Events Spring 2013
Katherine O'Callaghan
Trinity College, Dublin and Visiting Government of Ireland Fellow"'Slow, embellished, tremulous': Finnegans Wake, Music and the Irish Novel"
Friday, January 25
3:30 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Ailbhe Darcy
University of Notre Dame
"Paranoid Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry"
Friday, February 8
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Barry McCrea
Inaugural Keough Family Professorship of Irish Studies Lecture
"Minor Languages and the Modernist Imagination"
Thursday, February 21
4:00 PM McKenna Hall Auditorium
Clair Wills,
Distinguished Visiting Keough-Naughton Fellow
"The Problem with Stereotypes"
Friday, March 1
3:30 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Greg Delanty
St. Michael’s College
“Exchanging Words”: a poetry reading with selections
from The Word Exchange, Anglo Saxon Poems inTranslation, edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto
Thursday, March 21st
7:30 PM Hammes Notre Dame Bookstore
co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Department of English, the Institute for
Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Medieval Institute, and the
Ph.D. in Literature Program.
Peter McQuillan
University of Notre Dame"'The Spirit of the Nation': Word and Concept in Seventeenth Century Irish"
Friday, March 22
3:30 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Altan in Concert
Traditional Irish Ensemble
Friday, March 227:00 PM DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Documentary Film Screening
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Mairéad Farrell - An Unfinished ConversationFollowed by a panel discussion with Director Martina Durac, Producer Vanessa Gildea and Writer/Presenter Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Thomas J. and Kathleen O'Donnell Chair of Irish Language and Literature
Thursday, April 18
7:30 PM Browning Cinema
Ríonach Uí Ogáin
Director, National Folklore Collection, University College, Dublin
"Séamus Ennis as Ethnomusicologist"
Friday, April 19
3:00 PM 424 Flanner Hall
Irish Film Festival: A Liam O'Flaherty Retrospective
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26
7:00 PM Thursday April 25
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)
6:30 PM Friday April 26
Double Feature Screening
The Informer (1935), introduced by Katherine O'Callaghan, Visiting Faculty Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin
Up Tight! (1968), introduced by Prof. Hugh R. Page, Jr., Dean of the First Year of Studies, Walter Associate Professor of Theology, and Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Browning Cinema
Co-sponsored by Africana Studies
An Academic Panel on the Scholarly Work of National Endowment for the Humanities/Notre Dame Fellow Malcolm Sen
"Postcolonial Environments and Transnational Aesthetics: Contemporary Narratives from India and Ireland."
Friday, May 3
3:00 PM 424 Flanner HallWith a panel of scholars Elizabeth Deloughrey, UCLA; Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia; and John Sitter, University of Notre Dame