GLOBAL IRELAND
The 19th Australasian Irish Studies Conference was held at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Otago.
7-10th November 2012
Keynote speakers were
Professor Rónán McDonald (University of New South Wales)
Rigour or Vigour? Disciplinarity in Irish Studies
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda (University College Dublin)
An End of Famine?
Dr Louise Ryan (Middlesex University)
Beyond the ethnic lens: Irish migration to Britain in Comparative Context
Professor Graham Walker (Queen’s University Belfast)
Ireland and Scotland: From Partition to Peace process
Speakers were:
Fidelma Breen University of Adelaide
Ireland Online: So Close No Matter How Far
Seán Brosnahan Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Otago
From the Utter West to the Farthest South: Thomas Heffernan and the South Dunedin Hotel
Karen Elizabeth Brown Trinity College, Dublin/University of Cambridge
Ut pictura poesis Revisited in the National Gallery of Ireland
Philip Bull La Trobe University
An Irish Landlord and his Daughter: A Story of War and Survival in America and Ireland
Trevor Burnard University of Melbourne
Ireland, Jamaica and the Imperial Crisis of the 1780s
Gemma Clark University of New South Wales
‘Every man went in fear of his neighbour’: Violence, Intimidation and Communities in Conflict during the Irish Civil War
Jenny Coleman Independent Researcher
An Emerald Greening of Political, Literary and Religious Identity in 19th Century Dunedin
Patrick Coleman Lincoln University
Robert Maunsell: Missionary to the Maori and Orange Sympathiser
Anne CunninghamIndependent Researcher ‘Follow the Money Trail’: Coningham – v – Coningham Revisited
Ann Elder Journalist
Paling of the Green
Lyndon Fraser University of Canterbury
Irish Ways of Death in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Dianne Hall Victoria University, Melbourne
Gender, Violence and Memory: Writing Derbforgaill in Irish History
Jennifer Harrison University of Queensland
‘Pitchforking Irish coercionists into colonial vacancies’: The Case of Sir Henry Blake and the Queensland Governorship.
Richard Hill Victoria University of Wellington
Applying Irish Policing Methods in Nineteenth Century Colonies: A Critical Appraisal of the Irish Constabulary Model
Stephanie James Flinders University
The Place of the Catholic Press in the Diaspora: A Case Study of the Role of South Australia’s Southern Cross in Maintaining the Links between Irish-Australians and Ireland, 1889 to 1927
Miri Jassy University of New South Wales
‘Urban and Orbal’: The Antipodes in James Joyce’s Global Vision
Joan Kavanagh Independent Researcher
From Cronelea to Emu Bay, to Timaru and Back: Uncovering the Convict Story
Jeff Kildea University of New South Wales
‘That a just measure of Home Rule may be granted to the people of Ireland’: The 1905 Resolutions of the Australian Parliament
Peter Kuch University of Otago
Global Theatre – Global Ireland
Robert Lindsey University of Melbourne
Coming from over the Waves: The Emergence of Collaborative Action in Ireland and Wales
Lisa Marr University of Otago
Juno at the Circa: An O’Casey Play on the New Zealand Stage, May–June 1976
Lisa McGonigle University of Otago
‘Why was your life worth protecting more than mine?’: The Magdalene Laundries in Aisling Walsh’s Sinners (2002)
Perry McIntyre University of Sydney
Relationships Revealed in the NSW Convict Indents
Pamela O’Neill University of Sydney
Control of the Means of Production in Medieval Gaelic Law
Brad Patterson Victoria University of Wellington
‘Green Redcoats?’: The Irish as a Component of the Imperial Military Forces in Early Colonial New Zealand
Penelope Pollard Independent Researcher
Sacred Shamans and the Otherworld
Audrey Robitaillié Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland and Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Stranger from/to the Other World: Jennifer Cook’s New Reading of the Yeatsian Changeling Motif
Julie Shearer Independent Researcher
The Stranger in the Mirror: ‘Race’, Politics and Contemporary Irish Theatre
Dianne Snowden University of Tasmania
Mental Distress and Forced Migration: Irish Convict Women in the Asylum for the Insane at New Norfolk, Van Diemen’s Land
Abid Vali University of Otago
Yeats as Transnational Mountaineer: Climbing Peaks in ‘Meru’ and ‘Lapis Lazuli’
Valerie Wallace Victoria University of Wellington
Global Covenant: Presbyterianism Radicalism in the Nineteenth-century British World
Zhanpeng Wang Beijing Foreign Studies University
A Tale of Two Countries: Some Reflections on Irish Studies in China and Chinese Studies in Ireland