The Canadian Association of Irish Studies /Association canadienne
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The Canadian Association of Irish Studies /Association canadienne d’études irlandaises Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting 19-22 May 2010 Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Wednesday, 19 May 2010 3:00pm-5:30pm Loyola 282 Graduate Student Introduction & Workshop facilitated by Cecil Houston, University of Windsor 5:30pm-9:00pm: Conference Registration Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 7:30pm-9:00pm: Opening Reception Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 2 Thursday, 20 May 2010 8:30am: Registration and Refreshments Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 9:00am: Welcome Sobey 255 9:15am-10:30: Session 1 Sobey 255 The Irish Revolution: Myths and Ideals Chair: Gavin Foster, Concordia University 1. Danine Farquharson, Memorial University of Newfoundland Novels of the Easter Rising: Tainted Glory and Bloody Idealism 2. Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast National success, personal tragedy: the 1916 families and the creation of a national foundation myth 3. Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman, Independent Scholar, Hamilton, Ontario ‘Motivated by high ideals’: Reshaping the history of the Drumcondra Ambush, January 1921 10:30am-11:15am: Session 2 Sobey 255 The Charitable Irish Society of Halifax Reading Tugtha i láthair ag/ Introduction by Neasa Ní Chuaig, Saint Mary’s University MICHEÁL Ó CONGHAILE A dual-language reading 11:15am-11:30am: Refreshment Break Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 3 11:30am-12:45pm: Session 3a Sobey 255 Music, Sport and the Celtic Tiger Chair: Kate Dunlay, Saint Mary’s University 1. Brian E. Rainey, University of Regina Batting for England: Defining Success and Failure in Contemporary Irish Sport 2. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Concordia University, Montréal ‘German girls are grand but they’re very crabbit’: Doolin Devolved — A Case Study in Irish Musical Discontent 3. Michael Böss, Aarhus University, Denmark The Rise, Fall and Meanings of the Celtic Tiger 11:30am-12:45pm: Session 3b Loyola 170 Film and Texts Chair: Jerry White, University of Alberta 1. Donald Masterson, State University of New York, Oswego Representations of the Black and Tans in Irish Cinema 2. Heather Macdougall, Concordia University, Montréal Good Things in Small Packages: The Role of Short Films in Irish Cinema 3. Olivia Heaney, Memorial University of Newfoundland The Rights of Girls in Contemporary Irish Fiction and Film 12:45pm-2:15pm Lunch Dockside Dining Hall 4 2:15pm-3:30pm: Session 4a Sobey 255 Revivals and their Discontents Chair: Anthony O’Malley, Saint Mary’s University 1. Macy Todd, New York University To Revive a Famine 2. John Waters, New York University What were we Thinking?: Irish Studies and the ‘Content’ Celtic Tiger Ireland 3. Gregory Dobbins, University of California, Davis Falling into Old Ways: Idleness after the Celtic Tiger 2:15pm-3:30pm: Session 4b Loyola 170 Joyce: Text, Context and Hypertext Chair: Seán Kennedy, Saint Mary’s University 1. John Donahue, Concordia University Eveline and the Poisoner — Joyce and Browning: A Study in Contrasts 2. Maria Kager, Rutgers University Paralyzing Ghosts and Dynamic Engines: An Investigation into the Roles of the Parnell and Dreyfus Affairs in Joyces’ Ulysses and Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past 3. Stewart Donovan, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, and Trevor Sawler, St. Thomas University, Fredericton Hypertexting Irish High Modernism 3:30pm-3:45pm: Refreshment Break Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 3:45pm-4:45pm: Session 5a 5 Sobey 255 Language Matters Chair: Neasa Ní Chuaig, Saint Mary’s University 1. Feargal Ó Béarra, Concordia University, Montréal Labhraimse teanga nach dlisteanach feasta: Mine is a language which has fallen from favour 2. Jerry White, University of Alberta Some Basic Issues for an Ireland-Jura Comparison 3:45pm-4:45pm: Session 5b Loyola 170 Performing and Recording Chair: Michael Kenneally, Concordia University 1. Kevin Kerrane, University of Delaware Lughnasa in Performance: Promises and Pitfalls 2. John Countryman, Berry College, Georgia Was Ben Barnes a Success or a Failure as the Abbey’s Artistic Director? A Response to his Diaries. 8:00pm Ceolchoirm na Comhdhála/ Conference Concert Scotiabank Conference Theatre, Sobey Building, Saint Mary’s University Fear a’ Tí/ Introduction: Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin LASAIRFHÍONA NÍ CHONAOLA accompanied by James Nash on guitar 6 Friday, 21 May 2010 8:30am Registration and Refreshments Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 9:00am-10:15am: Session 5 Sobey 255 The Irish in Canada: Women Transplants, Fenians and Orangemen Chair: Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University 1. Sandra Barney, Lock Haven University ‘Mothers and Bewildered Wives’: Women Transplants from Ulster to New Brunswick, 1830-1840 2. David A. Wilson, University of Toronto Success and Failure in the Fenian Raids of 1866 3. Simon Jolivet, Université d’Ottawa Hope and Disappointment: the Failure of Québec’s Orange Order 10:15am-11:30am: Session 6 Sobey 255 An Cumann/The Irish Association of Nova Scotia Poetry Reading Introduced by Michele Holmgren, Mount Royal University, Calgary MICHEAL O’SIADHAIL 11:30am-11:45am: Refreshment Break Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 11:45am-1:00pm: Session 7a Sobey 255 Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: A Grim Normalcy? 7 Chair: Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Saint Mary’s University 1. Katherine Side, Memorial University of Newfoundland Settling for Less? A Preliminary Assessment of Northern Ireland’s Gender Equality Strategy 2. Nancy Hansen, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg and Myrtle Hill, Queen’s University, Belfast Disability and its Discontents. Tracing the Cultural Absence of Disabled People in Northern Ireland. A Work in Progress 3. Sandra Murdock, Memorial University of Newfoundland The New Normal: Theories of Racism and Anti-Racism in Northern Ireland 11:45am-1:00pm: Session 7b Loyola 170 The Rule of Law: Peelers, Free Staters and Republicans Chair: Danine Farquharson, Memorial University of Newfoundland 1. Gavin Foster, Concordia University Enforcing ‘Law-and-Order’ in a Civil War: The Paradox of Early Free State Policing 2. Rebecca Lynn Graff-McRae, Memorial University of Newfoundland ‘Bitterness burnished and polished’: the Memory of Victory and Defeat in Irish Civil War Fictions 3. Michael E. Beebe, New York University Knock the Eye from a Peeler: The Currency of Rural Irish Violence in the Works of J. M. Synge and Liam O’Flaherty 1:00pm-2:15pm: Lunch Dockside Dining Hall 2:15pm-3:30pm: Session 8a Sobey 255 Chair: Sandra Murdock, Memorial University of Newfoundland Contraceiving, Inventing and Reproducing 8 1. Jill Allison, Memorial University of Newfoundland Assisted Reproduction in Ireland: Contesting the Meaning of Change 2. Seán Kennedy, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax ‘Now let us contraceive a Cuchulain’: Beckett and the politics of Irish fertility 3. Joseph Valente, University of Illinois, Urbana Inventing Cuchulain 2:15pm-3:30pm: Session 8b Loyola 170 Memory and Identity Chair: Rebecca Lynn Graff-McRae, Memorial University of Newfoundland 1. Daniel O’Leary, Concordia University, Montréal Honour all Men: A Comparative Analysis of Sectarian Thought in the Orange Visual Cultures of northern Ireland and Atlantic Canada, 1790-1922. 2. Mary C. Kelly, Franklin Pierce University, New Hampshire A Century of Discontent: Great Famine Memory and the Evolution of Modern Irish-American Identity 3. Andrea Walisser, Simon Fraser University ‘Under Siege’: Comparing Protestant and Catholic Understandings of Drumcree 3:30pm-3:45pm: Refreshment Break Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 3:45pm-5:00pm: Session 9a Contemporary Irish Writing in English Sobey 255 Chair: Stewart Donovan, St. Thomas University, Fredericton 1. Michele Holmgren, Mount Royal University, Calgary 9 Ripley’s Believe it or Not: The Failed Autobiographer in Ripley Bogle 2. Adam Lawrence, Memorial University of Newfoundland Joseph O’Connor’s Cowboys and Indians: A Novel ‘wrapped up in a sauce of snotgreen Joycean wank’? 3. Margaret Lasch Carroll, Albany College of Pharmacy The Essays of John McGahern: Crossroads of Fiction and Non-Fiction 3:45pm-5:00pm: Session 9b Loyola 170 God, Glory and Failure Chair: Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia University, Montréal 1. Julia Wright, Dalhousie University, Halifax ‘Tho’ Glory be Gone’: Thomas Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity 2. Heather Edwards, University of Notre Dame The Domestic Life of Rebellion: Women Rewriting the Failure of the 1798 Rebellion 3. Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University Bringing the Word of God to the Streets of Belfast: Street Preaching and Mid-Victorian Religious Culture 5:00pm-6:00pm Sobey 255 Chair: David A. Wilson, University of Toronto McGee! Screening of a “work-in-progress” docu-drama video and readings by Pádraig Finlay on Thomas D’Arcy McGee, with opportunities for audience feedback. 10 Saturday, 22 May 2010 9:00am-9:30am Registration and Refreshments Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 9:30am—10:30am: Session 10 Sobey 255 Ireland Canada University Foundation Panel Discussion Chair: Pádraig Ó Siadhail, Saint Mary’s University Teaching Irish in Canada: Challenges and Strategies A Panel Discussion with the ICUF Visiting Scholars Clíona de Brí (Concordia University, Montréal; Joanne Fahy (University of Toronto); Bríd Falconer (Memorial University of Newfoundland); Neasa Ní Chuaig (Saint Mary’s University); and Séamus Ó Floinn (St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish, Nova Scotia) 10:30am—10:45am Refreshment Break Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 10:45am—12:00pm: Session 11a Sobey 255 The Pink, Green, Orange and Silver Chair: Simon Jolivet, Université d’Ottawa 1. James P. Walsh, University of Colorado, Denver Colorado’s Canadian Connection: Canadian Irish in Leadville’s Silver Rush, 1876-1890 2. Michael Boyle, Memorial University of Newfoundland General Sir Hugh Tudor finds Sanctuary in Newfoundland 3. Fred McEvoy, Independent Scholar, Ottawa Between Orange and Green: Diefenbaker in Ireland, 1961 11 10:45am—12:00pm: Session 11b Loyola 170 Irish Poetry: Revising, Assessing and the Blues Chair: Adam Lawrence, Memorial University of Newfoundland 1. Michael Moir, Catholic University of America ‘A lonely impulse of delight’? Louis MacNeice and 1930s Revisions of Yeats’ ‘Airman’ 2. Aliah O’Neill, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, NY. Woman and Nation: Assessing Eavan Boland’s Political Poetry 3. Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor University Success and Failure: The Blues of Millenial Mahon in The Yellow Book and Harbour Lights 12:00pm-1:00pm: Session 12 Sobey 255 Ireland Fund of Canada Keynote Lecture Chair: Danine Farquharson, Memorial University of Newfoundland CLAIR WILLS Professor of Irish Literature, Queen Mary University of London ‘The Best Are Leaving’: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s 1:00pm-2:15pm Lunch Dockside Dining Hall 2:15-3:15pm: Session 13 Sobey 255 Chair: Cecil Houston, University of Windsor Remembering a Memory. Première screening of a documentary film by Ronald Rudin, Producer 12 (Concordia University) and Robert McMahon, Director (Royal Ontario Museum). Introduction and post-screening discussion with the film’s producer. 3:15pm-3:30pm: Refreshment Break Sobey Building Foyer, Saint Mary’s University 3:30pm Sobey 255 Annual General meeting of The Canadian Association for Irish Studies/ Association canadienne d’études irlandaises 6:30pm Pre-Banquet Reception, the Courtside Lounge, The Tower, Saint Mary’s University 7:15pm Banquet and Musical Entertainment, the Courtside Lounge, the Tower, Saint Mary’s University 13
