WEDNESDAY 10th July | THURSDAY 11th July | FRIDAY 12th July
WEDNESDAY 10th July
9.45 am
Dr Kristina Varade
Charles Lever and Anglo-Irish Leave Taking
10.10 am
Paul Gunning
Gaelic Half-Sovereignty and a Fistful of British Paper Bullets:
Farewell to Ireland’s Monetary Freedom, 1919–1929
10.35 am
Dr Éamonn Costello
The Difficulty of Leaving, and the Impossibility of Return:
How internalised negative irish stereotypes, and anglocentricism shaped the presentation of Irish language song within the Oireachtas na Gaeilge festival (1875–1924)
11.00 am Tea/Coffee
11.20 am
Richard Loosbrock and Niall O’Dwyer
Irish and labour activism in Colorado’s mines, 1880–1905
11.45 am
Dr Brian Griffin
Leaving the Irish Police:
The Dublin Metropolitan Police and Royal Irish Constabulary
12.10 pm
Professor R V Comerford
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) as a cultural leaver
12.55 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
Viva Voce Festival Chorus of New York City
Turn the World Around: Songs across the Sea
3.15 pm Gardens open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
THURSDAY 11th July
9.45 am
Peter Kao
Leaving/returning home in James Macpherson’s Fragments of Irish Poetry and critical influence in Ireland
10.10 am
Alexander Jones
‘Farewell, my country, and in perpetuum . . .’
Louis MacNeice’s valedictions
10.35 am
Dr Celia Brayfield
The uncompromised authority: How the reception of Edna O’Brien’s autobiographical novels demonstrated the dilemma of the Irish writer
11.00 am Tea/Coffee
11.20 am
Mary Kenny
Why Ireland was a Catholic country–and why it no longer is
SEAN FREYNE 1935-2013
12.05 pm The Sean Freyne Memorial Lecture
Professor Vincent Twomey
How European is the European Union?
1.00 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
Castlecoote Ramblers
To be advised
3.15 pm Gardens open
Questions & answers to follow each talk
FRIDAY 12th July
9.45 am
Dr Kayla Rose
The Art of Staying in Touch
Irish Greeting Cards at Home and Abroad, 1866–1895
10.10 am
Dr Paddy Fitzgerald
Derry mountains no more: Irish migrant departures in historical context
10.35 am
Conor Heffernan
Free from British influence: Sokol and army training in 1930s Ireland
11.00 am Tea/Coffee
11.20 am
Dr Paul McLaughlin
Auto-philosophical reflections as an Irish exile
11.45 am
Dr Gerard Moran
From Great Famine to Great Exodus: Leaving home, but remaining Irish
12.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Afternoon Recital
The Donoghue Brothers
Title to come
3.15 pm Gardens open
Questions & answers will follow each talk
