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presents
Ireland: Politics, Culture and Identity
May
14-17, 2000
Theater Lab, Atrium, or North Atrium Foyer on the Roof Terrace Level
This conference brings together leading artists, scholars, and writers whose work explores the complexities of the Irish experience both at home and abroad. Themes addressed in the conference include: cultural change in contemporary Ireland, unionism and the future of the union, nationalism/republicanism in the new millennium, the global Irish Diaspora, and comparative perspectives for Irish Studies. The conference is funded by the Department of Education, Ireland and organized by Robert Savage, Associate Director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program.
Sunday,
May 14
5:30-6:15 p.m. Atrium
This event
is by invitation only.
Welcome: The Honorable Jean Kennedy
Smith
Jean Kennedy Smith served as United States Ambassador to Ireland under President
Bill Clinton from June 1993 to September 1998. Since 1964, she has been a member
of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which provides
grants to promote awareness and advocacy in the field of mental retardation.
Since 1964, Ambassador Smith has been active in organizing "Island: Arts
from Ireland," a festival of Irish arts for the Millennium at the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which will encompass the arts from
both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Keynote
Address: The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese
After graduating from Queen's University Belfast, Mary McAleese was called to
the Northern Ireland Bar and practiced mainly in criminal and family law. In
1975 she was appointed Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology
in Trinity College Dublin, a position she held until 1979 when she joined RTÉ
as a journalist and presenter. She returned to the Reid Professorship at Trinity
in 1981, while still continuing part-time with RTÉ. In 1987, Mary McAleese was
appointed Director of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies which trains
barristers and solicitors for the legal profession in Northern Ireland. In 1994,
she was appointed a Pro-Vice Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast. Mary
Leneghan married Martin McAleese in 1976. They have three children, Emma, Saramai
and Justin.
Reception:
6:15-7:30 p.m. Atrium
This event is by invitation only.
Monday,
May 15
Session I: 9-11 a.m. Theater Lab
Unionism,
and the Future of the Union
Chair: Janet Nolan
Janet Nolan was
born in San Francisco. She is associate professor of
history at Loyola University Chicago. Her published work includes Ourselves
Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 (1989) and several articles
on Irish and Irish-American women's emigration and education.
Keynote
Speaker: Alvin Jackson
Alvin Jackson is a native of Belfast where he is currently professor in modern
history at the Queen's University. Among his publications are Colonel Edward
Saunderson: Land and Loyalty in Victorian Ireland (1995) and Ireland, 1798-1998:
Politics and War (1999).
Response:
Paul Bew
Paul Bew is a native of Belfast and professor of politics at the Queen's University.
Professor Bew's publications include Charles Stewart Parnell (1991) and Northern
Ireland 1921-96: Political Forces and Social Classes (co-author 1997).
Session
II: 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Theater Lab
Reading the Future: The Republican Idea in the Next
Century
Chair: Maureen
Murphy
Maureen Murphy,
a native of Long Beach, NY, is presently professor of Secondary Education/English
at Hofstra University and Director of the Great Irish Famine Project for the
New York State Education Department. Professor Murphy edited Asenath Nicholson's
Annals of the Famine in Ireland (1998).
Keynote
Speaker: Declan Kiberd
Declan Kiberd is a native of Dublin where he currently teaches literature at
University College Dublin. His works include Synge and the Irish Language (1979)
and Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (1995).
Response:
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, a native of Limerick, currently teaches history at University
College Galway, where he is also Director of the Irish Studies Program. Professor
Ó Tuathaigh publishes both in Irish and English; his most recent work appeared
in Éirí Amach: 1798 in Éirínn (1998) and in Pobal
na Gaeltachta: a scéal agus a dhán (2000), a volume that he co-edited.
Session
III: 2:30-4 p.m. Theater Lab
Colloquium: National Identity in the 21st Century
A round table discussion led by Richard Kearney and Kevin Whelan
Richard Kearney is a native of Cork City and currently teaches philosophy
at University College, Dublin. Professor Kearney has published both fiction
and non-fiction, including Poetics of Imagining (1991) and Postnationalist Ireland
(1996).
Kevin Whelan is a native of County Wexford. He is currently Michael J. Smurfit Director of the University of Notre Dame's Keough Center at Newman House, Dublin. His publications include Nations and Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century (1995) and Fellowship of Freedom: The United Irishmen and the 1798 Rebellion (1998).
Tuesday,
May 16
Session I:
9-11 a.m. Theater Lab
The Irish Diaspora
Chair: Maurice Bric
Maurice Bric is a native of Kerry. He currently teaches Irish and American history
at University College, Dublin. He is Deputy Chairman of the Ireland-American
Fulbright Commission and Academic Secretary of the Irish Research Council for
the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Keynote
Speaker: Kevin Kenny
Kevin Kenny is a native of Dublin and is currently teaching at Boston
College where he specializes in labor and emigration history. Among his publications
are Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998) and The American Irish: A History
(2000).
Response:
Thomas Martin Devine
Thomas Devine is University Research Professor in Scottish History and Director
of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the University of Aberdeen.
He has published widely in Scottish history and Irish/Scottish comparisons on
subjects such as emigration, famine, urban elites and urbanization. He recently
edited Scotland's Shame? Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland (2000).
Session
II: 11:15
a.m.-1:15 p.m. Theater Lab
Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Kevin O'Neill
Kevin O'Neill is a native of Brooklyn New York. He teaches history at Boston
College where he is also co-founder and co-director of the Irish Studies Program.
His publications include Family and Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland: The Parish of
Killashandra (1984) and "Mary Shackleton Leadbeater: Peaceful Rebel"
in The Women of 1798 (1998).
Keynote
Speaker: Seamus Deane
Seamus Deane, a native of Derry City, is a poet, novelist and critic, as well
as Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Among
his publications are Celtic Revivals (1985), The Field Day Anthology of Irish
Literature (ed. 1991), and the novel Reading in the Dark (1996).
Response:
David Lloyd
Seamus Deane, a native of Dublin, is Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities
and Director of the Humanities Institute at Scripps College, Claremont California.
Among his publications are Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Postcolonial
Moment (1993) and Ireland After History (1999).
Session
III: 2:30-4
p.m. Theater Lab
Colloquium: Irish Studies in the New Millennium
A roundtable discussion led by Timothy Meagher, Robert Scally, and Margaret
Kelleher.
Timothy Meagher is a native of Worcester Massachusetts and Director of
the Center for Irish Studies at Catholic University of America. Dr. Meagher
has with Ronald Bayor, co-edited The New York Irish (1996), his new book, Inventing
Irish America: Generation, Class and Ethnic Identity in a New England City,
1880 to 1928, (2000).
Robert Scally was born in New York where he his now professor of History
at New York University and Director of the Glucksman Ireland House. He is the
author of Forces of Order and Movement in Europe, 1815-1914 (1976) and The End
of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration (1995).
Margaret Kelleher was born in Mallow, County Cork and lectures in the English Department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is the author of The Feminization of Famine (1997) and editor of Making it New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate Syllabus (2000).
Wednesday,
May 17
Session I: 9-11 a.m. Theater Lab
Film screening/lecture
The CBS Documentary: Ireland, the Tear and the Smile (1960)
Introduction: Constructing/deconstructing the image of Sean Lemass's Ireland
by Robert Savage.
Robert
Savage is a native of Boston and teaches history at Boston College where
he is also the Associate Director of Irish Studies. His publications include
Irish Television: The Political and Social History (1996) and Seán Lemass (1999).
Session
II: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Theater Lab
Media, Art and Cultural Change in Contemporary Ireland
Chair: Vera Kreilkamp
Vera Kreilkamp, was born in New York City, and teaches English at Pine Manor
College. She is co-editor of Èire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal
of Irish Studies and has written The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House (1998)
and, with Adele Dalsimer, co-curated and co-edited America's Eye: Irish Paintings
from the Collection of Brian P. Burns (1996).
Panel:
Declan
McGonagle is a native of Derry City, where he became Visual Arts Organiser
for Derry City Council in 1986. He was appointed the first Director of the Irish
Museum of Modern Art in 1991. He has been a contributing editor to Artforum
Magazine since 1991 and was a member of the 1993 jury for the Tate Gallery's
Turner Prize.
Liz
Cullingford was raised in Trinidad, educated at Oxford, and is Professor
of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Yeats,
Ireland and Fascism (1981) and Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry (1993).
She is currently working on contemporary Irish literature, culture and film.
Nuala
Ní Dhomhnaill, born in Lancashire, England, is a leading Irish language
poet and was the Visiting Burns Scholar at Boston College from 1998 to 1999.
Her works include Cead Aighnis (1998) and The Water Horse (2000). She is currently
the contemporary poetry editor of the forthcoming fourth volume of the Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing.
Mícheál
Ó Súilleabháin is a native of Co. Cork and currently teaches music at the
University of Limerick. Among his recordings are Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (1976)
and the highly acclaimed The Dolphin's Way (1987). His publications include
The Bodhrán (1994) and Becoming (1998).
For additional information about the Conference, contact Robert Savage, Irish Studies program, Boston College (617) 552-3966 or the Kennedy Center Education Department at (202) 416-8847.
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