Ecumenism in Ulster

Burns Library’s Thompson Room
5pm, Monday, October 22, 2007

The Center for Irish Programs/Burns Library Special Presentation

Ecumenism in Ulster: Evaluating the Role of the Church of Ireland, and the Roman Catholic Church, during “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland

Dr. Daithí Ó Corráin, Trinity College Dublin, is our guest scholar presenter. Ó Corráin holds a BA and a Ph.D. degree in history from TCD, as well as a postgraduate diploma in computer science from University College Cork.

He has been, since November 2003, a Research Fellow at Trinity College where, together with Professor Eunan O’Halpin, Ó Corráin has been engaged in a monumental project which will be published by Yale University Press. The first volume of this study, entitled The Dead of the Irish Revolution, 1916-1921, will appear in 2008.

Dr. Ó Corráin is also the author of a number of journal articles, chapters in books, and a highly acclaimed monograph published by the University of Manchester Press, entitled Rendering to God and Caesar: The Irish Churches and the Two States in Ireland, 1949-1973. Oxford University Professor Roy Foster has hailed this study as a pioneering work which utilizes both oral and documentary sources not previously employed in studies which have examined the relations between the Church of Ireland and the Catholic Church, and the governments of the Republic and of Northern Ireland.

Presentation and Q&A – 5pm
Reception in Burns Foyer – 6pm

Please do us the kindness of telephoning either Catherine at the Center (617-552-4847), or Lori at the Burns Library (617-552-3282) by 3pm Monday, October 15, 2007 if you do plan to attend. The seating capacity in the Thompson Room can be moderately expanded if we have sufficient advance notice.

Second Call for Papers: Children, Childhood, and Irish Society, 1700-2007

Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies welcomes submissions for a Spring/Summer 2009 special issue that will consider the theme of "Children, Childhood, and Irish Society, 1700-2007." Childhood figures insistently across a wide range of contemporary discussions and representations of Irish life, from constitutional referenda and tribunals of inquiry to blockbuster films, memoirs and award-winning novels, from the emergence of Gaelscoileanna to the citizenship debate. The guest editors seek essays that place these recent developments in a broader social, cultural, and historical context. We are especially interested in essays that offer interdisciplinary perspectives from history, literature, visual culture, social welfare and social policy. We also invite submissions informed by new sources of archival research. We encourage articles responding to the following areas:

Changing conceptions of childhood in Irish society in the period 1700 to the present.
The child and the state
The child and religion
Childhood and social class
Childhood and educational policy/practice
Childhood in the two Irelands: Anglo and native, North and the Republic
The marginalised and/or institutionalized child
Irish childhood and the Diaspora
Children and family: nuclear, single parent, adopted, foster
Idealised childhood and nostalgia
Childhood sexualities
Imaging children and childhood in film, documentary, and art.
Literary Childhoods: fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir

The deadline for the receipt of proposal (two pages) is November 1, 2007, and completed articles (6000-8000 words) will be due by April 15, 2008. Send proposals to Professor Maria Luddy at m.luddy@warwick.ac.uk and Professor James Smith at smithbt@bc.edu

Boston College-Ireland Lecture Series 2007-8: The New Irish

One of the key issues in contemporary Ireland is the place and future role of the New Irish. Following on from Boston College’s involvement with the US State Department sponsored programme in 2006, “Leaders of Ethnically Diverse Communities in Ireland and Northern Ireland”, this year’s Lecture Series will bring together speakers to discuss the multitude of issues that relate to the New Irish. Each meeting will feature two or three speakers who will outline the main issues, and then engage the audience in discussion.

25 September 2007: The New Irish – the big issues

Speakers: Cllr Rotimi Adebari (Mayor of Porlaoise)

Bryan Fanning (UCD), Editor of Immigration and Social Change (Manchester, 2007)

Alice Feldman (UCD) Co-Director of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative

All meetings begin at 6.00 pm at Boston College, 42 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin. If you have any queries, please call Tel. 01 614 7450, email gilien@bc.edu, or visit www.bc.edu/dublin. These are public events, so all are welcome.

ASSOCIATIONAL CULTURE IN IRELAND AND THE WIDER WORLD c. 1750 - c. 1940

International Conference 16 - 18 May 2008
A distinctive feature of modern non-totalitarian societies is the flourishing, within the context of a stable state, of voluntary formal associational life (clubs, societies, etc) as distinct from the more traditional forms of sociability such as religious feast days and popular fairs.

The Associational Culture in Ireland (ACI) project (principal investigator, Prof. R.V. Comerford) at NUI Maynooth is running a three-day international conference exploring the nature of associational culture in Ireland and the wider world throughout the period 1750-1940.

Proposals for papers are invited on any aspect of associational culture during this period.

The conference organisers welcome proposals for panels and individual papers. Proposals for roundtable discussions and poster sessions are equally welcome.

The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2007.

Proposals should include a short summary of the paper and a brief curriculum vitae as well as contact details, for each contributor.
Please send proposals to: Dr Jennifer Kelly, Department of History, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co.Kildare.
Tel: (353) 1 7083200
Email: Jennifer.Kelly@nuim.ie

Visiting Fellow in Irish Studies at Boston College – Ireland

Visiting Research Fellow in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Programmes,
Boston College: Ireland, Spring term 2008

Boston College’s Centre for Irish Programmes, based in Dublin, is pleased to offer a Visiting Fellowship in Irish Studies. The Fellowship is open to any scholar of postdoctoral standing working in any area of Irish Studies, and would be ideal for someone on research leave from their own institution and seeking a base for their research in Ireland. The Fellow will be given an office in the Centre for Irish Programmes building at 42 St Stephen’s Green, and full computing and administrative support. The building is in the heart of Dublin and a short walk to the National Library and National Archives. The Centre runs a full lecture and research seminar programme throughout the year, and the Fellow would be invited to present a lecture during their tenure. Although there is no stipend attached to the Fellowship, there will be a payment of €5,000 to the Fellow to assist with travel to Ireland and some basic research costs.

The Fellowship is for a period of between two and six months, and is available from January 2008.

If you wish to apply for the Fellowship, please send a curriculum vitae and a two page rationale of the research that you wish to undertake while in Dublin. The deadline for applications is 17 November 2007.

For further information, please contact the Director of the Centre, Mike Cronin by e-mailing croninmr@bc.edu or call 00353-(0)1-6147450. For further details see: http://www.bc.edu/dublin/