Irish London
Irish London
Print, Politics and Performance
in the Long Nineteenth Century
September 10th, 2009
University of Notre Dame London Centre
1 Suffolk Street
London SW1Y 4HG
A conference jointly organised by English Department, King’s College London and University of Notre Dame’s London Symposium
The event is free and open to the public;
registration is required and can be
arranged by emailing london@nd.edu
Participants include: Ailbhe Darcy (University of Notre Dame), Brian Murray (King’s College London), Ciara Conneely (University of Notre Dame), Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff), David O’Shaughnessy (University of Oxford), John Stokes (King’s College London), Lauren Arrington (University of Cambridge), Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Mark Turner (King’s College London), Mary Burgess (University of Notre Dame), Maud Ellmann (University of Notre Dame), Melanie McMahon (King’s College London), Nick Daly (University College Dublin), Patricia Palmer (King’s College London), Richard Kirkland (King’s College London), Robert Portsmouth (National University of Ireland, Galway), Shelley Meagher (Queen’s University, Belfast), Susan Harris (University of Notre Dame) Tony Murray (London Metropolitan University), Ultán Gillen (Queen Mary, University of London).
Programme of Events
9.00-9.20 Registration
Reception Area
All Presentations Take Place in Senior Common Room
9.20-9.30 Welcoming Remarks
Senior Common Room
9.30-10.15 Claire Connolly (University of Cardiff)
London as Magic Lantern: Lady Blessington’s Ethnographic Fiction
Chair: Mark Turner (King’s College London)
10.15-11.00 Luke Gibbons (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Some Irish Reflections of the Slave Trade: James Barry's 'Commerce: or The Triumph of the Thames'
Chair: Ciara Conneely (University of Notre Dame)
Coffee 11-11.30 Room G.04 (Ground Floor)
11.30-1.00 Panel: Ireland on the London Stage
Chair: Richard Kirkland (King’s College London)
David O’Shaughnessy (University of Oxford) ‘May JOHN look on PAT as his brother’: The Stage Irishman in the 1790s
Nick Daly (University College Dublin) Sensation, Publicity, and Localisation: Boucicault and the London Stage in the 1860s
Lauren Arrington (University of Cambridge) ‘There was unity in Ephesus at last’: St John Ervine and the Fabian Society
Respondent: John Stokes (King’s College London)
1.00 - 2.00: Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.10: Cultural and Political Networks: Panel 1
Chair: Brian Murray (King’s College London)
Robert Portsmouth (National University of Ireland, Galway) ‘Irish Potatoes Seasoned with Attic Salt’ : The Radical Irish Tory Press-Men in London: 1820-1835
Shelley Meagher (Queen’s University, Belfast) The London Networks of Thomas Moore: Irish Patronage, Performance and Publishers and English Music-Making
Respondent: Ultán Gillen (Queen Mary, University of London)
3.10-4.20 Cultural and Political Networks: Panel 2
Chair: Melanie McMahon (King’s College London)
Tony Murray (London Metropolitan University) Diasporic Networks in Fin de Siècle Irish London: The Case of Winnifred M. Patton
Mary Burgess (University of Notre Dame) Abusing a Tongue-tied Man: Robert Lynd, Joseph Conrad, and the Language Question
Respondent: Patricia Palmer (King’s College London)
Tea 4.20-4.45 Room G.04 (Ground Floor)
4.45-5.30 Maud Ellmann (University of Notre Dame)
Censorship and Diaspora: Irish Writers in London 1914-1940
Chair: Ailbhe Darcy (UND)
6.00-7.00 Edna O’Brien
A Reading
Chair: Susan Harris (University of Notre Dame)
7.00-8.00 Closing Reception
We Thank the Following Sponsors:
Graduate School’s Open Competition (King’s College London)
English Department (King’s College London)
‘Shows of London’ Group (King’s College London)
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (University of Notre Dame)
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies (University of Notre Dame)
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
London Program (University of Notre Dame)
Conference Organisers
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College London)
Melanie McMahon (King’s College London)
Greg Kucich (University of Notre Dame, London Program)
Cover Illustration: Irish-born Ella Retford was one of the great stars of the Music Hall. Retford sang or recorded, among others, the following Fred Godfrey songs: She’s A Girl Up North (1909), Molly O’Morgan (The Irish-Italian Girl) (1910), Hey Ho! Can’t You Hear The Steamer? (1913), We’re Irish And Proud Of It, Too (1914), Be Sure He’s Irish (1914).
