ACIS Programme of Events

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• Cassidy Allen, ‘Rewriting’ The Contemporary Irish Women's Novel
• Lucy Cullen, New Beginnings: The Female Immigrant in Irish Short Stories
• Matthew Fogarty, ‘You know more than you pretend’: Passing, Jazz Inversion, and False Racial Equivalence in Roddy Doyle’s Oh, Play That Thing

Chairs Julia Obert and Eric Falci

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• Pat Coughlan, Professor Emerita, University College Cork
• Elizabeth Fredericks, Associate Professor, Hillsdale College
• Ann Neelon, Professor Emerita, Murray State University
• Kelly Sullivan, Clinical Associate Professor, New York University

Chair Beth O’Leary Anish

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• Beth O’Leary Anish, Community College Rhode Island
• Jeryn Woodard Mayer, Houston Community College
• Cara McClintock-Walsh, Northampton Community College
• Kristina Varade, BMCC, CUNY

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• Tamami Shimada and Joan O'Sullivan, Irishness and identity-making in new speakers of Irish English
• Megan Milburn-McAlister, What Cemeteries and the 1860 Census Tell Us About Irish- American Women in the United States West

Chair

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• Constantin Torve, Mapping agrarian violence: A new approach to the history of social conflict in Ireland
• Emily Dupuis, ‘Parnell’ Reimagined: Irish Nationalism and its Forgotten Sisters

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• Anelise Hanson Shrout, Irish Immigrant Stories Against the Grain
• Grace Devlin, The New York Draft Riots and the part of the Irish immigrant, July 1863
• Patricia Crowley, Buried in the Heartland: Tales from the Irish-American Frontier

Chair Trish Kiernan

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• Colleen Taylor, What Can Biosemiotics Offer Irish Studies? A Famine Case Study
• Kersti Tarien Powell, ‘It’s time again to read the poet from Odessa’: Ukraine in Recent Irish Literature
• Marguérite Corporaal, Redefining Ireland’s Regional Literatures: Transnational Perspective on Genre and Methodologies

Chair

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• Anne Groutel, Global Ireland 2025: paradigm shift in foreign policy or mere adaptation to a post-Brexit world?
• KJ Hunnings, Building an Inclusive Introductory Irish Literature Syllabus in a Post-Brexit Era
• Marc Scully, ‘Are you Irish?’ ‘Well, I am now!’: discourses of citizenship and diasporic identity post-Brexit

Chair Gwen Moore

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• Michael Murphy, Claiming the National Anthems of Ireland (‘God save the King’ and ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’)
• Katie Young, The Pub as Infrastructure of Musical Exchange in Cork and Galway
• Chris Fitzgerald and Brian Clancy, ‘I learned how to be Irish’, Identity and citizenship in Irish hip-hop lyrics

Chair Elizabeth Ricketts-Jones

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• Matthew Knight, University of South Florida
• Hannah Thieryung, University of South Florida
• Elizabeth Ricketts-Jones, University of South Florida

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• Patricia Kieran and John McDonagh, 'Delinking Catholicism': Shifting identities in Ireland's cultural landscape
• Michael Brillman, Mocked Her Strange Love or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sinéad O’Connor

Chair

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• Liam Chambers, New beginnings at the Irish College, Paris, 1858–1919
• Jay Roszman, Defending the 'failing institutions': The Queen's Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1850-1880

Chair

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• Kathleen Walkup, [re]Humanizing Lolly: The real accomplishments of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats
• Kelly Sullivan, Riding Cross-Saddle: The Pseudonyms and Sympathies of MJ Farrell/Molly Keane

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• Dr Erika Hanna, Damp, Condensation, and Acid Rain in Dublin, 1970-1990 
• Prof Mo Moulton, The World in Ballyragget: Cooperation, agriculture, and industry
• Dr Kevin O’Sullivan, Escape to the future: Practising global sustainable development in West Cork at the turn of the twenty-first century

Chair Gerardine Meaney, UCD

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• Dr Derek Greene, University College Dublin 
• Professor Gerardine Meaney, University College Dublin 
• Dr Karen Wade, University College Dublin

Chair

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• Jeryn Mayer, Women Are Watching: International Artists and Belfast’s Painted Walls
• Martina Hynan, Tracing and Telling Stories: Maps and mapmaking in the work of contemporary Irish artists 
• Jeannine Kraft, New Ecologies: Engaging Publics in Contemporary Irish Art

Chair Dr Jonathan O’Neill

Room T2.08

• John B. Roney, Navigating Environmental Uncertainty: The Challenge to Preserve Cultural Heritage Sites
• Mairéad Nic Craith, Traditional Irish Ecological Knowledge for a Multispecies Future
• Kevin J. Power, So Rich Is Nature That Nothing It Loses Is A Loss To It

Chair

Room T2.11

• Dr Brian Hughes and Dr Seán Gannon, Disbanded members of the Royal Irish Constabulary in the Irish Free State
• Deirdre Nuttall, The Long Shadow - Veterans of the First World War in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown
• Robert Collins, Role of Special Envoys from the US in Northern Ireland

Chair

Room T2.01

• David Lloyd, The Black and Tans in Palestine: Prehistory of the Counter-Insurgency Network
• Mindi McMann: Contested Narratives: Memoryscapes in Contemporary Northern Irish and Palestinian Literature
• Mary Mullen, Ordinary and Extraordinary Violence, Ireland and Palestine
• Jessie Rubin, Local Song, Global Solidarity: Sights and Sounds of Northern Irish Sectarianism and the Question of Palestine

Chair

Room T2.02

• Ida Milne, Crisis, change and the south Wexford Protestant community: the Elmes Letters
• Robert D Marshall, Disestablishment 1869: the product of incremental change

Chair Matthew L. Reznicek

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• Maggie O’Neill, Researcher in the University of Galway
• Moynagh Sullivan, Professor of English, NUIM
• Emily C. Bloom, Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College
• Matthew L. Reznicek, Associate Professor of Medical and Health Humanities at the
• University of Minnesota School of Medicine

Chair

Room T2.04

• Jaime Leigh Gray, ‘Fight the Real Enemy:’ Sinéad O'Connor, the Virgin Mary, and Repealing the Eighth Amendment
• Carol Ballantine, Paradoxical resonances in post-8th amendment times: unheard voices of those who are concerned about/ opposed to repealing the 8th
• Linda Ellen Norton, Something Close: Illegitimacy, Shame, and History in Irish America

Chair

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• Michael Griffin, May this to all a warning be: Irish criminals and early Boston print culture
• David Fleming, ‘Bawdy women’: prostitution in eighteenth-century Ireland
• Christina Morin, ‘Interesting, well-written … but… unnatural’: Irish Minerva Writers and their ‘Dirty’ Books

Chair David Brundage

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• Kim DaCosta, Navigating the Black and Green Atlantic in an age of racial reckoning
• Miriam Nyhan Grey, Harmony: An Anti-Racism Organisation in 1980s Ireland
• Samantha Haddad, Realpolitik, Race, and Irish Republicanism: Multiracial Alliances in a Cold War Context, 1970-1998

Chair

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• Jennifer Jeffers, ‘Don’t Tell Mammy’: Veronica Hegarty’s Father’s Abuse in Anne Enright’s The Gathering
• Niamh Meaney: Shaming and Shamed, The Role of Social Media and Catholicism in Shame Culture in Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It

Chair Eric Falci

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• Shinjini Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Julia Obert, Professor of English at the University of Wyoming
• Nathan Suhr-Sytsm, Associate Professor of English at Emory University 
• Sarah L. Townsend, is Associate Professor of English and co-founder of Irish Studies at the University of New Mexico

Chair

Room T2.11

• Elizabeth DeYoung, ‘Skullduggery and Stasis: Reframing the ‘New Northern Ireland’’
• Tiffany Thompson, ‘Belfast Exodus: Violence, Displacement, and Migration in Northern Ireland’s Troubles’
• Rachael Young, Criminalization and Counter-Narratives: Comparing Trouble in Belfast and Brixton’

Chair

Room: T2.12

• Andrew Sanders, Amnesty law and its impact on peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
• Thomas Beaumont, Necropolitics and the role of the state in conflict: The Northern Ireland case study
• Emily Naasz, A case for including Northern Ireland in conflict datasets

Chair

Room T2.13

• Martin McKinsey, Meeting the English: Interlingual Negotiations in Contemporary Poetry in Irish
• Matthew Knight, Pádraic Ó Beirn: The ‘New York Seanchaí’ and ‘Bard of Donegal’

Chair

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• Laura D. Kelley, Waking the Dead: Old World Traditions in a New World Environment
• Ciara Breathnach, Death registration in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Institutions
• Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, Death, memorialisation and accountability: The case of the Tuam Mother and Baby Institution

Chair

Room T2.01

• Sean Farrell, ‘Reverend Drew and Cooke and Roe, Roaring Hanna’: The Ranting Clergyman and Victorian Belfast in British and Irish Nationalist Imaginations
• Timothy G. McMahon, The ‘Mutilation of a Nation’: Northern Nationalists and the Ongoing Response to Partition, 1930-1950
• Anna Teekell, ‘That Tingle’: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Border

Chair

Room T2.02

• Dr Shonagh Hill, ‘Feminist Futures in 2050, Under the Albert Clock’
• Dr Finian O’Gorman, ‘Untangling the Roots of Change: The Arts Councils and the Origins of Amateur and Professional Theatre in Ireland’
• Dr Miriam Haughton, ‘The Price of Performance in 21st Century Ireland’

Chair Eugene O’Brien

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• Sylvie Mikowski, New Generation/Lost Generation: a Survey of Contemporary Irish Fiction by Women
• Eamon Maher, ‘New Beginnings’ in some fiction by Anne Enright and Emer Martin
• Marie Mianowski, Writing for a change: Kerri ni Dochartaigh’s writing in the perspective of the Climate Writing Group

Chair Eric Falci

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• Pat Coughlan, Professor Emerita at the University College Cork
• Dr Ailbhe McDaid, Assistant Professor in Literature at Mary Immaculate College
• Julie Morrissy, first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland
• Eric Falci, Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley

Chair

Room T2.06

• Claire Dubois, The birth of independent Ireland in Simone Téry’s reporting on the Anglo-Irish war
• Felix M. Larkin, History in a time of change: the case of the Sunday Freeman newspaper, 1913-16
• Pauline Collombier,  ‘Home rule as dystopia: the very uncertain future of the early 1910s’

Chair

Room T2.07

• Linda Norton, Black Irish Pedagogy: What Ireland Can Learn About Black Studies from American Educators and Writers, and Vice Versa 
• Muiris MacGiollabhui, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ireland: Studying Abroad in 2024

Chair

Room T2.08

• Hana F. Khasawneh, New Domesticity, New Poetic Tradition and New History - Eavan Boland
• Elizabeth Fredericks, Aesthetics and Pregnancy Loss in Irish Poetry

Chair

Room T2.11

• Jamie Nugent, One Hundred Years of the Ulster Postie: the Northern Ireland Post Office from Partition to Brexit
• Elena Bergia, Italians in Northern Ireland: Ingenuity, adaptation, and engagement of a migrant community in a divided country

Chair 

Room T2.12

• Justin Dolan Stover, Conceiving Environmental Independence before the Irish Revolution
• Paloma Carroll-Ryan, ‘Children of a Fighting Race’: Embracing changing identities through seditious song in the Irish revolutionary period
• James Nugent, 'Making Ulster the Tourists’ Mecca': Leisure, Placemaking, and Modernity in the North of Ireland, 1900-1975

Chair Tim White

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• Grainne O’Keeffe-Vigneron, Changing Engagement with the Irish Diaspora: the French Connection
• Joseph Lennon, Harnessing Irish Culture: Sustainability Initiatives in the Irish Diaspora     
• Nicholas Kevin Harrington, Crimson and Clover: Chinese and Irish Ethnic Enclaves in the Pacific Northwest

Chair Mathew L. Reznicek

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• Matthew L. Reznicek, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine 
• Susan Manly,  Reader in English at the University of St Andrews School of English
• Lucy Cogan: Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities and English Literature at University College Dublin
• Sinéad Sturgeon, Senior Lecturer in Irish Writing, in the School of Arts, English, and Languages, in Queen's University Belfast
• Dr Sonja Lawrenson, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University

Chair Brighid Golden

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• Aoife Titley, Maynooth University
• Barbara O'Toole, Marino Institute of Education
• Brighid Golden, Mary immaculate College
• Richeal Ní Thiarnaigh, Marino Institute of Education
• Maria Barry, Dublin City University

Chair Clíona Ó Gallchoir

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• Dr David Clare, 'Gods and fighting [wo]men’: C.S. Lewis and Irish Mythology
• Dr Sharon Jones, Poets in portrait: Regarding C.S. Lewis and Seamus Heaney
• Peter Linkens, ‘The Land of Longing’: C.S. Lewis, Proud Irishman and Loyal King’s Man

Chair

Room T2.03

• Tara Harney-Mahajan, Oona Frawley’s Flight: Respatializing Home, Pregnancy, and Motherhood
• Allison Graves, Masculine Characters in Crisis in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction       
• Megan Crotty, ‘A Thousand Lir Years’: Troubled Temporalities and Mythic Allusions in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

Chair

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• Máire McCafferty, Bring[ing] the use of Irish into the hearts and homes of the working class people': Coiste na bPáistí i Saorstát Éireann sna 1930idí     
• John Prendergast, Feidhmniú na Pleanála Teangan in Éirinn ó 2012 ar aghaidh: cás Chorca Dhuibhne
• Máire Nic an Bhaird and Laoise Ní Chléirigh, The library at the back of the class: Unexpected new beginnings for Change, Culture, and Sustainability in Irish Language Education and Literature with Cosán na Gealaí

Chair

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• Heather McLeer, Liminal Spaces and Deferred Beginnings in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day
• Jenkin Benson, ‘The most trenchant rendering’: Balladry and Bruno in Ulysses

Chair

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• Gwen Moore, ‘Can you get a degree in that now’?’ A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ideologies and Values on the Place of Irish Traditional Music in Higher Education
• Rebecca Miller, Rethinking the ‘Other:’ Shifting representations of race and ethnicity in Irish popular music, 1930 – 1970    
• Tom Spalding, Cultural Retrenchment: from ‘Jazzing’ to ‘Old Time Waltzing’ and Student Entertainment in Cork, 1920-1939

Chair

Room T2.07

• Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides, A Noir Resignification of Women’s Disposability: Benjamin Black’s Christine Falls
• Ian Hickey, Lost Futures and Kevin Barry's City of Bohane              
• Ye Li, From the Linear Perspective to Multiple Perspectives: The Art of Cubism in John Banville’s The Blue Guitar

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• Erin Costello Wecker, The Persistent Agitator: Kate Kennedy’s Mission for Gender Pay Parity and Protection from Arbitrary Demotion and Dismissal
• Karen Hanrahan, ‘Nun, done’: Former Irish nuns’ navigations of life beyond the convent walls 
• Hannah Thieryung, Patriotic Pacifism: Eva Gore-Booth and Cultural Nationalism

Chair

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• Deirdre Canavan, ‘Say the thing that isn’t / death’: Gail McConnell’s The Sun is Open as post-conflict elegy
• Sabine Egger, Dance and contested spaces of past, present and future in Katja Petrowskaja’s Maybe Esther and Anna Burns‘ Milkman

Chair

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• Gregory Ronco, Environmental and Mythic Fluidity in Song of the Sea: Actively engaging the Past through Place-in-Process  
• Josh Cantrell, The Greatest Unmade Irish Film in History: A Case Study of Why Liam O'Flaherty's Famine has Never Made it to the Screen 
• Timothy J. White, Moving Beyond Reconciliation and Toward Responsibility in Northern Ireland: The Dramatic Narrative of Five Minutes of Heaven

Chair: Miriam Nyhan Grey

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• Michael Doorley, Patrick McCartan’s mission to the United States and Bolshevik Russia, 1917-1921
• David Brundage, An Irish American Liberal and Interwar Communism: Frank P. Walsh, 1919-1939
• David Doolin, (re) Negotiating Rugby Culture in the Irish Free State: How the arbiters of Leinster Rugby navigated questions of sporting identity

Chair

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• Danielle O'Sullivan, '…holding Julian’s hand was like holding a museum pass, and holding hers was like holding a grenade": Embracing the changes and navigating the uncertainties of being in a same-sex relationship in a contemporary Ireland'
• Katie Hallinan, ‘Bringing up a girlfriend would take courage, whereas cyberstalking was easy’: Social media and neurodiversity in Naoise Dolan’s 'Exciting Times' (2020)
• Katie Barnes, Writing Neurodivergence in the Contemporary Irish Women’s Novel

Chair

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• Caitriona Clutterbuck, The Poetics of Locality in the work of Michael Coady
• Eóin Flannery, Sounding the Anthropocene in the poetry of Ciaran Berry
• Eugene O’Brien, ‘Our world is interwoven’: Micheal O’Siadhail and The Five Quintets

Chair

Room T2.03

• Bryan McGovern, Ultramontanism in Irish America
• Patrick Doyle, Confronting Capitalism: Catholic Social Teaching and the Moral Economy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ireland
• Richard Butler, Playing and praying in 1950s Cork: homes, churches and playgrounds in Gurranebraher

Chair

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• James Walsh, Defining a Sacred Irish Space in the Rocky Mountains: The Irish Memorial in Leadville, Colorado and the Struggle to Understand 19th Century Irish Poverty 
• Nichole Lariscy, Celtic Revivals as Public Discourse Models of Community Writing for Healing
• Patricia Lynch, New discoveries in the field of Ireland’s folk medicine

Chair

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• Dr Cian McMahon, Friendly Brothers and Marching Knots: The Loyalist Roots of New York's Saint Patrick's Parade, 1690-1780
• Dr Matthew O'Brien, Recovered Memory? Revised Images of the 1798 Rising in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1800-1850
• Mr. J. Hollis Harris, Revolutionary Remains: Death and Nationalist Political Culture in Irish America, 1899-1904

Chair

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• Breandán Ó Cróinín, An Chóilíneacht    
• Laoise Ní Cheallaigh, Peig: An Dírbheathaisnéis a Dhíchoilínigh Córas Oideachais na hÉireann?
• Síle Ní Choincheannain, Idir eachtraí agus ealaín; lón machnaimh sanj úrscéal Béal na Péiste

Chair

Room T2.07

• Ayesha Faisal, Identity and Education: An Analysis of the Development of Irish Studies in the United States from 1850 to 1998 
• Barbara A. Clark and  James Joss French, Aesthetic Education and Moriarty's Imaginative Vision: Discovering Moral Imagination, Myth, and Memory to Create a New Consciousness

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• Barry Houlihan, From The Pit to The Dark: A new archival reading of The Dark manuscripts
• Kathleen Costello-Sullivan, Reading trauma in The Dark
• Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, Narrating and Denarrating Male Child Sexual Abuse in John McGahern’s The Dark

Chair

Room T2.11

• Eleanor O'Leary, From American Parcels to Care Packages: Irish American Diasporic Exchange 1920 to 2020
• Gemma Clark, Exporting arson: Incendiarism as protest in the Irish diaspora         
• Sarah O’Brien, Exploring Irish Diaspora through Family Memory

Chair Nathalie Anderson

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• Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore College Emerita
• Heather Corbally Bryant, Wellesley College
• Christine Casson, Emerson University
• David Lloyd, University of California at Riverside
• Ed Madden, University of South Carolina
• Thomas McGuire, United States Air Force Academy
• David McLoghlin, American College in Dublin
• Ann Neelon, Murray State University
• Thomas Dillon Redshaw, University of St Thomas
• Kelly Sullivan, New York University
• Daniel Tobin, Emerson University
• Lawrence Welsh, El Paso Community College
• David Vance, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Joseph Lennon, Villanova University

Chair Kelly Sullivan

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• Caroline Heafey, Second War Soundscapes: Uncanny Media in Wartime Fiction
• Mary Burke, ‘County Cork, Mississippi: Unmoored settler-colonial histories in Bowen & Welty’ 
• Lucy McDiarmid, The Poetic Uncanny in Poems by Groarke, Bergin, and Ní Chuilleanáin’

Chair Julie Morrissy

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• Lucy Collins, Associate Professor, University College Dublin
• Nolan Goetzinger, PhD candidate, University of California, Riverside
• Ailbhe McDaid, Assistant Professor, Mary Immaculate College
• Ed Madden, Professor, University of South Carolina

Chair Mari Steed

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• James M. Smith, Beyond Bricks and Mortar…’: Building an archive as a form of redress?
• Maeve O’Rourke, An all-island, human rights-based approach to national archiving
• Máiréad Enright, Inheritance: Rethinking ‘Law Work’ as Care for Histories of Institutional Abuse

Chair Breandán Ó Cróinín

Room T2.04

• Deirdre Nic Mhathúna, The development of accentual verse in Irish in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries             
• Tony Ó Floinn, Pádraig Phiarais Cúndún’s ‘Aiste na nIarthar’ – Reality, Rhetoric, and a Response

Chair

Room T2.05

• Peggy Pollard, ‘Unto the Seventh Generation’: The Abused Child in Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature and Film
• Rebecca Steinberger, ‘I am the cause of misery/To those I love’: Women and Confinement in Contemporary Irish Writing
• Matthew J. Fee, The Eighties in Irish Cinema

Chair

Room T2.06

• Kamel Salmi, The image of the Irish immigration in British National Archives: a study of the representation of the Irish population in Britain between 1921 and 1937
• Amanda Crabb, The post-1995 Irish Immigrant Cohort

Chair

Room T2.07

• Sadie Sunderland-Rhoads, Dalrymple’s Dilemma: Irish Catholic recruitment and service in the Loyal Irish Corps    
• Peter Gray, Federalism, Repeal and the Irish Question, 1830-48   
• Patrick Maume, The Act of Union and hope for a new beginning: William Cooke Taylor (1800-49) and Whig Modernisation Theory

Chair

Room T2:08

• Emma Webb, Orientalism in the Songs of The Spirit of the Nation           
• Katherine Huber, Reading Intersectional Theories of Race and Environment in Denise Chaila’s Anseo
• Teresa O'Donnell, ‘We sing it differently’: Migrant liturgical music in the Irish catholic church

Chair

Room T2.11

• Michael Howlett, Impulses from the writings of Poet Patrick Kavanagh for embracing change in contemporary Ireland
• Rosemary Day, Women in Irish Radio
• Eric A. Lewis, Masculinity, Property, and Sovereignty in Tana French’s Broken Harbor

Chair

Room T2.12

• Emily Mark-FitzGerald, The First ‘Famine’ Photograph: Poverty and Proselytism in 19th century Waterford
• Jean Gregorek, Cross-Currents and Littoral Zones: Anthony Haughey's The Edge of Europe
• Kate Antosik-Parsons, Enacting Citizenship through Array Collective’s The Druthaib’s Ball (2021)

Chair

Room T2.13

• Mairéad Byrne, What is Carried Over: Celia de Fréine, Mary McGuckian and Brian Merriman’s Cúirt an Mheán-Oíche
• Sean O'Hare, ‘Wear away wear away’: Ecologies in Crisis in Brian Coffey's ‘Death of Hektor’
• Kristine A. Byron, Navigating Uncertainty: Writing About the Irish Diaspora in the (Post)Covid Era

Chairs Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible

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• Ellen Scheible, Bridgewater State University
• Shinjini Chattopadhyay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Mary Burke, University of Connecticut

Chair Kathryn Laing

Room T2.01

• Tara Giddens, ‘Customs are only customs after all, and therefore may change’: Charlotte O’Conor Eccles’ advocacy for Irish women’s education and training in the Irish Monthly
• Geraldine Brassil, The  Irish Monthly: A Site of Female Agency and Expression
• Éadaoin Regan, Parallel experiences: Irish emigrant women in Charlotte Grace O’Brien’s periodicals and George Egerton’s The Wheel of God (1898)

Chair

Room T2.02

• Jessica Bundschuh & Daniela Theinová, Ailbhe Darcy’s Alphabet: Re-imagining Ecological Beginnings through Fractals
• John McDonagh, From Oliver Cromwell to the Berlin Wall: Brendan Kennelly, Paul Durcan and a new Irish poetics
• Nicholas R. Cabezas, The Wayfarer’s Seduction: Exilic Transformation in ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘Byzantium’

Chair 

Room T2.03

• Bryan Fanning, Irish Identities and the Far Right
• Irial Glynn, How has Ireland adapted to its transformation from a country of emigration to a country of immigration?
• William Jenkins, Voicing the Emigrant in North America: Evidence from Police Court Columns

Chair

Room T2.04

• Sinéad Moynihan, ‘Holiday sent thanks for fixes’: Irish Writers at Holiday magazine, 1946-77
• Yen-Chi Wu, Irish Writers, The New Yorker, and the First-reading Agreement, 1940-198   
• Keelan Harkin, Proxy Conflicts: John McGahern’s Cold War Stories

Chair: Rosemary Day 

Room T2.05

• Jason Haslam, The Banshees of Inisherin, Faust, and the Salvation of Spectacle    
• Josh Cantrell, ‘To Heal, You Must be Seen and Heard’: Trauma Studies and Irish Famine Films
• Noor Malik, Bodies as Weapons: Non-Verbal Forms of Protest in Irish Film, Art, and Social Reform

Chair

Room T2.06

• Michael de Nie, The Comic Press, Political Violence, and Parnell, 1879-1891
• Madeline O’Neill, False News: Unionist and Imperialist Irish Landlord is Reimagined as ‘Gaelic Ghost’ 70 Years after his Death
• Méabh Ní Fhuartháin, Queering Cromwell: Musical Theatre Revising Histories

Chair

Room T2.07

• Luca Bertolani Azeredo, ‘No Man shall ride armed within the Realm’: The Enniskillen Horse and the Irish Home Rule Crisis
• Martin O'Donoghue, ‘New beginnings’? Democracy and parliament in Ireland before and after 1922
• Máire Nic an Bhaird agus Liam Mac Mathúna, Unveiling the Transformative Legacy of Douglas Hyde: Language Revival, Cultural Rebirth and Political Voice

Chair

Room T2.08

• José Lanters, Two Miss Davidsons: Promising Beginnings, Short-Lived Success, and Mistaken Identities in the Irish Theatre of the 1930s
• Lukas Ernst, ‘(Post-)Catholicism’? Transformations of Religion and Belief in Conor McPherson's Plays
• Thalyta Bianca Pinto Aguiar Argivaes, Minding one another's business: scrutiny of social behaviour of Irish communities through humour in Spreading the News and Yesterday’s News

Chair Nathalie Anderson, Swarthmore College

Room T2.11

• Adam Hanna, Associate Professor, University College Cork
• Gregory Ronco, Graduate student, University of Wyoming
• Ellen Scheible, Professor, Bridgewater State University
• Anna Teekell, Associate Professor, Christopher Newport University
• Nathalie Anderson, Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor Emerita at Swarthmore

Chair Aidan Beatty 

Room T2.12

Michael Bailey, Boston College

Aidan Beatty, Carnegie Mellon University 

Patrick Brodie, University College Dublin.

Marta Cook, Musicologist & Traditional Irish Musician Patrick Doyle, University of Limerick 

Samantha Haddad, College of William and Mary 

Sarah Roddy, Maynooth University

Aran Ward Sell, University of Notre Dame Respondent

Shahriyar Mansouri, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran

Due to travel restrictions imposed on Iranian academics, Shahriyar can only attend via Zoom

Chair Mary Harney 

Room T2.01

• Sarah-Anne Buckley, ’Words are like weapons’: language, terminology and representation in relation to Ireland’s mother and baby institutions
• Conall Ó Fátharta, Allowing ‘cowardice to rule’: Industrial Schools and Irish journalism, 1920-1990

Chair

Room T2.02

• Jane Halloran, A ‘Star’ is Born – an Irish American female business owner in New England (1896-1920)
• Patricia Crowley, Rebel, Reformer, Revolutionary: Irish Women in the American Labor Movement
• Jill Bender, Building a Transatlantic Network: Canada and the Assisted Emigration of Irish Workhouse Women

Chair

Room T2.03

• Helen Lowe, Exploring the Everyday Emotions and Experiences of Classism and Bias in Irish Education. A thematic analysis of Irish Twitter conversations on class and education between 2018 and 2022
• Joan Finlay, Redefining Home Economics for the Modern Era: Innovations and Challenges in Ireland's New Bachelor of Arts in Education, Home Economics (and Business Studies)

Chair

Room T2.04

• Irene E Horgan, Irish Dance: Centuries of Chang 
• Anna Falkenau, Embedded in Zeitgeist, Embodying Zeitgeist: Traditional Music and Arts Developments in Galway, 1971-1981            
• Elizabeth Sweeney, Documenting Boston's Irish Music: A New Archival Partnership

Chair

Room T2.05

• Michael Bailey, Faith, Seed, Cervantes & Capital: The Irish Diaspora, the Spanish Empire, & The Making of Racial-Capitalism           
• Michael Silvestri, African Policemen, the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British Empire in Late Victorian Ireland                
• Shahmima Akhtar, Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race and Identity in the 1850s to 1960s

Chair

Room T2.06

• Martin Kenny, ‘A totally new invention with no past’ - tracing lineages of Irish queer emigrant experience through performance in New York     
• Stephanie Alexander, Queering the Troubles: Secrets, Surveillance, and Deep Gossip in Anna Burns’ Milkman

Chair

Room T2.07

• Bridget English, ‘Mad Ireland’: Mental Institutions and Irish Literary Narratives    
• Patricia DiNoia-Chamberlin, ‘From an Unrecorded Line of Nobodies’: Examining the Woman’s Voice in Memoir           
• Sally B Ebest, Resisting Lives: Performing Irishness through Memoir         

Chair 

Room T2.08

• Chu He, Violence and Moral Responsibility in Sean O'Casey’s The Silver Tassie      
• Violet Owen O’Valle, Death and Resurrection in Sean O'Casey's Ireland: Solar Myth in the Late ‘Exile’ Plays

Chair

Room T2.11

• Hannah Nolan, ‘Foe of Kings:’ The United Irishmen, Rufus King, and Politicalized Memory in the Election of 1807
• Gina Marie Guadagnino, ‘In It I Found My Deliverance’: A Close Reading of an Irish Nationalist Broadside
• Patrick James Horan, Irish American Propaganda: The use of Propaganda by the American Friends of Irish Neutrality and The American Irish Defence Association during WWII

Chair

Room T2.12

• Brian (Breen) Ó Conchubhair, Dante Alighieri and the Irish Revival: An Epic Quest
• Red Washburn, ‘We All Suffer from Walls’: Decolonial Feminist Change in Roseleen Walsh’s Prison Poetry
• Pádraig Ó Liatháin, Seán Ó Ríordáin: Prose and Poetry in his early diaries

Chair

Room T2.13

• Fiona C. Clarke, ‘Stumbling in his hobnailed wake’: Seamus Heaney on the Identity of the Son and the Man            
• Geraldine Higgins, Seamus Heaney and Literary Tourism in the New Ireland          
• Marilynn Richtarik, Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland    

Chair

Room T2.14

• Beth Abbott, ‘Forget-Me-Not:’ The Death of Maggie Dunne and the End of the Irish Civil War
• Oliver Plunkett Rafferty, Archbishop Byrne and the Irish Civil War             
• Caoimhín De Barra, The Bicycle Ban and the Irish War of Independence

Chair

Room T2:01

• Dr Ruth Duffy, Mixed Marriage and Changing Irish Identity
• Professor Diane Urquhart, ‘Sick of the sorry party game’: gender and the McCann mixed marriage case of 1910
• Dr Alison Garden, Mixed Marriages and Romances in Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses (2022)

Chair 

Room T2.02 

• Julia M. Wright, Literary Prototypes: National Character and the National Tale  
• Sean Aldrich O'Rourke, The Implications of Irish Gothic Immersion  

Chair 

Room T2.03 

• Niall Whelehan, Railways and Irish Settler Colonialism in nineteenth century Argentina  
• Peter D. O'Neill, Frontier Irish, Indigeneity, and US Settler Colonialism  

Chair 

Room T2.04 

• Carol Dell'Amico, Radical Vulnerability in Sally Rooney's Writing  
• Jie Wang, Becoming a Female Artist: Reading Anne Enright’s Actress as a Künstlerroman 

Chair 

Room T2:05

• Wendy Felese, Now, and at the hour of our death: The place of religion in the lives of Tuaisceart Éireann women 
• David Seán Glover, A new perspective of the Border Campaign of 1956-62. Re-evaluating its context within the Irish historiography through a transnational lens 

Chair 

Room T2.06 

• Aran Ward Sell, And is Only Raining: post-catastrophic Irelands in contemporary fiction  
• Jason Matthew Buchanan, Wandering in Ruined Homes: Post-apocalyptic Fiction by Irish Women Writers 
• Galyna Hartischyn, From Prosperity to Decline: Narrative Representation of Trauma in the Celtic Tiger and Post-Boom Fiction

Chair 

Room T2.07 

• Evelyn Flanagan, Poetry as Commemoration: creative reflections on Ireland's past  
• Julie Morrissy, A Pre-History of Documentary Poetry in Ireland  

Room T2.08 

• Christopher Dowd, Playing at Irish Identity in Video Games 
• Erin Kate Scheopner, Newsworthy: The Historic Global Appeal of Ireland  
• Paul G. Murphy, Global Ireland’s Open Movement for North America: A Case Study of the Montreal Irish Monument  

Chair 

Room T2.11 

• Hayley Brabazon, Hegemonic Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Violence in Irish Republicanism: a catalyst for gendered violence?  
• Hilary Dully, Transgressive women and Daredevil Propagandists; What can we learn from the post-revolutionary activities of Cumann na mBan? 
• Susie Deedigan, They ‘should not be penalised… for their heritage of Republican ideals’: reconsidering female republican activity after the revolutionary period

 (continues into the next session in the same room)

Chair 

Room T2.12 

Beth A Wightman, Playing the Peace Talks  

Reacting to the Past (RTTP) is a game pedagogy that immerses students in a specific historical situation. Half-day (3-hour) special session at the 2024 ACIS conference that introduces Irish Studies scholars to RTTP via an already developed game. 

Chair 

Room T2.13 

• Gary Hussey, Dangerous Memories and Entangled Temporalities: Irish Republicanism and the Postcolonial Politics of Time 
• Ian d’Alton, To the Northern Station: A southern Irish Protestant reflects on the elements of reassurance, comfort and identity for ex-unionists in a new Ireland 
• Samuel Beckton, Lessons of the Protestant Associations: Evidence submission to the Public Consultation on the Constitutional Future of the Island of Ireland Committee 

Chair Laoise Ní Cheallaigh

Room T2.14 

• Charlotte J. Headrick, Reclaiming Women’s History:  Revisiting Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed 
• Molly Daly, The influence of the Irish state on the lived experience of women as revealed by the findings of the Commission on Emigration and Other Population Problems (1948-1951). 
• Melanie Finney, Feminine or Feminist: Public Art and Monuments of Irish Women  

Chair

Room T2.01

• Anke Klitzing, Nourishing the New Nation: How Food and Foodways in the Literature of the Period of Independence Refract the State of the Nation in Uncertain Times
• Theodore Lehre, Motherhood and the Constitutional Pedestal

Chair

Room T2.02

• Kathryn Holt, Skirmishes, Fires, and Tar on the Dance Floor: Dance Halls as Sites of Political Conflict in 1930s Ireland                
• Cera Murtagh & Runa Neely, Challenging Sectarianism? Queer Activism after Conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Northern Ireland
• Emma Quinn: ‘How could God love me?’, Irish-American Catholics and AIDS in New York

Chair

Room T2.03

• Kelly Matthews, The Play That Almost Wasn't: A Production History of Philadelphia, Here I Come!         
• Patricia O'Beirne, It’s Time to Talk Finance! The Price of Performance and Sustainability for Independent Theatre Companies         
• Virginie Roche-Tiengo, Embracing Change: New Beginnings at the Abbey Theatre

Chair

Room T2.04

• Frederique Carey-Penot, Surfing, storytelling and unleashing the wave of change in Ireland
• Maureen A Horgan, The Role of Contemporary Attitudes in Navigating a Changing Ireland
• Connal Parr, Other People's Struggles: The Solidarities of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

Chair

Room T2.05

• Renée Fox, Revolutonary Realisms: 1798 and the Genres of Victorian Fiction 
• Colleen English, ‘this amphitheater of strife’: Mangan’s ‘The Dying Enthusiast’ and Shelley’s ‘Adonais’ 
• Malama Wilson, ‘To Mould Out of Ghost:’ Death and the Future in John Banim's Literature

Chair Sarah O’Brien

Room T2.06

• Guy Beiner, The Tense Future of Memory         
• Julien Guillaumond, Ireland’s Global Strategies and Irishness in the 21st Century: New Beginning or Same Old Story?
• Lachlan Whalen, ‘It Is Surprising What Even the Confined Eyes and Ears Can Discover’: Representations of Bobby Sands’s Hunger Strike in Graphic Novels

Chair

Room T2.07

• Miriam Mara, Requiem for Freedom in the Land: Caoilinn Hughes’ The Wild Laughter
• John Conlan, Lodged in the room of ousted possibilities: Possible Worlds Theory and the Speculative Turn in Recent Irish Writing—from Stephen Sexton and Doireann ní Ghríofa to Paul Lynch
• Nora Bonner, ‘Punishment’ vs. ‘Accountability’ in Tana French’s The Likeness

(continued from Panel 10:10 in the previous session)

Chair Beth A Wightman

Room T2.08

Beth A Wightman, Playing the Peace Talks             

Reacting to the Past (RTTP) is a game pedagogy that immerses students in a specific historical situation. Half-day (3-hour) special session at the 2024 ACIS conference that introduces Irish Studies scholars to RTTP via an already developed game.

Chair

Room T2.11

• Aidan Beatty, ‘The Gaelic League and the Languages of Capitalism and Masculinity’
• Tim Ellis-Dale, ‘Men of the West to Men in Mohair Suits: The reconfiguration of Irish political masculinities, 1922-1968’
• Kenneth Shonk, ‘The Future of a Distant Past’: alternative masculinities in A Sense of Ireland, 1980

Chair

Room T2.12

• Hawk Chang, The Oriental Revival: The Reception of J. M. Synge's Plays in the Sinophone World, 2000-2020           
• Kristen Sieranski, ‘admitting--here--now’: Talking, Performance, and Reconciliation in the Drama of Owen McCafferty

Chair Dr Sinéad Ring 

Room T2.13

• Mark Coen, Lateral Thinking and Luck: Researching Religious Institutions as an Outsider
• Claire McGettrick, The Magdalene Names Project: Counteracting ‘Historical’ Disappearances
• Katherine O’Donnell, ‘We have, obviously, erred totally on the side of believing the women concerned in the first instance’: Reflections on the Irish State response to Oral Histories of Institutional Abuse Survivors