title: Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Programme, Queen's University, Belfast
type of event: seminar
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Queen's University Belfast
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city: Belfast
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country (in English): UK
start date: 08/02/2010
end date: 10/05/2010
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abstract/call for papers: INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES


Seminar Programme - Spring Semester 2010


Protest and Resistance


8 February ‘a ghostwoman with ashes on her breath’: Mariolatry and
Matricide in Irish Men’s Writing
Caroline Magennis, QUB

15 February U.S. Foreign Policy and the Illiberal Peace
Lise Morjé Howard, Georgetown University

22 February ‘The most hated and feared institution in Ireland’? The
workhouse in the north of Ireland 1860-1921
Olwen Purdue, QUB

1 March The Sectarian Dilemma: Writing Violence in Nineteenth-Century
Belfast
Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University

8 March
A case study in Irish demonic possession and witchcraft: the
Islandmagee mass trial of 1711
Andrew Sneddon, University of Ulster

15 March Scottish Politicians in Ulster during the Home Rule Era
Kyle Hughes, University of Northumbria (TBC)

22 March Pastoral Modes in Contemporary Irish Poetry
Alex Wylie, QUB

19 April
‘The strongest argument against Home Rule was the Home Rulers’:
The Irish Party under the Leadership of Isaac Butt, 1870-79
Colin Reid, NUI Maynooth

26 April 'A scene for history to scorn'? Royalty and reform in late-Georgian
Belfast
Jonathan Wright, QUB

10 May ‘Once upon a time, we all talked about the non-sectarian nature of
the Civil Rights Movement’: Story, Memory with a capital M, and the start of
the Troubles
Simon Prince, QUB


ADMISSION FREE

Seminars will be held in the Institute of Irish Studies, Seminar Room 1, First
Floor,
53-67 University Road, 1.00 -2.00pm


Further details can be obtained from the Institute of Irish Studies: 028 9097
3386
Please check website for last minute changes:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/SeminarProgram
mes/


If you have any additional requirements regarding access or facilities please
contact the above number so that arrangements can be made.
URL: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/SeminarProgrammes/