1996 American Conference for Irish Studies

at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Conference Program NOTE: All sessions unless otherwise listed are in the STUDENT CENTER on the SIUC campus.

NB: Friday evening's speaker will be: The Honorable George Mitchell, Chairman of the International Commission on Disarmament in Northern Ireland

   WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 

   5:00-10:00 pm Registration: Student Center Gallery Lounge 
   6:00-8:00 pm ACIS Executive Committee Meeting: Kaskaskia Room 
   8:00-10:00 pm Conference Opening Reception: Gallery Lounge 

8:00 am-4:00 pm Registration table: Gallery Lounge
8:00 am-4:00 pm Book displays: Ballroom A
8:30-10:30 am Coffee And Tea Available: International Lounge

9:00-10:00 am Student Center Auditorium

Plenary Address: Aighleann O’Shaughnessy, Irish Office of Public Works: "The Rock of Cashel: Conservation, Restoration, and the Challenges of Tourism"

Chair: Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University

10:30-12:00 noon

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Picturing Ireland" Chair: James Hurt, University of Illinois at Urbana

James Hurt, University of Illinois at Urbana: "Mapping Ireland"

Susan Bazargan, Eastern Illinois University: "Visual Figurations of Ireland in Late Nineteenth-Century Political Cartoons"

Stephen Watt, Indiana University at Bloomington: "Photographs in Biographies: In Search of the ‘Real’ Nora Barnacle Joyce"

B. Mississippi Room "Whoredom in Research: Coping with the Challenges of Crossing Irish Cultures" Chair: Rosemarie McDonald, The Boston Globe

Paula R. Pratt, Youngstown State University: "Getting to ‘We’: Working with and Writing about Irish Women Poets"

Eileen M. Trauth, Northeastern University: "Issues with Ethnographic Research across Cultures: The Dilemma of Staying ‘Strange’ during Participant Observation"

Ruth-Ann M. Harris, Boston College: "’Come You All Courageously Together’: Conducting Research in Northern Ireland"

C. Illinois Room "Contemporary Irish Poets" Chair: Guinn Batten, Washington University

Ben Howard, Alfred University: "Lyric Histories: The Historical Visions of Murphy and Montague"

Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, La Salle University: "Troping the Laundry: Irish Women Poets"

Kevin Ray, Washington University: "Sites of Ambush: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Bordered Silences"

D. Ohio Room "Emerging Irish Nationalism" Chair: Deborah McWilliams Consalvo, University of California, Irvine

Nancy J. Curtin, Fordham University: "The Liberal Nationalism of the United Irishmen"

Julia M. Wright, University of Waterloo: "’The Nation Begins to Form’: Inaugural Nationalism in Lady Morgan’s The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys"

Deborah McWilliams Consalvo, Irvine, California: "An Extraordinary Testament: The Altering Perspectives of the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Literati"

Leslie A. Williams, University of Cincinnati: "Images of Daniel O’Connell in British Periodicals"

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Irish-American Influences" Chair: Nancy Fischer, Anderson University

Suellen Hoy, University of Notre Dame: "Discovering Irish Nuns in Nineteenth-Century America"

Joyce Flynn, Harvard University: "Waging War Against War: Irish-American Arguments Concerning European Crisis, 1921-1941"

Andrew Wilson, Loyola University of Chicago: "The Clinton Administration and the Ulster Peace-Process"

Alan Vaux and Kristin Duppong, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: "Irish-Americans and other Americans: How Different are They--Evidence from the General Social Survey"

B. Mississippi Room "Recurring Themes in Contemporary Irish Fiction" Chair: David Gardiner, Loyola University of Chicago

Jeanne Flood, Wayne State University: "Religion in the Novels of Deirdre Madden"

David Gardiner, Loyola University of Chicago: "A View of Elizabeths’ Ireland(s): Robert Welch’s The Kilcolman Notebook"

Thomas Dillon Redshaw, University of St. Thomas: "Teach Beg nó Bungaló: The Hidden Munster of Thomas McCarthy"

Eamonn Wall, Creighton University: "Langrishe, Go Down: Aidan Higgins’s Big House"

C. Illinois Room "Institutional Dynamics: Catholics and Constables in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" Chair: Emmet Larkin, University of Chicago

David W. Miller, Carnegie Mellon University: "Mass Attendance in Pre-Famine Ireland: An Analysis of the 1834 Religious Census"

Paul Townend, University of Chicago: "Public Pledge and Collective Commitment: Mathewite Temperance Meetings in Pre-Famine Ireland"

Padraic Kennedy, Washington University: "From Disposables to Detectives: The Establishment of a Detective Department in the Royal Irish Constabulary, 1869"

W. J. Lowe, University of Detroit--Mercy: "The Royal Irish Constabulary Agitation of 1882"

D. Ohio Room "Travels Into Irish Culture" Chair:

John McAuliffe, University College Galway: "Caesar Otway’s 1839 Tour of Connacht"

William H. A. Williams, The Union Institute: "Into the West: English Tourists and the Discovery of Connemara, 1825-1856"

Deborah Joy Brown, Columbia Union College: "Sighting the Wild Irish: The Exotic Peasant in the Fiction of Lady Morgan and Maria Edgeworth"

Wilfrid Jayasuriya, Institute of Technological Studies, Sri Lanka: "Ireland and Sri Lanka: Comparing Cultures"

3:30-5:00 pm

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "The North Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" Chair: Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame

Jennifer Dempsey, Belfast Circus School: "The Belfast Circus School: Circus of Hope"

Jane Leonard, Queen’s University of Belfast: "Memorializing the Troubles: Post-Ceasefire Commemoration of the 1969-94 Conflict in Northern Ireland"

Jennifer Cornell, Oregon State University: "Recent Developments in the Representation of the Northern Irish in British Television Drama: Prospects for a Lasting Peace"

B. Mississippi Room "Cross-Cultural Poetics" Chair: Maureen Waters, Queens College, CUNY

Elizabeth Grubgeld, Oklahoma State University: "Montague’s The Dead Kingdom and the Contemporary Elegy"

Dillon Johnston, Wake Forest University: "Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes in the 1960s"

Karl Kageff, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: "’At Home Everywhere and Nowhere’: Paul Muldoon and Tony Harrison as International Poets"

William A. Wilson, San Jose State University: "Troubled ‘I’ Site: Paul Muldoon and the Cultures of Modernity"

C. Illinois Room "Earlier Irish History and Culture" Chair: Lawrence McBride, Illinois State University

Karen Holland, Providence College: "’For Fear of the Lady of Ormond’s Displeasure’: The Political Activities of Joan Fitzgerald (c. 1514-65)"

Monica Brennan, St. Joseph’s College: "Ascendancy Politics: Co. Kilkenny, 1641-1800"

David Zeiler, Boston College: "A Bishop Resigns: Children, Guardians and Assets in 1720 Ireland"

Maureen S. G. Hawkins, University of Lethbridge: "Eva and Strongbow: Ascendancy Claims to Irish Hegemony in Charles Shadwell’s Rotherick O’Connor (1720)"

D. Ohio Room "Constructing National Identities" Chair: Joyce Flynn, Harvard University

Charles H. Curran, Stonehill College: "’Lillibulero’: Macaronic Propaganda Paradigm"

John A. Taylor, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: "British National Identity and the Exclusion of Ireland"

Leo McNamara, University of Michigan: "The Plays of Jack B. Yeats"

Thomas F. Shea, University of Connecticut--Hartford: "Patrick McGinley’s The Lost Soldier’s Song: Cultural Webs of Intertextual History"

   5:15-6:30 pm Morris Library Special Collections: Reception and Exhibition 

   Dinner at local restaurants 
   8:30 pm Student Center Auditorium 

   A READING BY WILLIAM KENNEDY (The Harry T. Moore Memorial Reading at SIUC) 

   Chair: E. Beth Lordan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

   FRIDAY, APRIL 19 

   8:00 am-4:00 pm Registration table, Gallery Lounge 
   8:00 am-4:00 pm Book displays: Ballroom A 
   8:30-10:30 am Coffee And Tea Available: International Lounge 

Chair: Philip O'Leary, Boston College

10:30-12:00 noon

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Moore, Joyce, Archbishop Walsh: Cross-Cultural Anxieties" Chair: Maureen Murphy, Hofstra University

Adrian Frazier, Union College: "Paris, Ireland: Making an Example of George Moore Making an Example of Manet"

Lucy McDiarmid, Villanova University: "Hunger, Hysteria, Anglophobia: The Children of 1913"

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin: "Dido’s Alphabet: Joyce and the Orientalizing of the Irish Language"

B. Mississippi Room "Views of the Famine and the Irish Poor" Chair: Eileen Sullivan, Irish Educational Association

Gordon Bigelow, University of California--Santa Cruz: "Asenath Nicholson’s New Domestic Economy"

Blanche M. Touhill, University of Missouri: "The London Times View of the Famine"

Charles E. Orser Jr., Illinois State University: "What Happened to the People’s Dishes? An Archaeological Perspective on the Great Famine"

C. Illinois Room "Irish Voices Across Cultures" Chair:

Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University: "Performing Gender: The Women in Anne Devlin's After Easter"

Mary Trotter, Northwestern University: "’Double-Crossing’ Irish Borders: The Field Day Production of Thomas Kilroy’s Double Cross"

Lauren Onkey and Michael Munley, Ball State University: "’In Sunshine and in Shadow’: Heredity and Hybridity in Irish/American Music"

D. Ohio Room "Irish Fiction from Mid-Century and Beyond" Chair: Richard F. Peterson, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

José Lanters, University of Oklahoma: "Carnival in Austin Clarke’s The Sun Dances at Easter"

Virginia B Mack, Central Washington University: "Val Mulkerns: A Woman’s Response to Censorship"

Klaus Lubbers, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität-Mainz: "Contemporary Irish Women Short Story Writers in Search of Their Place in Irish Culture"

Michael J. O’Shea, Assumption College: "Families: The Failure of Relationships in Contemporary Irish Fiction"

1:30-3:00 pm

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Irish Women, Decolonization and the Missionary Role in India and Africa" Chair: Mrinalini Sinha, Boston College

Kavita Philip, Georgia Institute of Technology: "Ethnographic Arrangements of Ireland and India"

Deirdre Bryan, Boston College: "Irish Missionary Nuns as Educators in British Colonial Kenya and Nigeria"

Catherine Candy, Loyola University of Chicago: "Ireland, India and Margaret Cousins’s Sexual Politics, 1878-1954"

Margaret Preston, Boston College: "Memsahibs and Ladies Bountiful: Philanthropy and Social Control in Nineteenth-Century India and Ireland"

B. Mississippi Room "Public Policy and Perceptions of Irishness" Chair: Jeanne Hurley Simon, US National Commission on Libraries

Cliona Murphy, California State University--Bakersfield: "The Irish Society: Observations of Its Goals, Methods and Controversies (1818-1856)"

Patricia J. Fanning, Stonehill College: "Epidemics in America: The Irish as Contagious Other"

Nathan Wallace, University of Notre Dame: "Street-Irish Women and the National Uncanny in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor"

Michael Given, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: "Comparing Narratives of the 1922 Attack on the Four Courts in Dublin"

C. Illinois Room "New Perspectives on William Kennedy" Chair: Patrick Berger, St. Louis Community College

Joseph Gahagan, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee: "Homeless Away From Home: The Irish-American on the Tramp in the Works of William Kennedy and Jim Tully"

Vivian Valvano Lynch, St. John’s University: "Redemzione/Redemption: Fellini’s 8 1/2 and Kennedy’s Ironweed"

Tramble T. Turner, Pennsylvania State-Ogontz: "Kennedy’s Very Old Bones: American Responses to Irish Catholicism"

3:30-5:00 pm

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Ideology and Its Discontents: The News from Ireland" Chair: Michael Patrick Gillespie, Marquette University

Margot Backus, St. John’s College, Rochester: "Queer Theory"

Anthony Bradley, University of Vermont: "Post-Colonial Ireland"

Meg Harper, Georgia State University: "The Anglo-Irish Perspective"

Cheryl Herr, University of Iowa: "Irish Psychohistory"

B. Mississippi Room "Irish Literary Revivals: Inside and Out" Chair:

Mary Bryson, Montana State University: "Cultural Conflicts of the Irish Literary Revival: The Anglo-Irish Tradition and the Canon"

Jill Brady Hampton, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: "Cultural Conflict in Courtship in Late Nineteenth-Century Irish Fiction: Hogan, M.P. and A Drama in Muslin"

Nicole Pepinster Greene, University of Southwestern Louisiana: "Crossing Cultures: Politics and Society in Somerville and Ross’s The Enthusiast"

Ellen Tsagaris, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: "Vestiges of Irish Goddesses and Warrior Queens in James Joyce, Barbara Pym, and Anne Rice"

C. Illinois Room "Irish-American Cultures and Literature" Chair: James Rogers, University of St. Thomas

Aífe Murray, San Francisco, California "Kitchen Table Poetics: Maid Margaret Maher and Her Poet Emily Dickinson"

Marie O’Brien, University of Delaware: "’With Her Pen Served Her Faith and Her Country’: Mary Anne Sadlier, Crusading Novelist"

Marguerite Quintelli-Neary, Chadron State College: "Western Culture/Irish Myths"

Catherine M. Eagan, Boston College: "Comparing Eugene O’Neill’s Irish-American and African-American Plays"

D. Ohio Room "Great Britain and Ireland Before the Great War" Chair: Catherine Shannon, Westfield State College

Ann Marie Plunkett, Piedmont Virginia Community College: "The Making of a Nationalist: Justin McCarthy, Ireland and England"

Andrew R. Muldoon, Washington University: "Guarding ‘Our Interest and Position in the World’: Winston Churchill and Ireland, 1911-1914"

Benjamin Novick, University of Michigan: "’No Ordinary War’: Recruiting in Ireland, August-December, 1914"

   5:00-7:00 pm Stone Center: Conference Reception Hosted by SIUC Chancellor and  Mrs. John C. Guyon 

   Dinner at local restaurants 

   8:30 pm Lesar Law School Auditorium 
   "The Northern Ireland Peace Process"   THE HONORABLE GEORGE MITCHELL
   Chairman of the International Commission on Disarmament in Northern Ireland
   Chair: The Honorable Frank Sheridan   Consul General of Ireland, Chicago

   SATURDAY, APRIL 20 

   8:00 am-4:00 pm Registration Table: Gallery Lounge 
   8:00 am-4:00 pm Book Displays: Ballroom A 
   8:30-10:30 am Coffee and Tea Available: International Lounge 

10:30-12:00 noon

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Beyond the Revisionist Impasse: Suggested New Directions in the History of Early Modern and Modern Ireland" Chair:

Terence R. Murphy, American University: "The Mythical Underpinnings of Revisionism of Early Modern Irish History, 1534-1691"

Gary Owens, University of Western Ontario: "Pre-Famine Ireland and ‘The New History’"

Sean Farrell Moran, Oakland University: "Tracing ‘The Echo of a Philosophy’: The Positivist Assumptions in the History of Post-Famine Ireland"

B. Mississippi Room "(Re)Constituting Gender and Culture: Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing" Chair: Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University

Ann Marie Adams, Bowling Green State University: "’Irish, Ireland, Ours . . .’: Eavan Boland’s Investigation of the ‘Subject’ of Irish Poetry"

Angela Athy, Bowling Green State University: "Fighting the Constructed Images of Women: Julia O’Faolain’s No Country for Young Men and Jennifer Johnston’s Three Monologues"

Alan Rea, Jr., Bowling Green State University: "Struggling Within the Spheres: Re-Inscripting Colonial Identities for Images in Julia O’Faolain’s No Country for Young Men"

Helen V. Emmitt, Centre College, Kentucky: "Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Demonic Landscape"

C. Illinois Room "Ireland’s Artistic Traditions" Chair: Carol Berger, St. Louis Community College

Colin Ireland, Beaver College, Dublin: "Visionary Poets and the Aesthetics of Vision"

Ian Crump, Shimer College: "The Cracked Lookingglass and the Irish: Joyce’s Uses of the Mirror Metaphor"

Mary Cosgrove, University of Ulster at Belfast: "The Landscapes of Paul Henry: Towards an Irish Visual Identity"

D. Ohio Room "Irish Singing Masters" Chair:

Joseph Valente, University of Illinois at Urbana: "Yeats’ National Family Romance: Evasions and Responsibilities"

Jim Sullivan, Saginaw Valley State University: "Joyce’s Ethnic Voice(s): The ‘Off for a Buster’ Episode of Ulysses"

Lee A. Bleyer, The Catholic University of America: "Ireland thro’ Joy an’ ‘thro Tears: Song as Discourse in Sean O’Casey’s Kathleen Listens In and Nannie’s Night Out"

Jack Morgan, University of Missouri-Rolla: "Brian Coffey and William Butler Yeats--Prayers for Their Daughters"

1:30-3:00 pm

A. Kaskaskia/Missouri Room "Irish Places and Spaces in Middle America" Chair: Edward J. O’Day, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Graham Davis, Bath College of Higher Education, U. K.: "’Paradise Lost’: Irish Pioneer Settlers in South Texas"

William H. Mulligan, Jr., Murray State University: "From the Emerald Isle to the Copper Island: Irish Immigrants in Michigan’s Copper Country, 1845-1880"

Ellen Skerrett, Chicago, Illinois: "Bricks and Mortar: The Chicago Irish Parish Experience"

Kathleen M. Flanagan, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota: "Cultural Expression Takes Root: Irish Dance in Chicago, 1893-1953"

B. Mississippi Room "Orientalism and the Supernatural" Chair: Maureen Lees, Villanova University

Maureen Lees, Villanova University: "’I Hope That Is Not Treason’: Lady Gregory’s Egyptian Intrigue(s)"

Joseph Lennon, Boston College: "W. B. Yeats’s ‘Oriental’ Models for an Artistic Elite: ‘Copy the East and Live Deliberately’"

Jane Biondi, Tufts University: "Ascendancy Anxiety: Sheridan LeFanu’s Gothic Explorations of Catholic Empowerment"

Karen Brown-Wheeler, Emory University: "’Culture(s) Yet Undead’: The Late-Victorian Humanism of Bram Stoker’s Dracula"

C. Illinois Room "Contemporary Irish Drama in Cultural Contexts" Chair: Johann Norstedt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Claudia W. Harris, Brigham Young University: "Exporting Northern Irish Culture: The Role of Theatre"

Joan FitzPatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City: "Self-Dramatization and Identity in Frank McGuinness’s Plays"

Marilynn Richtarik, Georgia State University: "The Strange Career of a Belfast Play: Stewart Parker’s Spokesong"

Charlotte J. Headrick, Oregon State University: "Across Cultures: Greek Revenge into Irish Rage, Euripides’ Medea Revisioned by Brendan Kennelly"

D. Ohio Room "New Perspectives on Seamus Heaney" Chair:

Cóilín Owens, George Mason University: "Let Erin Remember: Heaney’s Melodies"

Donna L. Potts, Kansas State University: "The Pastoral Art of Virgil, Frost and Heaney"

James A. Scruton, Bethel College: "Letter by Strange Letter: Heaney’s ‘Alphabets’ and Carson’s ‘Second Language’"

Daniel Tobin, Carthage College: "A Poet’s Rite of Passage: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Station Island’"

   3:00-3:30 pm Coffee and Tea Available: International Lounge 

   3:30-4:30 pm Student Center Auditorium: The Man With Four Legs by Flann O'Brien, 
   A Studio Production by the SIUC Theatre Department 

   6:30-7:30 pm Reception: Gallery Lounge 
   7:30 pm BANQUET: Student Center Ballroom D 

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