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Matters of Deceit: Breach of Promise to Marry Cases in Ireland in the 19th and early 20th centuries Breach of promise to marry cases were tried frequently in a variety of Irish courts from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Such cases provided lawyers with lucrative incomes and newspapers with titillating stories for their reading audience. The majority of ...
Theatre, film and documentary maker Louis Lentin will situate his own television work, specifically his ground breaking production for television, of Dear Daughter in the wider the role of Irish documentary in film and television. Ireland has experienced dramatic shifts in its social and political make-up in recent decades which has been directly reflected and shaped by the media. Lentin’s ...
A consideration of the house Robin Walker built for his family and friends on the remote Beara Peninsula of Cork, from 1970–72. Called “Bótharbuí” (meaning ‘yellow road’ in Irish), the site comprises a settlement of three ancient and three new structures, on a steep wooded slope of several acres, facing across the salt-water Kemare River to the Reeks of Kerry. ...
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. The 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 ...
Jonny McKeagney spent 40 years collecting stories, events, crafts, traditions and ways of life from people around Co. Fermanagh and neighbouring Ulster counties. In the Ould Ago, published in October 2010, has won international book awards and is due to be displayed in a dozen university libraries in North America including Harvard, Notre Dame, Library of Congress in Washington, UCLA, ...
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. On 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 ...
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 ...
Whores, Wenches, and the Blake Family in the Early Modern Irish Atlantic World Professor 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 ...
