With apologies for cross posting
ROMANTIC IRELAND - FROM TONE TO GONNE
University of Glasgow
22-24 June 2007
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,It's with O'Leary in the grave. (Yeats,
'September 1913')
This conference aims to explore the material culture, in all its
manifestations, of Romantic Ireland from Tone to Gonne, from
Grattan to Griffiths, from banshees to shebeens, and from O'Leary to Theory.
Since the venue is Glasgow and Scotland there will be some emphasis on
Irish-Scottish relations in the period, for as well as
being the Second City of Empire Glasgow was a major centre of Irish
immigration in the nineteenth century. Sligo's Brother Walfrid
was a founder of Celtic Football Club, and Michael Davitt was one of its
patrons. The Bloomsday celebrations in Glasgow on 16th
June 2007 will be followed by a week of Irish cultural activities,
culminating in this major international conference.
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland began holding annual
conferences in the early 1990s -- firstly in Ireland
and then rotating between Ireland, Europe and America. From these
conferences more than a dozen volumes have already been
published, helping to place this field at the cutting edge of Irish studies.
It is anticipated that the published proceedings of
the Glasgow conference will further enhance this rapidly growing field.
We take a broad and long view of the nineteenth century, and would welcome
proposals for papers and panels in every area and
across disciplines investigating nineteenth-century Irish Studies. We intend
that papers should be 20-25 minutes in length.
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to the organizers at
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2007.
We are at the moment negotiating sponsorship so as to keep costs for
conference participants as low as possible. The conference
already has the support of the Irish Embassy in London, the Irish
Consul-General in Scotland, and the North-East Irish Cultural
Network (NEICN) in Durham and Sunderland. Further details will be available
on this website shortly. The conference organizers
are: Katie Gough, Paddy Lyons, and Willy Maley.
First Call for Papers:
Papers are invited on topics including: absenteeism; archaeology;
architecture; John Banim; the Big House; Boucicault; caricature,
political cartoons, and Punch; William Carleton; Catholic Emancipation;
Celtic Football Club; Celticism; childhood; coffin ships;
James Connolly; crime and punishment; Thomas Davis; Michael Davitt;
Diaspora; Lord Dunsany; Maria Edgeworth; Robert Emmett;
Empire; exile; fairies; the family, private property, and the state; the
Famine; fathers; Fenianism; folklore; the Gaelic League;
Maud Gonne; Irish Gothic; the Green Atlantic; Lady Gregory; Gerald Griffin;
gypsies, tinkers, and travellers; Home Rule;
immigration; Joyce; May Laffan; labour history; landlordism; language;
Sheridan LeFanu; Lever and Lover; the lockout; love her
and leave her (Mother Ireland); Marx and Engels; Charles Robert Maturin;
melodrama; John Mitchel; George Moore; Thomas Moore; Lady
Morgan; mothers; music and song; Daniel O'Connell; Orangeism; orientalism;
Padraig Pearse; paper landscapes; Parnell; periodical
literature; the Phoenix Club; the Phoenix Park murders; policing and popular
justice; prisoners; Ribbonmen; Romance; Romanticism;
sectarianism; Shaw; Somerville and Ross, the stage Irishman; Bram Stoker;
Synge; temperance; translation; travel; visual culture;
wakes and funereal rites; Wolfe Tone; the Volunteer Movement; Wilde; Yeats;
and the Young Ireland movement.
Dr Aidan Arrowsmith
Department of English
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester M15 6LL
UK
0161 247 2000
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