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Irish Studies
Summer School 2018
School of Arts and Humanities
Magee campus, Ulster University
June - August 2018
Irish Studies Summer School 2018 1
Irish Studies Summer School, (2013), Derry (weeks 2 - 5) is
one of the most historic and
Ulster University culturally vibrant cities in
June-August 2018 these islands.
Ulster University is delighted to announce its fifth Founded in the 6th Century,
annual Irish Studies Summer School. and associated with Colmcille,
one of Ireland’s three patron
Location saints, it is the mother-house
of the great Columban
It is set in three of Ireland’s major cities and in some monastic confederacy
of the most beautiful and culturally rich regions of which blazed the trail for
Western Europe, adjacent to the Causeway Coast Irish involvement in the The Annals of the Four
and the Donegal and Sperrin Mountains. Regular preservation of European Christianity. It is also Masters, a key source
flights to London (via Derry and Belfast) and from the longest continually inhabited city on the for Irish History, were
Dublin will enable students to visit most of Europe’s compiled in west Ulster
island.
great capital cities during their stay with us.
Derry and global literature
The Donegal Gaeltacht
The City is also associated with Ireland’s major
Week 6 offers participants a unique Irish Language contributions to world letters: the Book of
immersion in Gaoth Dobhair, a vibrant, Irish- Kells, the ‘Cathach’ of Colmcille, the plays of
speaking community, set in some of the finest George Farquhar, the philosophical tracts of
scenery and amenities in Europe. George Berkeley and the writings of the Field-
Day circle, founded and directed by Seamus
Derry: A microcosm for Heaney, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus
Irish Studies Deane, Tom Paulin and Thomas Kilroy.
As ‘Atlantic Gateway’, ‘UK City of Culture’ (2013)
and a ‘Lonely Planet’ top-ten tourist destination
Seamus Heaney
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Derry and World War II
The Royal Navy and US Marines based themselves
in Derry for the war’s duration; the Allies would
subsequently win the Battle of the Atlantic
(1940-42) from Lough Foyle and Germany finally
surrendered the North Atlantic U-boat fleet at
nearby Lisahally.
‘American Gateway’ and
window on Ireland’s past
Derry became a cock-pit for the post-Reformation,
Tudor Re-Conquest of Ireland (1534-1603) and its
Tower Museum houses the ‘Trinidad Valencera’, one
of the finest Spanish Armada wrecks to have been
excavated off the Irish coast. It is also the primary,
purpose-built citadel of the Ulster Plantation
(1609) and the sister-city of London. Its historic
walls, among the finest in Western Europe, have
been the setting for one of the most important Surrendered German U-boats, Lisahally
sieges in Irish and British History. Derry is also the
‘Atlantic Gateway’, through which millions of Irish ‘The Troubles’ and
men and women would make their voyage to the
‘Land of Caanan’ (America) in the eighteenth and
Good Friday Agreement
nineteenth centuries. The Civil Rights Movement (1968) and ‘The Troubles’
effectively commenced in Derry and it provided the
Irish Studies Summer School 2018 3
Accreditation
The participants will accrue credit points
for the six-week course for which they
will also receive a certificate from Ulster
University.
Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness, President Clinton and John Hume
setting for some of its worst violence. However, the city has emerged as
a key focus of cross-community peace-building and reconciliation post-
Good Friday Agreement (1998).
The Programme
Our interdisciplinary programme will enable participants to acquire
specialist knowledge of Irish Studies across drama, film, history, literature,
music, peace and conflict studies and politics. The curriculum connects
the inter-related cultures, histories, languages and literatures of Ulster, the
rest of Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America.
Madonna
& Child,
Book of Kells
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Week 1
Monday Flights arriving in from various USA airports to Dublin
25 June airport. Meet & Greet at Yellow Sculpture, near food court
7 - 10:00am of Terminal 2. 2 - 5pm Rest period
(Cell Phone +447921 789445 or r.ohagan1@ulster.ac.uk)
12:00 Lunch 7 - 8pm Pizza Hour
1:30 - 2:00pm Check in to Dublin accommodation 8pm - Free evening
Tuesday Accompanied visits to National Museum of
8:30am Buffet Breakfast 2 - 7pm
26 June Ireland and National Gallery of Ireland
9:30 - 11am Historical Walking Tour 7pm Group Dinner
11am - 1pm Tour of Guinness Hop-Store and lunch 8pm - Free evening
Wednesday 8:30am Buffet Breakfast 2.30pm Depart for Belfast and check-in
27 June 9:30am Sight seeing tour of Dublin (by bus) 4pm Sight-seeing tour of Belfast
1pm Lunch 7pm Group dinner
Thursday 8:30am Buffet breakfast 1:30pm Titanic Centre
28 June
9:30am Titanic Dry Dock talk and tour 3:30pm Sign the Peace Wall
11:30am Early Lunch at the Dry Dock restaurant 4 - 6:30pm Depart for Derry,
check in to student accomodation
Friday Tea and scones, followed by induction, library/campus tour
9:30am 6 - 8pm Mayor’s Reception in Guildhall
29 June and student registration (Ros and Richard)
1pm Lunch 8pm - Free evening
2 - 4pm Walking tour of Derry’s Walls (with Éamonn )
Sat 30 June
Long weekend to settle into the student village, go food shopping and explore the city
- Mon 2 July
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Week 2
Tuesday 3 July
9:30 - Lecture: ‘The Great Irish Sagas’ Lecture: ‘The Gaelic League and Irish Revival’
1:30 - 3pm
11am Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil - Room: MD012 Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD007
11am Break 3pm Walk over to the playing fields
11:15am- Seminar: ‘The Great Irish Sagas’ 3:15 - Workshop: Gaelic games – Hurling and Camogie
12:30pm Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil - Room: MD012 4:45pm Dr Neil Comer
Wednesday 4 July
9:30 - Lecture: ‘Irish scribes and their manuscripts’ Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in English: from Spenser to Yeats 1’
1:30 - 3pm
11am Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann - Room: MD012 Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007
11am Break 3pm Break
11:15am- Seminar: ‘Irish scribes and their manuscripts’ 3:15 - Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in English: from Spenser to Yeats 2’
12:30pm Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann - Room: MD012 4.45pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007
Thursday 5 July
9:30 - Lecture: ‘Dinnsheanchas: Irish Place-names’ Lecture: ‘The Irish Diaspora: local perspectives, 1870-1920’
1:30 - 3pm
11am Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD012 Dr Andrew Maguire - Room: MD007
11am Break 3pm Break
11:15am - Screening: ‘Mapping Ulster’ 3:30 - Seminar: ‘The Irish Diaspora: local perspectives, 1870-1920’
12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 4:30pm Dr Andrew Maguire - Room: MD007
Friday 6 July, Saturday 7 July, Sunday 8 July and Monday 9 July - Free for independent travel
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Week 3
Tuesday 10 July
Lecture: ‘The Ulster Plantation’ Lecture: ‘From Reformation to Revolution, 1534-1688’
9:30 - 11am 1:30 - 3pm
Dr Marie-Claire Peters - Room: MD012 Dr Billy Kelly - Room: MD007
11am Break 3 - 3:15pm Break
11:15am - Screening: ‘Wolfland’ Lecture: ‘Revival and Rebellion, 1892-1916’
3:15 - 5pm
12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 Dr Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh - Room MD007
Wednesday 11 July
Lecture: ‘Ireland from Reformation to American Lecture: ‘The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ulster’
9:30 -11am Civil War’ 1:30 - 3pm Ryan Feeney - Room: MD007
Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012
11 - 11:15am Break 3 - 3:15pm Break
11:15am - Seminar: Class Discussion 3:15 - 5 pm Workshop: ‘Traditional Irish Music’
12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 Dr Liz Doherty: Recital Room in Foyle Arts Building
Thursday 12 July
9:30am - Excursion to Doagh Famine Village with Ros 2 - 4pm Irish arms/costume display
1pm (admission, transport and lunch included) Tomás Ó Brógáin - The Great Hall
Friday 13 July
Excursion to Dunluce Castle, Giant’s Causeway and Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge – admission tickets and transport included
9am – 6pm (with Ros)
Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July - Free for independent travel
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Week 4
Tuesday 17 July
9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘Irish Landscape and Topography’ 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Irish Military Diaspora, 1534-1918’
Dr Liam Campbell - Room: MD012 Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007
11am Break 3pm Break
Lecture: ‘Dorothy Grace-Hartnett: Rabble-rouser, Author
11:15am- Screening: ‘Translations’ 3:15 -
Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 and Fascist’
12:30pm 4:45pm
Dr James Loughlin - Room: MD007
Wednesday 18 July
Lecture: ‘WWI in Nationalist Memory’ Lecture: ‘Irishmen in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39’
9:30 -11am Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm
Dr Emmet O’Connor - Room: MD007
11am Break 3pm Break
11:15am- Lecture: ‘WWI in Unionist Memory’ Lecture: ‘Revolutionary Ireland ’
Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 3:15 - 5pm
12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room MA007
Thursday 19 July
Lecture: ‘Independent Ireland’ Lecture: ‘The Troubles, 1968-98’
9:30am 1:30 - 3pm
Dr Philip McDermott - Room MA007 Marie-Claire Peters - Room MA007
11am Break 3:30 - 5pm Film: ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’
11:15 am - Screening: ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’
12:30pm
Friday 20, Saturday 21, Sunday 22 and Monday 23
Free for independent travel this week-end
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Week 5
Tuesday 24 July
Workshop: ‘The Troubles and Post -Agreement
9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘The Gaelic League’ 1:30 - 3pm Fiction’
Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD012 Garbhan Downey - Room: MD007
11am Break 3pm Break
11:15am - Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in Irish, 1895-2018’ 3:15 - Walking Tour of ‘The Bogside’
12:30pm Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha Room-MD012 4:45pm (weather permitting)
Wednesday 25 July
Lecture: ‘Irish Writers since Yeats 1’ Workshop: ‘The Far Side of Revenge I’
9:30 -11am Dr Loredana Salis - Room: MD007 1:30 - 3pm Jim Keys - Room: The Great Hall
11am Break 3pm Break
Lecture: ‘Irish Writers since Yeats 2’ 3:15 - 4:45pm Workshop: ‘The Far Side of Revenge II’
11:15am - Dr Loredana Salis - Room: MD007
12:30pm Jim Keys - Room: The Great Hall
Thursday 26 July
Lecture: ‘Irish Language and Society’ Lecture: ‘Irish Drama’
9:30 - 11am 1:30 - 3pm
Dr Malachy Ó Néill - Room: MD012 Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick - Room: The Great Hall
11am Break 3pm Break
11:15am - Class Discussion
3:15 - 4:30pm Seminar: ‘Irish Drama and Practice’
12:30 Dr Malachy Ó Néill - Room: MD012 Dr Matt Jennings - Room: The Great Hall
Friday 27 July - Awards’ Dinner, Bishop’s Gate Hotel at 7pm
Free day for packing before departing to the Gaeltacht. Students can also could go to the playing fields at the student village and cheer on
the Texas Tech Engineering students who will battle it out to win the trophy in their competition 11.00am - 12.30pm. The Awards Dinner
starts at 7pm.
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Week 6 Gaeltacht
A week of immersion in Irish language and culture with ‘Ranganna Gaeilge’ (Irish classes) and various cultural activities each evening.
All classes/activities take place in Pobalscoil building unless otherwise stated. Return transport provided from Teach Campbell to
Pobalscoil for each day.
Dé Sathairn 28 Iúil / Saturday 28 July
Depart Duncreggan at 11am for check-in at 1pm in Teach Campbell, Gaoth Dobhair
Dé Domhnaigh 29 Iúil / Sunday 29 July
9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge
1pm Lón / Lunch
2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge
7.30pm - 9.30pm Tráth na gCeist / Table Quiz
Dé Luain 30 Iúil / Monday 30 July
9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge
1pm Lón / Lunch
1.50pm - 6pm Turas Treoraithe / Guided Tour
9pm - 11pm Oíche Cheoil i dTeach Hiúdaí / Music in Teach Hiúdaí (optional)
Dé Máirt 31 Iúil / Tuesday 31 July
9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge
1pm Lón / Lunch
2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge
7.30pm - 9.30pm Ceol, Filíocht & Stair / Music, Poetry & History (presentation)
9.30pm - 11pm Céilí / Dancing in Teach Jack (optional)
10Dé Céadaoin 1 Lúnasa / Wednesday 1 August
9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge
1pm Lón / Lunch
2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge
3.30pm Turas go Gabhla / Trip to Gola Island (optional) *€10 extra
Déardaoin 2 Lúnasa / Thursday 2 August
9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge
1pm Lón / Lunch
2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge
7.30pm - 9.30pm Gearóidín Bhreathnach / Traditional Irish singing in the Acadamh
Dé hAoine 3 Lúnasa / Friday 3 August
9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge
1pm Lón / Lunch
2pm - 3pm Ranganna Gaeilge
9pm - 11pm Céilí an Chúrsa / ‘End of course’ Céilí in Teach Jack
Dé Sathairn 4 Lúnasa / Saturday 4 August
Depart Accommodation at 5:00am for Dublin Airport
11Irish Studies Liz Doherty is an
internationally-acclaimed
fiddle player, educator
and consultant in the
Liam Campbell holds a traditional arts. A founder-
BA in Theology and Philosophy member and performer
(NUI, Maynooth), an MA in with bands such as
Environmental Science (Queen’s) ‘Nomos’ and ‘Fiddlesticks’, ‘The Bumblebees’,
and a PhD in Cultural Heritage ‘String Sisters’ and ‘Blazin’ Fiddles’, she has also
from Ulster. He is Cultural Officer performed with ‘Riverdance – The Show’. Before
at the Lough Neagh Landscape coming to Ulster, Liz taught at Cape Breton
Partnership. In addition he has University (Canada) and Marshall University (US).
worked for nearly twenty years as a TV producer for
BBC, UTV, Channel 4 and RTÉ.
Garbhan Downey
is a Derry-born novelist
Niall Comer is a Lecturer in who has published eight
Irish at Ulster and a member of
critically-acclaimed works
the Northern Ireland Languages
of fiction. He has also
Council. President of Conradh
contributed stories to
na Gaeilge, formerly President
of Comhaltas UIadh (2008) and several anthologies of Irish
editor of ‘An tUltach’, one of crime fiction and edits
Ireland’s leading Irish-Language Desmond Doherty’s new thriller series ‘Valberg’
journals, his major research interests include Irish- for Guildhall Press. A former newspaper editor
language lexicography and place-lore. and senior BBC producer, Downey was the
founding editor of ‘Verbal: The Northern Ireland
Literary Review’. He currently manages the Hive
Studio, Derry’s newest creative cultural hub and
is an editor at Guildhall Press.
12 Irish Studies Summer School 2018Ryan Feeney is the Head of the International Association for the Study of
Public Engagement at Queen’s Irish Literatures (IASIL, 2014); Warwick Politics
University Belfast, responsible and Performance Network (2012), and the Irish
for leading the university’s Theatrical Diaspora project in Toronto (2011).
civic, political and community She has recently published in The Irish University
engagement work. He is also Review (2015), Contemporary Theatre Review
an independent member of the (2013) and edited collections on Performing
Policing Board appointed to the Feminisms in Contemporary Ireland and the
role by the Minister for Justice (May 2011). Before Performance of Violence (2011).
his employment at Queen’s he served as a full time
Senior GAA official, working for Ulster GAA leading
the Community Engagement and Public Affairs Billy Kelly is a native of
work of the Association. From 2014 to 2016 he was Derry and a graduate of Trinity
a Visiting Professor of Governance and Policy at College Dublin and Cambridge
Ulster University. University. He research interests
are in early modern Irish and
Lisa Fitzpatrick studied British History. He is general
at Trinity College Dublin and editor of the Ulster and Scotland
UCD, completing her PhD at Series (Four Courts Press) .
the University of Toronto. She
is currently Senior Lecturer in
Drama at the School of Creative
Arts, Ulster University, teaching
a range of a range of theoretical
modules, and supervising
graduate research in contemporary performance
practice. She has received funding from the British
Academy and the Canadian High Commission, and
has spoken at at a number of events, including
Irish Studies Summer School 2018 13James Loughlin is Reader Andrew Maguire holds a
in History at Ulster University BA Hons and PG Diploma in Irish
and was previously a Research History & Politics, a Masters in
Fellow at Queen’s University, Research (History) and a PhD in
Belfast. His specialisms range Irish History/Diaspora Politics
widely over Irish and British from Ulster. He is currently a
history in the nineteenth and temporary lecturer at Ulster in
twentieth centuries. They Qualitative Research and has
include the Home Rule question in the late Victorian published several articles on the
era; the nature of British identity and how it has Irish diaspora nationalist politics.
been interpreted by the Ulster Unionist community;
the Northern Ireland problem in the modern
Nioclas Mac Cathmhaoil
period; and, most recently, the British monarchy
completed his PhD at Ulster
and Ireland. These research interests have found
(2010) and served as a Fulbright
expression in the following publications: Gladstone,
Professor at UC Berkeley in
Home and the Ulster Question, 1882-92 (Dublin,
2012-3. During this sojourn, he
1986); Ulster Unionism and British National identity
completed his monograph on
Since 1885 (London, 1995); The Ulster Question
the Irish poet/scribe Muiris Ó
Since 1945 (Basingstoke, 1998; 2nd edition, 2004);
Gormáin. His research interests
The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the
include the Irish manuscript
Present (Cambridge, 2007; revised ed., 2011).
tradition, Classical and Early Modern Irish, dialects
and modern Irish literature.
14 Irish Studies Summer School 2018Peadar Mac Gabhann Tomás Ó Brógáin holds
joined the university in 2000, a BA Hons in Irish History
having been previously and Politics from Ulster, and
employed at Notre Dame. is currently completing his
Before moving to the United MRes. Tomás also runs Oireas
States, Peadar held the position Historical Services, which
of Lecturer in Celtic at the specialises in 17th Century
University of Bonn. He has warfare displays and event
recently served as the Ireland-Canada University organisation. He is also on the Heritage Councils
Foundation’s Visiting Professor at St. Michael’s Heritage in Schools expert panel and is the resident
College, University of Toronto. He has published cartographer for History Ireland and Word Well
extensively on late medieval and early modern Irish
books. He is also a guest book reviewer for The Wild
literature.
Geese web site in the US and development officer
for Letterkenny, Community and Heritage group
Pauline Gardiner received (LHCG).
her BA and MRes in Irish
History and Politics from Ulster
University and is presently in the
final stages of completing her
PhD on Great War veterans in the
South of Ireland. Her research
areas include Protestant/Unionist
historiography, memory, and identity. She also
has a keen interest in the use of history within
community relations and peacebuilding.
Irish Studies Summer School 2018 15Éamonn Ó Ciardha has Malachy Ó Néill is Provost
published books and articles on of Magee campus. An award-
law and order, popular politics, winning teacher and passionate
cultural history, the outlaw, advocate for Irish, Dr Ó Néill
and the use of Irish-language has delivered guest-lectures at
sources for Irish History. Freiburg, Notre Dame and New
Formerly a research assistant York Universities.
at the University of Aberdeen
(Scotland) and the Royal Irish Academy, he has held
visiting professorships at the Universities of Toronto
(Canada), Notre Dame (US), the Saarland (Germany), Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh holds
the University of Vienna (Austria) and Framingham BA and MRes degrees from
State University (USA). He is a Senior Lecturer in Ulster and recently completed
Irish Literature and History at Ulster. his PhD thesis on the diaries
of Seán Ó hEochaidh, the
Teelin-born folklorist and
Emmet O’Connor collector. Pádraig is Language
completed an MA in UCG in Development Officer with
1979 and a PhD at St John’s Conradh na Gaeilge.
College, Cambridge in 1984.
Since 1985 he has lectured at Ros O’Hagan is a graduate
Ulster. Between 1983 and 2001, of Ulster University in Business
he co-edited Saothar, and is an Administration and an Associate
honorary president of the Irish Fellow of the Higher Education
Labour History Society. He has published widely on Authority. Ros is responsible for
labour history, including A Labour History of Ireland, Summer School administration
1824-2000 (UCD Press, 2011), Derry Labour in the and will be one of the first people
Age of Agitation, 1889-1923 (Four Courts, 2014) and you will meet when you land on
the definitive biography of Jim Larkin (UCD, 2015). Irish soil.
16 Irish Studies Summer School 2018Marie-Claire Peters e
received her PhD from Ulster
in 2012. She co-edited The
Flight of the Earls/Imeacht
na nIarlaí (2010) with Drs
Éamonn Ó Ciardha and David
Finnegan, named a BBC
History Magazine ‘Book of
the Year’ in 2011. She is currently a researcher and
lecturer at Ulster.
Loredana Salis is Lecturer
in English Literature at the
Università di Sassari, Italy.
She obtained an MA in Irish
Literature in English (2001)
and a PhD in Comparative
Literatures (2005). Her
monographs include Miti
antichi, storie d’oggi (Pellegrini Editore, 2009) and
Stage Migrants: Representations of the Migrant
Other in Modern Irish Drama (CSP, 2010). In addition,
she has published articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe,
Dickens, Gaskell, WWI war narratives, WB Yeats,
Frank McGuinness, Sebastian Barry, Edna O’Brien
and Mary Morrissy.
Irish Studies Summer School 2018 17Course Director:
Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha
T: +44 28 7167 5257
E: e.ociardha@ulster.ac.uk
Summer School Administrator:
Mrs Ros O’ Hagan
T: +44 28 7167 5277
E: r.ohagan1@ulster.ac.uk
School of Arts and Humanities
Magee campus,
Ulster University
Northland Road,
Derry BT 48 7JL
Northern Ireland
T: +44 28 7167 5277
E: irishstudies@ulster.ac.uk
ulster.ac.uk/arts/international/irishstudies
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