| title: | Institute of Irish Studies Seminar Programme, Queen's University, Belfast | ||||||||||||||
| type of event: | seminar | ||||||||||||||
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| start date: | 08/02/2010 | ||||||||||||||
| end date: | 10/05/2010 | ||||||||||||||
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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. |
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| URL: | http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Research/SeminarProgrammes/ |