11th International George Moore Conference

The writings of George Moore (1852-1933) will be remembered and celebrated at the 11th annual conference. 

Hosted in 2021 by Mary Immaculate College (MIC), the event will be held virtually. Please click here to see the timetable.

Professor Niamh Hourigan, Vice-President of Academic Affairs at MIC, will open the conference which takes place on 24 April.

The conference will focus on the concept of home in the Moore's life (was it Paris, Dublin, Mayo, London, the world of letters?) and will investigate the incredible literary legacy Moore left behind; it's ground-breaking patterns and the utter relevance of his approaches for the 21st century. 

Professor Adrian Frazier, author of the important 2000 biography of Moore (George Moore 1852-1933) leads the list of speakers which also features leading academics from around the world.

This one day event will also include the film premiere of a comedic piece, A Question of Style, penned by playwright Conor Montague and directed by MIC's Dr David Clare. Set in Coole Park, the piece focuses on the ill-fated collaboration between Moore and Yeats to create a dramatic reimagining of the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1901.

Registration for the conference is open to members of the George Moore Association only.

8.45am

Professor Niamh Hourigan Vice President of Academic Affairs, MIC
Welcome.

Dr Kathryn Laing and Dr Mary Pierse
Introduction and further welcomes.

9am - 10am

Chair: Kathryn Laing 

Katrina Kell:  
George Moore, Verlaine and Rimbaud: Reviving Edwin Dayne as a Fictional Character.

Julie Anne Stevens:
The Female Apprentice Artist in Selected Fin de Siècle Writing and Illustration by Somerville and Ross and George Moore.

Yuri Watanabe:
Mildred Lawson and Modernist Ideology.

10.15am - 11.15am

Chair: George Hughes 

Maria Elena Jaime de Pablos:
"Personality, or what a [Wo]man is”: A Schopenhauerian reading of George Moore’s “The Wedding Gown".

Akemi Yoshida:
Art and Human Conditions in Balzac’s “Le chef-d’oeuvre inconnu,” Moore’s A Modern Lover, Zola’s l’Oeuvre and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Claire Masurel Murray:
George Moore and Decadent Catholicism: a case study of Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa.

11.30am - 12.30pm

Introduced by Conor Montague and David Clare 

Film Première:
‘A Question of Style’, penned by London-based Irish playwright Conor Montague and directed by David Clare, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
Set in Coole Park, the play is based on the ill-fated collaboration between Moore and Yeats to create a dramatic reimagining of the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne for the Irish Literary Theatre in 1901.

12.30pm

George Moore Association AGM
 

12.30pm - 1.30pm
Lunch Break

1.30pm - 2.30pm

Chair: Adrian Frazier 

Michel Brunet:
Edmond Jaloux’s critical appraisal of George Moore’s oeuvre in the 1920s.     

Brendan Fleming:
The ‘Puzzle’ of Gladys Huntington and the Writings of George Moore: Some Intertextual Connections.

Siobhan Chapman:
‘Picking out the daisies’: A consideration of Moore’s practice of rewriting, with reference to ‘Albert Nobbs’.

2.45pm - 3.45pm

Chair: Mary Pierse 

David Clare:
George Moore’s Irish Catholic Characters With ‘English’ Names.

Eamon Maher:
Struggling with the Catholic Faith: George Moore and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan.

Thaís Marques Soranzo: 
The Moral and Aesthetic Problem in the Reception of Esther Waters.

4pm - 4.45pm

Chair: Eamon Maher 

Kathi Griffin:
The Prefaces of George Moore: Enigma Variations.

Elizabeth Grubgeld:
Moore's Protomodernist Bildungsroman and Mapping the West.

4.45pm - 5 pm 

Adrian Frazier Engaging with George Moore ‘At Home’ 

Closing the Conference