Irish Studies Summer School 2018

School of Arts and Humanities Magee campus, Ulster University June - August 2018

Irish Studies Summer School 2018 1 Irish Studies Summer School, (2013), Derry (weeks 2 - 5) is one of the most historic and Ulster University culturally vibrant cities in June-August 2018 these islands. Ulster University is delighted to announce its fifth Founded in the 6th Century, annual Irish Studies Summer School. and associated with Colmcille, one of Ireland’s three patron Location saints, it is the mother-house of the great Columban It is set in three of Ireland’s major cities and in some monastic confederacy of the most beautiful and culturally rich regions of which blazed the trail for Western Europe, adjacent to the Causeway Coast Irish involvement in the The Annals of the Four and the Donegal and Sperrin Mountains. Regular preservation of European Christianity. It is also Masters, a key source flights to London (via Derry and Belfast) and from the longest continually inhabited city on the for Irish History, were compiled in west Ulster Dublin will enable students to visit most of Europe’s island. great capital cities during their stay with us. Derry and global literature The Donegal Gaeltacht The City is also associated with Ireland’s major Week 6 offers participants a unique Irish Language contributions to world letters: the Book of immersion in Gaoth Dobhair, a vibrant, Irish- Kells, the ‘Cathach’ of Colmcille, the plays of speaking community, set in some of the finest George Farquhar, the philosophical tracts of scenery and amenities in Europe. George Berkeley and the writings of the Field- Day circle, founded and directed by Seamus Derry: A microcosm for Heaney, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Irish Studies Deane, Tom Paulin and Thomas Kilroy. As ‘Atlantic Gateway’, ‘UK City of Culture’ (2013) and a ‘Lonely Planet’ top-ten tourist destination

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2 Irish Studies Summer School 2018 Derry and World War II The Royal Navy and US Marines based themselves in Derry for the war’s duration; the Allies would subsequently win the Battle of the Atlantic (1940-42) from Lough Foyle and Germany finally surrendered the North Atlantic U-boat fleet at nearby Lisahally.

‘American Gateway’ and window on Ireland’s past Derry became a cock-pit for the post-Reformation, Tudor Re-Conquest of Ireland (1534-1603) and its Tower Museum houses the ‘Trinidad Valencera’, one of the finest Spanish Armada wrecks to have been excavated off the Irish coast. It is also the primary, purpose-built citadel of the Ulster Plantation (1609) and the sister-city of London. Its historic walls, among the finest in Western Europe, have been the setting for one of the most important Surrendered German U-boats, Lisahally sieges in Irish and British History. Derry is also the ‘Atlantic Gateway’, through which millions of Irish ‘The Troubles’ and men and women would make their voyage to the ‘Land of Caanan’ (America) in the eighteenth and Good Friday Agreement nineteenth centuries. The Civil Rights Movement (1968) and ‘The Troubles’ effectively commenced in Derry and it provided the

Irish Studies Summer School 2018 3 Accreditation The participants will accrue credit points for the six-week course for which they will also receive a certificate from Ulster University. Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness, President Clinton and John Hume

setting for some of its worst violence. However, the city has emerged as a key focus of cross-community peace-building and reconciliation post- Good Friday Agreement (1998). The Programme Our interdisciplinary programme will enable participants to acquire specialist knowledge of Irish Studies across drama, film, history, literature, music, peace and conflict studies and politics. The curriculum connects the inter-related cultures, histories, languages and literatures of Ulster, the rest of Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America. Madonna & Child, Book of Kells

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Monday Flights arriving in from various USA airports to Dublin 25 June airport. Meet & Greet at Yellow Sculpture, near food court 7 - 10:00am of Terminal 2. 2 - 5pm Rest period (Cell Phone +447921 789445 or [email protected])

12:00 Lunch 7 - 8pm Pizza Hour

1:30 - 2:00pm Check in to Dublin accommodation 8pm - Free evening

Tuesday 8:30am Buffet Breakfast 2 - 7pm Accompanied visits to National Museum of 26 June Ireland and National Gallery of Ireland 9:30 - 11am Historical Walking Tour 7pm Group Dinner

11am - 1pm Tour of Guinness Hop-Store and lunch 8pm - Free evening

Wednesday 8:30am Buffet Breakfast 2.30pm Depart for Belfast and check-in 27 June 9:30am Sight seeing tour of Dublin (by bus) 4pm Sight-seeing tour of Belfast 1pm Lunch 7pm Group dinner

Thursday 8:30am Buffet breakfast 1:30pm Titanic Centre 28 June 9:30am Titanic Dry Dock talk and tour 3:30pm Sign the Peace Wall Depart for Derry, 11:30am Early Lunch at the Dry Dock restaurant 4 - 6:30pm check in to student accomodation

Friday 9:30am Tea and scones, followed by induction, library/campus tour 6 - 8pm Mayor’s Reception in Guildhall 29 June and student registration (Ros and Richard) 1pm Lunch 8pm - Free evening 2 - 4pm Walking tour of Derry’s Walls (with Éamonn ) Sat 30 June - Mon 2 July Long weekend to settle into the student village, go food shopping and explore the city 5 Week 2

Tuesday 3 July 9:30 - Lecture: ‘The Great Irish Sagas’ Lecture: ‘The Gaelic League and Irish Revival’ 11am Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD007

11am Break 3pm Walk over to the playing fields

11:15am- Seminar: ‘The Great Irish Sagas’ 3:15 - Workshop: Gaelic games – Hurling and Camogie 12:30pm Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil - Room: MD012 4:45pm Dr Neil Comer Wednesday 4 July 9:30 - Lecture: ‘Irish scribes and their manuscripts’ Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in English: from Spenser to Yeats 1’ 11am Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007

11am Break 3pm Break

11:15am- Seminar: ‘Irish scribes and their manuscripts’ 3:15 - Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in English: from Spenser to Yeats 2’ 12:30pm Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann - Room: MD012 4.45pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007 Thursday 5 July 9:30 - Lecture: ‘Dinnsheanchas: Irish Place-names’ Lecture: ‘The Irish Diaspora: local perspectives, 1870-1920’ 11am Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Dr Andrew Maguire - Room: MD007

11am Break 3pm Break

11:15am - Screening: ‘Mapping Ulster’ 3:30 - Seminar: ‘The Irish Diaspora: local perspectives, 1870-1920’ 12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 4:30pm Dr Andrew Maguire - Room: MD007

Friday 6 July, Saturday 7 July, Sunday 8 July and Monday 9 July - Free for independent travel

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Tuesday 10 July

Lecture: ‘The Ulster Plantation’ Lecture: ‘From Reformation to Revolution, 1534-1688’ 9:30 - 11am Dr Marie-Claire Peters - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Dr Billy Kelly - Room: MD007

11am Break 3 - 3:15pm Break

11:15am - Screening: ‘Wolfland’ Lecture: ‘Revival and Rebellion, 1892-1916’ 12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 3:15 - 5pm Dr Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh - Room MD007 Wednesday 11 July Lecture: ‘Ireland from Reformation to American 9:30 -11am Civil War’ 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ulster’ Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 Ryan Feeney - Room: MD007 11 - 11:15am Break 3 - 3:15pm Break

11:15am - Seminar: Class Discussion Workshop: ‘Traditional Irish Music’ 12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 3:15 - 5 pm Dr Liz Doherty: Recital Room in Foyle Arts Building Thursday 12 July

9:30am - Excursion to Doagh Famine Village with Ros Irish arms/costume display 1pm (admission, transport and lunch included) 2 - 4pm Tomás Ó Brógáin - The Great Hall

Friday 13 July

Excursion to Dunluce Castle, Giant’s Causeway and Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge – admission tickets and transport included 9am – 6pm (with Ros) Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July - Free for independent travel

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Tuesday 17 July 9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘Irish Landscape and Topography’ 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Irish Military Diaspora, 1534-1918’ Dr Liam Campbell - Room: MD012 Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007 11am Break 3pm Break Lecture: ‘Dorothy Grace-Hartnett: Rabble-rouser, Author 11:15am- Screening: ‘Translations’ 3:15 - and Fascist’ 12:30pm Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 4:45pm Dr James Loughlin - Room: MD007 Wednesday 18 July

Lecture: ‘WWI in Nationalist Memory’ Lecture: ‘Irishmen in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39’ 9:30 -11am 1:30 - 3pm Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 Dr Emmet O’Connor - Room: MD007 11am Break 3pm Break

11:15am- Lecture: ‘Revolutionary Ireland ’ Lecture: ‘WWI in Unionist Memory’ 3:15 - 5pm 12:30pm Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room MA007

Thursday 19 July Lecture: ‘Independent Ireland’ Lecture: ‘The Troubles, 1968-98’ 9:30am 1:30 - 3pm Dr Philip McDermott - Room MA007 Marie-Claire Peters - Room MA007 11am Break 3:30 - 5pm Film: ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’ 11:15 am - Screening: ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’ 12:30pm Friday 20, Saturday 21, Sunday 22 and Monday 23 Free for independent travel this week-end

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Tuesday 24 July Workshop: ‘The Troubles and Post -Agreement 9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘The Gaelic League’ 1:30 - 3pm Fiction’ Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD012 Garbhan Downey - Room: MD007 11am Break 3pm Break

11:15am - Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in Irish, 1895-2018’ 3:15 - Walking Tour of ‘The Bogside’ 12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha Room-MD012 4:45pm (weather permitting) Wednesday 25 July Lecture: ‘Irish Writers since Yeats 1’ Workshop: ‘The Far Side of Revenge I’ 9:30 -11am Dr Loredana Salis - Room: MD007 1:30 - 3pm Jim Keys - Room: The Great Hall

11am Break 3pm Break

Lecture: ‘Irish Writers since Yeats 2’ 3:15 - 4:45pm Workshop: ‘The Far Side of Revenge II’ 11:15am - Dr Loredana Salis - Room: MD007 12:30pm Jim Keys - Room: The Great Hall Thursday 26 July Lecture: ‘Irish Language and Society’ 9:30 - 11am 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘Irish Drama’ Dr Malachy Ó Néill - Room: MD012 Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick - Room: The Great Hall 11am Break 3pm Break Class Discussion 11:15am - 3:15 - 4:30pm Seminar: ‘Irish Drama and Practice’ 12:30 Dr Malachy Ó Néill - Room: MD012 Dr Matt Jennings - Room: The Great Hall Friday 27 July - Awards’ Dinner, Bishop’s Gate Hotel at 7pm Free day for packing before departing to the Gaeltacht. Students can also could go to the playing fields at the student village and cheer on the Texas Tech Engineering students who will battle it out to win the trophy in their competition 11.00am - 12.30pm. The Awards Dinner starts at 7pm.

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A week of immersion in Irish language and culture with ‘Ranganna Gaeilge’ (Irish classes) and various cultural activities each evening. All classes/activities take place in Pobalscoil building unless otherwise stated. Return transport provided from Teach Campbell to Pobalscoil for each day. Dé Sathairn 28 Iúil / Saturday 28 July Depart Duncreggan at 11am for check-in at 1pm in Teach Campbell, Gaoth Dobhair Dé Domhnaigh 29 Iúil / Sunday 29 July 9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge 1pm Lón / Lunch 2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge 7.30pm - 9.30pm Tráth na gCeist / Table Quiz Dé Luain 30 Iúil / Monday 30 July 9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge 1pm Lón / Lunch 1.50pm - 6pm Turas Treoraithe / Guided Tour 9pm - 11pm Oíche Cheoil i dTeach Hiúdaí / Music in Teach Hiúdaí (optional) Dé Máirt 31 Iúil / Tuesday 31 July 9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge 1pm Lón / Lunch 2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge 7.30pm - 9.30pm Ceol, Filíocht & Stair / Music, Poetry & History (presentation) 9.30pm - 11pm Céilí / Dancing in Teach Jack (optional)

10 Dé Céadaoin 1 Lúnasa / Wednesday 1 August 9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge 1pm Lón / Lunch 2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge 3.30pm Turas go Gabhla / Trip to Gola Island (optional) *€10 extra Déardaoin 2 Lúnasa / Thursday 2 August 9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge 1pm Lón / Lunch 2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge 7.30pm - 9.30pm Gearóidín Bhreathnach / Traditional Irish singing in the Acadamh Dé hAoine 3 Lúnasa / Friday 3 August 9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge 1pm Lón / Lunch 2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge 9pm - 11pm Céilí an Chúrsa / ‘End of course’ Céilí in Teach Jack Dé Sathairn 4 Lúnasa / Saturday 4 August Depart Accommodation at 5:00am for Dublin Airport

11 Irish Studies Liz Doherty is an internationally-acclaimed fiddle player, educator and consultant in the Liam Campbell holds a traditional arts. A founder- BA in Theology and Philosophy member and performer (NUI, Maynooth), an MA in with bands such as Environmental Science (Queen’s) ‘Nomos’ and ‘Fiddlesticks’, ‘The Bumblebees’, and a PhD in Cultural Heritage ‘String Sisters’ and ‘Blazin’ Fiddles’, she has also from Ulster. He is Cultural Officer performed with ‘Riverdance – The Show’. Before at the Lough Neagh Landscape coming to Ulster, Liz taught at Cape Breton Partnership. In addition he has University (Canada) and Marshall University (US). worked for nearly twenty years as a TV producer for BBC, UTV, Channel 4 and RTÉ. Garbhan Downey is a Derry-born novelist Niall Comer is a Lecturer in who has published eight Irish at Ulster and a member of critically-acclaimed works the Northern Ireland Languages of fiction. He has also Council. President of Conradh contributed stories to na Gaeilge, formerly President of Comhaltas UIadh (2008) and several anthologies of Irish editor of ‘An tUltach’, one of crime fiction and edits Ireland’s leading Irish-Language Desmond Doherty’s new thriller series ‘Valberg’ journals, his major research interests include Irish- for Guildhall Press. A former newspaper editor language lexicography and place-lore. and senior BBC producer, Downey was the founding editor of ‘Verbal: The Northern Ireland Literary Review’. He currently manages the Hive Studio, Derry’s newest creative cultural hub and is an editor at Guildhall Press.

12 Irish Studies Summer School 2018 Ryan Feeney is the Head of the International Association for the Study of Public Engagement at Queen’s Irish Literatures (IASIL, 2014); Warwick Politics University Belfast, responsible and Performance Network (2012), and the Irish for leading the university’s Theatrical Diaspora project in Toronto (2011). civic, political and community She has recently published in The Irish University engagement work. He is also Review (2015), Contemporary Theatre Review an independent member of the (2013) and edited collections on Performing Policing Board appointed to the Feminisms in Contemporary Ireland and the role by the Minister for Justice (May 2011). Before Performance of Violence (2011). his employment at Queen’s he served as a full time Senior GAA official, working for Ulster GAA leading the Community Engagement and Public Affairs Billy Kelly is a native of work of the Association. From 2014 to 2016 he was Derry and a graduate of Trinity a Visiting Professor of Governance and Policy at College Dublin and Cambridge Ulster University. University. He research interests are in early modern Irish and Lisa Fitzpatrick studied British History. He is general at Trinity College Dublin and editor of the Ulster and Scotland UCD, completing her PhD at Series (Four Courts Press) . the University of Toronto. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Drama at the School of Creative Arts, Ulster University, teaching a range of a range of theoretical modules, and supervising graduate research in contemporary performance practice. She has received funding from the British Academy and the Canadian High Commission, and has spoken at at a number of events, including

Irish Studies Summer School 2018 13 James Loughlin is Reader Andrew Maguire holds a in History at Ulster University BA Hons and PG Diploma in Irish and was previously a Research History & Politics, a Masters in Fellow at Queen’s University, Research (History) and a PhD in Belfast. His specialisms range Irish History/Diaspora Politics widely over Irish and British from Ulster. He is currently a history in the nineteenth and temporary lecturer at Ulster in twentieth centuries. They Qualitative Research and has include the Home Rule question in the late Victorian published several articles on the era; the nature of British identity and how it has Irish diaspora nationalist politics. been interpreted by the Ulster Unionist community; the Northern Ireland problem in the modern Nioclas Mac Cathmhaoil period; and, most recently, the British monarchy completed his PhD at Ulster and Ireland. These research interests have found (2010) and served as a Fulbright expression in the following publications: Gladstone, Professor at UC Berkeley in Home and the Ulster Question, 1882-92 (Dublin, 2012-3. During this sojourn, he 1986); Ulster Unionism and British National identity completed his monograph on Since 1885 (London, 1995); The Ulster Question the Irish poet/scribe Muiris Ó Since 1945 (Basingstoke, 1998; 2nd edition, 2004); Gormáin. His research interests The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the include the Irish manuscript Present (Cambridge, 2007; revised ed., 2011). tradition, Classical and Early Modern Irish, dialects and modern Irish literature.

14 Irish Studies Summer School 2018 Peadar Mac Gabhann Tomás Ó Brógáin holds joined the university in 2000, a BA Hons in Irish History having been previously and Politics from Ulster, and employed at Notre Dame. is currently completing his Before moving to the United MRes. Tomás also runs Oireas States, Peadar held the position Historical Services, which of Lecturer in Celtic at the specialises in 17th Century University of Bonn. He has warfare displays and event recently served as the Ireland-Canada University organisation. He is also on the Heritage Councils Foundation’s Visiting Professor at St. Michael’s Heritage in Schools expert panel and is the resident College, University of Toronto. He has published cartographer for History Ireland and Word Well extensively on late medieval and early modern Irish books. He is also a guest book reviewer for The Wild literature. Geese web site in the US and development officer for Letterkenny, Community and Heritage group Pauline Gardiner received (LHCG). her BA and MRes in Irish History and Politics from Ulster University and is presently in the final stages of completing her PhD on Great War veterans in the South of Ireland. Her research areas include Protestant/Unionist historiography, memory, and identity. She also has a keen interest in the use of history within community relations and peacebuilding.

Irish Studies Summer School 2018 15 Éamonn Ó Ciardha has Malachy Ó Néill is Provost published books and articles on of Magee campus. An award- law and order, popular politics, winning teacher and passionate cultural history, the outlaw, advocate for Irish, Dr Ó Néill and the use of Irish-language has delivered guest-lectures at sources for Irish History. Freiburg, Notre Dame and New Formerly a research assistant York Universities. at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and the Royal Irish Academy, he has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Notre Dame (US), the Saarland (Germany), Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh holds the University of Vienna (Austria) and Framingham BA and MRes degrees from State University (USA). He is a Senior Lecturer in Ulster and recently completed Irish Literature and History at Ulster. his PhD thesis on the diaries of Seán Ó hEochaidh, the Teelin-born folklorist and Emmet O’Connor collector. Pádraig is Language completed an MA in UCG in Development Officer with 1979 and a PhD at St John’s Conradh na Gaeilge. College, Cambridge in 1984. Since 1985 he has lectured at Ros O’Hagan is a graduate Ulster. Between 1983 and 2001, of Ulster University in Business he co-edited Saothar, and is an Administration and an Associate honorary president of the Irish Fellow of the Higher Education Labour History Society. He has published widely on Authority. Ros is responsible for labour history, including A Labour History of Ireland, Summer School administration 1824-2000 (UCD Press, 2011), Derry Labour in the and will be one of the first people Age of Agitation, 1889-1923 (Four Courts, 2014) and you will meet when you land on the definitive biography of Jim Larkin (UCD, 2015). Irish soil.

16 Irish Studies Summer School 2018 Marie-Claire Peters e received her PhD from Ulster in 2012. She co-edited The Flight of the Earls/Imeacht na nIarlaí (2010) with Drs Éamonn Ó Ciardha and David Finnegan, named a BBC History Magazine ‘Book of the Year’ in 2011. She is currently a researcher and lecturer at Ulster. Loredana Salis is Lecturer in English Literature at the Università di Sassari, Italy. She obtained an MA in Irish Literature in English (2001) and a PhD in Comparative Literatures (2005). Her monographs include Miti antichi, storie d’oggi (Pellegrini Editore, 2009) and Stage Migrants: Representations of the Migrant Other in Modern Irish Drama (CSP, 2010). In addition, she has published articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe, Dickens, Gaskell, WWI war narratives, WB Yeats, Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry, Edna O’Brien and Mary Morrissy.

Irish Studies Summer School 2018 17 Course Director: Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha T: +44 28 7167 5257 E: [email protected]

Summer School Administrator: Mrs Ros O’ Hagan T: +44 28 7167 5277 E: [email protected]

School of Arts and Humanities Magee campus, Ulster University Northland Road, Derry BT 48 7JL Northern Ireland T: +44 28 7167 5277 E: [email protected] ulster.ac.uk/arts/international/irishstudies

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