On February 18–19, Irish Studies will host a symposium commemorating the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and recognizing the enduring relevance of that tragic day. The program will feature a conference with speakers including political scientist and historian Niall Ó Dochartaigh, public historian Margo Shea, and author Julieann Campbell, whose uncle Jackie Duddy (age 17) was one of the 13 unarmed Catholic civilians killed by a British paratrooper unit in Derry on January 30, 1972. With events in Devlin Hall and Connolly House, the symposium will also feature two film screenings. Please visit the Irish Studies website to register.
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Professor James Kelly, the spring Burns Visiting Scholar, comes to BC from Dublin City University, where he was head of the School of History and Geography. The author, most recently of Food Rioting in Ireland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, is a prominent historian of Irish politics and society from 1660–1860. He has served as the editor of volume three of the Cambridge History of Ireland, and as president of the Irish Historical Society. His Burns lecture, “Satirical Fun: Irish Single Sheet Caricature in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries,” will take place at 5:30 p.m. on March 17 at the Burns Library.
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Sullivan Chair Guy Beiner edited a new volume titled Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918–1919, which was published by Oxford University Press in the U.K. in December and will be available for sale in the U.S. in March. Beiner, a pioneer in the field of memory studies, had long been interested in how the Great Flu came to be overshadowed in public memory by the Great War. His project has acquired new relevance during Covid-19, offering a historical perspective on how the current pandemic may eventually be recalled.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Autoportrait), 2009
© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
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On January 31, Boston College’s McMullen Museum celebrated the opening of a career-spanning exhibition of work by renowned British documentary photographer Martin Parr. Cosponsored by the Irish Studies Program, the exhibition’s core is a selection of Parr’s Irish photographs, which document Ireland’s radical evolution over the last four decades.
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February 24, 4:00–7:00 p.m., Connolly House
Working-class studies scholar and founder of UCD Decolonial Platform Dr. Emma Penney will give a lecture on poetry’s role in working-class communities in Dublin.
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February 25–26, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., McMullen Museum and Connolly House
The fifth annual Comhfhios conference will convene Irish Studies graduate students from around the world for panels and roundtables related to this year’s theme, “Other Irelands.”
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March 24, 4:00–8:00 p.m., Connolly House
Jill C. Bender, associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will give a talk titled “Silent Voices: Irish Women, Assisted Emigration, and the British Empire.”
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April 6, 7:00 p.m., Gasson Hall 100
Acclaimed author Kevin Barry returns to BC to give a Lowell Humanities Lecture, “Writing the West: The Influence of Place, Dialect, and Hauntedness in the Fiction of Kevin Barry.”
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April 6–9, 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Connolly House
The sixth biannual Flann O’Brien Conference, dedicated to the study of the life and work of the Irish novelist and playwright, will focus on the theme “Flannagain: in Far Amurikey.”
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April 21, 4:30–6:30 p.m., Connolly House
Clair Wills, the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, will deliver a lecture titled “Telling Tales: An Irish Family and Unmarried Motherhood.”
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April 23, 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m., Devlin Hall and the Heights Room
Featuring a keynote conversation with former Irish President and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change Mary Robinson, this conference explores the question of ecological hospitality.
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Margaret O’Callaghan Visit
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April 27, 4:00 p.m., Connolly House
As part of an ongoing exchange between Queens University in Belfast and BC Irish Studies, QUB History Professor Margaret O’Callaghan will give a talk titled “The Politics of Commemoration in the Decade of Centenaries.”
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The Irish History Seminar Series returns to Connolly House this semester with three presentations ranging from the medieval to the contemporary. The seminars will take place on Mondays from 4:00–6:00 p.m. at Connolly House.
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Cosponsored by the Burns Library’s Irish Music Archives and the Center for Irish Programs, the Gaelic Roots Series returns this spring with a lineup including master uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan on February 17, an event honoring the late Seán Ó Riada and Ceoltóirí Chualann on March 31, and fiddler Oisín McAuley on April 21.
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A new blog showcases the Irish Music Archives’ varied traditional music collections, with articles, music, information about library holdings, links to campus events, and more. A companion to the Burns Library blog, the blog will feature posts by library staff and guests.
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