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IRELAND’S CULTURES
PROGRAM OF EVENTS
MID-ATLANTIC REGION
AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES
2002 ANNUAL MEETING
LEHMAN COLLEGE, BRONX, NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 1 & 2, 2002
DAY ONE
FRIDAY, NOV. 1, 2002
12-1:00: REGISTRATION
1:00-3:00: SESSION #1
A: Rereading literary history I: Irishness in the Americas
Location: Speech and Theater 203
Session chair: Kathleen Jacquette, SUNY Farmingdale
Lee Alan Bleyer, The Catholic University of America. “The
Celt in London and the Irishman in America: W. B. Yeats
and the American Representation of Irishness.”
Felter, Maryanne Felter, and Daniel Schultz, Cayuga
Community College.
“Immigrant and Emigrant perspectives in Mary Rose
Callaghan's Emigrant Dreams.”
Maria McGarrity, Long Island University, Brooklyn.
“Ireland, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World.”
B: Contemporary Artists in Ireland, American and Irish
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theater 204
Session chair: Susan Johnston Graf, Penn State Mont Alto
George M. Graf
Joseph Hemler
Mícheál Madigan
3:00-5:00: SESSION #2
A: Swift and the 18th century
Location: Speech and Theater 202
Session chair: Diane Menagh, Fairfield University
Michael Brannan, The Catholic University of America.
“Swift and Salinger: Gods in Glass Houses.”
Maureen E. Mulvihill, Princeton Research Forum.
“Irish Women Writers, circa 1700-1800: Configuring an Early
Culture of Authorship.”
Crystal O'Neal, Catholic University.
“Searching for the Perfect Text: Swift's Notions of the Problem
of Language.”
Heather Young. Catholic University of America.
“Mind the Gap: Satire, Irony, and the Rhetoric of
Ventriloquism in „The Conduct of the Allies‟ and „Drapier's
Letters.‟”
B: Teaching the Irish language in America
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theater 203
Session chair: Marlene Gottlieb, Lehman College, CUNY
Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew, University of Pennsylvania.
“Ireland‟s Cultures in the Language Classroom.”
John Gillen. Hostos Community College, CUNY.
“Teaching Old Irish through the Medium of Modern Irish.”
Thomas Ihde. Lehman College, CUNY.
“Curriculum Development and the Marketing of On-line Irish
Courses.”
3:00-5:00: SESSION #2, continued
C: Other histories
Location: Speech and Theater 204
Session chair: tba
Claire A. Culleton, Kent State University.
“Joyce and the G-Men: J Edgar Hoover‟s War on the Literary
Left.”
Hasia Diner, New York University.
“Ireland‟s Jews: Towards the History of a Marginal
Community.
Cóilín Parsons. Columbia University.
“Searching for the East Indies in Grattan's Parliament.”
6:00 New York opening of the exhibit “Home and Away:
Contemporary Irish Art”
Location: the Irish Arts Center, 553 W. 51st St.
Introduction by Elizabeth Martin, Hunter College, CUNY
Artists exhibiting:
Peter Hendrick
J.Kieran McGonnell
Helen O‟Leary
Elizabeth O‟Reilly
John Spinks
Susan MacWilliam
Post-reception gathering at Druids Bar and Restaurant, 736 Tenth
Avenue @ W 50th (For dinner reservations call 212 307 6410).
SATURDAY, NOV. 2ND
9-10:15: REGISTRATION
10:15-noon: SESSION #3
A: Contemporary Irish Artists and Landscape
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theater 202
screening of “Ealaíntóir Thar Sáile” (“An Artist Abroad”), 2001,
directed by Sabina Brennan, an Irish language short film with
subtitles profiling painter Elizabeth O‟Reilly and her work in
Brooklyn and off the west coast of Ireland.
Reading by Tim Robinson from his work, “The Ecosphere.”
B: History and Culture
Location: Speech and Theater 203
Session chair: tba
John P. McCarthy, Fordham University.
“Kevin O'Higgins and the Irish Drink Question.”
TG Lynch, CUNY Grad Center.
“Republican Traditions in Nationalist Movements.”
Willa Murphy, NUI-Maynooth.
“Linguistic Crusades: The Evangelical Pamphlet Wars of 1820s
Ireland.”
Dermot Ryan, Columbia University.
“Reading the Marks of Distinction: Circulation and
Discrimination in Maria Edgeworth‟s Irish Writings.”
C: Irish in NYC
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theater 204
Session chair: tba
Ed Hagan. Western Connecticut State University.
“The Decay of Lying? On Life Support in William Kennedy‟s
Roscoe and Thomas Kelly‟s The Rackets.”
Helen McGuire-Driver. Cayuga Community College.
“A Picture of Nativism: Maggie's New York.”
Jennifer Nugent Duffy, New York University.
“Transplantations and Transformations: New York City's Irish
Immigrant Bars Since 1945.”
12-1: PLENARY #1: Niall Ó Ciosáin, NUI Galway
Title: “tba.”
Music Building, Recital Hall 306
1-2:15: BUFFET LUNCH/BUSINESS MEETING
Music Building, Rehearsal Hall
2:15-4:00: SESSION #4
A: Contemporary Ireland
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theater 202
Session chair: tba
Thomas N. Crean, Irish Labour History Society.
“The impact of globalization on working people in Ireland, 1980-
2000: a comparative approach.”
Chris Frick. University of South Carolina, Columbia.
“„Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born:‟ Domestic Abuse,
Child Monstrosity, and Cultural Anxiety in Patrick McCabe‟s
The Butcher Boy.”
Michael Kenneally, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies,
Concordia University, Montreal.
“„Lost/Unhappy and at home;‟ Place and Identity in Selected
Novels of Deirdre Madden and Colm Toibin.”
Patrick McCarthy, Marymount Manhattan College.
“The Evolution of Traditional Town Fairs and Festivals in
Modern Ireland.”
B: Rereading literary history II
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theatre 203
Session chair: tba
Heather Clark, Marlboro College.
“Blurring the Borders: Poetic Collaboration in Northern
Ireland.”
Joseph Lennon, Manhattan College.
“James Cousins's Samadarsana: The Vision of an Irish-Indian
Revivalist.”
Schriebman, Susan, University of Maryland.
“The Silver Tassie Revisited.”
2:15-4:00: SESSION #4, continued
C: Representing Northern Ireland: Visual and Performative Culture
and History
Location: Music Building, Speech and Theatre 204
Session chair: Brian Singleton, Trinity College Dublin.
Michael Jaros. Southwest Texas State University.
“The Neutral Island in The Heart of Man: Frank McGuinness,
Dolly West’s Kitchen and the European Inheritance.”
Chris Moylan. New York Institute of Technology.
“„Somewhere Else:‟ Willie Doherty Eyes the North.”
Deirdre O‟Leary, CUNY Graduate Center.
“Dancing in the Streets: Carnival, Music and the Divis Flats in
the plays of Christina Reid and the Charabanc Theatre
Company.”
Jessica Scarlata, New York University.
“Images, Witnesses and Truth: Bloody Sunday in Film and
Photography.”
4-5:30: PLENARY #2: A FIELD DAY ROUND TABLE
Location: Music Building, Recital Hall 306
Discussion by editors of and contributors to the forthcoming Field Day
Anthology Volumes on Women
Clair Wills, Queen Mary, University of London, editor,
Contemporary Writing 1960-2000
Siobhan Kilfeather, University of Sussex, editor, Sexuality
Margaret MacCurtain, University College Dublin, editor,
Religion, Theology and Ethics, 1500-2000
Margaret Kelleher, NUI-Maynooth, contributor
Respondent: Clare Carroll, Queens College, CUNY
5:30: CLOSING RECEPTION
Music Building , Rehearsal Hall
SHUTTLE SCHEDULE
Shuttle will depart the WJ hotel, address, and the wherever at Lehman. The trip
takes about blank minutes.
Friday, November 1st
Departs WJ hotel: 11:30 am, 2:30 pm
Departs Lehman College: 1:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday, November 2 nd
Departs WJ Hotel 9:00 am, 1:00 pm
Departs Lehman College: 12:00 pm, 5:30 pm
Our special thanks to Baruch College for providing the van and driver for our shuttle
service.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The conference committee would like to thank Lehman College for its generosity in
providing space, service, and equipment for the conference. Gratitude is extended as
well to:
Weisman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College
Columbia University Seminar on Irish Studies
CUNY Institute for Irish American Studies
Irish Arts Center
British Consulate
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Martin Burke Mary McGlynn
Terry Byrne Dermot Ryan
Chris Cahill Jordan Scoggins
Brian Leahy Doyle Michael Shannon
Tom Ihde Joe Skelly
Elizabeth Martin