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Thursday, March 8

Registration 5:30 PM –7:30 PM Barnes Recital Hall

Please note that all paper sessions will be held in Withers 320 A or B, unless otherwise indicated.

Friday, March 9:

8:00-9:15 Paper Session I

I.A – Supporting Roles: Women in Irish Literature - 320A

Chair,

1. "How the Women of the Barrytown Trilogy Personify 21^st Century Modern

Ireland" Kate Brooks, Hicksville, NY

2. "Paralyzing Gender Roles in ‘A Mother’ and ‘Eveline’" Brittany Cecil, Winthrop

University

3 ."Feminist and Historical Aspects of the Nationalist Movement in 20^th Century

Ireland in ‘A Mother’ " Courtney Adams, Winthrop University

I.B – Poststructuralist Perspectives and Formation of Irish Identities - 320B

Chair,

1."Colonizing the Female Body: The Womb, the Domestic, and the Nation in Edna

O’Brien" Sarah Vanover, Appalachian State University

2." ‘A skin that had split, and been shed’: Female Identity and Sexuality in Emma

Donoghue’s Slammerkin and Hood" Shauna Goble, Appalachian State University

3."Amongst the Ruins: Narrative Archaeology in Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid

Isolation" Jonathan Bradshaw, Appalachian State University

9:30-10:45 Paper Session II

II.A – Dreams and Nightmares - 320A

Chair

1. "Ciaran Carson’s Shamrock Tea: Reimagining Irish Dreamscapes and

Landscapes" Joan Frances Arbery, Notre Dame

2."Of Dreams and Peace: One Way of Reading One Scene in Jennifer Johnston’s

The Christmas Tree" Gill Hunter, Eastern Kentucky University

3. "Doors into Darkness: Communal Trauma in Northern Ireland: The Novels of

Deirdre Madden" Michelle Miles, Emory University

II.B – Deconstructing the Romantic Vision- 320B

Chair,

1."The Modern Pilgrim: Kavanagh and Heaney and Lough Derg" Jeffrey

Baggett, Lander University

2." Remapping the Parish: Patrick Kavanagh and the Development of a

Parochial Vision" Victoria Davis

3."Cathleen ni Houlihan Evolves Again: Liam O’Flaherty’s Representation of

Mary Kilmartin" Crystal O’Neal

11:00-12:15 Paper Session III

III.A –Nineteenth Century Irish Nationalists Abroad - 320A

Chair, Peter Judge, Winthrop University

1." R. R. Madden and the Spanish Slave Trade in Cuba" David Barnwell,

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

2."Irish-American Nationalism and the Fenian Invasion of Canada" John

McLean, State University of New York at Buffalo

3."Thomas Francis Meagher and the Assimilation of the Irish into American

Society" John M. Hearne, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

III.B – Exile and Assimilation - 320B

Chair, Marguerite Quintelli-Neary, Winthrop University

"The Irish Dream in Irish-American Poetry" Jill Brady Hampton, University

of South Carolina-Aiken

"Exile in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Fiction" Catriona Moloney, Bradley University

"Hellacious Hellenism: Joyce’s Cynical (and Optimistic) View of Ireland

Jimmy Butts, Winthrop University

12:30 Business Luncheon, 401 Withers

2:00 – 3:15 Paper Session IV

IV.A – Rites of Passage- 320A

Chair, Amy Gerald, Winthrop University

"L.T. Meade’s A World of Girls" Abby Heller

"Cal: A Study in Liminality" Audrey McCloskey Smith, Appalachian State University

"Mr. Duffy’s Library in Joyce’s ‘A Painful Case’" Craig Byrne, Winthrop University

IV.B – Exploring and Defying Conventions -320B

Chair,

"Throwing Inkwells with Oscar Wilde, Martin Luther and ‘The Sphinx’" Michial

Farmer, University of Nebraska-Omaha

" ‘Other Forms Were Near": Nietzsche’s Affirmative Revaluation in James Joyce’s

Dubliners" Jonathan Elmore, University of South Carolina

"Poetry, and Karaoke, or ‘men having emotions’: Jimmy Smallhorne’s 2 by 4

Ed Madden, University of South Carolina NEEDS DVD PLAYER

3:30 – 4:45 Paper Session V

V.A – New Directions for the Irish Narrative- 320A

Chair,

1."Duelling Minds" The Nature of the Writing Process in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-

Two Birds Revealed" Heather Harman, Winthrop University

2." ‘The Other Side of the Dream: Sebastian Barry’s A Long, Long Way and Related Works" Thomas Ware, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

3."Games Theories and James Joyce’s Dubliners, Cynthia Macri, Winthrop University

V.B - Reconstructing Ireland with Language and Art- 320B

Chair, Antje Mays, Winthrop University

1."Etchings from the Mist" Joel Elgin, University of Wisconsin- Lacrosse

2. "Come West Along the Road: Constructing an Electronic Irish Identity" Christopher Smith, Texas Tech University

3. "Allingham Builds the Irish Dream" Howard Keeley, Georgia Southern University

5:30 Reading and Reception: Greg Delanty , Johnson Theatre

Saturday, March 10:

8:00 – 9:15 Paper Session I

I.A – New Perspectives on Irish History- 320A

Chair, John M. Hearne, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

1. "The Roman Catholic Church, the National Schools and the Role of the Christian

Brothers" Paula Biancalana

2. "Exodus from Erin: A Gendered Analysis of Immigration Following the Irish

Potato Famine" Josh Durbin, James Madison University

3. "The Voice of Eighteenth Century Unionism Revisited: William Knox and

Irish Politics, 1774-1792" Rory T. Cornish, Winthrop University

I.B – "Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head: Assemblance of Irish Identity in Works of

Emma Donoghue, Roddy Doyle, and Bernard McLaverty- 320B

Chair,

1. "Foucauldian Punishment, Identity, and Sexuality in Bernard McLaverty’s Cal" Kyle

Warner, Appalachian State University

2. "The Naming of the Screw: Incommensurate Sexual Paradigms in Emma Donoghue’s Hood" Constance Bracewell, Appalachian State University

3. "Overt and Covert Narratory in Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha " Tom

Curran, Appalachian State University

9:30 – 10:45 Paper Session II

II.A – Poets’ Confrontations and Emerging Styles - 320A

Chair,

1."Raising Atlantis: Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill’s Reclamation of the Mythologized

Female Spirit" Christopher Parsons, University of South Carolina

2."Transcending Violence and Death in Medbh McGuckian’s Captain Lavender Mary E.Martin, Winthrop University

3. "Wild Boar in the Woods: The Influence of Seamus Heaney on the Poetry of Ron Rash" J. Matthew Boyleston, University of Houston

II.B – Boundaries Revealed in Drama - 320B

Chair, Richard Bizot, University of North Florida

1. "Shattering Irish Dreams: Nicola McCartney’s Heritage Charlotte Headrick,

Oregon State University

2."Wherever Motley is Worn" Nicholas Allen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

11:00 – 12:15 Paper Session III

III.A – Purely Wilde - 320A

Chair, Charlotte Headrick, Oregon State University

1."Oscar Wilde’s Opium Den as Imaginative Reason" Amanda Dora Gerding University of Nebraska-Omaha

2. " A Century Apart: The Personality Performances of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and 1990s" Lynn Ramert University of Nebraska-Omaha

3. "The Queering of Oscar Wilde and the Characters of Salome" Kim Schwab University

of Nebraska-Omaha

III.B – The Changing Face of Irish Self Perception -320B

Chair, Rory Cornish, Winthrop University

1. "The Transformation of the Irish American Public Sphere: From Liberal to

Democratic (1840-1848)" Steven M. Sams, Georgia State University

2. "Ghetto Tourism in Ireland," Michael Stephens, Johnson and Wales University-Charlotte

3. "Becoming American: The Irish in America’s Consumer Culture, 1880-1905" Christopher D. Rounds, University of South Carolina

4. "An Irish Miracle? The ‘Celtic Tiger’ and Economic Growth Revisited" Joseph

McFadden, University of St. Thomas

Lunch on your own

2:00 – 3:15 Paper Session IV

IV.A – Guilt and Repression in Joyce- 320A

Chair,

1. "The Rubrics of Guilt in James Joyce’s ‘The Sisters’" Rev. Michael A. Williams, S.J., Spring Hill College

2. " ‘The Shortest Way to Tara is Via Holyhead’: Ruminations Upon a Theme from Joyce,With Exploration of its Ethnic, Literary, and Musical Implications" Jack W. Weaver, emeritus, Winthrop University

3."Bloom’s Role in the ‘Circe’ Episode of Ulysses" Joseph Henderson, Winthrop University

IV.B – Poets’ Panel, Withers 4^th Floor Auditorium

3:30-4:45 Paper Session V

V.A – Working with Yeats- 320A

Chair, Mary E. Martin, Winthrop University

1." ‘Human, superhuman, a bird’s round eye’: Maud Gonne and the Politics of Representation" Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University

2. "That Which We Call a Rose: An Analysis of Rose Imagery in the Poetry of William

Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney" Jessica Davis, Winthrop University

3. "The Present Status of the Yeats Library and a Book of Annotations"

Wayne K. Chapman, Clemson University

V.B – All About Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin- 320B

Chair,

1. " ‘A Snake Pouring Over the Ground’: Nature and the Sacred in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin" Jefferson Holdridge, Wake Forest University

2. " ‘A Green Leaf of Language’: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s thing-poetry" Wanda Balzano, Wake Forest University

3. "Dreams and Apparitions in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s ‘The Girl Who Married the

Reindeer’" Joan Dargan, St. Lawrence University

V.C – Teaching the Irish Language: Case Studies by Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew and Jason Cairns – Withers 4^th Floor Auditorium

5:00 Theatrical Reading , Withers 4^th Floor Auditorium

7:30 Banquet (401 Withers), followed by address by Patrick Crotty (8:30)