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Irish StudiesSummer School 2018

School of Arts and HumanitiesMagee campus, Ulster University

June - August 2018

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Irish Studies Summer School, Ulster UniversityJune-August 2018Ulster University is delighted to announce its fifth annual Irish Studies Summer School.

LocationIt is set in three of Ireland’s major cities and in some of the most beautiful and culturally rich regions of Western Europe, adjacent to the Causeway Coast and the Donegal and Sperrin Mountains. Regular flights to London (via Derry and Belfast) and from Dublin will enable students to visit most of Europe’s great capital cities during their stay with us.

The Donegal GaeltachtWeek 6 offers participants a unique Irish Language immersion in Gaoth Dobhair, a vibrant, Irish-speaking community, set in some of the finest scenery and amenities in Europe.

Derry: A microcosm for Irish StudiesAs ‘Atlantic Gateway’, ‘UK City of Culture’ (2013) and a ‘Lonely Planet’ top-ten tourist destination

(2013), Derry (weeks 2 - 5) is one of the most historic and culturally vibrant cities in these islands.Founded in the 6th Century, and associated with Colmcille, one of Ireland’s three patron saints, it is the mother-house of the great Columban monastic confederacy which blazed the trail for Irish involvement in the preservation of European Christianity. It is also the longest continually inhabited city on the island.

Derry and global literatureThe City is also associated with Ireland’s major contributions to world letters: the Book of Kells, the ‘Cathach’ of Colmcille, the plays of George Farquhar, the philosophical tracts of George Berkeley and the writings of the Field-Day circle, founded and directed by Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Tom Paulin and Thomas Kilroy.

Seamus Heaney

The Annals of the Four Masters, a key source for Irish History, were

compiled in west Ulster

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‘American Gateway’ and window on Ireland’s pastDerry 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 sieges in Irish and British History. Derry is also the ‘Atlantic Gateway’, through which millions of Irish men and women would make their voyage to the ‘Land of Caanan’ (America) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Derry and World War IIThe 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.

‘The Troubles’ and Good Friday AgreementThe Civil Rights Movement (1968) and ‘The Troubles’ effectively commenced in Derry and it provided the

Surrendered German U-boats, Lisahally


AccreditationThe participants will accrue credit points for the six-week course for which they will also receive a certificate from Ulster University.

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 ProgrammeOur 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.

Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness, President Clinton and John Hume

Madonna & Child,

Book of Kells

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Monday 25 June

Tuesday 26 June

Wednesday 27 June

Thursday 28 June

Friday 29 June

Week 1

7 - 10:00am

Flights arriving in from various USA airports to Dublin airport. Meet & Greet at Yellow Sculpture, near food court of Terminal 2.(Cell Phone +447921 789445 or [email protected])

2 - 5pm Rest period

12:00 Lunch 7 - 8pm Pizza Hour

1:30 - 2:00pm Check in to Dublin accommodation 8pm - Free evening

8:30am Buffet Breakfast 2 - 7pm Accompanied visits to National Museum of 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

8:30am Buffet Breakfast 2.30pm Depart for Belfast and check-in

9:30am Sight seeing tour of Dublin (by bus) 4pm Sight-seeing tour of Belfast

1pm Lunch 7pm Group dinner

8:30am Buffet breakfast 1:30pm Titanic Centre

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

9:30am Tea and scones, followed by induction, library/campus tour and student registration (Ros and Richard) 6 - 8pm Mayor’s Reception in Guildhall

1pm Lunch 8pm - Free evening

2 - 4pm Walking tour of Derry’s Walls (with Éamonn )

Long weekend to settle into the student village, go food shopping and explore the citySat 30 June - Mon 2 July

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Week 2 Tuesday 3 July

9:30 - 11am

Lecture: ‘The Great Irish Sagas’Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Gaelic League and Irish Revival’

Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD007

11am Break 3pm Walk over to the playing fields

11:15am-12:30pm

Seminar: ‘The Great Irish Sagas’ Dr Nioclás Mac Cathmhaoil - Room: MD012

3:15 - 4:45pm

Workshop: Gaelic games – Hurling and Camogie Dr Neil Comer

Wednesday 4 July9:30 - 11am

Lecture: ‘Irish scribes and their manuscripts’ Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in English: from Spenser to Yeats 1’

Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007

11am Break 3pm Break

11:15am- 12:30pm

Seminar: ‘Irish scribes and their manuscripts’Dr Peadar Mac Gabhann - Room: MD012

3:15 - 4.45pm

Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in English: from Spenser to Yeats 2’ Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007

Thursday 5 July9:30 - 11am

Lecture: ‘Dinnsheanchas: Irish Place-names’Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Irish Diaspora: local perspectives, 1870-1920’

Dr Andrew Maguire - Room: MD007


11:15am - 12:30pm

Screening: ‘Mapping Ulster’Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012

3:30 - 4:30pm

Seminar: ‘The Irish Diaspora: local perspectives, 1870-1920’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

9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘The Ulster Plantation’Dr Marie-Claire Peters - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘From Reformation to Revolution, 1534-1688’

Dr Billy Kelly - Room: MD007

11am Break 3 - 3:15pm Break

11:15am - 12:30pm

Screening: ‘Wolfland’Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 3:15 - 5pm Lecture: ‘Revival and Rebellion, 1892-1916’

Dr Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh - Room MD007

Wednesday 11 July

9:30 -11amLecture: ‘Ireland from Reformation to American Civil War’Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012

1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Gaelic Athletic Association in Ulster’Ryan Feeney - Room: MD007

11 - 11:15am Break 3 - 3:15pm Break

11:15am - 12:30pm

Seminar: Class Discussion Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD012 3:15 - 5 pm Workshop: ‘Traditional Irish Music’

Dr Liz Doherty: Recital Room in Foyle Arts Building

Thursday 12 July

9:30am - 1pm

Excursion to Doagh Famine Village with Ros(admission, transport and lunch included) 2 - 4pm Irish arms/costume display

Tomás Ó Brógáin - The Great Hall

Friday 13 July

9am – 6pm Excursion to Dunluce Castle, Giant’s Causeway and Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge – admission tickets and transport included(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’ Dr Liam Campbell - Room: MD012

1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Irish Military Diaspora, 1534-1918’Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room: MD007


11:15am- 12:30pm

Screening: ‘Translations’ Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012

3:15 - 4:45pm

Lecture: ‘Dorothy Grace-Hartnett: Rabble-rouser, Author and Fascist’ Dr James Loughlin - Room: MD007

Wednesday 18 July

9:30 -11amLecture: ‘WWI in Nationalist Memory’Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘Irishmen in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39’

Dr Emmet O’Connor - Room: MD007


11:15am-12:30pm

Lecture: ‘WWI in Unionist Memory’ Pauline Mitchell - Room: MD012 3:15 - 5pm Lecture: ‘Revolutionary Ireland ’

Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha - Room MA007

Thursday 19 July

9:30am Lecture: ‘Independent Ireland’Dr Philip McDermott - Room MA007 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘The Troubles, 1968-98’

Marie-Claire Peters - Room MA007

11am Break 3:30 - 5pm Film: ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’11:15 am - 12:30pm

Screening: ‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’

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

9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘The Gaelic League’Dr Neil Comer - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm

Workshop: ‘The Troubles and Post -Agreement Fiction’Garbhan Downey - Room: MD007


11:15am - 12:30pm

Lecture: ‘Irish Literature in Irish, 1895-2018’Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha Room-MD012

3:15 - 4:45pm

Walking Tour of ‘The Bogside’(weather permitting)

Wednesday 25 July

9:30 -11amLecture: ‘Irish Writers since Yeats 1’ Dr Loredana Salis - Room: MD007 1:30 - 3pm Workshop: ‘The Far Side of Revenge I’

Jim Keys - Room: The Great Hall


11:15am - 12:30pm

Lecture: ‘Irish Writers since Yeats 2’ Dr Loredana Salis - Room: MD007

3:15 - 4:45pm Workshop: ‘The Far Side of Revenge II’ Jim Keys - Room: The Great Hall

Thursday 26 July

9:30 - 11am Lecture: ‘Irish Language and Society’Dr Malachy Ó Néill - Room: MD012 1:30 - 3pm Lecture: ‘Irish Drama’

Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick - Room: The Great Hall


11:15am - 12:30

Class DiscussionDr Malachy Ó Néill - Room: MD012 3:15 - 4:30pm Seminar: ‘Irish Drama and Practice’

Dr Matt Jennings - Room: The Great Hall

Friday 27 July - Awards’ Dinner, Bishop’s Gate Hotel at 7pmFree 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 JulyDepart Duncreggan at 11am for check-in at 1pm in Teach Campbell, Gaoth Dobhair

Dé Domhnaigh 29 Iúil / Sunday 29 July9.30am - 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 July9.30am - 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 July9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge

1pm Lón / Lunch


7.30pm - 9.30pm Ceol, Filíocht & Stair / Music, Poetry & History (presentation)

9.30pm - 11pm Céilí / Dancing in Teach Jack (optional)

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Dé Céadaoin 1 Lúnasa / Wednesday 1 August9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge

1pm Lón / Lunch


3.30pm Turas go Gabhla / Trip to Gola Island (optional) *€10 extra

Déardaoin 2 Lúnasa / Thursday 2 August9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge

1pm Lón / Lunch


7.30pm - 9.30pm Gearóidín Bhreathnach / Traditional Irish singing in the Acadamh

Dé hAoine 3 Lúnasa / Friday 3 August9.30am - 1pm Ranganna Gaeilge

1pm Lón / Lunch


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


Liam Campbell holds a BA in Theology and Philosophy (NUI, Maynooth), an MA in Environmental Science (Queen’s) and a PhD in Cultural Heritage from Ulster. He is Cultural Officer at the Lough Neagh Landscape Partnership. In addition he has

worked for nearly twenty years as a TV producer for BBC, UTV, Channel 4 and RTÉ.

Niall Comer is a Lecturer in Irish at Ulster and a member of the Northern Ireland Languages Council. President of Conradh na Gaeilge, formerly President of Comhaltas UIadh (2008) and editor of ‘An tUltach’, one of Ireland’s leading Irish-Language

journals, his major research interests include Irish-language lexicography and place-lore.

Liz Doherty is an internationally-acclaimed fiddle player, educator and consultant in the traditional arts. A founder-member and performer with bands such as

‘Nomos’ and ‘Fiddlesticks’, ‘The Bumblebees’, ‘String Sisters’ and ‘Blazin’ Fiddles’, she has also performed with ‘Riverdance – The Show’. Before coming to Ulster, Liz taught at Cape Breton University (Canada) and Marshall University (US).

Garbhan Downey is a Derry-born novelist who has published eight critically-acclaimed works of fiction. He has also contributed stories to several anthologies of Irish crime fiction and edits

Desmond Doherty’s new thriller series ‘Valberg’ for Guildhall Press. A former newspaper editor 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.

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Ryan Feeney is the Head of Public Engagement at Queen’s University Belfast, responsible for leading the university’s civic, political and community engagement work. He is also an independent member of the Policing Board appointed to the

role by the Minister for Justice (May 2011). Before 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 work of the Association. From 2014 to 2016 he was a Visiting Professor of Governance and Policy at Ulster University.

Lisa Fitzpatrick studied at Trinity College Dublin and UCD, completing her PhD at 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

the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL, 2014); Warwick Politics and Performance Network (2012), and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora project in Toronto (2011).

She has recently published in The Irish University Review (2015), Contemporary Theatre Review (2013) and edited collections on Performing Feminisms in Contemporary Ireland and the Performance of Violence (2011).

Billy Kelly is a native of Derry and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University. He research interests are in early modern Irish and British History. He is general editor of the Ulster and Scotland Series (Four Courts Press) .


Andrew Maguire holds a BA Hons and PG Diploma in Irish History & Politics, a Masters in Research (History) and a PhD in Irish History/Diaspora Politics from Ulster. He is currently a temporary lecturer at Ulster in Qualitative Research and has published several articles on the

Irish diaspora nationalist politics.

Nioclas Mac Cathmhaoil completed his PhD at Ulster (2010) and served as a Fulbright Professor at UC Berkeley in 2012-3. During this sojourn, he completed his monograph on the Irish poet/scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin. His research interests include the Irish manuscript

tradition, Classical and Early Modern Irish, dialects and modern Irish literature.

James Loughlin is Reader in History at Ulster University and was previously a Research Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. His specialisms range widely over Irish and British history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They

include the Home Rule question in the late Victorian era; the nature of British identity and how it has been interpreted by the Ulster Unionist community; the Northern Ireland problem in the modern period; and, most recently, the British monarchy and Ireland. These research interests have found expression in the following publications: Gladstone, Home and the Ulster Question, 1882-92 (Dublin, 1986); Ulster Unionism and British National identity Since 1885 (London, 1995); The Ulster Question Since 1945 (Basingstoke, 1998; 2nd edition, 2004); The British Monarchy and Ireland: 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2007; revised ed., 2011).


Peadar Mac Gabhann joined the university in 2000, having been previously employed at Notre Dame. Before moving to the United States, Peadar held the position of Lecturer in Celtic at the University of Bonn. He has

recently served as the Ireland-Canada University Foundation’s Visiting Professor at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. He has published extensively on late medieval and early modern Irish literature.

Pauline Gardiner received 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.

Tomás Ó Brógáin holds a BA Hons in Irish History and Politics from Ulster, and is currently completing his MRes. Tomás also runs Oireas Historical Services, which specialises in 17th Century warfare displays and event

organisation. He is also on the Heritage Councils Heritage in Schools expert panel and is the resident cartographer for History Ireland and Word Well books. He is also a guest book reviewer for The Wild Geese web site in the US and development officer for Letterkenny, Community and Heritage group (LHCG).


Éamonn Ó Ciardha has published books and articles on law and order, popular politics, cultural history, the outlaw, and the use of Irish-language sources for Irish History. Formerly a research assistant 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), the University of Vienna (Austria) and Framingham State University (USA). He is a Senior Lecturer in Irish Literature and History at Ulster.

Emmet O’Connor completed an MA in UCG in 1979 and a PhD at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1984. Since 1985 he has lectured at Ulster. Between 1983 and 2001, he co-edited Saothar, and is an honorary president of the Irish

Labour History Society. He has published widely on labour history, including A Labour History of Ireland, 1824-2000 (UCD Press, 2011), Derry Labour in the Age of Agitation, 1889-1923 (Four Courts, 2014) and the definitive biography of Jim Larkin (UCD, 2015).

Malachy Ó Néill is Provost of Magee campus. An award-winning teacher and passionate advocate for Irish, Dr Ó Néill has delivered guest-lectures at Freiburg, Notre Dame and New York Universities.

Pádraig Ó Tiarnaigh holds BA and MRes degrees from Ulster and recently completed his PhD thesis on the diaries of Seán Ó hEochaidh, the Teelin-born folklorist and collector. Pádraig is Language Development Officer with Conradh na Gaeilge.

Ros O’Hagan is a graduate of Ulster University in Business Administration and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Ros is responsible for Summer School administration and will be one of the first people you will meet when you land on Irish soil.


Marie-Claire Peters 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.

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Irish Studies Summer School 2018 - acisweb.org Studies Summer School 2018 3 ‘American Gateway’ and window on Ireland’s past Derry became a cock-pit for the post-Reformation,