November 4, 2009 • 8:08 am
Please join us for a lecture entitled “Maria Edgeworth and the Science of FIction” by James Chandler this Friday at 3:00PM in 424 Flanner. Professor Chandler is the Franke Distinguished Service Professor, the Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the co-director of the new Scherer Center for the Study of American Cultures at the University of Chicago. He works in the areas of Romanticism, eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature, Irish and Scottish studies, and cinema.
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October 28, 2009 • 11:36 am
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October 9, 2009 • 1:45 pm
This Afternoon the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism will bring us the annual Hibernian Lecture by Maurice Bric from University College Dublin. “‘Squaring Circles’: Daniel O’Connell and Public Protest, 1823-1843” will begin at 4:00PM in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library. Professor Bric is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and has published widely in the fields of 18th-century Ireland and Irish-American History.
All are welcome.
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September 30, 2009 • 2:24 pm
This Friday, Notre Dame Ph.D. candidate in English Sean Mannion will deliver a talk entitled “Celtic Arc Light: The City, Technology, and Irish Modernism” in 424 Flanner at 3:30 PM. Please note the lecture will begin a half hour later than our usual time.
On Friday, October 9th Professor Maurice Bric will give the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Hibernian Lecture “Squaring Circles: Daniel O’Connell and Public Protest, 1823-1843″ at 4:00PM in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library.
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September 23, 2009 • 12:08 pm
Professor Pat Coughlan will be speaking on 
Jung, Gender and the Subject in the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella” this Friday, September 25th at 3:00 PM in 424 Flanner Hall. Coughlan teaches at the School of English, University College, Cork is a scholar and critic of a wide range of Irish writing, with important work on the early modern period (Spenser and other English colonial discourse), and on twentieth-century writing, from Irish modernism (Beckett and Bowen) to contemporary poetry (Heaney, Montague, Ní Chuilleanáin) and fiction (Banville, Anne Enright and others). A leading feminist critic, she is currently completing a study of subjectivity and gender in Irish literature 1960-2000.
Next Friday, October 2nd, Notre Dame Ph.D. candidate in English Sean Mannion will deliver a talk entitled “Celtic Arc Light: The City, Technology, and Irish Modernism” in 424 Flanner at 3:30 PM. Please note the lecture will begin a half hour later than our usual time.
On Friday, October 9th Professor Maurice Bric will give the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism Hibernian Lecture “Squaring Circles: Daniel O’Connell and Public Protest, 1823-1843″ at 4:00PM in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library.
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September 15, 2009 • 2:03 pm
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh will be speaking on “Aspects of Memory and Identity in Early Ireland” this Friday, September 18th at 3:00 PM in 424 Flanner Hall. Ó Cathasaigh is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University and has published many articles on early Irish literature, mythology and language.
Professor Ó Cathasaigh studied at University College Cork, and was awarded B.A. and M.A. by the National University of Ireland. He served as a research assistant in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and lectured in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish from 1972-95. In 1995 Ó Cathasaigh was appointed the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University.
He has published The Heroic Biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977) and many articles on early Irish literature, mythology and language. Recent publications include Táin Bó Cúailnge and Early Irish Law (2005), and a contribution to the collected volume Why Irish?.
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September 8, 2009 • 1:07 pm
The Irish Studies Seminar talk for this Friday, September 11th has been cancelled. Vicki Mahaffey’s visit will be rescheduled for next spring.
Keough-Naughton/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow Jane McGaughey will deliver a lecture entitled “The Language of Sacrifice: Manliness in Northern Ireland and the Consequences of War, 1912-22″ to the first meeting of the History Department Colloquium. the talk will take place on Thursday, September 10th at 7pm in 119 O’Shaughnessy.
All are welcome.
The next Irish Studies Seminar talk is Friday, September 18th at 3:00 PM in 424 Flanner. Harvard University Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies Tomas Ó Cathasaigh will lecture on Aspects of Memory and Identity in Early Ireland.
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September 2, 2009 • 3:31 pm
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Please join us for the first event of the Irish Studies Seminar this semester. Fianna Fáil Senator Mark Daly will lead a discussion of contemporary issues in Ireland in 424 Flanner at 3:30PM on Wednesday, September 2nd.
Also, please note the following upcoming events: Friday, September 4th, Excellence in English Distinguished Visitor Terry Eagleton will speak on “The Irish Sublime” in Hesburgh Center Auditorium at 3:00 PM and Friday, September 11th University of Illinois Professor Vicki Mahaffey will give a talk entitled “Finn Again: Huck Finn, Finn MacCool, and the Salmon; the Irish-American Odyssey of Finnegans Wake” in 424 Flanner at 3:00PM.
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The Irish studies T-shirts are here. Shirts are high-quality cotton
and feature the slogan that won by a landslide in our online poll.
They are available in the Institute for $10 (cash) and we can
use paypal.com and send you one if you chip in $2 for shipping and
handling. Contact me for further details.
Please stop by 422 Flanner and pick up this sartorial celebration
demanded by our students and made manifest at long last.
The Institute will be hosting *a reception* for graduating seniors and
their families from 11:00-12:30 on Friday May 15th. Faculty, Fellows
and Friends are most welcome to stop by. There will be cupcakes.
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