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