Irish Political and Cultural Identities

Irish Political and Cultural Identities: 1650-1850

Monday 22 May 2017

Irish Studies Seminar Room, 6-8 Fitzwilliam St

9:45-10:30: Welcome

10:00– 11:00: Music Papers

Name	Paper Title	Email
Dr Conor Caldwell	Beyond the Irish Song Project: Reimagining the Edward Bunting Manuscripts	ccaldwell09@qub.ac.uk
Ciara Conway	A Musical Dublin: John O’Keeffe’s Musical Exposure in 1770s Dublin.	cconway22@qub.ac.uk

11:00 – 11:15: Break

11:15 – 12:45: History Papers

Name	Paper Title	Email
Dr Leonie Hannan	'The Home as a Site of Cultural Activity in Eighteenth-Century Ireland and England'	l.hannan@qub.ac.uk
Dr John Cunningham	'Medical Practice and Cultural Identities in Ireland, c. 1650- c. 1730'	john.cunningham@qub.ac.uk
Professor Peter Gray	‘William Sharman and the Politics of Volunteering in Ulster, c.1780-93’	p.h.gray@qub.ac.uk

Lunch: 12:45-1:30

1:30-3:00: English Papers

Name	Paper Title	Email
Dr Joe Lines	'“The Voice of Toleration”: Irish Religion in a 1780s “Minor” Novel'	jlines01@qub.ac.uk
Prayag Ray	A “New Light” on Hinduism? Irish Influences on Elizabeth Hamilton’s View of Hinduism in Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796)	pray02@qub.ac.uk
Dr Daniel Roberts	‘“Ireland is [not] to be looked upon only as a Colony”: Patriotism and imperialism in eighteenth-century Irish fiction’	d.s.roberts@qub.ac.uk

3:00 – 3:15: Coffee

3:15 – 5:00: Roundtable Session

Archival Collections and Irish Identities

Name	Title	Email
Eilís Lavelle	The Characteristics of Edward Bunting's Collection	elavelle01@qub.ac.uk
Lorraine Bourke (PRONI)	Estate Records in PRONI	lorraine.bourke@communities-ni.gov.uk
Michael O’Connor	QUB Special Collections and Irish Identity.	michael.oconnor@qub.ac.uk
Nollaig Casey	The O’Neill Collection	ncaseymcglynn01@qub.ac.uk

This is a free event, but if you are intending to come, please email Ciara Conway (cconway22@qub.ac.uk) by Wednesday 17 May