Irish Studies

  • Founded
    1973
  • Seminar Number
    535

This seminar serves as an interdisciplinary forum on all aspects and periods of Irish culture. Seminar participants come from a wide variety of fields: history, literature, art history, film studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, music, and folklore. These scholars bring to any topic under discussion a diversity of background which is stimulating and informative for all present. The concern for Irish studies as a field of scholarly inquiry is reflected in the collegial sharing of information about resources and repositories for research in the field.

Co-Chairs
Mary McGlynn
mary.mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu

Terrence Byrne
byrneter@tcnj.edu

Rapporteur
Therese Cox
tac2167@columbia.edu

Meeting dates and locations are subject to change. Please confirm details with the seminar rapporteur.

Welcome

Meetings

09/09/2016 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
‘Emerging from the Shamrock’: Gender, Identity, and the Irish Step Dancing Costume
Sarah Churchill, Independent Art Historian and Assistant to Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University




10/07/2016 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Early Nineteenth-Century Gaelic Antiquarianism and the Royal Irish Academy, and the magnificent manuscript facsimiles that followed
Brian Ó Broin, William Paterson University




12/02/2016 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
'Peasants are climbing the wall': George Moore’s A Drama in Muslin and The Land League's populist assault on the Irish Novel
Seamus O’Malley, Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University




02/03/2017 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
‘Cancel, cancel, and begin again’: John Banville’s Path from ‘Einstein’ to Mefisto
Kersti Tarien Powell, St. Joseph's University




03/03/2017 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Nativism, Economics, and Law: The Irish in American Immigration Policy
Hidetaka Hirota, City College, CUNY




04/07/2017 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Tell No One: Love and Espionage in Elizabeth Bowen’s Life and Writing (1939-1942)
Patricia Laurence, City College, CUNY




05/05/2017 Faculty House, Columbia University
8:00 PM
Gentrification as Famine in Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Literature
Jason Matthew Buchanan, Hostos Community College, CUNY