UCD Showcase - Tours
Art Tour around campus (12:00 -12:40) 11:30 - 13:00 Cultural Heritage Collections REGISTRATION National Folklore Collection 10:00 - 15:00 O'Brien Science Centre Special Collections
Opening Keynote Lecture George Moore Auditorium
16:00 - 17:30 Prof. Angela Bourke
"Maeve Brennan's New York Irish"
17:30 RECEPTION
The Irish Diaspora in a Southern American City: History, Anthropology, Archives and Engagement in Savannah, Religion, Ethnicity and the Irish Abroad Irish Migration in the Contemporary World The Irish and the Pacific World The McHugh Archaeological Site (Part One) Georgia Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: Malcolm Campbell Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Au Revoir Ireland, Hello The Irish diaspora and the Refugees? Southern Irish Gráinne O'Keefe-Vigneron France: an analysis of post- John D. Richards (University of David Gleeson (Northumbria The Irish in Confederate Brian Hughes (NUI Maynooth) Declan Downey (UCD) TBC Wisconsin frontier: a view from loyalists in Britain, 1922-32 (Université Rennes) Celtic Tiger emigration to Wisconsin-Milwaukee) University) Savannah the McHugh Site France Comparative review of the Recent Irish (and British) Wexford migration to Patrick Coleman (University The Orange diaspora: loyalist Melanie Neumann (Humboldt Barry McCarron (New York The Irish and Chinese in the Pacific Robert J. Jeske (University of archaeology of rural Irish Howard Keeley (Georgia migration to Berlin - a case of Savannah: renewing a of Otago) communities abroad University Berlin) University) World Wisconsin-Milwaukee) settlement in the midwestern Southern University) lifestyle migration? diaspora narrative U.S. 09:00 - 11:00 The "St. Patrick's Season" in McHugh family history in the Catholics, Britons, Anglo-Celts Irish transatlantics, 1980-2015: Gender, Irishness and the Chinese Savannah, Georgia: Elizabeth Malcolm (University Íde B. O'Carroll (New York Dianne Hall (Victoria Jennifer L. Picard (University context of Irish immigrant Barbara Hendry (Georgia and Whites: seraching for the transnational pioneers from in Australian popular culture perpetuating and contesting of Melbourne) University) University) of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) settlement in the rural Southern University) Irish in histories of Australia the 1980s Irish-US migration 1880-1930 Irish identity through ritual in American Midwest a southern city The scourge of apartheid: Ambivalent or hybridised The power of archives: Archbishop Denis Eugene The Global Reach of 1916 – Alexander W. Anthony The materiality of ethnic Luciana Spracher (City of Irishness? How the Dubai-Irish Simone O'Malley-Sutton discovering, preserving and Sandren Gopal Naidoo Hurley O.M.I. - the South Frances Carter (NUIG) patriotic poetry heard as far away (University of Wisconsin- identity: a study of the ceramic Savannah Research Library construct Irishness in a new (UCC) documenting Savannah's Irish African Irish anti-apartheid as China: a postcolonial study Milwaukee) assemblage at the McHugh site and Municipal Archives) immigrant destination history activist (1915-2004) Malcolm Campbell (university Ireland, religion and the making of of Auckland) the Pacific world
30 minute Tea & Coffee Break
Protestant, Professional, Progressive? Unsettling Narratives of Biographies of the Irish in America and Australia Memory and Commemorative Practices of the Irish Overseas the Irish in Modern Britain The McHugh Archaeological Site (Part Two) Case studies in trsnsnationalism Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: Irial Glynn (Universiteit Leiden) Chair: TBC Chair: tbc "I felt the Celt in me rise up": Dr Rodney Sullivan & Robin Monuments and diasporic The Irish in Britain, decolonization, Artie Hanrahan, an emerging Mo Moutlon (University of Eric E. Burant (University of That "most earnest necessity": Fidelma Breen (University of Stephanie James Sullivan (University of memory in southeast and the international co-operative The Irish Diaspora in Australia Irish radical in Australia 1910- Birmingham) Wisconsin-Milwaukee) buttons from the McHugh site Adelaide) Queensland) Queensland, 1872-1928 movement 1919 Duelling with the Dervish of 11:30 - 13:00 Dutch Street: John O'Callaghan, Material culture at the McHugh Commemorative traditions: St. Robert W. Vander Heiden the United Irish League Bulletin James M. Farrell (University of Jennifer Redmond (NUI The Irish in 20th century Britain: site: glass bottles, immigrant Alanna Warner Smith Tony King (NUIG) Patrick's Day oratory in (University of Wisconsin- Embedded Lives and of America, and the campaign New Hampshire) Maynooth) professionals hiding in plain sight health, and the emergence of (Syracuse University) America Milwaukee) Commingld Stories: An to promote the Irish American popular culture Introduction to the Huntington Parliamentary Party in the US Irish Moments of convergence: Irish Reclaiming New Orleans' Irish Sophie Cooper (University of Sarah Roddy (University of Irish Catholic fundraising in late Patricia B. Richards (University Irish-American cemeteries and lives in Melbourne and Chicago, Nicole Pepinster Greene past and its relation to Edinburgh) Manchester) 19th century Britain of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) the McHugh family burials 1850-1890 contemporary Ireland
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Revelations: How a 19th Century Bank is transforming 21st Archaeology and Anthropology: Material Culture Diaspora, Politics and Conflict Century Historical Research I dTreo Siollabais Ghaeilge do Mheiriceá Thuaidh Rethinking Ireland's Diaspora North and South Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: Eoin McEvoy (UCD / Villanova University) Chair: TBC Catholic community and the The hyphen swats back: Irish Irish diaspora: historical diasporic politics, anti- archaeology and the 'Fighting colonialism, and the U.S. Unpacking the Family Networks of Deb Rotman (University of Irish' of Notre Dame, Indiana, David Brundage (University of Rejection of the Versailles Nicholas Wolf (New York the Emigrant Industrial Savings Síobhra Aiken (NUIG / Elms Pléifidh grúpa iartheagascóirí Johanne Devlin Trew Notre Dame) 1865-1914 California Santa Cruz) Treaty, 1918-1920 University) Bank Ledgers College) de chuid chlár Fulbright an cur (University of Ulster) In the shadow of Brexit chuige teagaisc a ghlac siad Those who remained: material Let them use the ballot wisely: chucu féin le linn dóibh bheith culture, landscape, and The Irish diaspora and election ag múineadh sna Stáit Andrew Webster (University consumption in the Irish campaigns in Ireland, 1917- Marion R. Casey (New York Irish New York under the Síle Dolan (UCD / Elms Aontaithe. Beidh béim ar leith Patrick Fitzgerald (Mellon Local diasporas, letters and of Maryland) homeland Elaine Callinan (TCD) 1920 University) microscope College) ar mhodhanna deartha Centre for Migration Studies) social media From the Wild Geese to siollabas, ar mhodhanna ginte Next parish America: tradition Waterloo: the Irish military Resurrecting the ethnic village: Claire Marie Dunne (Institiúid ábhar teagaisc, ar leagan amach The need for one or two Christopher C. Fennell and modernity on the Great diaspora in the late 18th Patricia Feighery Padian (New from Roscommon to New York's Oideachais Marino / an mheasúnaithe agus ar Brian Lambkin (Mellon 'national' diaspora centres on (University of Illinois) Blasket Island Ciaran McDonnell (UCD) century York University) Cherry Street University of Notre Dame) ullmhú an chláir chultúrtha. Centre for Migration Studies) the island of Ireland The American Parcel: material exchange amongst the Irish diaspora and home 14:00 - 15:30 John Porter (TCD) communities
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Far from Home: The Irish in Florida, Cuba, Brazil and Western Between Memory and Postmemory: Micro Histories of the Performing Irishness in Popular Culture: The Cetic Tiger and Global Irish Land War Plural Identities: Comparative Case-Studies Cape Irish in Canada Beyond Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC
16:00 - 17:30 Ireland's case for Independence and the discovery of 'Irish Americas': Conteur de la Grande Famine: plural identities, regionalisms Thinking about the Irish Francophone Memories of the and global diasporic networks Diaspora in Florida's Colonial Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin Great Famine on Quebec's The global Irish land war 1879- Irish migrants on British in the aftermath of the First Sarah Miller & William B. Lees Era (Concordia University) Gaspé Peninsula Mary S. O'Connell 1882: new perspectives Eleanor O'Leary television since 2009 Gessica Cosi (UCD) World War Always working, always Roman Catholic loyalty, Irish winning: Conor McGregor's violence, and the British transnational self-branding and connection: Irish Catholics 16:00 - 17:30 Kevin John McEvoy (Irish The forgotten Irish diaspora of The Life Geography of Charles Rían McLaughlin Holland Liberty and land: America's impact the fantasy of hyper-masculine Laura J. Smith (University of and the Upper Canadian South African Association) the Western Cape 1800 to 2000 Raymond Jess Ramsey Devlin (Northumbria University) on Irish nationalism 1870-1900 Anthony P. McIntyre (UCD) post-recession swagger Toronto) rebellion, 1837-8 In the Cross Hairs of the Ottawa Men: Backroom Strategies and Irish Allies in a familiar struggle: An overview of links between Immigration to Canada in the Andrew Maguire (University Irish nationalism in the West Aedan Alderson (York comparatively examining Irish Peter O'Neill Ireland and Brazil since 1577 Linda Fitzgibbon Post-War Years of Ulster) Riding of Yorkshire, c.1970-1922 Aoife Monks TBC University) and Mi'kmaq history The migration of Lieutenant Michael Henry Lynch and his Paul B. McNulty (UCD) illegitimate siblings Colonos Blancos and the wages of whiteness: Irish Immigrants Margaret Brehony in Colonial Cuba Representations of Irishness: Art, Poetry, Screen and Transnational Radicalism between Ireland and the Displacement and Relocation Song Foinsí: Scríobh agus Cló na Gaeilge Americas, 1880-1920 Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Paddy in the smoke: Irish Irish migration in early John Creaghe, Henry builders and entrepreneurs globalisation, 16th-17th George and the Reception Michael Mulvey (NUI and the Post-War Fintan Cullen (University of Representing the Irish Éamon Ó Ciosáin (NUI centuries, Europe and the of the Land League in Maynooth) reconstruction of London Nottingham) migrant: humour or pathos? Maynooth) Americas Niall Whelehan Argentina From Transatlantic (Inter)national celebrity Moderate to Radical: Dr. Boston and the Famine identity: the Irish-American Gertrude B. Kelly and the 09:00 - 11:00 John McColgan (Boston City 1847: city government and performances of Saoirse founding of Cumann na Archives) the immigrant crisis Loretta Goff (UCC) Ronan and Aidan Quinn Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail (UCD) TBC Miriam Nyhan Grey mBan in New York in 1914 The second migration: Irish Americans and the move to Emotion and song among The Irish language and A foreign institution: Irish Beth O'Leary Anish the suburbs Post-World Deirdre Ní Chonghaile the Irish-speaking diaspora Bobbie Nolan (University of identity in Philadelphia, boycotting and Anglo- (University of Rhode Island) War II (NUIG) in America, 1870-1939 Edinburgh) 1850-1920 Andrew Phemister American liberalism Point of connection: Identity in the working-class Migratory grief: the silent exploring cultural identity Dymphna Lonergan movement: Irish-American Maeve O'Leary grief of voluntary migration Rosaleen Crowley through Irish art and poetry (Flinders University) Language in a Boat Leah Hunnewell socialism 1900-1910
30 minute Tea & Coffee Break
The Irish and War in a Global Context Irish Children Abroad Memory and Diaspora Folklore and Emigration Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC To 'bear his memory to the Irish resistance to Luke J. Pecoraro (George latest ages': George Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh Oral accounts of emigration conscription in New Zealand Laura E. Gage (University of Born American, becoming Washington's Mount Washington's legacy in (National Folklore Collection in the 19th and 20th Peter Burke in WWII - the untold story Foreign Languages, Dalian) Irish Vernon) Ireland's built environment UCD) centuries "And that is how my aunt ended up in America..." The campaign (1992-96) for first-hand accounts of the creation of "Grosse Ile emigration and 11:30 - 13:00 Greater Ireland and the A tale of two classes: Irish and the Irish Memorial" displacement in the Shane Lynn (University of Boer War: empire, diaspora teachers and Irish children Canadian National Historic Anna Bale (National archives of the National Toronto) and nationalism Ríona Nic Congáil (DCU) in late 19th-century York John J. Masterson Site in Quebec Folklore Collection UCD) Folklore Collection UCD Children on board: the The Irish revolution and U.S. forgotten children of Irish Irish memorialisation in the Elizabeth McKillen Labor internationalism: convicts transported to Van mid-North of South (University of Maine) 1916 - 1923 Dianne Snowden Diemen's Land Janine McEgan Australia Kelly Fitzgerald (UCD) TBC The call to arms: British ethnocentrism in Irish Australian bushranger Michael Tveter (University recruitment during the folklore and its Irish of Cambridge) Great War P.J. Gaynor connections
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The Schools' Folklore Collection as a resource for local history and genealogical research Irish Family Histories Performative Identities of Irishness Mo Thuras go h-Americe': Douglas Hyde in America Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC County Tyrone, Ireland to Douglas Hyde's American Sumner County, Tennessee tour 1905/06: logistics, Kevin E. Smith (Middle and back again: Rogans on Media practices and organisation, teamwork and Úna Bhreathnach (DCU) Tennessee State University) both sides of the Atlantic Dan Dwyer (NUIG) Irishness in Britain Liam Mac Mathúna (UCD) tensions
The Schools' Folklore 14:00 - 15:30 Collection as a resource for local history and genealogical research Sharing news and views across the Atlantic: correspondence between The Schools' Folklore Douglas Hyde, Lucy Kurtz, Collection as a resource for 14:00 - 15:30 Divergent paths: a family Cultural resilience: Nellie O'Brien and Ethel local history and John Herson (Liverpool John history approach to Irish catastrophes as turning Chance during Hyde's genealogical research Gearóid Ó Cleircín (DCU) Moores University) migration and settlement Mairéid Sullivan points in the arts Máire Nic an Bhaird American Tour 1905/1906 A long odyssey from rural Ireland to rural South Africa: a Coughlan/Coghlan story from county Wicklow to East Griqualand via Representations of Irishness Conchúr Mag Eacháin (DCU) Mark Sebastian Coghlan Yorkshire Orla Donnelly (UCC) in stand-up comedy Cuan Ó Seireadáin TBC Recasting migration Liam Harte (University of research findings as drama: Manchester) a case-study
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Irish revolutionaries in America: Archaeological and The Spanish-Irish Connection. From Milesians to the Historical Evidence Irish Conquerors in Native Lands The development of Irish-American identity Present Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Chair: TBC A rebel's tale and a murder mystery: Thomas F. The Song of Amergin. The Meagher and the Fort Irish Spanish connection. Mark Newell (Georgia Benton Waterfront Bryan P. McGovern Andrew Jackson and Irish Tara and the Brigades. The Archaeological Institute) Montana Nora Murphy TBC (Kennesaw State University) identity Noelia de las Morenas Díaz Heart of Ireland. Jail Journal - the Irish Paddy confronts 16:00 - 17:30 archaeology of John modernization on the Mitchel's Bermuda sojourn Marcie Rendon TBC Eileen McMahon Illinois Frontier 1836-1850 Clive James Bolger TBC The Fenian Brotherhood in What were they thinking? William McKone (Fenian North America: origins and Maurice Collis, a reluctant Mary C. Kelly (Franklin Irish-American intellectual Historical Society) actions Joseph Woods colonialist Pierce University) culture 1919-1922 Fidelma Wexford TBC Nick Harrington Fenians in the Forrest: the Irish-American identity in (Washington State strange battle for Fenianism Ted Smyth (New York the 21st century: decline or University, Vancouver) in the Oregon frontier University) growth? Alice Gildea TBC Media, Diaspora and the Press Irish America in the Civil War Era Tracing Clans of Ireland Archaeology of the Irish in the US and Australia Chair: TBC Chair: Kevin Kenny (Boston College) Chair: TBC Chair: TBC Irish migration and the From Ireland to Argentina: a For those that remained Press coverage of global Irish Stephen A. Brighton Aoife Whelan (UCD) Cathal Smith (NUIG) origins of the American Civil Joe Mannion case study from the Mannion behind: Ireland in the Irish revival (University of Maryland) War Clan Diaspora diaspora The materiality of Irishness: Crosscurrents of abolitionism Ian Delahanty (Springfield The O'Gara brothers in 18th Katherine Hull (ASI Cultural retaining and expressing Regina Uí Chollatáin (UCD) Irish Press in America and migration between Máire Ní Chearbhaill College) century Europe Heritage Services) connections across the Ireland and the United States Atlantic Townscape, townspace: an News of home: international Neither hopeless nor hapless: archaeology and history of 09:00 - 11:00 James O'Donnell news agencies and the Irish James Zibro (Kent School) Irish-born soldiers in the Michael Egan TBC Julie Richko Labate Irishness in San Patricio, diaspora Union army Texas, 1825 to present "They poured out their life- blood like water, upholding Edmund-Dwyer Gray: an Catherine Bateson the Red, White and Blue": Susan Arthure (Flinders A hidden Ireland: uncovering Felix Larkin Desmond O'Shaughnessy TBC Irishman in Tasmania (University of Edinburgh) Irish soldier articulation of University) Australia's first clachan American loyalty in Civil War songs Irish soldiers in Civil War Florry O'Driscoll (NUIG) America: transnational links and motivations
30 minute Tea & Coffee Break
Keynote Lecture George Moore Auditorium 11:30 - 13:00 Prof. Donal McCracken
Into Africa: 'Irish soldiers of the Queen; missionaries of God; the adventurous and the foolhardy'
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Roundtables - TBC Theorising the Diaspora 14:00 - 16:00 Irish Studies: New Perspectives