
MELBOURNE IRISH STUDIES SEMINARS
An Inter-University Forum for Irish and Irish-Australian Studies
MISS has returned to Newman College, in the Jabiru Room in the Academic Centre, while also providing online access via Zoom. We follow all current Government regulations. Zoom links will be sent out a day before seminars. While most MISS talks will be on Tuesdays, the times may vary depending on availability of speaker and space at Newman. Please RSVP to dianne.hall [at] vu.edu.au if you would like to attend online. Recordings will be provided where possible on this page. General queries may be addressed to melbirishstudies [at] gmail.com
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Semester 1, 2023
Tuesday 9th May, 2023 at 4:30pm (AEST), 7:30am (GMT)
Prof. Stephen Regan, Durham University and University of Melbourne
W. B. Yeats: Culture and Politics in 1921
Tuesday 18th April, 2023 at 4:30pm (AEST), 7:30am (GMT)
Prof. Dianne Hall and Loretta Dynan, Victoria University, Melbourne
Going Home: Returning to Ireland from Australia, 1850-1925
Tuesday 7th February, 2023 at 4:30pm (AEDT), 5:30am (GMT)
Prof Peter Gray and A/Prof Emily Mark-Fitzgerald O’Donnell Visiting Fellows in Irish Studies
The Life & Work of Count Paul Strzelecki (1797-1873): Australian Explorer and Irish Humanitarian
2022 Seminar Programme
Tuesday 11th October, 2022 at 4:30pm (AEDT), 5:30am (GMT)
Rhys Ryan, 2022 Russell Beedles Performing Arts Fellow SLV
Na Trí Céilithe: Revisiting the dances of Melbourne’s Gaelic concerts in the early twentieth century
Tuesday 13th September, 2022 at 6:30pm (AEST), 9:30am (GMT)
Dr Damian Gleeson, 2022 Australian Religious History Fellow, SLNSW
Irish convicts and penal Catholicism: New evidence from the Therry Collection
Tuesday 23rd August, 2022 at 6:30pm (AEST), 9:30am (GMT)
Dr Matthew Grubits, Charles Sturt University
The Crisis of Captain Moonlite: Andrew George Scott in Australia
Tuesday 19th July, 2022 at 6:30pm (AEST), 9:30am (GMT)
Dr Tara McEvoy, Queen’s University, Belfast
Seamus Heaney in Australia
Tuesday 10th May, 2022 at 6:30pm (AEST), 9:30am (GMT)
Dr Jennifer McLaren
“This vile place”. An Irish Family in Trinidad in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Tuesday 22nd March, 2022 at 6:30pm (AEDT), 7:30am (GMT)
Dr Jimmy H. Yan, University of Melbourne
Contentious Routes: Ireland Questions, Radical Political Articulations and Settler Ambivalence in (White) Australia, c. 1909 – 1923
2021 Seminar Programme
Tuesday 30th November, 2021 at 6:00pm (AEDT)
Dr Chloé Diskin-Holdaway, University of Melbourne
Becoming Aussie: Investigating accent change in the Irish community in Melbourne
Tuesday 28th September, 2021 at 7:30pm (AEST)
Prof. Fearghal McGarry and Dr Darragh Gannon, Queen’s University Belfast
Ireland 1922 : Independence, Partition, Civil War
Tuesday 14th September, 2021 at 6:30pm (AEST)
Prof. Emerit. Peter Kuch, University of Otago
The Sydney Theatre and the Irish play in the 1830s
Tuesday 10th August, 2021 at 6:30pm (AEST)
A/Prof. Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide
Men on Trial: Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800-45
Tuesday 29th June, 2021 at 6:30pm (AEST)
Dr Jeff Kildea, Dr Perry McIntyre and Dr Richard Reid
To Foster an Irish Spirit – writing the centenary history of the Irish National Association of Australasia
Tuesday 18th May, 2021 at 6:30pm (AEST)
Dr Sophie Cooper, Teaching Fellow in Irish History, University of Leicester
Women and the shaping of Irish identities in Melbourne 1857-1920
Tuesday 20th April, 2021 at 6:30pm (AEST)
Clive Probyn, Emeritus Professor of English, Monash University.
Anglo-Irish roads to Jonathan Swift
Tuesday 23rd March, 2021 at 12:00 noon (AEDT)
Prof. Jane McGaughey, Concordia University, Canada.
“These raving maniacs”: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Irish in Canadian Colonial Lunatic Asylums, 1832-1868
UPCOMING SEMINARS
Details for any upcoming seminars are listed immediately below. Recordings and details of past seminars are provided further down the page.
NEWMAN COLLEGE

Seminars are held in the JABIRU ROOM in the Academic Centre at Newman College, Swanston Street, Carlton. After seminars the speaker usually joins any interested audience members for dinner at a local cafe or hotel. Queries about the seminar series may be directed to any of the MISS convenors: Philip Bull (La Trobe University), Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University), Dianne Hall (Victoria University), Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne), or Ronan McDonald (University of Melbourne)
PAST SEMINARS
RECORDINGS
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