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SUMMARY:Cover-up in the Congo? - 30 Oct
DESCRIPTION:Dr Kennedy’s recent book Ireland\, the UN and the Congo takes a fresh look at Ireland’s part in the UN’s disastrous mission in the Congo in the early 1960s. In summer 1961 Irish diplomat Conor Cruise O’Brien was appointed UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s Special representative in the breakaway Congolese province of Katanga. In ONUC\, its biggest peacekeeping mission to date\, the UN had deployed to Congo a year previously to try to stabilise the newly independent African state. The Secretary General and his officials got drawn into the lethal realities of Congolese and Katangese politics.\nAs a military and diplomatic history it has many strengths\, principally its showcasing of original and highly revealing archival material\, and an admirable clarity in providing a more robust and honest version of the mission than has been available to date. This is partly due to the book’s joint authorship. Michael Kennedy has long been established as an impressive historian of Irish foreign policy\, while his collaborator\, Art Magennis\, undertook two tours of duty in the Congo. Diarmaid Ferriter\, in the Irish Times\nMystery still surrounds the events of September 1961 in Katanga where UN peacekeepers\, including Irish soldiers\, unsuccessfully went to war against the province in an attempt to ends its secession. Peacekeepers\, Katangese military and civilians were killed\, both sides committed atrocities which were only partially reported\, Hammarskjold died in a mysterious plane crash whilst seeking to end the fighting\, and some months later O’Brien was forced to resign\, ostensibly for reasons related to his private life. With the release of the UN’s own archives on the Congo mission O’Brien’s actions\, Hammarskjold’s involvement in authorising the UN’s military action against Katanga\, and the UN’s subsequent protestations that the organisation and the Secretary General knew nothing of ONUC’s intentions in Katanga can be examined for the first time. The new records call into question existing accounts of the UN mission in Congo. O’Brien’s account of his UN service\, written immediately after his resignation\, To Katanga and Back is a classic but with the release of the UN’s archives\, the limitations of the works appear. \nFifty years later a major re-evaluation of the UN’s failed military adventure in Katanga is possible\, and using material from archives in New York\, Stockholm\, Dublin and London this talk hopes to provide a greater insight into a hitherto secret and mystifying chapter of the UN’s history. \nSpeakers:\n\nDr Michael Kennedy\nDr Kennedy has written widely on British-Irish relations and on cross-border relations in Ireland\, including Division and Consensus: the politics of cross-border relations in Ireland 1921-1969 (Dublin\, 2000). He has also written extensively on Ireland’s foreign and defence policies\, including Ireland and the League of Nations\, 1919-46 (Dublin\, 1996)\, Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations\, 1955-2005 (with Deirdre McMahon) (Dublin\, 2005)\, Guarding Neutral Ireland (Dublin\, 2008) and The Irish Defence Forces 1940-49: The Chief of Staff’s Reports (Dublin\, 2011) (with Commandant Victor Laing). He has recently co-edited\, with John Doyle\, Ben Tonra and Noel Dorr\, the first text book on Ireland’s international relations\, Irish Foreign Policy\, which was published by Gill and Macmillan earlier this year. Dr Kennedy is a member of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and a Research Associate of the Centre for Contemporary Irish History\, Trinity College\, Dublin.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/cover-up-in-the-congo-30-oct/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,lecture,politics,social history
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SUMMARY:Irish Atlantic World - 30 May
DESCRIPTION:Whores\, Wenches\, and the Blake Family in the Early Modern Irish Atlantic World \nProfessor Jenny Shaw will explore the lives of two women: one an indentured Irish servant (the “whore”); one an enslaved woman (the “wench”) who labored in the household of Irish merchant John Blake in Barbados 1675. She explores the techniques historians use to write the lives of ordinary people\, even when their stories are only available through a handful of letters\, and demonstrates how race\, gender\, and status combined to shape the role of Irish Catholic elites in the early modern English Caribbean.  \nSpeaker:\n\nProfessor Jenny Shaw\nShaw received her Ph.D. from New York University in Atlantic History in 2009. Her first book\, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish\, Africans\, and the Construction of Difference is forthcoming this autumn with the University of Georgia’s Early American Places series. She is the co-author (with Kristen Block) of an article entitled Subjects without an Empire: The Irish in the Early Caribbean\, which appeared in Past and Present in 2011\, and she has received funding for her work from (among others) the Lewis L. Glucksman Foundation at University College\, Cork\, the Doris G. Quinn Foundation\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/irish-atlantic-world-30-may/
LOCATION:Westminster City Hall\, Westminster City Hall 64 Victoria Street  London  \, London\, SW1E 6QP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,lecture,research
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20140424T073000
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SUMMARY:Women and Exile - 24 April
DESCRIPTION:This talk will look at the place of the Irish woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction and examine how Irish writers have demonstrated a sustained interest in recovering the story of the Irish woman emigrant\, a story that until relatively recently was absent or under-represented in both historical accounts and literary representations of Irish emigration. In spite of the fact that the theme of ‘exile’ has near cult status in Irish literature\, it seems to be a cultural preoccupation that overlooked the experience of the woman emigrant; it too often appointed her to roles that served only to define the losses suffered by her male counterpart and\, in particular\, the male artist in his journey into the world. \nEdna O’Brien and Colm Tóibín offer two different models for recovering this history. Toibin’s work\, particularly his novel Brooklyn (2009)\, shows an historically sensitive concern with the vanishing Irish woman emigrant in Ireland of the 1950s\, while O’Brien’s more recent writing\, especially her 2006 novel\, The Light of Evening\, remodels the familiar paradigm of the Irish artist in exile in ways most meaningful to the Irish woman writer. Drawing on archival material from the Tóibín Papers at the National Library of Ireland and the O’Brien Papers at the James Joyce Library at University College Dublin\, McWilliams makes a case study of how these authors contribute to the larger recovery of the history of the woman migrant in contemporary Irish fiction.\nSpeaker:\n\nEllen McWilliams\nEllen’s teaching and research interests are in the fields of women’s writing\, Irish\, American\, and Canadian literature\, and writing and diasporic identity. She has written two monographs\, Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009) and Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction (2013)\, and is working on a new book\, Irishness in North American Women’s Writing: Transatlantic Affinities. She has a special interest in New York magazine culture and has recently completed a series of articles on Maeve Brennan’s writing for The New Yorker\, including an essay for Women: A Cultural Review: ‘”A Sort of Rathmines Version of a Dior Design”: Maeve Brennan\, Self-Fashioning\, and the Uses of Style’. Ellen has received a number of awards for research\, including an AHRC Fellowship\, a Fulbright Scholar Award\, and a British Library-Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship in North American Studies.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/women-and-exile-24-april/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:exile,history,lecture,research,social history
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SUMMARY:Dublin Lockout - 27 Feb
DESCRIPTION:This month’s lecture will be delivered by Padraig Yeates on the Dublin Lockout\, the past year of commemoration and lessons drawn from the experience. \nOn 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers\, members of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union\, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer\, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company\, to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month\, the charismatic union leader\, James Larkin\, had called out over 20\,000 workers across the city in sympathetic action. By January 1914 the union had lost the battle\, lacking the resources for a long campaign. But it won the war: 1913 meant that there was no going back to the horrors of pre-Larkin Dublin. Yeates outstanding survey in Lockout: Dublin 1913 has already established itself as the definitive work on the Lockout. \nImage: Part of the 1913 Lockout tapestry as designed by Robert Ballagh \nSpeakers:\n\nPadriag Yeates\nPadraig Yeates is a member of the 1913 Committee that co-ordinated events around the Lockout Centenary during 2013. He is a former Industry and Employment Correspondent of the Irish Times and has been a union activist all his life. He has written several books including Lockout: Dublin 1913\, A City in Wartime: Dublin 1914-1918 and A City in Turmoil: Dublin 1919 -1921.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/dublin-lockout-27-feb/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,lecture,politics,research,social history
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SUMMARY:The Abbey\, where next? - 28 Nov
DESCRIPTION:To turn O’Connell Street into the Broadway of Ireland; The Debate over the Relocation of the Abbey Theatre. \nThe Irish Literary Society is delighted to present its 2nd Joint Lecture with the Centre for Irish Studies (CIS)\, St Mary’s University College. \nFrom its foundation in 1904 The Abbey\, Ireland’s national theatre\, has been located at Lower Abbey Street in Dublin. However from 2001 to 2012 an often heated debate about its relocation took place in the two houses of the Irish Parliament (Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann) and the Irish national press. This lecture will examine the debate within the context of the idea of national theatres as public monuments\, as agents in urban regeneration\, and consider the modern Abbey’s role as a key element in Dublin’s competition for international cultural tourism. \nPresented in association with the Centre for Irish Studies\, St Mary’s University\, Twickenham:\n\n\n\nSpeaker:\n\nShaun Richards\nShaun Richards is Professorial Research Fellow\, CIS St Mary’s\, the author of Writing Ireland (1988 with David Cairns)\, Mapping of Irish Theatre (2013\, with Chris Morash)\, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Irish Drama (2006) and scores of articles on Irish theatre published in Etudes Irlandais\, Irish Studies Review and Irish University Review amongst others. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo and a consultant with the Cia Ludens theatre company that specialises in adapting Friel\, Murphy and other Irish plays to the Brazilian stage in translation.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-abbey-where-next-28-nov/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:architecture,Collaboration,history,lecture,theatre
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SUMMARY:Robin Flower and The Great Blasket - 25 Apr
DESCRIPTION:The 2013 ILS/Irish Texts Society Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Seán Ó Coileán\, Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish at University College\, Cork and Member of the Royal Irish Academy.  \nThe subject of his lecture will be\, ’The ITS volume that never was: Robin Flower and The Great Blasket’. This annual lecture is organised in conjunction with the Irish Texts Society & will be hosted by the ILS. Flower’s The Western Island tells the history of the Great Blasket\, of the frugality and adversities of life on the island\, its folktales (including stories of ghosts and fairies)\, and also recounts the dramatic day in the Great Blasket’s history when the flying galleons of the Spanish Aramada were destroyed on its coast. \nImage: Tomás Ó’Croimthainn and Robin Flower \nPresented in association with the Irish Texts Society:\n\n\n \nSpeakers:\n\nSeán Ó Coileáin\nFollowing undergraduate and postgraduate studies at UCC\, Professor Seán Ó Coileán was awarded the Travelling Studentship of the National University of Ireland in 1967\, choosing to study at Harvard\, where he was greatly influenced by the work of Professor John V. Kelleher in Irish history and literature and of Professor Albert B. Lord in oral theory and composition. Their teaching informs much of his own subsequent writings in the area of Irish literature\, from the Guaire cycle (the subject of his Harvard Ph.D.) to Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire. An influence of a different kind\, which also grew into personal friendship\, was that of Seán Ó Ríordáin; his literary biography of Ó Riordáin was awarded the literary prize of the Irish-American Cultural Institute in 1984. Other scholarly interests include the literature of the Great Blasket\, his work on which includes a new edition of An tOileánach (Cló Talbóid\, 2001). A long-time member of the Senate of the National University\, he takes an active interest in Irish-language matters and is Chairman of Gaelachas Teoranta which overseas the operations of Coláiste an Phiarsaigh and Scoil na nÓg in Glanmire\, County Cork. He is a member of the Folklore of Ireland Council.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/robin-flower-and-the-great-blasket-25-apr/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collaboration,folklore,history,Irish language,lecture,research
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SUMMARY:Hubert Butler - 28 Feb
DESCRIPTION:Robert Tobin’s study of Butler is masterly … Tobin mixes familiarity with objectivity\, scrupulous scholarship\, and a gossip’s curiosity.Caroline Bowder\, Church Times‘How do such people\, with brilliant members and dull ones\, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?’ So asked the Kilkenny man‐of‐letters Hubert Butler (1900‐91) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. As both a product and critic of this culture\, Butler posed the question repeatedly\, refusing to accept as inevitable the marginalization of his community within the newly established state. Inspired by the example of the Revivalist generation\, he challenged his compatriots to approach modern Irish identity in terms complementary rather than exclusivist. In the process of doing so\, he produced a corpus of literary essays European in stature\, informed by extensive travel\, deep reading\, and an active engagement with the political and social upheavals of his age. His insistence on the necessity of Protestant participation in Irish life\, coupled with his challenges to received Catholic opinion\, made him a contentious figure on both sides of the sectarian divide.  \nThis study therefore seeks to address not only Butler’s remarkable personal career but also some of the larger themes to which he consistently drew attention: the need to balance Irish cosmopolitanism with local relationships; to address the compromises of the Second World War and the hypocrisies of the Cold War; to promote a society in which constructive dissent might not just be tolerated but valued. As a result\, by the end of his life Butler came to be recognized as a forerunner of the more tolerant and expansive Ireland of today. \nSpeaker:\n\nRev. Robert Tobin\nRobert Tobin was raised in Boston and Texas and took his first degree in English from Harvard. After graduation\, he taught school in South Africa and backpacked from Cape Town to Cairo. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship\, he went on to take his M.Phil in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin\, studying with Professor Terence Brown. He then went to Merton College Oxford to pursue doctoral research under the supervision of Professor R.F. Foster. Having completed his D. Phil.\, he spent three years at Cambridge studying for ordination in the Church of England\, after which he served as a curate in Buckinghamshire and as the Episcopal/Anglican Chaplain at Harvard. Currently he serves as Chaplain and Tutor at Oriel College Oxford. His book\, The Minority Voice: Hubert Butler and Southern Irish Protestantism\, 1900-91 appeared in the Oxford Historical Monographs series in 2012. He is now pursuing research on the social transformation of the American Episcopal Church in the 1960s. Follow the link for information about Butler and the recent Notting Hill edition of his European Essays.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/hubert-butler-28-feb/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:history,lecture,politics,social history
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SUMMARY:Táin Bó Cuailnge - 26 Apr
DESCRIPTION:Táin Bó Cuailnge: Ireland’s National Epic? \nThis year’s Noel O’Connell lecture will address the literary and historical background of the Táin\, its transmission through the centuries\, the main characters and their roles in the tale\, and the possible messages it may have been intended to convey. \nTáin Bó Cuailnge\, is one of the most extensive tales to have been transmitted to us from the medieval Irish period and has long been accorded a special place in the literary tradition. The story depicts a pre-Christian warlike society in which bravery and honour are valued above almost all other attributes. Some would view it as a national epic\, akin to the Greek Iliad or the Latin Aeneid\, and indeed it has been argued that certain elements of the Táin were shaped under the influence of classical literature. Its origins can be traced back to the beginning of written literature in Irish and many would hold that it goes back further than even that. \nImage credit: brush drawing by Louis le Brocquy from The Tain\, as featured in translation by Thomas Kinsella. \nPresented in association with the Irish Texts Society:\n\n\n \nSpeaker:\n\nProfessor Ruairí Ó hUiginn\nÓ hUiginn received his secondary schooling at Coláiste Mhuire\, Parnell Square\, and then attended University College Dublin\, where he was awarded a BA and an MA in Celtic Studies. He has spent periods lecturing in Celtic Studies in Uppsala University (1978-80)\, at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität\, Bonn (1981-5)\, and in Queens University Belfast (1985-1993). He spent the academic year 1980-1981 lecturing Modern Irish at University College Galway and in 1993 he was appointed as Professor of Modern Irish at St Patrick’s\, (NUI) Maynooth\, where he currently works. He is co-editor of Aspects of the Táin and of Ulidia: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/tain-bo-cuailnge-26-apr/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Collaboration,history,Irish language
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