IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland – A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005

Race and Ethnicity and Ireland

Chair: Jim Smyth (University of Notre Dame)

Panellists:
Luke Gibbons (University of Notre Dame) “Gael Skulls: Race and Celticism in Brian Friel’s The Home Place”

Jessica Dougherty McMichael (University of Notre Dame) “Wild Irish and Noble Savages: Interrogations of Race and History in Contemporary Irish and Native American Literatures”

Ivy Wilson (University of Notre Dame) “Ireland and the Spectre of Emancipation: Daniel O’Connell and Frederick Douglass Interpellated”