

 

The Theatre of Patricia Burke Brogan

Contemporary Irish Poetry: Encounters

Abbey Centenary – The Drama of WB Yeats (1)

The Legacies of James Joyce, 1904/2004

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

AM 110

Chair

Kirry O’Brien

Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin

Dr Seamus Blake

Dr Gerardine Meaney

Speakers

Dr. Charlotte Headrick (Oregon State University) Reaching from the Past into the Future: Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed

Professor Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University, Tokyo) "On Vona Groarke's Flight"

Dr. Eamonn Cantwell (-) "W.B. Yeats's 'Where There is Nothing'"

Davide Benini (University of Verona) "Voices of Loneliness: The Influence of James Joyce on the work of Patrick McCabe"

 

Dr. Eileen Kearney (Texas A&M University) "Crossing Over: Stained Glass at Samhain"

Ms. Karen Frizzell (University of Missouri-Columbia) "A 'Rare and Fine Sister': The Quest in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya"

Miss Irene De Angelis (University of Turin) "Towards Zeami's 'Flower': The Spirit of Noh in Yeats's 'At the Hawk's Well'"

Ms. Stephane Jousni (Rennes 2 University, France) "Joyce's Children and Joyce's Dublin one century later"


Wednesday 21 July

15.45 – 16.45 – Panels – 7 panels of 2 speakers, Panels 5-7

 

Panel 5

Panel 6

PANEL 7

 

Brian Friel (1) – internationalising Friel

Edna O’Brien (1)

Rethinking Theatre, Rethinking History

Room

AM 112

AM 203

AM 205

Chair

Dr Giovanna Tallone

Dr Sinead Mooney

Dr Jason King

Speakers

Mr. Daniel Smith (Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies) "'…a day on which nothing of importance happened': Bloody Sunday and Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City"

Maria Grazia Furnari (U of Bologna), 'Into the dark forest of Edna O'Brien's neo-Gothic Fiction'.

Dr. Mary M.F. Massoud (Ain Shams University, Egypt) Tate’s Forgotten Anniversary

 

Ms. Zsuzsanna Csikai (University of Pecs) "Otherness or Irishness: Two Irish Versions of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya"

Loredana Salis (U of Ulster) 'Edna's Euripides: Ritual and Language in Edna O'Brien's Iphigenia'.

John Devitt, (Mater Dei) “A Reconsideration of Pearse’s Plays”


Wednesday 21 July

17.00 – 18.30 – 7 Panels (3 speakers) and 1 Reading

Reading, Panels 1 – 3

 

IASIL Reading

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

 

IASIL Reading

Reading Swift in Context

Abbey Centenary – The Drama of WB Yeats (2)

Contemporary Feminist Scholarship (1)

Room

Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

Chair

Dr John Kenny

Professor Robert Mahony

Professor Christopher Murray

Professor Patricia  Coughlan

Speakers

A reading by Patricia Burke Brogan and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne

Dr Chris Fauske (Salem State College) "Misunderstanding what Swift Understood: Ireland, Coinage and the Literature of the Age"

Dr. James Farrelly (University of Dayton) "Singing 'Of what is past, passing, or to come': The Apocalyptic Vision of Yeats's Purgatory"

Dr. Heidi Hansson (Umea University, Sweden) "Selina Bunbury, the Canon and Locational Feminism".

 

Professor Ann Kelly (Howard University) "Gulliver's Talking to Horses: Evidence or Madness or Sanity? A new look at Book IV"

Mr. Futoshi Sakauchi (University College Dublin) "Yeats's At the Hawk's Well in 1916"

Dr. Tina O’Toole (Queen’s University Belfast) “The Munster Women Writers Project: Locating the ‘Absent Presence’ in Irish Literary History”.

 

Professor Wolfgang Zach (Innsbruck University, Austria) "Jonathan Swift and the Anglicization of Ireland"

Ms. Emily Wolahan (University of Houston, Texas) "An Alternative Ideal: Aleel's Role in 'The Countess Cathleen'"

Dr. Gerardine Meaney (University College Dublin) “Writing the Unread: Canons, Anthologies and Feminist Editing”.

       

Dr Margaret Kelleher (respondent)


Wednesday 21 July

17.00 – 18.30 – 7 Panels (3 speakers) and 1 Reading

Panels 4-7

 

PANEL 4

PANEL 5

Panel 6

Panel 7

 

Irish Writing after the Revival (1)

Renew or Fossilize? Contemporary Irish Drama

Edna O’Brien (2)

Nineteenth Century Prose in Ireland

Room

AM 110

AM 112

AM 203

AM 205

Chair

Dr Malcolm Ballin

Professor Shaun Richards

Sinead Mooney/ Kathryn Laing

Professor James M Cahalan

Speakers

Mr. Brad Kent (Concordia University, Montreal) "There's Something Else About Mary: Irish Censorship and the Banning of Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle"

Paul Murphy, (Queen’s University Belfast) Theatre and Nation: Cutting the Möbius Strip

June O'Sullivan (University College Cork), 'Mis-Fits: Models of Female Development in Edna O'Brien and Alice Munro'.

Ms. Marilyn Kelly (University of Wollongong) "A Novel View of the Roman Catholic Priesthood"

 

Irene Lucchitti (University of Wollongong) "Tomas O'Crohan: Yesterday's Hero?"

Mark Phelan, (Queen’s University Belfast), Ulster as ‘Other’: The Black North and National Theatre

Victoria Ramirez, (Weber), 'Edna O'Brien's Narrative Dialogism in House of Splendid Isolation'.

Dr. Francesca Benatti (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Irish Patriots and Schottish Adventurers: Writing Ireland in the Irish Penny Journal, 1840-1”

 

Ms. Edwina Keowne (Trinity College Dublin) "Elizabeth Bowen: Travel, Gender and National Identity in The House in Paris"

Melissa Sihra, (Queen’s University Belfast), “'Breaking the Cycle: Imaginative Spaces of Excess and Transformation in the Theatre of Marina Carr.'”

 

Miss Anne Oakman (Queen's University, Belfast) "'Which of You Holds the Pen?' The Mysteries and Dupliciies of Somerville and Ross's Collaboration"


Thursday 22 July

8.30– 10.30 – 7 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 1 -4

 

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

Panel 4

 

Contexts for Contemporary Irish Poetry

Irish Women’s Writing, 1789-1812

The Poetry of WB Yeats (2)

Oscar Wilde

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

AM 110

Chair

Dr Eugene O’Brien

Patrick Lonergan

Professor Andrew Carpenter

Dr Joan FitzPatrick Dean

Speakers

Dr. Rui Carvalho Homem (University of Oporto, Portugal) "Culture of Shadows: Poetry, Rewriting, and Ciaran Carson's Inferno

Dr Lesa Ní Mhunghaile (NUI Galway), "Charlotte Brooke: Faithful translator or censor in Reliques of Irish Poetry (1789)?"

Miss Claire Nally (University of Manchester) "Yeat's Forging/Forgery of National Identity: the 'Giraldus' Portrait of A Vision"

 
 

Dr. Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, Sweden) "The Element of the Spiritual in the Poetry of Eilean Ní Chuilleanain"

Ms. Sylvie Mikowski (Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne) "Maria Edgeworth's Castlerackrent and the Outside of the Text"

Nobue Miyake (Shitennoji High School) "What Yeats Saw in the Tower"

Miss Louise Mabille (University of Pretoria) "Wilde's Voices, Nietzsche's masks: A Portrait of the Artist as that which is no longer Man"

 

Dr. Elisabeth Delattre (Université d'Artois) "'A fusillade of question-marks': (Re)presenting the present or the poet as a chronicler in The Irish for No by Ciaran Carson"

Ms. Julie Donovan (George Washington University) " My Dear Glorvina”: How Sydney Owenson Helped Pioneer the Art of Spin-Off”

Professor Masazumi Toraiwa (Waseda University) "Reading 'The Black Tower', the Last Poem of W.B. Yeats"

Dr. Julie-Ann Robson (University of Sydney) "Charmides: The Love that Dare Not Speak its Name"

 

Dr. Andrew Auge (Loras College) "'To Send a Shiver through Unitel': Imperial Philosophy and the Resistant Word in Muldoon's Madoc"

Professor Donatella Abbate Badin (Professor, University of Turin) "Writing Italy, Writing Irelad, Writing with Irony: Lady Morgan"

Professor Brian Arkins (NUI Galway), "Yeats and Religion

Dr. Gearoid O'Flaherty (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "From Frivolous Entertainer to Social Martyr: Society's Continuing Affinity with Oscar Wilde"


Thursday 22 July

8.30– 10.30 – 7 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 5-7

 

Panel 5

Panel 6

PANEL 7

 

Contemporary Irish Drama (2)

Roddy Doyle

Abbey Centenary: Synge at the Abbey

Room

AM 112

AM 203

AM 207 (tbc)

Chair

Professor Lucy McDiarmid

Dr Eamonn Maher

Dr Anthony Roche

Speakers

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (Waterford Institute of Technology) "Muide Eire?: The Dramatic Representation of the New Ireland"

   
 

Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin) "Irish Drama and the occlusion of Influence

Dr. Mike Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Soccer and Ireland"

Dr. Maureen Hawkins (University of Lethbridge) "Split Ends: The Modern Tragicomic Structure of The Playboy of the Western World"

 

Mary Ann Ryan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Ironic Ramifications: Registering the Eruptions in and around Vincent Woods's At the Black Pig's Dyke"

Mr. James Drewett (Bath Spa University College) "Grotesque Realism: Reading Rabelais in Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry"

Miss Irina Ruppo (National University of Ireland, Galway) "Synge's Playboy of the Western World and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge"

 

Ms. Enrica Cerquoni, (University College Dublin) “Travelling through space, time and states of (non-)being: aesthetic and ideological concerns in Operating Theatre’s Passades.”

Dr. Maureen Reddy (Rhode Island College) "Reading and Writing Race in Ireland: Roddy Doyle's Serial Publications"

Mrs. Anne Scott (University of Glasgow) "The Poetics of Writing and Drawing in The Aran Islands by John Synge and Jack Yeats"


Thursday 22 July

12.00 – 13.30 -7 Panels of 3 speakers, Panels 1 3

 

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

 

The Past, Present and Future of Performance in Ireland

Representations of Travellers in Irish Writing

Abbey Centenary – Acting, Actors, Artistic Directors

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

Chair

Professor Christie Fox

Professor James Doan

Professor Donald Morse

Speakers

Dr. Kathleen Heininge (George Fox University) "Incorporating the Past to Present a New Future"

Professor Jose Lanters (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Moving Stories: Life Writing by Irish Traveller Women"

Nancy E. Raftery (Camden County College) "Lennox Robinson"

 

Roisin O'Gorman (University of Minnesota) "Ruptures in the Script: Laughter in Contemporary Irish Theatre"

Dr Mary Burke (University of Connecticiut) "The 'tinker' construct in Irish drama: past, present and future"

Dr. Patrick Burke (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "Professional Amateurs at the Abbey"

 

Dr Patrick Tuite (Catholic University of America) "Whigs, Guns, and Fireworks: Writing Ireland's Past into the Present through Collective Performance"

Joan FitzPatrick Dean (University of Missouri-Kansas City) "Liminal Vagrants in the Alternative Dramatic Revival: the travellers of Padraic Colum, Rutherford Mayne and Seamus O'Kelly

 

Thursday 22 July

12.00 – 13.30 -7 Panels of 3 speakers, Panels 4-7

 

Panel 4

Panel 5

Panel 6

Panel 7

 

The Impossible “I”

Contemporary Feminist Scholarship (2)

Contemporary Irish Poetry – Rethinking Spaces, Rethinking Media

Historicising Beckett (2)

Room

AM 110

AM 112

AM 203

AM 207 (tbc)

Chair

Dr Britta Olinder

Dr Tina O’Toole

Dr Beth Wightman

Dr Anna McMullan

Speakers

Mr. Richard Murphy (Boston College) "Troubles with the Bildungsroman: The Country Girls"

Dr. Claire Connolly (Cardiff University) “‘Vain dreams, and fictions of distress and love’: The Poetry of Mary Tighe”.

Mr. Martin McKinsey (University of New Hampshire) "The Third Space of Hellenism in Contemporary Irish Poetry"

Dr. Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University West) "Watt Kind of Man are You?: Anthropology, Cultural Authenticity, and Irish Identity"

 

Ms. Amy Witherbee (Boston College) "Northern Ireland's Impossible Eye/I"

Kalene Nix-Kenefick (NUI Cork) “Una Troy: Irish Woman Writer”.

Dr. Heather Clark (Marlboro College, Vermont) "Recalling Aran: Islands in Northern Irish Poetry"

Dr. Mark Quigley (University of Nevada) "Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity."  

 

Ms. Rebecca Troeger (Boston College) "The Caged Minute: Louis MacNeice and the Autobiographical Impulse"

Joanna Wydenbach (Queen’s University Belfast) “Early Twentieth Century Irish Women’s Fiction: Call on an Alternative Perspective”.

Dr. Riona Ní Fhrighil (St. Patrick's College, Dublin) "The language of music and the music of language: An exploration of Gearoid Mac Lochlainn's Poetry"

Rina Kim (University of Warwick) "Severing connection with Ireland: Women and the Irish Free State in Beckett’s Writing"


Friday 23 July

9.00 – 11.00– 6 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 1 -3

 

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

 

Abbey Centenary: The Abbey in an International Perspective

Brian Friel (2)

Eilís Ní Dhuibhne (2)

Room

AM 105

AM 107

AM 108

Chair

Professor Jose Lanters

Dr Martine Pelletier

Dr Lesa Ni Mhunghaile

Speakers

Ms. Chiaki Kojima (University of Toky) "From the Irish Drama to the Japanese New Drama II: Shoyo Matsui's Adaptation and Reformation"

Dr. Csilla Bertha (University of Debrecen) "Performance at the Edge of or Beyond Life: The Figure of the Artist in Friel's Performances and Kilroy's The Shape of Metal"

Ms. Susan Cahill (University College Dublin) "'Once Upon a Time': Speech, Silences, and Fairy Tales in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's Fiction"

 

Dr. Peter Kuch (University of New South Wales) "The Abbey Down-Under in 1922"

Ms. Christa Velten () "'Am I a con man?': Brian Friel's idea of the self-reflective artist, viewed in the light of Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory"

Dr. Antoinette Larkin (University of Cincinatti) "Eilís Ní Dhuibhne Re-Presents Ireland: William Leech, Edith Somervile and 'Nomads Seek the Pavilions of Bliss on the Slopes of Middle Age"

 

Dr. Hyangsoon Yi (University of Georgia) "Writing Ireland in Colonial Korea"

Dr. Margaret M. Strain (University of Dayton) "'Renouncing Chance': Salvation and the Sacred in Brian Friel's The Faith Healer"

Professor Caitriona Moloney (Bradley University) "History, Myth, and Memory in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's short fiction"

 

Ms. Akiko Satake (Rikkyo University) "The Abbey's Tradition of Folk Drama"

Professor John Hildebidle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Friel's America

Dr. Giovanna Tallone (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) "Past, Present, and Future: Patterns of Otherness in Eilís Ní Dhuibhne's Fiction"


Friday 23 July

9.00 – 11.00– 6 Panels of 4 speakers, Panels 4-6

 

Panel 4

Panel 5

Panel 6

 

Irish Dramatists, 1930-1960

Eavan Boland

Historicising Beckett (3)

Room

AM 203

AM 112

AM 110

Chair

Dawn Duncan

TBC

Dr Seán Kennedy /Dr Sinead Mooney

Speakers

Dr. Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "Denis Johnston's Radio and Television Drama"

Ms. Jeannette E. Riley (University of Massachusetts) "'So I could say Mine. My Own': Altering the Cartography of the Irish Poem"

Dr Seán Kennedy (Teaching Assistant, NUI, Galway) "Life lay smiling before us": Beckett and the End of Protestant Ascendancy

 

Dr. Patricia A. Lynch (University of Limerick) "Language usage and social categorisation in Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow"

Dr. Susan Joseph (Howard University) "Occasions where the daughters of myth sang for sailors: Gender and classics in Eavan Boland's Poetry"

Dr. David A. Hatch, (Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University). Beckett in Transition: "Three Dialogues," Little Magazines, and Post-War Parisian Aesthetic Debate.

 

Dr Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University, Professor, "Siobhan McKenna's St. Joan"

Mr. Jinghua Fan (National University of Singapore) "In the light of what she sees how he sees: Eavan Boland's Painterly Poetics"

James McNaughton (University of Michigan) "Beckett, History and German Fascism"


Friday 23 July

11.30 – 13.00 – 7 Panels of 3 speakers and One Reading

Panels 1 -4

 

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 3

Panel 4

 

Ireland in the world: Translation, Nation, Identity"

Bringing the Past into the Present – Myth in Contemporary Irish Drama

Edna O’Brien (3)

Contemporary Feminist Scholarship (3)

Room

AM 205

AM 107

AM 108

AM 110

Chair

Dr Riona Ní Fhrighl

Dr Maria Kurdi

Dr Sinead Mooney/ Kathryn Laing

Professor Patricia  Coughlan/Dr Tina O’Toole

Speakers

Ms. Rita McCann (Dublin City University) "Ireland in the world: Translation, Nation, Identity"

Dr. Munira Hamud Mutran (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "The Bacchae's nightmare and its significance for Ireland"

Maureen O'Connor, 'Edna O'Brien: Irish Dandy'.

Claire Bracken (University College Dublin) 'A Cyborg Manifesto': Irish Feminism in the 21st Century”

 

Dr. Caoimhghin O Croidheain (Dublin City University) "Ireland in the world: Translation, Nation, Identity"

Ms. Zoraide Rodrigues Carrasco de Mesquita (Universidade de Sao Paulo) "Bringing the past into present day Ireland"

Maeve Redmond (U of Surrey), 'Country Girl, London Boy: Parental, Filial and Cultural Influences on the Life Writings of Edna O'Brien and Carlo Gebler'.

Dr. Moynagh Sullivan (University College Dublin) “Why Still Oedipus?”

   

Ms. Sandra Mary Stevens (University of Sao Paolo, Brazil) "Camelot comes to Wexford: Billy Roche's The Cavalcaders"

Dr Kathleen Jacquette, “Images of Irish Women – Memories and Memoir” (O’Faoilain and O’Brien)

Borbála Faragó (University College Dublin) “‘Even the Grass Grows at an Alien Angle’: Invisible Immigrants of Ireland”.


                                                     Friday 23 July

11.30 – 13.00 – 7 Panels of 3 speakers and One Reading

Panels 5 -7, Reading

 

PANEL 5

Panel 6

Panel 7

READING

 

Hugo Hamilton’s the Speckled People

Irish Writing After the Revival (2)

Abbey Centenary: From Tragicomedy to Melodrama: O’Casey, D’Alton, McGahern

IASIL Reading

Room

AM 112

AM 203

AM 105

Ó’Tnúthail Lecture Theatre

Chair

Dr Michael J Cronin

Professor Maureen Murphy

Dr Patrick Burke

Dr John Kenny

Speakers

Dore Fischer (Dublin Institute of Technology) "'Suddenly lost at being home': Biculturalism and Interculturality in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People and Blake Morrison's Things my Mother never told me"

Dr. Tyler Farrell (Northland College) "Memoirs of an Age: The View of Mid-Century Dublin from Ryan, Montague and Cronin"

Mr. Paul O'Brien () "The Abbey Theatre: Collaboration and rejection in the early plays of Sean O'Casey"

Tony O’Dwyer

John Menaghan

 

Miss Jessica March (St. John's College, Oxford) "Conflict and Identity Formation in Rearden Conner's A Plain Tale from the Bogs and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People"

Rosemarie Rowley (Senior College, Dun Laoghaire) "'The Annihilation of the Flesh-Rotted Word': Kavanagh's Real Trajectory"

Professor Peter Harris (State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) "Shadows from the Past: Sean O'Casey and the Abbey"

 

Dr. John L. Murphy (DeVry University) "Aiseiri and the 'Daily Uprising' in Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People"

 

Ms Rebecca Wilson, (National University of Ireland, Galway) Louis D'Alton