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School of History and Anthropology - Queen's University Belfast
24th-25th March 2006
"Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day" - or are they?
What do you do on March 17th?
Is Irish identity something which can be adopted, brokered and consumed?
How is St. Patrick's Day celebrated, commemorated, contested?
This unique event is a subsidized Conference (£6), an exhibition and a
debate about St. Patrick's Day. It will take place at the Institute for
Irish Studies, 53-67 Queen's University Belfast.
Guest speaker - Dr Michael Cronin, Boston College
Guest roundtable - 'Imagining an ideal St. Patrick's Day' featuring parade
organizers and politicians
Special Exhibition - 'Consuming St. Patrick's Day'
Special Meeting - Annual General Meeting of the Anthropology Association of
Ireland
Organisers - Jonathan Skinner, Dominic Bryan, John Nagle (QUB)
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"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals."
~Charles Baudelaire
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Dr Jonathan Skinner
School of History and Anthropology
The Queen's University Belfast
Belfast
BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland
Email: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: (00 44) 02890 - 97-3705
Fax: (00 44) 02890 - 27-3700
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofAnthropologicalStudies/Staff/JonathanSk
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