14th Irish-Australian Conference, 22-24 June 2005
Conference Organizer Dr. Larry Geary, and Dr. Andrew McCarthy
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Conference Programme
Wednesday, 22 June 2005
Venues: W9 and W5, West Wing, Main Quadrangle, UCC
9.00 鈥� 10.30am
Registration, West Wing, Main Quadrangle
10.40 鈥� 11.00
Conference Opening, W9, West Wing
11.00 鈥� 12.30 (W9)
Panel 1: Chair: Dermot Keogh
Carla King, St. Patrick鈥檚 College, Dublin 鈥楢 new world full of youthful hopes and promise鈥�: Michael Davitt in Australia, 1895
Rory O'Dwyer, 福利1000在线 College Cork, 鈥楢 roof-raising affair鈥�? Eamon de Valera鈥檚 tour of Australia and New Zealand
Ru谩n O鈥橠onnell, 福利1000在线 of Limerick, The IRA and Australia, 1948-62
12.30 鈥� 2pm
Lunch
2 鈥� 3pm (W9)
Panel 2A: Chair: William H Mulligan
Ciara Breathnach, 福利1000在线 of Limerick, Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand 1870-1875
Brad Patterson, Victoria 福利1000在线 of Wellington, New Zealand鈥檚 鈥楿lster Plantation鈥�: Revisiting Katikati
2 鈥� 3pm (W5)
Panel 2 B: Chair: David Ryan
Pamela O鈥橬eill, 福利1000在线 of Melbourne, A sense of place: monastic scenes in Irish-Australian funerary monuments
Chris Eipper, La Trobe 福利1000在线, The two-way tide: the secularisation of Irish society from an ethnographic perspective
3 鈥� 3.30pm
Tea/Coffee Break
3.30 鈥� 4.30pm (W9)
Panel 3 A: Chair: Joe Lee
Malcolm Campbell, 福利1000在线 of Auckland, Irish Immigrants in the Pacific World
3.30 鈥� 4.30pm (W5)
Panel 3 B: Chair: Hiram Morgan
Mike Bowen, Melbourne, From Cork to Melbourne: An Irishman鈥檚 Adventure
Hannah Speden, Australia Irish-English-Australian: What am I?
5.15pm (W9)
Oliver MacDonagh Memorial Lecture
Chair: Peter Kuch
Tom Dunne, 福利1000在线 College, Cork, Wild People in Romantic Landscapes: Irish Art and National Character, 1750-1850
6.30pm
Book Launch: Staff Dining Room, UCC
David Fitzpatrick will launch a selection of essays by the late John O鈥橞rien, entitled Studies in Irish, British and Australian Relations 1916 鈥� 1963: Trade, Diplomacy and Politics, edited by Anne E. O鈥橞rien and published by Four Courts Press, Dublin
Thursday, 23 June
W9 and W5, West Wing
9 鈥� 9.15pm
Registration, West Wing
9.15 鈥� 10.45am (W9)
Panel 4 A: Chair: Peter Kuch
Frances Devlin-Glass, Deakin 福利1000在线, Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles Reconsidered
David Lucy, Melbourne, The T谩in B贸 C煤ailgne from Cork to Melbourne
Brega Webb, NUI, Galway, Eva of the Nation
9.15 鈥� 10.45am (W5)
Panel 4 B: Chair: Andy Bielenberg
William Mulligan, Murray State 福利1000在线, Kansas, A Far and Distant Shore: Maintaining Irish Identity in the Michigan Copper Country, 1845-1900
Geoff Russell, La Trobe 福利1000在线, Joseph Brady: an engineering genius: An illustrated biography of Colonial Australia鈥檚 leading Civil Engineer
Jackie U铆 Chionna, NUI, Galway, Journey to Australia: Irish Salmon and the Development of Aquaculture in the New World
10.45 鈥� 11.15am
Tea/Coffee Break
11.15 鈥� 12.45pm (W9)
Panel 5 A: Chair: Malcolm Campbell
Miche谩l O鈥檋Aodha, 福利1000在线 of Limerick, Prisoner-Speak: the 鈥淪ecret鈥� Language of the 19th century Australian Penal Colonies
Cheryl Mongan, Yass, New South Wales, Erin: land of our forefathers
Richard Davis, 福利1000在线 of Tasmania, Irish influence on Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania from Bushrangers to the Celtic Tiger
11.15 鈥� 12.45pm (W5)
Panel 5 B: Chair: Mervyn O鈥橠riscoll
Tony Earls, Sydney, 鈥�'The opportunity of being useful鈥�: The work of John Hubert Plunkett
Peter Moore, Sydney, Knight Faithful: John Michel Gunson 1822-1884
David Grant, Open 福利1000在线, W. Vincent Wallace and Music in Australia, 1835鈥�38
12.45 鈥� 2pm
Lunch
2 鈥� 3.30pm (W9)
Panel 6 A: Chair: Marita Foster
Lauren O鈥橲ullivan, 福利1000在线 College, Cork, The Assisted Emigration of Women From the Monteagle Estate, Co. Limerick to Australia, 1838-1858
Joan Kavanagh, Trinity College, Dublin, For their country鈥檚 good - the voyage of the Tasmania 2
Dianne Snowden, 福利1000在线 of Tasmania, 鈥楢 White Rag Burning鈥�: Irish Female Arsonists Transported to Van Diemen's Land
2 鈥� 3.30pm (W5)
Panel 6 B: Chair: Frances Devlin-Glass
Carmen Cullen, Dublin, The Writer鈥檚 Voice. The role of nature and nurture in forming a writer
Carol Kiernan, Canberra, Celebrating Two Architects of Modern Ireland: Ireland鈥檚 Ballad Queen Delia Murphy and Diplomat Thomas Kiernan
3.30 鈥� 4pm
Tea/Coffee Break
4 鈥� 5pm (W9)
Panel 7: Chair: Carmel Quinlan A Reading by Evelyn Conlon, 鈥楾he Ballad or Getting to Gundagai鈥�
5.15pm
Book Launch: W9, West Wing
Louis de Paor will launch the proceedings of the Twelfth Irish Australian Conference, entitled Remembered Nations, Forgotten Republics, published as a special edition of the Australian Journal of Irish Studies, edited by Louis de Paor, Maureen O鈥機onnor and Bob Reece
5.30 鈥� 7pm
Conference Reception Hosted by History Department: Venue : 鈥楾yrconnell鈥�
Friday, 24 June
9.15 鈥� 9.30am
Registration, West Wing
9.30 鈥� 10.45am (W9)
Panel 8 A: Chair: Donal 脫 Drisceoill
Jeff Kildea, Sydney, Who Fears to Speak of '14-'18: Remembrance of World War I in Ireland and Australia
Michael Hopkinson, 福利1000在线 of Stirling, Archbishop Clune and the Peace Process, 1920-1921
9.30 鈥� 10.45am (W5)
Panel 8 B: Chair: Clare O鈥橦alloran
Clare McCotter, Kilrea, Co Derry, Fairytales, Nurses, Cannibals. Constructing a Nationalist Narrative in Beatrice Grimshaw鈥檚 Papuan Landscapes
Paula Magee, Murdoch 福利1000在线, Western Australia, Irish Mothers and the Australian Bureaucrats: The experiences of Irish mothers at Graylands Migrant Hostel
10.45 鈥� 11.15am
Tea/Coffee Break
11.15 鈥� 12.30 (W9)
Panel 9 A: Chair: Tracey Connolly
Peter Kuch, 福利1000在线 of New South Wales, The Irish Players Tour of Queensland in 1922
Gay Lynch, Flinders 福利1000在线, Adelaide, Mythic and Literary Antecedents: Cuchulainn, the Magistrate of Galway and Edward Geoghegan鈥檚 Play, The Hibernian Father
11.15 鈥� 12.30 (W5)
Panel 9 B: Chair: Diarmuid Scully
Dermot Clancy, Victoria 福利1000在线, Melbourne, Class, culture and religion in the formation of Australian Irish Catholic identity
Bernard Hickey, 福利1000在线 of Lecce, Rome Waging contention with dispossession: the ongoing contribution of the Christian Brothers in Australia
12.30 鈥� 2pm
Lunch
2pm (W9)
John O鈥橞rien Memorial Lecture
Chair: David Fitzpatrick
Joe Lee, New York 福利1000在线 and 福利1000在线 College, Cork Approaches towards Comparison in Irish Diaspora History
Close of Conference