Conflict, Migration & Identity in Modern Ireland: Global and transnational perspectives

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1 Conflict, Migration & Identity in Modern Ireland: Global and transnational perspectives TCD, VISUAL Centre & Carlow College, 12th - 15th April Yinka Shonibare Cannonball Heaven, Image courtesy Stephen Friedman Gallery

2 Keynote Speakers: Professor Bridget Anderson (Oxford University) Professor Joe Cleary (Maynooth University) Professor Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh) Professor Joe Lee (New York University) Professor Tim Meagher (Catholic University of America) Registration Conference Registration is open from 9.30am, Wednesday 13 th April at VISUAL. Programme Tuesday 12th April, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin 5.00pm Free public lecture: Professor Tim Meagher (Catholic University of America) Irish-American Nationalism in an Irish-American Context: 1900 to 1923

3 Wednesday 13th April, Carlow College / VISUAL 11.30am-12.50pm: Session 1A Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College Conflict, race and revolution: The Irish in the Caribbean and South America Margaret Brehony (UCC) Irish Migration, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Race, Labour and Identity in Colonial Cuba, José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez (University of Salamanca) The sacred cause of liberty? Transnational Irish perceptions of the independence revolutions in the Hispanic Atlantic, Jerome Devitt (TCD) Fenian Footprint: The Fenians, Bermuda, and the Imperial Imagination Chair: Richard Mc Mahon (TCD)

4 11.30am-12.50pm: Session 1B Conflict, mobility and war in modern Irish history Ciarán McDonnell (Maynooth University) Zeal and Patriotism : transnational Irish military identities, from the Boyne to the Somme Joseph Quinn (TCD) I wouldn t have missed it for the world : Emigration from Ireland and the recruitment of Irish volunteers into the British forces during the Second World War, Bernard Kelly (University of Edinburgh) Prisoners or Aliens? Eire, Northern Ireland and German Prisoners of war, Chair: Thomas McGrath (Carlow College) pm: Lunch, Lennons@VISUAL pm: Main Foyer, Carlow College Exhibition launch of Traces of Memory: A contemporary look at the Jewish Past in Poland by Tomi Reichental, Holocaust survivor.

5 (Holocaust Education Trust Ireland and Carlow College in association with the Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow) pm: Session 2 Conflict, resistance and integration in 19thcentury Ireland and North America Terry Dunne (Maynooth University) Collective Identity and Subaltern Insurgency in Pre-Famine Leinster: Evidence from Threatening Letters Alan Noonan (University of Montana) Your doom is sealed : Threatening letters in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania Regina Donlan (NUI, Galway) To condemn or to celebrate? Irishness and Irish immigrant identity formation in St Paul Minnesota and Scranton, Pennsylvania, Chair: Ciaran O Neill (TCD) pm Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College Special session: Now and in time to be : Irelands remembered and re-invented, with the Carlow Writers Co-Operative

6 pm Coffee break, Carlow College pm: Masterclass Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College Professor Tim Meagher (CUA) and Ted O Reilly (Librarian, New York Historical Society): Irish Americans are not Irish: Issues, concepts and sources in studying an American ethnic group Chair: Richard Mc Mahon (TCD) LAUNCH EVENTS AT VISUAL Refreshments will be served from 5.15pm pm Migration Stories Readings by members of Carlow Integration Forum, in partnership with the Irish Writer s Centre 6.00pm: Official Launch Official Launch by Dr Patrick Prendergast, Provost and President, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin with welcome note by Fr. Conn O Maoldomhnaigh, President of Carlow College 6.45pm: Keynote 1 Professor Joe Lee (New York University) Pearse, the Proclamation and the Easter Rising Chair: Robert Armstrong (TCD) 8.00pm: Film screening The Great Wall - followed by Q&A with Director Tadhg O Sullivan in the GB Bar

7 Thursday 14 April, Carlow College / VISUAL am Session 3A Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College Famine, conflict and migration Michael Huggins (University of Chester) The Irish Famine and Genocide Studies: an appraisal William Jenkins (York University) An unintelligible jargon of English and Irish : Catholic Irish immigrants and the shaping of Toronto s public culture in the post-famine era Chair: Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh) am Session 3B Identity and representation in modern Ireland Felix Wadsworth (University of Edinburgh) Between worlds: a study of the spiritual, cultural and political identity of Philip O Flaherty (d.1886) Colum Kenny (DCU) Shinners, socialists and McSheeneys : media representations of Jewish immigrants in Edwardian Ireland, Chair: John Regan (University of Dundee)

8 pm Coffee break, VISUAL pm: Session 4 Revolution, politics and migration Elaine Callinan (Carlow College / TCD) New Votes, Absent Votes: The Propaganda of Conflict and the Effect of Migration on the 1918 General Election Jennifer Redmond (Maynooth University) Migration, Violence and the Irish Revolution: Escapees, Returnees or Other? Miriam Nyhan (NYU) Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly and New York s Cumann na mban Chair: Anne Dolan (TCD) pm Coffee break, VISUAL pm: Keynote 2 Professor Enda Delaney (University of Edinburgh), Carlow College, Cobden Hall A Fair-Weather Friend? Modern Ireland and the Irish Diaspora Chair: Catriona Crowe (National Archives of Ireland)

9 pm: Lunch, Carlow College 1.30pm: Theatrical Performance of Donal O Kelly, The Cambria (Benbo productions) VENUE: Cobden Hall, Carlow College pm: Session 5A Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College Conflict, migration and religious identity in modern Ireland and among the Irish Diaspora Conor Morrissey (TCD) After the Rising: Protestant republicans and Irish identity, John Regan (University of Dundee) The Exodus Myth and Ethnic Cleansing in twentieth-century Ireland Brian Walker (Queen s University Belfast) Varieties of identity among the American Irish today: Irish Americans, Scotch Irish and others Chair: Margaret Murphy (Carlow College) Session 5B: pm Legacies of conflict and homecomings in contemporary Ireland Jason King (National University of Ireland, Galway) Irish Refugee Crisis: Visual Legacies of the Irish Famine Forced Migration

10 Eleanor O Leary (IT Carlow) Migration, Return Migration and Surprise Homecomings in Post-Celtic Tiger Popular Culture Charlotte McIvor (National University of Ireland, Galway) Brokentalkers This Beach: Irish Performance and the European Migration Crisis Chair: David Ralph (TCD) pm: Coffee break, Carlow College pm: Keynote 3 Professor Bridget Anderson (University of Oxford), Cobden Hall, Carlow College Slaves, cockroaches and genuine refugees: migrants at the borders of Europe Chair: Mary Gilmartin (Maynooth University) 6.00pm: Conference Dinner, Lennons@VISUAL 8.oopm: Antiphon, music by Iarla Ó Lionáird and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

11 Friday 15 April Carlow College / VISUAL am: Masterclass Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College Dr. Mary Gilmartin (Maynooth University): Migration in modern Ireland Chair: William Jenkins (York) am: Session 6 Guests of the nation?: Hungarian experiences in 20th Century Ireland Balazs Apor (TCD) Hungarian Refugees in 1956: the Irish Case Vera Sheridan (DCU) 1956 Hungarian refugee children: it all depended on age Chair: Graeme Murdock (TCD)

12 am: Session 7A: Venue: James Doyle Room, Carlow College The Irish in 20th century Britain Simon Workman (Carlow College) You re a nice little thing, even if you are Irish : Maeve Kelly, constructions of Irish identity and migrant female experience in Post-War Britain Michael Mulvey (Maynooth University) Of Mice and Elephants : Cultural Heroism and Identity in the Irish Migrant Builders of Post war London Anna Walsh (University of Liverpool) Last Orders: the disappearance of the Irish pub in Leeds Chair: Miriam Nyhan (NYU)

13 am: Session 7B: Transnationalism, conflict and Irish cultural life James Heaney (Carlow College) Come and see the blood in the streets : the national and transnational relevance of the 1916 Rising to Modern Ireland Christine O Dowd-Smyth (Waterford Institute of Technology) Conflicting identities and post-independence alienation: A comparative postcolonial reading of Rachid Mimouni & John McGahern Sema Kara (LMU Munich) Transgression and Transnationality in Eavan Boland s poetry Chair: Eoghan Smith (Carlow College) am: Coffee break, Carlow College pm: Keynote 4 Professor Joe Cleary (Maynooth University), VISUAL Nation, Migration, Expatriation: Contemporary Irish Fiction and the Capitalist World System Chair: TBC

14 pm Artists talks with Gareth Kennedy and Clodagh Emoe