Opened by Marie Heaney.

Readings: Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, Andrew O'Hagan, Eamon Grennan, Dennis O'Driscoll, Julie O'Callaghan, Sebastian Barry, Leland Bardwell, Medbh McGuckian, Peter Fallon, Peter McDonald, Conor O'Callaghan

Poetry workshops: Vona Groarke and Eamon Grennan

Drama workshop: Sam and Joan McCready.

Productions: The Only Jealousy of Emer (12 August) and Cuchulain Cycle (6 August)

Lecturers include Helen Vendler (Harvard), Warwick Gould (London), Tom Paulin (Oxford), Neil Corcoran (Liverpool), Grigory Kruzhkov (Moscow State), Charles Altieri (Berkeley), Terence Brown (TCD), Margaret Mills Harper, Associate Director (Georgia State), Catherine Morris (Belfast), Noreen Doody (UCD), Ronald Schuchard (Emory), Deirdre Toomey (London), Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen), Matthew Campbell (Sheffield), Charles Armstrong (Bergen, Norway), John Rickard (Bucknell), Peter McDonald (Oxford), Stephen Hart (London), Adrian Frazier (Galway), Jonathan Allison, Director (Kentucky). For brochure write to: Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland. Tel: +353 (0)71 9142693. Fax: +353 (0)71 91 42780 / E: info@yeats-sligo.com or: Jonathan Allison, Dept. of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 / E: jalliso@uky.edu

The University College Dublin James Joyce Summer School
3-15 July 2005
Newman House, St Stephen's Green, Dublin.

The School runs for a fortnight and features a daily programme of lectures and seminars on the multiple facets of Joyce's work. The social programme includes theatre visits, walking tours of Joyce's Dublin, concerts, and visits to exhibitions. Speakers at this year's School include Anne Fogarty, Kevin Dettmar, Jed Deppman, Frtiz Senn, Tracey Teets Schwarze, John Paul Riquelme, Terence Killeen, T.P. Dolan, Mary King, Amy Martin, Serenella Zanotti, Luke Gibbons, Stacey Herbert, Luca Crispi, Daragh O'Connell, Cormac O'Grada, Tekla Mecsnober, Valerie Benejam, Tim O'Neill, and Vicki Mahaffey.

For further details contact: Dr Anne Fogarty, School of English,University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Phone:+353-1-7168159. Email: anne.fogarty@ucd.ie

UCD International Summer School
29 June - 15 July
University College Dublin

The UCD International Summer School explores Irish history and politics, culture and identity, through a combination of lectures, inter-active workshops, and fieldtrips over a two-and-a-half week period. The programme features lectures on topics across many fields, including Art, Archaeology, Folklore, Theatre, Music, History and Politics. These lectures provide exciting new insights for students familiar with Ireland, but they are equally accessible to newcomers to Irish Studies. Reading lists are provided in advance for students who may wish to familiarise themselves with core issues. A number of roundtable workshops are organised as part of the programme. The workshops planned for this year’s Summer School have as their themes Irish Women’s Studies, Northern Ireland’s Peace Process, Joyce and the birth of Modernism, Are the Irish Celtic?, and Ireland’s International Relations. Fieldtrips, led by lecturers from the School, are an important component of the programme. The trips planned this year are to the Barrow Valley and Meath (where the sites to be visited include prehistoric tombs, medieval castles, and landlordera country estates). There is also an introductory field-trip around Dublin, which includes a visit to historic Kilmainham Gaol. There will be optional, introductory, Irish classes. Other events include a trip to the Abbey Theatre to see a performance, and a reception in NewmanHouse, the great townhouse that was the original home of UCD, for a reception hosted by the President’s Office, UCD.

Download the brochure and application form.

Update 1 May 2005 - The director of the UCD International Summer School writes to say that places are still available on this year's school. Prospective participants should contact him on Summer.school@ucd.ie

IRISH SEMINAR 2005: IRELAND: GENEALOGIES OF CULTURE
Dates: 27 June - 15 July
http://www.nd.edu/~irishsem

The IRISH SEMINAR 2005, presented by the Irish Studies program at Notre Dame, under the directorship of Seamus Deane, Luke Gibbons, and Kevin Whelan, will be held at the new Keough-Notre Dame Centre, situated in O'Connell House, the house in which Daniel O’Connel, lived most of his life.

For the IRISH SEMINAR 2005, the directors are assembling major figures in the field, this year's speakers may include the following who will lecture and participate in seminar sessions:

Seamus Heaney, Homi Bhabha, Luke Dodd, David Lloyd, Breandan O Buachalla, Angela Bourke, Medbh McGuckian, Siobhán Kilfeather, Mike Rubinstein, Richard Bourke, Eoin Colfer, Emer Nolan, Ellen Scheible, Tom Sherlock, Amy Martin

Participants will have unprecedented access to the finest scholars in Irish Studies during daily closed sessions with program faculty. Participants will also enjoy access to major libraries in Dublin, including National Library of Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy, and Trinity College.

The aims of the IRISH SEMINAR include the creation of a cosmopolitan community of young scholars: the eighteenth-century Republic of Letter reconfigured for the 21st century. It provides an intellectual infrastructure for scholarly collaboration, balancing the theoretically rich with the empirically rigorous. It adopts a flexible pluralisation of approaches, less constrained by the firmness of institutional boundaries and disciplinary consolidation. It is self-reflexive about professional and intellectual formation, while seeking to generate a supportive environment which nurtures the intellectual poise and confidence of young scholars.

The Synge Summer School
26 June - 2 July
Wicklow
http://www.wicklow.ie/syngesummerschool/

The Synge Summer School makes a welcome return this summer, under the directorship of Dr Anthony Roche (University College Dublin). The week-long series of events includes lectures by Declan Kiberd, Anne Fogarty, Robert Tracey, Adrian Frazier, Mary C King, Paul Murphy, and Melissa Sihra. There will also be readings by Marina Carr and Brendan Kenneally. The summer school's website includes further information, with details on accommodation, registration, and photographs of the area in which the school takes place.

 

The Ninth Annual Trieste Joyce School.
26 June - 2 July 2004
University of Trieste
Trieste Joyce School, Dipartimento di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali, Università di Trieste, Androna Campo Marzio, 10 - 34123, Trieste
Director: Renzo S. Crivelli
Vice Director: John McCourt
Email: mccourt@units.it
Fax: --39040 5584382
Internet http: // www.univ.trieste.it/nirdange/school/index.html (from 1 March 2005)

Speakers include: Silvia Albertazzi (Università di Bologna), Frank Corcoran (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Hamburg), Ron Ewart (Zurich James Joyce Foundation), Ruth Frehner (Zurich James Joyce Foundation), Luke Gibbons (University of Notre Dame) Michael Patrick Gillespie (Marquette University), Michael Groden (University of Western Ontario), Sean Latham (University of Tulsa), Geert Lernout (Antwerp Joyce Centre), Vicki Mahaffey (University of Pennsylvania), Francesco Marroni (Università di Pescara), John McCourt (University of Trieste), Bernard O'Donoghue (Oxford University), Erik Schneider (Trieste Joyce Museum), Fritz Senn (Zurich James Joyce Foundation), Ferenc Takacs (ELTE Univeristy, Budapest), Christine van Boheemen-Saaf (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

A variety of full and partial scholarships available for students.
2-3 morning lectures.
5 Afternoon seminars including special "Making Manuscripts Speak" seminar on
genetic approaches to Joyce (led by Geert Lernout and Michael Groden)
plus busy social programme.
Further information will be available on our website from 1 March.

 

The Byrne-Perry Summer School 2005: "1916: Ideas and Origins"
23-26 June 2005
Gorey, Co Wexford
Website: http://www.byrneperry.ie
Information about accommodation is available at Gorey Tourism Office, Market House, Main St, Gorey, Ph. 055 21248, Email: info@NorthWexford.com, web address www.northwexford.com

This year's Byrne-Perry Summer School has as its theme "1916 ­ Origins and legacies". As usual, the school organisers have assembled a first-class group of speakers to consider this theme. A full timetable appears below.

Friday 24th June 7.00 p.m. Registration and reception
8.00 p.m. Opening address: TREVOR SEARGENT, leader of the Green Party

8.30 p.m. Panel discussion: Was 1916 a crime?
Chair: Vincent Browne, editor of Village Magazine and presenter of OTonight with Vincent Browne, RTE Radio 1

Panellists: DEaglán de bréadún, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times; Cormac O'Malley son of Ernie O'Malley and lawyer in the field of international law; Brendan Howlin, T.D., Labour Party spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Saturday 25th June 9.30 a.m. Gordon Wilson Memorial Lecture: John Redmond
Speaker: Paul Bew, professor, Queen's University Belfast
Chair: Daniel Gahan, Chair of the Department of History and Geography, Evansville University

10.30 Coffee break

11.00-11.45. Would independence have been achieved without 1916?
Speaker: Pauric Travers, president St Patrick¹s College, Drumcondra
Chair: Margaret McCurtain, historian

12.00-12.45 Did 1916 advance the position of women in Ireland?¹
Speaker: Sinéad McCoole, historian
Chair: Margaret McCurtain, historian
1.00p.m. Lunchtime snack at Summer School venue
1.45 Fieldtrip on the theme of John Redmond
Led by: Sean Mythen, Chief Executive, Wexford County Enterprise Board. Visit to 1916 Room, Enniscorthy Museum; visit to Redmond homestead Ballytrent House, Carne; laying of wreath at the grave of John Redmond; return to reception at National Heritage Park.

6.00 p.m. Summer School buffet dinner at Irish Heritage Centre with a reading by Nicholas Furlong, journalist and author.

Sunday 26th June 11.00a.m. The History Ireland Debate: Was 1916 necessary¹
Chair: Tommy Graham, editor History Ireland
Speakers: Brian Hanley, IRCHSS Postdoctoal Fellow, Department of Modern History, NUI Maynooth; Pat Cooke, curator of Kilmainham Gaol; Michael Laffan, Head of the School of History, University College Dublin