Past Conferences
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 – 10.30am
Registration, West Wing, Main Quadrangle
10.40 – 11.00
Conference Opening, W9, West Wing
11.00 – 12.30 (W9)
Panel 1: Chair: Dermot Keogh
Carla King, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin ‘A new world full of youthful hopes and promise’: Michael Davitt in Australia, 1895
Rory O'Dwyer, University College Cork, ‘A roof-raising affair’? Eamon de Valera’s tour of Australia and New Zealand
Ruán O’Donnell, University of Limerick, The IRA and Australia, 1948-62
12.30 – 2pm
Lunch
2 – 3pm (W9)
Panel 2A: Chair: William H Mulligan
Ciara Breathnach, University of Limerick, Recruiting Irish migrants for life in New Zealand 1870-1875
Brad Patterson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand’s ‘Ulster Plantation’: Revisiting Katikati
2 – 3pm (W5)
Panel 2 B: Chair: David Ryan
Pamela O’Neill, University of Melbourne, A sense of place: monastic scenes in Irish-Australian funerary monuments
Chris Eipper, La Trobe University, The two-way tide: the secularisation of Irish society from an ethnographic perspective
3 – 3.30pm
Tea/Coffee Break
3.30 – 4.30pm (W9)
Panel 3 A: Chair: Joe Lee
Malcolm Campbell, University of Auckland, Irish Immigrants in the Pacific World
3.30 – 4.30pm (W5)
Panel 3 B: Chair: Hiram Morgan
Mike Bowen, Melbourne, From Cork to Melbourne: An Irishman’s Adventure
Hannah Speden, Australia Irish-English-Australian: What am I?
5.15pm (W9)
Oliver MacDonagh Memorial Lecture
Chair: Peter Kuch
Tom Dunne, University 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’Brien, entitled Studies in Irish, British and Australian Relations 1916 – 1963: Trade, Diplomacy and Politics, edited by Anne E. O’Brien and published by Four Courts Press, Dublin
Thursday, 23 June
W9 and W5, West Wing
9 – 9.15pm
Registration, West Wing
9.15 – 10.45am (W9)
Panel 4 A: Chair: Peter Kuch
Frances Devlin-Glass, Deakin University, Mary Durack's Kings in Grass Castles Reconsidered
David Lucy, Melbourne, The Táin Bó Cúailgne from Cork to Melbourne
Brega Webb, NUI, Galway, Eva of the Nation
9.15 – 10.45am (W5)
Panel 4 B: Chair: Andy Bielenberg
William Mulligan, Murray State University, Kansas, A Far and Distant Shore: Maintaining Irish Identity in the Michigan Copper Country, 1845-1900
Geoff Russell, La Trobe University, Joseph Brady: an engineering genius: An illustrated biography of Colonial Australia’s leading Civil Engineer
Jackie Uí Chionna, NUI, Galway, Journey to Australia: Irish Salmon and the Development of Aquaculture in the New World
10.45 – 11.15am
Tea/Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45pm (W9)
Panel 5 A: Chair: Malcolm Campbell
Micheál O’hAodha, University of Limerick, Prisoner-Speak: the “Secret” Language of the 19th century Australian Penal Colonies
Cheryl Mongan, Yass, New South Wales, Erin: land of our forefathers
Richard Davis, University of Tasmania, Irish influence on Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania from Bushrangers to the Celtic Tiger
11.15 – 12.45pm (W5)
Panel 5 B: Chair: Mervyn O’Driscoll
Tony Earls, Sydney, ‘'The opportunity of being useful’: The work of John Hubert Plunkett
Peter Moore, Sydney, Knight Faithful: John Michel Gunson 1822-1884
David Grant, Open University, W. Vincent Wallace and Music in Australia, 1835–38
12.45 – 2pm
Lunch
2 – 3.30pm (W9)
Panel 6 A: Chair: Marita Foster
Lauren O’Sullivan, University 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’s good - the voyage of the Tasmania 2
Dianne Snowden, University of Tasmania, ‘A White Rag Burning’: Irish Female Arsonists Transported to Van Diemen's Land
2 – 3.30pm (W5)
Panel 6 B: Chair: Frances Devlin-Glass
Carmen Cullen, Dublin, The Writer’s Voice. The role of nature and nurture in forming a writer
Carol Kiernan, Canberra, Celebrating Two Architects of Modern Ireland: Ireland’s Ballad Queen Delia Murphy and Diplomat Thomas Kiernan
3.30 – 4pm
Tea/Coffee Break
4 – 5pm (W9)
Panel 7: Chair: Carmel Quinlan A Reading by Evelyn Conlon, ‘The Ballad or Getting to Gundagai’
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’Connor and Bob Reece
5.30 – 7pm
Conference Reception Hosted by History Department: Venue : ‘Tyrconnell’
Friday, 24 June
9.15 – 9.30am
Registration, West Wing
9.30 – 10.45am (W9)
Panel 8 A: Chair: Donal Ó Drisceoill
Jeff Kildea, Sydney, Who Fears to Speak of '14-'18: Remembrance of World War I in Ireland and Australia
Michael Hopkinson, University of Stirling, Archbishop Clune and the Peace Process, 1920-1921
9.30 – 10.45am (W5)
Panel 8 B: Chair: Clare O’Halloran
Clare McCotter, Kilrea, Co Derry, Fairytales, Nurses, Cannibals. Constructing a Nationalist Narrative in Beatrice Grimshaw’s Papuan Landscapes
Paula Magee, Murdoch University, Western Australia, Irish Mothers and the Australian Bureaucrats: The experiences of Irish mothers at Graylands Migrant Hostel
10.45 – 11.15am
Tea/Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.30 (W9)
Panel 9 A: Chair: Tracey Connolly
Peter Kuch, University of New South Wales, The Irish Players Tour of Queensland in 1922
Gay Lynch, Flinders University, Adelaide, Mythic and Literary Antecedents: Cuchulainn, the Magistrate of Galway and Edward Geoghegan’s Play, The Hibernian Father
11.15 – 12.30 (W5)
Panel 9 B: Chair: Diarmuid Scully
Dermot Clancy, Victoria University, Melbourne, Class, culture and religion in the formation of Australian Irish Catholic identity
Bernard Hickey, University of Lecce, Rome Waging contention with dispossession: the ongoing contribution of the Christian Brothers in Australia
12.30 – 2pm
Lunch
2pm (W9)
John O’Brien Memorial Lecture
Chair: David Fitzpatrick
Joe Lee, New York University and University College, Cork Approaches towards Comparison in Irish Diaspora History
Close of Conference