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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008The American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 event will be hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI, Galway. It will be called “New Irish, Old Ireland: The same people living in the same place”. The conference will be held from the 10-13 June.
The call for papers has been released. Here is the text:
Through the process of inward migration, Ireland has in recent years witnessed unparalleled mobility of people moving into Irish space. New Irish, Old Ireland, will explore the dynamics of immigration and settlement and their implications for the construction of Irish identities.
Thematically, papers might address issues such as: who are the ‘new Irish’; how are concepts of nationality and belonging redefined within new and established communities; how are concepts of ‘people’, ‘place’ and ‘home’ constructed, imagined and remembered.
Papers might also address issues such as migration and the Irish Travelling Community; language and translation; exile, asylum and economic migration; the local and the global; contact zones, spaces and frontiers; diaspora communication networks; ethnicity and multiculturalism.
We invite conceptual, comparative, or locally focused contributions to a wide-ranging discussion of the migrant experience in Ireland/Irish society, past and present.We welcome papers by scholars working across the full range of disciplines related to Irish Studies, and papers from emerging research areas are especially welcome.
Abstract Submission:
Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Please send an abstract, of not more than 200 words to: irishstudies@nuigalway.ie before 1 December 2008.
Conference Website: www.nuigalway.ie/cis
For more information on the Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, see: www.nuigalway.ie/cis/
Down Under Expo: RDS, Dublin 27-28 Sept
Friday, September 12th, 2008The RDS is hosting the Down Under Expo on September 27 and 28th. It’s the fourth annual running of the event, but this year it’s been expanded to include new locations: not only Australia and New Zealand, but also Canada, the Middle East and Europe.
The event is a commercial one, and is being run by the SGMC Group, an exhibition promoter.
Exhibitors include recruitment companies, relocation specialists, several Australian government bodies, visa agencies. The recruitment companies are heavily focused on construction and healthcare, but also feature banking and finance, engineering, mechanics, trades, hospitality and mining.
The list of companies is remarkable: there are a large number of commercial companies, based in Ireland and in destination countries, that are involved in recruitment and relocation.
The weekend also features a number of seminars focusing on Australia and New Zealand, covering topics such as visas and trades recognition.
The exhibition costs 10 euro for admission.
Literature of Irish Exile: Ulster-American Folk Park, 18 October 2008
Thursday, September 11th, 2008The Ninth Literature of Irish Exile
Autumn School
Centre for Migration Studies at the Ulster-American Folk Park, Omagh
Saturday, 18 October 2008
The focus of the Literature of Irish Exile Autumn School, now in its ninth year, remains on how emigrants from Ireland have given expression in words to feelings of exile. Part of the programme will take place in the stimulating setting of the Outdoor Museum of the Ulster-American Folk Park. The rest will be in the warmth of the library of the Centre for Migration Studies. The aim is to give members of the public a friendly opportunity to meet and mix with experts on some of the less well-known aspects of ‘exile’ in Irish literature.
Speakers
Karen Corrigan is Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Newcastle University. She has been researching the interaction between Irish, English and Early Modern varieties of English/Scots in Ireland. Additionally, she has been engaged in exploring the interrelationship between language and migration to the United States during the post-famine period in Ireland.
Her new research project, which is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, focuses on Northern Irish English (NIrE). Like Welsh English and Highland English in Scotland, it was initially learned as a second language. Professor Corrigan’s talk will demonstrate that this scenario arose from the region’s colonization by speakers of English/Scots dialects, beginning in the Middle Ages & reaching a peak during what is termed ‘The Plantation Period’ of Irish history.
If you are interested in learning more about the migration of language and why the peoples of Northern Ireland speak the way they do, Professor Corrigan’s lecture is for you.
Read more about Professor Corrigan.
Patrick Fitzgerald is Lecturer and Development Officer at the Centre for Migration Studies and Brian Lambkin is Director of the Centre for Migration Studies. Their presentations in the afternoon session are designed to introduce the two sections of illustrations in Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 (Palgrave Macmillan) due to be published in October 2008.
Visit the Centre for Migration Studies’ website.
Irish World Heritage Centre: 27 September 2008
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Out of the Archives
The Irish World Heritage Centre in Manchester has announced its annual One Day Conference will take place at the Irish World Heritage Centre on Saturday the 27th of September.
Organisers say:
The theme of the conference this year is ‘Out of the Archives’ and we plan to take a look at key events and key figures in Irish history, with a view to reassessing long-held historical interpretations of past events. The day will consist of four lectures on this topic. All of the speakers will have an interest in disseminating information gathered from first hand accounts of historical events, previously unpublished historical documents or newly presented information.
The ways in which researchers disseminate information varies and these processes will be examined in the course of the day. For example, Annie Ryan, author of ‘Witnesses – Inside the Easter Rising’ will speak about her work on the collection of first hand accounts of the Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence, which are held in the Irish Military Archives, and the work involved in preparing this information to be published in book form.
Sinéad McCoole is a historian, author, broadcaster, script-writer and exhibition curator. In May 2005 the most impressive private library of Irish material anywhere in the world was discovered in Mayo.
The remarkable discovery instigated by the library division of Mayo County Council is a milestone in Irish cultural history. The Jackie Clarke Library and Archives will is a vast collection of items dating from 1617-2000. Remarkable not least because it is one man’s collection, Jackie Clarke (1928-2000) collect this material over his lifetime, starting in his youth and continuing until the year of his death in 2000.
In her talk Sinéad will explore the ideals of the man behind the collection. As always, there will also a bookstall and exhibition on display at the conference.
We will send out programmes and booking forms closer to the date but if you are interested in attending, please let us know by contacting Margot Ryan on 0161 202 1200 or e-mail: mryan@iwhc.com
Summer roundup: From Galway to Turkey, exhibitions reveal emigrants’ lives
Friday, August 1st, 2008Exhibition Roundup
There are a number of interesting exhibitions that those interested in emigration might be interested in, no matter what part of the world you find yourself in this summer.
Dublin: Strangers to Citizens: The Irish in Europe 1600-1800 is continuing at the National Library of Ireland through December 2008. It’s a fascinating look at a little-known aspect of Irish emigration history.
Liverpool: Fis 2008 celebrates Irish culture and explores links between Ireland and Liverpool. It’s taking place at the Novas Contemporary Urban Centre on Greenland Street, and will last until 7 September. For more information, see the artinliverpool website.
New York: Catholics in New York 1808-1946 at the Museum of the City of New York explores the social and political history of the establishment of the Catholic Church in the city. Much of the exhibition focuses on the experience of the immigration Irish and later generations. It’s on until December 31. See more at the museum’s website.
New York: “To Love Two Countries: Ireland’s Greatest Generation in America” features photos taken in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia by John Minihan – a portait photographer better known for his work with people like Samuel Beckett, Edna O’Brien, Ray Charles, and Al Pacino. A book accompanies the exhibition, which runs through December 2008. This exhibition was opened by the Taoiseach on his visit to New York. See the Irish Arts Center website for more information.
Galway: The Galway City Museum has two exhibitions of interest: a photography exhibition focusing on the experience of Irish emigrants in Britain, and another focusing on President John Kennedy’s ‘homecoming’ visit to Galway 45 years ago.
Turkey: An exhibition focusing on one of Ireland’s most famous 20th-century emigrants, Samuel Beckett, is on display in Diyarbakir at the Diyarbakir Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It is part of a series of cultural events marking the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. For more information, see the Turkish Daily News website.
Boston: “Celebrating Celtic Prize Fighters: 1820-Present” is an eclectic collection of boxing photography and artifacts. Runs through September 2008 at the John J. Burns Library at Boston College. For more information, see the website.
“Women Religious and the Political World”. Galway, August 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
In 2008, the Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) will hold their fifth annual conference: WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND THE POLITICAL WORLD.
This conference will be held on 22nd-23rd August 2008 at the National University of Ireland, Galway. It will be an exciting programme of medieval, early modern, and modern papers on such themes as:
- Literary/visual negotiations of contemporary developments
- Political activism and participation
- Internal politics of the order
- Impact of the political world on communities of women religious
- Missionary work
For the provisional programme and booking form, please visit:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Bedford-Centre/history-women-religious/events.html
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