Events Spring 2012
The Irish Film Series
The Guard
January 27
6:30PM and 9:30PM Browning Cinema
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Nicholas Canny
Herbert Allen & Donald R. Keough Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ireland, Europe, and the Wider World, 1550-1750
February 3
4:00PM 424 Flanner Hall
Brian Ó Conchubhair
Dept of Irish Langauge and Literature
Inscribing the Waterscape in 18th-century Ireland
Februrary 10
3:00PM 424 Flanner Hall
Denise Ayo,
Keough-Naughton Fellow
Mary Colum: "The Best Woman Critic in America"
Februrary 24
3:00PM 424 Flanner Hall
The Irish Film Series
Double Feature:The Swell Season and Once
Februrary 24
6:30PM Browning Cinema
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
From The Glorious Revolution to the European Union: Connections Between the British Isles and the Continent
March 9 and 10
Keynote speakers:
Tony Claydon Bangor University
Nicholas Grene Trinity College Dublin
Susan Cannon Harris University of Notre Dame
Hugh McLeod University of Birmingham
Robert Sullivan University of Notre DameA
For more information please see: britishislesandthecontinent.com
A Protestant or Catholic Atlantic World? Confessional Divisions, Evangelization and the Writing of Natural History
March 21 & 27
Wednesday, March 21 Part One: The Theory
4:00PM 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Tuesday, March 27 Part Two: The Practice
4:00PM 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Nicholas Canny Herbert Allen & Donald R. Keough Distinguished Visiting Professor
Professor Emeritus of History National University of Ireland, Galway
Hybrid Irelands: Exploring the Relationship Between Hybridity and Irish Literature
Wednesday, March 28-Saturday, March 31 McKenna Hall
Featuring poetry readings by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian
Keynote Speakers:Terry Eagleton University of Notre Dame
David Lloyd University of Southern California
Clair Wills Queen Mary University of London
Jane Ohlmeyer
Trinity College Dublin
Making Ireland English: How the Aristocracy Shaped Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Tuesday, April 17
4:00PM 424 Flanner Hall
Clair Wills
Queen Mary University of London The Apotheosis of Clay: Beyond Irish Naturalism
Friday, April 20
3:00PM 424 Flanner Hall
An Academic Panel on the Scholarly Work of National Endowment for the Humanities/Notre Dame Fellow Deirdre Ní Chonghaile Followed by the Launch of 2010 NEH/Notre Dame Fellow Jane McGaughey’s Book Ulster’s Men
Friday, April 27
3:00PM 424 Flanner Hall