The Irish and the London Stage
Identity, Culture, and Politics, 1680-1830
Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
17-18 February 2017
This conference will consider how recent approaches to eighteenth-century literary studies, as well as theoretical approaches to diaspora studies, might be applied to the case of the London Irish migrant. It will interrogate the constitutive and instrumentalist function of Irish identity for individuals as well as for social and professional networks. Many of the Irish playwrights, actors, musicians, journalists and others associated with the theatre considered themselves British as well as Irish (and perhaps for many, more the former than the latter). How did Irish identity inform, advance or impede their professional ambition and direction, politics, and social standing? How well did Irish identity in London withstand political stress points such as the 1720 Declaratory Act, the ’45, the Seven Years’ War, the French Revolution, the 1798 Rebellion, Union, and Catholic Emancipation?
Plenary Speakers: Professor Helen Burke (Florida State University) and Professor Felicity A. Nussbaum (UCLA)
The full call for papers can be read on the conference website: https://londonirishtheatreblog.wordpress.com/
Abstracts of 300-500 words should be submitted to the conference organizer David O’Shaughnessy ([log in to unmask]) by 30 September 2016. This conference is generously supported by the EU Marie-Curie programme and there will be some funding available to support speakers’ travel and accommodation costs. A collection of essays based on selected papers is planned for publication.
Dr David O’Shaughnessy
Assistant Professor for Eighteenth-century Studies
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
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