Australasian Irish Studies conferences are biennial conferences that are run under the auspices of ISAANZ.
2011 18th AUSTRALASIAN-IRISH CONFERENCE. Canberra 1st July 2011-3rd July 2011
18th Australasian Irish Studies Conference Canberra 2011
2009 Conference Papers available now.
Ireland and the Irish antipodes: One world or worlds apart?
Papers delivered at the 16th Australasian Irish Studies Conference
Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand 9-12 July 2009
Australia and New Zealand were significant destinations for the post-1800 waves of Irish leaving to make new lives overseas and the two countries have regularly been identified by scholars as appropriate ‘laboratories’ for studying the nature and impacts of Irish migration. These twenty-seven papers presented at the 16th Australasian Irish Studies Conference cover historical, literary and economic themes, ranging from aspects of early convict transportation to Australia, through Irish-Maori relations in New Zealand, to late twentieth-century economic interactions and Irish literature, theatre and music – both traditional and contemporary.
The Conference reviewed research undertaken both at the points of origin and destination, and posed new questions. Were the Irish communities in the Antipodes transplanted fragments of the homeland? How did they evolve, and to what extent was their evolution influenced by developments at home? Were there noticeable differences between the Australian and New Zealand Irish experiences? What is the relationship today between Ireland and its most far-flung diasporic communities? These issues and others are addressed in these papers.
Edited by Brad & Kathryn Patterson
Contributors: Shirley Arabin, Graham Aubrey, Jill Bender, Richard Boast, Edmund Bohan, Seán Brosnahan, Patrick Coleman, Dick Corballis, Frances Devlin-Glass, Ann Elder, Karen Hansen, Jennifer Harrison, Stephanie James, Dermot Keogh, Jeff Kildea, Peter Kuch, Hugh Laracy, Perry McIntyre, Kevin Molloy, Ewan Morris, Nigel Murphy, Val Noone, Michael O’Brien, Richard Reid, Sue Reynolds, Liz Rushen and Christine Yeats.