A Workshop on Comparative
Coastal Topographies
6-7 November 2015
Lecture Theatre, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme, with additional support from
Cardiff University and the School of English, University College Cork.
Friday 6th November
16h00/ 16h15
Welcome from Prof Claire Connolly (University College Cork) and Dr Finola O’Kane
(University College Dublin)
16h15 / 18h00
Dr Catriona Kennedy (University of York) ‘Military ways of seeing? British views of the
Egyptian coast in 1801'
Dr Finola O’Kane (University College Dublin) ‘’The Comparative Coastal Topographies
of Westport, Co. Mayo and Kelly's Pen, St. Dorothy's Parish, Jamaica'
Saturday 7th November
09h30 / 10h30
Dr Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales) ‘Shipwrecks and screaming monkeys:
“View near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire” by William Daniell (1815)’
Dr Rieko Suzuki (Waseda University) ‘Coastal landscapes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild
Irish Girl’
10h30 / 11h00
Coffee
11h00 /
12h00
Prof Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh) ‘”What Providence sends on our coasts”:
Island and Empire in Walter Scott's The Pirate’
Prof Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow), ‘Joseph Banks, Fingal's Cave and the Pacific’
12h00 / 13h30
Lunch
13h30 / 14h30
Emily Mann (Courtauld Institute) ‘“A handsome Prospect from the Sea”: picturing English
interests in Africa’
Dr Jonathan Finch (University of York) ‘Approaches to the Sugar Islands: Barbados as Little
England?’
14h30 / 15h00
Tea
15h00 / 16h00
Prof Tom Dunne (University College Cork) 'Romantic Coast?: George Petrie’s Dun Aengus
Fort, Inismore, Aran Islands (c.1827)'
Peter Murray (Crawford Art Gallery) ‘"Hulks, Whelks and Stratigraphy": coastal sketches
of George Victor du Noyer’
16h00 / 17h00
Closing roundtable including Prof John Barrell (Queen Mary University), Prof Claire
Connolly (University College Cork) and Prof Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham).