Upcoming Events

Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies Speakers and Public Talks Series Spring 2013

Thursday, April 18th

7:30 PM Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Mairéad Farrell - An Unfinished Conversation, Loopline Films (2013)

Writer/Presenter Bríona Nic Dhiarmada revisits the life and death of Republican icon Mairéad Farrell

Documentary screening followed by a panel discussion with Director Martina Durac; Producer Vanessa Gildea; and Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, University of Notre Dame; moderated by Jim Collins, Chair of Film, Television, and Theatre

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

 

Friday, April 19th

3:00 PM  424 Flanner Hall

"Séamus Ennis as Ethnomusicologist"

Ríonach Uí Ógáin,Director, National Folklore Collection, University College, Dublin, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies

 

Thursday, April 25th and Friday April 26th

Browning Cinema,  DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Irish Film Festival: "A Liam O'Flaherty Retrospective"

Liam O’Flaherty was a man of many talents and contradictions: a native Irish-speaker, born on the Aran Islands off the West coast of Ireland, he became was a successful and popular English-language novelsista and short story writer; an Irish Rebel and a World War I veteran; a committed republican and anti-Treatyite; an Irish Civil War combatant and a socialist.

 7:00 PM Thursday April 25th

Double Feature Screening

Liam Ó Flaithearta - Idir dhá Theanga / Liam O'Flaherty: Islandman Abroad (2002) (Documentary);

introduced by Brian Ó Conchubhair, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature

Devil's Playground (1937) Liam O'Flaherty's rewrite of Submarine, the tale of two sailors and one girl

6:30 PM Friday April 26th

Double Feature Screening

The Informer (1935) directed by John Ford, based upon Liam O'Flaherty's Irish War of Independence novel; introduced by Katherine O'Callaghan, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin

Up Tight! (1968) remake of The Informer set in Cleveland following Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination; introduced by Hugh R. Page, Jr., Dean of the First Year of Studies, Walter Associate Professor of  Theology and Associate Professor of Africana Studies

Co-sponsored by Africana Studies

Sunday, April 28-Tuesday April 30th

Conference: "Scotland, Ireland and America in the Eighteenth Century: Cultures and Connections in an English Atlantic World"

5:00 PM Sunday April 28th 

100 McKenna Hall

"British Union and the American Revolution"

Ned Landsman, Stony Brook University

9:30 AM Monday April 29th

Carole Sandner Hall

Seminar : "Provinces and Borderlands"

1:30 PM Monday April 29th

100 McKenna Hall

"Auld Scotia or North Britain? Scottish National Identity at the Crossroads"

T.M. Devine, University of Edinburgh

5:30 PM Monday April 29th

100 McKenna Hall

"Irish Identities in the Eighteenth Century North Atlantic"

Owen Dudley Edwards, University of Edinburgh

9:30 AM Tuesday April 29th

100 McKenna Hall

"America (and Scotland) in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Case of William Dunbar"

Frank Cogliano, University of Edinburgh

1:15 PM Tuesday April 29th

Carole Sandner Hall

Seminar: "Provinces: An Extension of Europe?"

5:30 PM Tuesday April 29th

100 McKenna Hall

"The Trouble with Tea: Connections between Ireland, Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century"

Michael Brown, with a response by Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame

 

Friday, May 3rd

3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall

National Endowment for Humanities Seminar: "Postcolonial Environments and Transnational Aesthetics: Contemporary Narratives from India and Ireland"

Malcolm Sen, 2013-2013 Keough-Naughton Institute and National Endowment for Humanities Fellow; Elizabeth Deloughrey, UCLA; Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia; John Sitter, University of Notre Dame