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The Centre for Irish Studies of St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill - honoured with a visit from Dr. Mary McAleese (President of Ireland) earlier this year - is hosting a one-day conference on contemporary Irish fiction under the title 'Irish Fiction in Transition' on Friday, 28th April 2000. The class-act programme includes lectures by Anne Enright, Robert Welch, Colm Tóibín, Seamus Deane, Emma Donoghue and Bernard MacLaverty - novelists all - together with a plenary by The Irish Times literary journalist Eileen Battersby on 'Reviewing Contemporary Irish Fiction'. Liam Harte is the Conference Director. The conference fee of £60 covers grub and fluids (£40 for the unwaged). Cheques payable to St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill; contact Liam Harte, Centre for Irish Studies St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill, Waldegrave Road, Twickenham TW1 4SX; tel: 020 8240 4000; fax: 020 8240 4255; e-mail: <hartel@smuc.ac.uk>. For accommodation, contact Noreen Evans, tel. 020 8240 4114, or Michelle Rodrigues, tel. 020 8240 4311, up to 19th April 2000. [ Return to top ]
The Sociology Association of Ireland is holding its 27th Annual Conference on 5-7th May 2000 at the Newpark Hotel in Kilkenny under the title 'Ireland In The Twenty-first Century: Ideology, Power And Change’, intended to encompass topics relating to the contribution of their discipline to the understanding of Irish society to date and in the future. Terms of reference for proposals include Nationalism and Ethnicity; Ideology; Power; Economic Change; Theories of Irish Society; The Future of Feminism, and an catch-all section entitled ‘Open Stream’. Sylvia Earley is the S.A.I. Administrator at Room 1.4, St. Anne’s Building, NUI, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Proposals for 1st March 2000. [ Return to top ]
A striking conference on 'Theorising Ireland' is to be held at Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, on 27-8th May 2000. A distinguished panel will there address the fact that the last fifteen years has seen the emergence of a new kind of cultural commentary, sceptical towards old pieties and self-consciously theoretical in approach. Much of the impetus for this - the organisers tell us - has been inspired by postcolonial and feminist accounts of culture, yet whether Ireland’s culture ought to be read insistently in such terms remains a matter of fierce debate [which debate the paricipants will more placably resolve - Ed.] Speakers at this exclusive venue are Terence Brown (TCD), Patricia Coughlan (NUI, Cork), Claire Connolly (Cardiff U.), Seamus Deane (Notre Dame U.), Luke Gibbons (DCU) and Robert Young (Oxford U.). Auditors are welcome. There is a web site at http://www.cf.ac.uk/uwcc/encap/sections/cct/may.html. Macmillan the publishers are supporting this one while Claire Connolly pf the Centre carries the organisation. [ Return to top ]
The XVII International James Joyce Symposium, answering to the title 'Joyce2000: The Right to Write', will be held at Goldmsith College, London on 24-30th June 2000. In view of delays noted in reaching likely participants through the airwaves, the proposal deadline has been extended to 29th February from the inevitable birthday deadline of 2nd February [St. Blaise, if we remember - Ed.]. 'Censorship' is to the fore among the topics named, while 'Joyce and the British Empire' comes shortly after with no less heavy footfall. W. J. McCormack and Lucia Boldrini as conveners are supported by Conor Carville and Anthony Downey in Goldsmith, as well as Richard Brown (Leeds), Andrew Gibson (London), Mary King (London & Dublin), and John Wyse Jackson (London) further afield. A Provisional Programme makes mention of panel-leaders in search of panellites to address such matters as 'Joyce in Performance' (Derek Attridge), 'Approaches to Teaching Ulysses' (Robert Newman), 'Joyce and the 19th Century' (Scott Klein), 'Joyce and Lyotard' (Sheldon Brivic), 'Joyce and the Institutions of Culture' (Robert Hurd), 'Joyce and Pornography' (Austin Briggs), 'A Textual Guide to Finnegans Wake' (Luca Crispi & Sam Slote), 'Nora; The Movie' (Morris Beja), 'Translation and Communication' (Patrick O’Neill), and 'The European Reception of Joyce' (Elinor Shaffer); 'Archive Fever: Joyce and the Record' (Ira B. Nadel), 'Hypertexting Joyce’s Ulysses: A Practical Workshop' (Susan Barganzan & Nicholas Fargnoli), 'Poverty and the Right to Write' (Feroza Jussawalla); 'Joyce and the Theatre' (Timothy Martin), and 'In the Wake of Technology: Joyce and the Hypertext' (Lawrence James).The conference will kick off with a reception the Council Chamber of Deptford Town Hall (designed by Charles Rickards in 1904). A number of tickets are available for a reconstruction of Hamlet at the Globe on Wednesday 28 June in keeping with the conference topic [how? - ed.]. For the personal touch, contact Lucia Boldrini, English Dept., Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW; email Lucia Boldrini at <l.boldrini@gold.ac.uk>, or the academic co-ordinators Anne Fogarty, Dept. of English at UCD/NUI, Belfield Dublin 4, Rep. of Ireland, Fax 353 (0)1 7061174; e-mail <anne.fogarty@ucd.ie> and Timothy Martin, English Dept., Rutgers University, Camden NJ 08102, USA; Fax 1 609 225 6602; e-mail <timartin@crab.rutgers.edu>. The web site at http://www.gold.ac.uk/joyce2000 is superb. There is a administrative email address at <j.joyce@gold.ac.uk> [ Return to top ]
In a joint venture, the School of Advanced Study (London University) and the Antwerp Joyce Centre plan to explore the 'Reception of Joyce’s work in European literature' at the Joyce Symposium in London in 2000 and at a further conference at the University of Antwerp during the academic year 2000-2001. The papers from the sessions at both these conferences will be published in book form by Athlone Press, London and on CD-ROM with further materials as part of a research project and book series on The Reception of British Authors in Europe edited by Elinor Shaffer and Geert Lernout. A further joint-venture is also planned in the form of a workshop on 'Comparative Joyce' (Lucia Boldrini), involving the Foundation and the British Comparative Literature Association. Papers for this strand will be of a theoretical or literary-historical nature addressing ‘how Joyce studies have affected/are affected by theories and practices of intertextuality, influence, imitation, source study.’ Participants will include Richard Brown, Paul Saint-Amour, and Wolfgang Wicht. More details when they reach us. [ Return to top ]
'Place And Writing: Irish And Scottish Literature' is a joint-symposium between the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and Department of English, University of Aberdeen to be held in the Seminar Room, Humanity Manse on 1st April 2000 (9.30 a.m -4.30 pm.) The symposium gathers together a host of celebrated writers and academics, including Medbh McGuckian, Robert Crawford, Bernard O’Donoghue and Alan Spence, to discuss the complexities of a writer’s sense of place and how this is expressed in his or her work.The day will conclude with a wine reception [wind up and wine down - Ed.] . All are welcome. Contact Dr Shane Murphy, English Dept.,. King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Tel.: 01224 272630; email: <sam@abdn.ac.uk> [ Return to top ]
The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool is hosting lectures by Donald MacRaild (Sunderland), Dorothy Thompson, Frank Neal (Salford ) and Mark McGowan (Toronto) as part of its Migration Seminar Series, to be held on Mondays at 4.00 p.m. between 7th February and 6th March. Their respective topics are 'Orangeism, Associationalism and the Protestant Irish in Britain, 1870s-1920s', 'Some Radical Irishmen and Irishwomen in England before 1850', 'The Cemetery of Ireland', and 'Central Canadian Catholicism and the Crisis of Irish Identity, 1870-1950'. The venue is Seminar Room, Institute of Irish Studies, 1 Abercromby Sq., University of Liverpool. Further information is available through the Diaspora Web Page at Studies http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/. [ Return to top ]
The Fall 2000 Midwest Regional ACIS Meeting is now scheduled for Oakland University (N. Detroit) 13-14th Oct. 2000. Proceedings kick off with a conference banquet on previous evening in the historic Meadowbrook Hall - a listed ‘Great Castle’ of America. This venue has a 110-seat auditorium where the remainder of the conference will follow on. A call for papers and topics will be issued shortly. Oaklands is the alma mater of our own Don Morse, lately retired and honoured with a Dlitt. at his second seat at Kossuth University (Debrecen , Hungary), where his partner Csilla Bertha teaches. The presiding spirit of the conference is Sean Farrell Moran, History Dept., Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 48309-4401 USA; tel 248-370-3533/3510; 248-370-3528; e-mail: <moran@oakland.edu>. [ Return to top ]
The 10th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature will be held on 29th-31st Oct. 2000 at SUNY (Cortland, NY). Alexander Gonzalez, who holds the Chair of English there and acts as Conference Director, has called out in cybespace with a main cry for a volunteer to chair the Modern Irish Drama panel, which has suddenly lost its chairman. With the proviso that established scholars or qualified advanced graduate students only need apply, we are informed that a democratic rule is in operation at the conference: ‘first come will be first served’. [ Return to top ]
The 44th Annual W. B. Yeats International Summer School, to be held in Sligo on 30th July-12th August 2000, will be opened by Edna O’Brien and further ornamented by readings by her, with Dermot Healey and Bernard O’Donoghue, while the faculty will include the School’s new director George Watson (Aberdeen) and his associate director Jonathan Allison (Kentucky), as well as Terence Brown (TCD), Patrick Crotty (Drumcondra), Anne Margaret Daniel (Richmond, Virg.), Warwick Gould (London U.), Nicholas Grene (TCD), Margaret Mills Harper (Georgia State U.), Richard Haslam (St. Joseph’s, Phil.), Geraldine Higgins (Emory U.), Sam McCready (Maryland, Balt.), Peter McDonald (Oxford), Daniel Mulhall (Irish Consul/Scotland), Shane Murphy (Aberdeen), Laura O’Connor (CU/Irvine), Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford), James Olney (Louisiana State), Ronald Schuchard (Emory U.), Sandra Siegel (Cornell), and Deirdre Toomey (London U.). With such a strong panel of gifted scholars and communicators, it is clear that the most venerable of Irish summer schools is going to retain the extraordinary reputation for robust scholarship and living teaching that has always enjoyed - not least in those fiery postcolonial days when Edward Said first came to speak in Ireland at the behest of Declan Kiberd. Contact the Secretary of the Yeats Society, Yeats Memorial Building, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland; tel: 353 71 42693; fax: 353 71 42780; or, George Watson, Dept. of English, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, AB24 2UB; tel: 44 (0)1224 272625; fax: 44 (0)1224 272624; email <g.watson@abdn.ac.uk>; or Jonathan Allison, English Dept., Patterson Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY USA 40506; tel: 01 606 269 5024; fax: 01 606 323 1072; email: <jalliso@pop.uky.edu>. [ Return to top ]
Peter Gray of the History Department at the University of Southampton has announced a conference on 'The Memory of Catastrophe', scheduled for 14-17th April 2000. Among some thirty tragedies in all periods from Lima to the Gulf, only two are Irish-oriented. These are Gray’s own paper on the Commemorarion of the Irish Famine and another on ‘The Titanic and the Commodification of Catastrophe’ by James Guimond (Rider University). [What we want to know is, who’s gonna bring Liam O’Flaherty’s blockbuster to the screen? - Ed.] There is a webpage at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~ko/ - or contact Peter Gray at email <pg2@soton.ac.uk> [ Return to top ]
The 4th Annual Trieste Joyce School will be held at University of Trieste on 2nd-8th July 2000 under the direction of Renzo S. Crivelli and John McCourt. The faculty includes Morris Beja (Ohio State), John Bishop (Berkeley), Leonardo Buonomo (Trieste), Claudia Corti (Florence), Ellen Carol Jones (Saint Louis), Richard Kearney (UCD), Agostino Lombardo (La Sapienza, Rome), Joaquim Mallafrè (Tarragona), Laura Pelaschiar (Trieste), David Pierce (Ripon & York), Fritz Senn (JJ Foundation, Zurich) and Clare Wallace (Prague). Eileen Ni Chuilleanean is the conference poet. Tuition costs 250,000 lire (£80 or US$160) while accommodation runs from 30,000 lire sharing [densely - Ed.] to 180,000 Lire for 4-star hotel. Fees include a visit to an osmiza in the Triestine Carso and a night at the Teatro Verdi as well as a trip to the Castello Miramare - once the Hapsburgs’ summer-home - and a bout of song and dance on the beach. Applications for full or part-time scholarships should be submitted before 1 May 2000. Contact John McCourt, Trieste Joyce School, Dipartimento di Letterature e Civiltà Anglo-Germaniche, University of Trieste, Via Lazzaretto Vecchio 8, 34137 Trieste, Italy; or email: <Mccourt@univ.trieste.it> or <Crivelli@univ.trieste.it>. There is a website at http//www.univ.trieste.it/nirdange/school/index.html. [ Return to top ]
The 7th Annual Women’s Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) Conference entitled 'Celebrating Irish Women’s Writing', sadly unnoticed in these pages pages went forward in the week of 26-20th May 1999 under the direction of Ailbhe Smythe with assistance from Liam Mills and Katherine O’Donnell at University College, Dublin, bringing together a wonderful array of writers, academics, critics and readers to ‘open up space’ for the greater appreciation of a diverse and complex tradition.
More than 200 delegates and invited authors in attendance included Ivy Bannister, Stacia Bensyl, Eileen Battersby, Clare Boylan, Angela Bourke, Moya Canon, Maureen Charlton, Catriona Clutterbuck, Kathy Cremin, Adele Dalsimer, Celia de Fréine, Emma Donoghue, Lelia Doolan, Mary Dorcey, Anne Enright, Sarah Fulford, Roberta Gefter Wondrich, Vona Groarke, Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, Katie Hayes, Rita Ann Higgins, Biddy Jenkinson, Jennifer Johnston, Ruth Jacob, Margaret Kelleher, Vera Kreilkamp, Ann le Marquand Hartigan, Ronit Lentin, Mary Leland, Edna Longley, Catherine Phil McCarthy, Liz McManus, Alice Maher, Maighread Medbh, Paula Meehan, Geraldine Moane, Joan & Kate Newmann, Eilean ní Chuileanáin, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne ('Where as the Feminist Sentence Gone?'), Gemma O’Connor, Julie O’Callaghan, Ann Owen Weekes, Julie Parsons, Medb Ruane, Patricia Scanlan, Susan Schreibman, Ailbhe Smyth, Eithne Strong, Mary Shine, Cheryl Smyth Caroline Walsh, Grace Wynne Jones, and Ann Zell.
Prominent events venues for the roving conference were Newman House, Earlsfort Tce., the Irish Film Centre, and St. Catherine’s Church, while Caroline Walsh introduced Mary Lavin’s 'A Likely Story' as dramatised by the Two Chairs Co. at The Writers’ Museum. [ Return to top ]
The annual lecture-series at WERRC continues currently with a visitation from IASIL and ACIS member Margot Backus on 2nd March 2000 The Centre is located at University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; tel. 353 1 7068571; fax. 353 1 7061195; email: <werrc@ollamh.ucd.ie>. There is a website at http://www.ucd.ie/~werrc. [ Return to top ]
The 16th Annual Kate O’Brien Weekend took place at the Hunt Museum and St. Michael’s Church, Pery Square, Limerick, on the weekend of 25-27th February 2000, taking for its theme 'Loss' in its many facets. Ppapers were given by Patricia Donlon (formerly Dir./NLI) , Dick Walsh (The Irish Times) and Theo Dorgan (Poetry Ireland), while Blake Morrison gave the Kate O’Brien Lecture in St. Michael’s Church, Pery Square. Bob Collins, (Dir. Gen./RTE) performed the opening ceremony at the Hunt Museum and Virginia Kerry, the soprano, followed with a concert. [ Return to top ]
A one-day Conference on Sean O’Faolain was held at University College, Cork on 25th February 2000, opening with an address from the writer’s daughter Julia O’Faolain under the title 'The Man Who Stayed'. Subsequent speakers included Marie Arndt ('Self as Fiction'), Eibhear Walshe ('Vive Moi'), Dan Mulhall ('Sean O’Faolain and the Birth of Modern Ireland'), John A. Murphy ('O’Faolain and UCC'), Fiona Dunne ('Sean O’Faolain’s The King of the Beggars'), Hiram Morgan ( 'The Great O’Neill'), and Colm Tóibín, addressing the topic 'All our Irelands are Hidden'. An RTÉ 'Writer in Profile' film on O’Faolain rounded off proceedings. [ Return to top ]
SOFEIR 2000, the current annual conference of the Société Française d’Etudes Irlandaises, is scheduled to take place at the Keough-Notre Dame Centre in Newman House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, this Spring on 30th March 30- 1st April. After an official Opening conducted by Seamus Deane, the holder of the Keough Irish studies chair (University of Notre Dame) in conjunction with SOFEIR Président Paul Brennan (Université Paris III SOFEIR), matters proceed to a series of ‘round table’ discussions addressing current and future trends in Irish studies. Bernard Escarbelt (Charles-de-Gaulle/Lille 3) sets the ball rolling on Thursday morning with a panel on 'Irish Studies: Concept and Definitions' to which Angela Bourke (UCD), Tom Bartlett (UCD), Seamus Deane (Notre Dame), Tom Devine (Aberdeen U.), Tom Garvin (UCD), and Luke Gibbons (DCU) will all contribute there wisdom. André Topia (Paris 3) will lead Tom Bartlett, Terence Brown (TCD), Seamus Deane, Eamonn Hughes (QUB) and Dermot Keogh (UCC) in an afternoon meeting rendez-vous between 'Research Directors and Post-Graduate Students' designed to broach the question of on-going Ph.D. research in Irish Studies. Terence Brown directs proceedings on Friday when Eamonn Hughes, Seamus Dunne (Coleraine), Shaun Richards (Staffordshire U.) and Ailbhe Smyth (WERRC/UCD) turn their thoughts to 'New trends in Irish Studies'. An afternoon session led by Catherine Maignant (Lille 3) will be in the nature a 'Discussion with Personalities in Irish Politics and Society', with Johnny Connolly (Community Action), Michael Cronin (DCU), Sean Farren (SDLP/NI Assembly), Ines McCormack (ICTU), Monica McWilliams (NI Women’s Coalition), Gerry Kelly (Sinn Féin) and David Ervine (PUP) supplying the personality component. Saturday’s proceedings consist in a further 'Discussion with Personalities in the Field of Irish Arts and Culture' under the guidance of Martine Pelletier (Université de Tours) with Dermot Bolger, Tony Tracy (Irish Film Centre), Andy Pollock (Irish Times/Queen’s University), the film director Bob Quinn, and Peter Sirr (Irish Writers Centre) answering the description. The Conference Dinner takes place at The Commons Restaurant, Newman House on Friday at 7.00 in the evening. [ Return to top ]
On 5-6 May 2000 the Royal Irish Academy (Dawson St., Dublin) will hold a Symposium on 'Roger Casement in Irish and World History'. Mr. Bertie Ahern, the Irish Taoiseach, will open the Symposium while Dr. Martin Mansergh (Roinn na dTaoiseach) will close it with an address. Other speakers include Seamus Ó Siochain (Maynooth/NUI), Sir John Hemming (Pres. Royal Georgraphical Society); Owen Dudley Edwards (Edinburgh U.), and Lucy McDiarmid (Villanova U). Sessions include 'Casement's World View', 'Casement and Whitehall', 'The Trial for Treason' and 'Casement & Irish Nationalism'. McDiarmuid is recent past-President of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) and the author of a forthcoming book on Irish cultural contoversies. [ Return to top ]
On 3rd-4th November 2000 the Irish Studies Centre of the University of North London in conjunction with the British Association For Irish Studies (BAIS) holding a conference on the Irish Diaspora under the open-ended title of 'Writing, Researching, Comparing', and aimed at ‘assessing Irish migration and diaspora research in terms both of its placement in wider diaspora studies and its internal rationale, processes, debates and methods.’ The keynote speakers will be Hasia Diner, Luke Gibbons, David Fitzpatrick, David Lloyd, and Bronwen Walter. Possible sessions include archives & resources for studying the Irish Diaspora; gendered diaspora stories/histories; whiteness; social structuration and social mobility; Irish identities; second generation; cultural production (music, film, literature); politics in the diaspora; return migration; social networks; comparative perspectives; role of Irish language. Paper proposals (title and abstract of 300 words) should be before 15th June 2000 to Mary Hickman, Irish Studies Centre, University of North London, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB; fax 020 7753 7069; email: <m.hickman@unl.ac.uk>. [ Return to top ]
One of several conferences on the Act of Union - now approaching the bi-centenary of its enactment and a-not-much-less since its abrogation - is Twelfth Conference of Irish Historians in Britain, conducted at University of Sussex on 14-16th April 2000 under the title 'Blueprints For Union and Separation in Irish History'. The conference convenors at this distinguished annual venue are Professors Marianne Elliott (Liverpool), Roy Foster (Hertford Coll., Oxford), and Norman Vance (University of Sussex. Other speakers include Nicholas Canny (NUI Galway), W. J. McCormack (Goldsmith, London), Gillian O'Brien (IIS, Liverpool) Donal Lowry (Oxford Brookes U., Oxford), Virginia Crossman (Staffordshire U.), George Watson (Aberdeen U.), Fergus Dunne (Sussex U.), Alvin Jackson (QUB), Conor Mac Carthy (Liverpool U.), Colin Graham (QUB). Contact through Mrs Margaret Reynolds, Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities, Arts B, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN. Tel 01273-678098, email <M.Reynolds@sussex.ac.uk> [ Return to top ]
The Irish Studies Centre at University of North London is conducting a public lecture series during April-May 2000, commencing with Seamus Deane on the topic 'From the Gothic to the Modern: Irish Fiction 1850-1930' ( 6 April), and continuing with Fergal Keane on 'Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies: An Agenda for Hope' (5 May), and Helena Kennedy, QC, on 'changing Identities: Ireland and Britain in the 21st Century' (24 May). The lectures, which begin 7.30 p.m. on the appointed evenings are free but attendees must register with Tony Murray, Irish Studies Centre, University of North London, 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB, Tel. 020-7753-5018, or email <sc@unl.ac.uk>. [ Return to top ]
Brunel University (Twickenham Campus, London), is the scene of a conference in on 'British Braids: Intercultural Dynamics in the British Isles Today' (19-21 April 2001), which may or may not seem happily baptised by Irish-studies scholars. The diversity of contemporary concepts and practices of 'Britishness'. is the theme, with a focus on cultural production and interpretation in all media as well as the changing dynamics of cultural pluralism in the British Isles. Relations within and between 'national' [Your inv. commas, baby - Ed.] or regional cultures and traditions and other ethnic, social and cultural groupings will be central concerns. Abstracts of 250 words and/or panel suggestions, by 31 October 2000 to Paula Burnett Paula <Burnett@brunel.ac.uk> or Anshuman Mondal Anshuman at <ondal@brunel.ac.uk>or by post to either at Faculty of Arts, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK. [ Return to top ]
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, which we have previously spoken of as one of the most scholarly and engaging venues on the Irish studies calendar, is mounting a conference on the topic 'Nineteenth-Century Studies in the Twenty-First Century', to be held on 23-24th June 2000 at the Maynooth (St. Patrick's) Campus of the National University of Ireland. Joep Th. Leerssen, author of Mere Irish and Fior Ghael and (1986, 1996) and Remembrance and Imagination (1996) - arguably the writer who brought continental standards to Irish cultural commentary - will give the keynote lecture. Featured speakers include Larry Taylor (Maynooth), Joan Vincent (Barnard Coll.), Eamon Slater and Jane Gray (Maynooth), Jacinta Prunty (Maynooth, Peter Gray (Southampton Univ.), Colin Graham (QUB), Claire Connolly (Cardiff Univ.), and Sean Ryder (NUI Galway) Registration is £25 and rooms are provided at a modest £20 per night. Maynooth is accessible from the Irish metropolis by frequent DART. The organiser and contact point is Margaret Kelleher, English Dept., NUI, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland; email <Margaret.kelleher@may.ie>; tel 353-1-7083451 fax 353-1- 6289373. [ Return to top ]
Meanwhile, the same society is looking forward to its next conference at the University of Southampton during 20th-22nd April 2001 when the topic addressed will be 'Victoria's Ireland: Irishness and Britishness 1837-1901'. Suggested subjects for proposals embrace 'Victoria, Albert [not you Bertie! - Ed.] and Ireland', 'The Irish fin de siecel', British identities in 19th c. Ireland', The Irish in Victorian art and illustration', 'Irish Victoriana', 'Women and power', 'Integrationaism and its opponents', 'Ireland and the Victorian world order'. The contact point is Peter Gray, Dept. of History, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK; tel. 44 (0) 23 8059 2242; fax. 44 (0)23 8059 3458; email <p.gray@soton.ac.uk>. There is a webpage at http://www/soton.ac.uk/~pg2/SSNCI20001.htm [ Return to top ]
An international conference entitled 'European Cross-Border Co-Operation: Lessons for and from Ireland' is planned for Queen's University, Belfast on or Friday, 29 Sept.-Sunday, 1 Oct. 2000 under the auspices of the Centre for Cross Border Studies (Armagh) and the Centre for International Borders Research (QUB). The conference - of obvious importance for the shape of things to come - will be opened by Dr Mary McAleese, President of Ireland. The programme is crammed with internationally-distinguished and high-profile names covering such issues as cross-border policing (Ronnie Flanagan); German-Polish border relations (Hermann Von Richthofen); the changing significance of state borders (Liam O'Dowd); cross-border security co-operation (Edward Johnson); cross-border European environmental issues (Richard Macrory); EU regionalization and cross-border cooperation (Sean Loughlin); economic co-operation across the Irish border (John Bradley);cross-border relations in Baltic countries (Gerhard Untiedt); Danish-German cross-border relations (Henrik Becker-Christensen); Belgian-French cross-border relations (Tanja Mattheus); running the INTERREG secretariat between France and Germany (Jorg Saalbach); cross-channel British-French police co-operation (Frank Gallagher); cross-border institutions under the Belfast Agreement (Frank Gallagher); cross-border peace-making in Ireland (Martin Mansergh); Sellafield re-processing plant (Eamon Gilmore); Irish cross-border co-operation & Europe (John Palmer ), and lessons for Ireland from the European cross-border experience (Paul Gillespie). The Conference Administrator is Lois McCammond, who will supply forms and accept cheques at School of Sociology and Social Policy, QUB, BT7 INN; email <L.McCammond@qub.ac.uk>; tel. 028-90-335970. Conference admission is £75.