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Spring and Summer 2008 News:

 

  • A Festschrift for Critic Professor Denis Donoghue, Henry James Professor of English Literature at New York University, edited by Professor Robert Mahony, CUA and Dr. Brian Caraher, Queens University Belfast, will be launched at the Embassy of Ireland, Washington on 6th February.
  • Dr. Christina Hunt Mahony’s contribution to the volume Reading Colm Toibin,  “The Poet Toibin:  Cadence, Imitation and Incantation” will be published by Liffey Press, Dublin in February.
  • Professor Robert Mahony will participate in Politics and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England and Ireland: The World of Jonathan Swift a conference to be held at The Huntington Library, California, March 14th-15th. “Swift and the Irish colonial project” will be the subject of Professor Mahony’s talk.
  • Dr. Christina Hunt Mahony will travel to Lille, France in June to attend the annual Irish theatrical Diaspora conference to be held there. Her contribution to the volume resulting from ITD’s 2006 conference at NYU will be published by Syracuse University Press in the autumn. She will also attend the IASIL Annual conference in Oporto, Portugal in July.
  • Professor Joseph M. Sendry will retire at the end of the present academic year after a long and distinguished career at CUA.

 

2007 News:

  • Denis Staunton, the Washington Correspondent of The Irish Times since August 2005, will give a lecture on "The New Irish: Multiculturalism in the 21st Century." 
  • On Thursday, March 22, Dr. Frank McDonald, the Environmental Editor of The Irish Times, will give a lecutre titled "Wealth and Growth in Contemporary Ireland--A Changing Dynamic."

Fall 2006 News:

  • Dr Patrick Truite, Assistant Professor of Drama, is on a fellowship this semester at the Folger Library to research a book on seventeenth century Irish drama.
  • Irish Studies students and faculty dinner at Fado, Washington's downtown Irish pub, to share experiences of Dublin internships!!
  • Mr Tim Losty, Director of the Northern Ireland Board, Washington, addressed the Seminar on Contemporary Irish Society on campus on the 16th November.  Mr Losty discussed the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the St Andrew's Agreement. Students engaged in lively Q & A thereafter.
  • In November Ms Julie Connell, on career break from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and teaching as an adjunct lecturer in the Poltics Department, took her class and interested Irish Studies students for a briefing at the Irish Embassy.

 

Spring 2006 Guest Lectures

  • "The IRA and the Northern Ireland Peace Process" by Richard English
    Thursday, March 9 at 7:00pm. 108 Hannan Hall.

Richard English is the author of numerous acclaimed books on Irish politics and history. He is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, and has frequently received awards for his research. His Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA was the winner of the Political Studies Association Politics Book of the Year Award and was short-listed for the Royal United Services Institute Prize for Military Literature as well as the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. English has written frequently for papers such as The Times Literary Supplement and Newsweek, and has done much commentary on Irish politics and history for international media.

  • A Reading of A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
    Thursday, April 6 at 7:00pm. Life Cycle Auditorium.

Sebastian Barry (celebrated author, poet, and playwright) will read excerpts from his Booker Prize nominated novel A Long Long Way, the story of Irishman Willie Dunn who died at the age of 21 while serving in the British Army in World War I. The novel continues the extended family history Barry presented as a playwright a decade ago in his famed play, The Steward of Christendom. Copies of the book will be for sale and Mr. Barry will autograph them on request. Mr. Barry will be introduced by Dr. Christina Mahony, who has edited 'Out of History: Critical Essays on the writings of Sebastian Barry,' which will be published by CUA Press April 2006.


2005 Irish Forum in Florence

  • "The Changing Face of Irish Studies in the Academy in the 21st Century"
  • Forum's Official Website
  • From October 26th through 28th, 2005, over 50 delegates met in Florence to discuss the future of Irish Studies in the Academy. Chaired by Dr. Christina Mahony, director of the Irish Studies program at CUA, the list of delegates was comprised of heads of Irish Studies programmes worldwide, and other influential individuals in related fields such as publishing and Irish Studies organizations, arts councils and relevant government departments.
  • There had never been a conference at which all the heads of programmes have met each other in a formal setting, even though many have met incidentally. This conference sought to discuss the evolution of programmes world-wide. Conditions under which academic programmes in Irish Studies appear, develop and disappear vary greatly from country to country. The types of curriculum available are very different and often inadequate, access to research materials is uneven, and publishing opportunities are not always available. In short, the gaps are glaring, and the Irish Forum seeks to close such gaps.

  • Forum Photo Gallery

Fourth Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift

  • On October 15, 2005, associate professor Dr. Robert Mahony chaired this annual symposium in honor of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin 1713-45. Titled "Swift, Power and Corruption," several speakers discussed Swift's literary significance in Ireland. A service in honor of Swift was held the following day.
  • Click Here to view the event's flyer and speaker information.

 



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