Irish Studies Summer School, School of Irish Language and Literature

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Irish Studies Summer School, 2014 School of Irish Language and Literature

Irish Studies Summer School, Magee campus, University of Ulster, July-August 2014

Derry: A microcosm for Irish Studies

The University of Ulster is delighted to announce its Irish Studies Summer School to be held in Derry~Londonderry in July/August 2014. As ‘Atlantic Gateway’, ‘UK City of Culture’ (2013) and a ‘Lonely Planet’ top-ten tourist destination (2013), Derry is one of the most historic and culturally vibrant cities on the island.

Founded in the 6th Century by Colm Cille, 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. His monasteries are associated with the ‘Cathach’, one of Europe’s oldest books, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, two of the glories of Western Christianity.

Location It is also set amidst some of the most beautiful, archaeologically and culturally rich regions of Western Europe, adjacent to the Causeway Coast and Donegal and Sperrin Mountains.

The Annals of the Four Masters, a key source for Irish History, composed in north-west Ulster

Derry and global literature Derry is associated with Ireland’s major contributions to world letters; the dramatist and playwright George Farquhar, the philosopher George Berkeley and Field-Day,

Seamus Heaney

founded and directed by Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Tom Paulin and Thomas Kilroy.

‘American Gateway’ and window on Ireland’s past’ Derry became a key cock-pit for the postReformation, Tudor re-conquest of Ireland (15341603) and its Tower Museum houses the ‘Trinidad Valencera’, one of the finest Spanish Armada wrecks which has 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 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 (194042) from Lough Foyle and Admiral Dönitz, who succeeded Hitler as ‘Reichspräsident’, finally surrendered the German, North Atlantic U-boat fleet at nearby Lisahally.

Surrendered German U-boats, Lisahally

Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness, President Clinton and John Hume

‘The Troubles’ and Good Friday Agreement The Civil Rights Movement (1968) and the subsequent ‘Troubles’ effectively commenced in Derry and it provided the 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 film, history, literature, peace and conflict studies and politics. Participants will also sample the rich cultural heritage of north-east Ireland, while immersing themselves in the Irish language (one of Western Europe’s oldest vernaculars) with a week-long residency in the adjacent Donegal ‘Gaeltacht’ (Irish-speaking region). The curriculum connects the inter-related cultures, histories, languages and literatures of north-west Ulster, Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America.

Accreditation The participants will accrue credit points for the six-week course for which they will also receive a certificate from the University of Ulster. Madonna & Child, Book of Kells

Week 1 Tue 1st July 9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: How the Irish saved civilisation?

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Screening: ‘Colm Cille, Derry & Iona’

9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: The Irish Military Diaspora

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Lecture/Screening: ‘Plandáil’: The Plantation of Ulster

9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: Scotland and Nova Scotia

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Lecture/Performance: Traditional Music of Donegal and Nova Scotia

MF

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: English Conquest and Re-conquest, 1169-1603

ÉÓC

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

MCP

3.15pm-4.45pm

Screening: ’Wolfland’ (with discussion)

MCP

ÉÓC

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Reformation to Revolution, 1534-1688

BK

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

MCP

3.15pm-4.45pm

Tour: ‘Derry’s Walls’

ÉÓC

IMP

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Ireland and her Celtic Neighbours

IW

3.00pm-3.30pm

Break

3.30pm-4.30pm

Lecture: Irish Lyrical and Classical Poetry

Wed 2nd July

Thu 3rd July

Fri 4th July Independence Day Reception

LD

AÓC

Week 2 Tue 8th July 9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: The Irish Language: A gem of European Philology

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Screening: ‘Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom’

9.30am-11.00am

Workshop: The Cultural Heritage of the Foyle/Swilly Basins

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Presentation: Celtic Art and Iconography, Jim Fitzpatrick to 2000AD

9.30am-11.00am

Workshop: Songs and Sounds of Irish 1

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Workshop: Songs and Sounds of Irish 2

AÓC

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: The Irish Language: Origin, Evolution and Present State

MÓN

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

MÓN

3.15pm-4.45pm

Lecture: Irish Language – Introduction to the spoken language

MÓN

LC

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: The Great Irish Sagas

MF

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

LC

3.15pm-4.45pm

Lecture: The Irish Literary Tradition, 1534-1800

NMC

CNB

1.30pm-3.00pm

Tutorial: Irish– Basic Conversation

CMS

3.00pm-3.30pm

Break

3.30pm-4.30pm

Tutorial: Irish– Basic Conversation

Wed 9th July

Thu 10th July

Fri 11th July Tour of O’Neill Lordship (ÉÓC/MÓN)

CNB

CMS

Week 3 Tue 15th July 9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: The Oxford History of the Irish Book Project

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Lecture: Irish Scribes and their Manuscripts

ÉÓC

NMC

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Irish Literature in English – Spenser to Heaney

ÉÓC

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

3.15pm-4.45pm

Walking Tour/Museum Visit: Derry’s Walls/Spanish Armada Exhibition

ÉÓC

1.00pm-5.00pm

Lecture: The Irish Famine and its Legacy, including a visit to Doagh Famine Village

ÉÓC

1.30pm-3.00pm

Tutorial: Irish Tutorial 3

CMS

3.00pm-3.30pm

Break

3.30pm-4.30pm

Lecture/Recital: Traditional Music and Song

Wed 16th July Free

Thur 17th July 9.30am-11.00am

Discussion: The Gaelic Athletic Association

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Screening: The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final, 2013

Fri 18th July Free Weekend

MÓN

MÓN

PMG

Week 4 Tue 22nd July 9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: The Irish Military Diaspora: The Reformation to the American Civil War

ÉÓC

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Screening: ‘The Siege of Vienna’ (1683)

MCP

9.30am-11.00am

The Great War, 1914-18

Guest

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Screening: ‘Strumpet City’

MCP

9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: The Ordnance Survey

LC

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Screenings: Maurice Fitzpatrick, ‘Translations’ (with discussion)

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to America

DMR

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

3.15pm-4.45pm

Visit: Monreagh Ulster-Scots Heritage Centre

MCP

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Rising, Revolution and Independence, 1916-23

ÉÓC

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

3.15pm-4.45pm

Film: ‘The Wind than Shakes the Barley’ (with discussion)

MCP

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Irish Place-names

NC

3.00pm-3.30pm

Break

3.30pm-4.30pm

Screening: Brian Friel’s Translations (with discussion)

Wed 23rd July

Thu 24th July

Fri 25th July Fishing-Trip (weather permitting)

Guest

ÉÓC

Week 5

Week 5

Tue 29th July 9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: ‘The Troubles’, 1968-1998

ÉÓC

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Film: ‘Five Minutes of Heaven’ (with discussion)

MCP

9.30am-11.00am

Lecture: Flags, Marching, Historical Memory: the Haas Talks

PMD

11.00am-11.15am

Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Workshop: The Legacy of the Troubles

PMD

9.30am-11.00am

Derry: UK City of Culture 2013

MCP

11.00am-11.15am

Break

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: ‘The Troubles’, 1968-1998

MCP

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

3.15pm-4.45pm

Film: ‘Hunger’ (with discussion)

MCP

1.30pm-3.00pm

Lecture: Peace Process to Good Friday Agreement

MCP

3.00pm-3.15pm

Break

3.15pm-4.45pm

Talk/Visit: Pat Finucane Centre

Guest

1.00pm-5.00pm

Trip: Belfast and Titanic Quarter (Students based on Belfast Campus on this day)

MCP

Wed 30th July

Thu 31st July

11.15am-12.30pm

Fri 1st August Free Weekend (Dublin Trip)

Week 6 Gaeltacht Residential (Sun 3 August - Sat 9 August 2014) Unique experience Week 6 offers participants a unique immersion education in an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal, amidst some of Ireland’s finest scenery and amenities. The course shows Irish as a vibrant language and culture, relevant to all aspects of modern life. Additional course information available at: www.gael-linn.ie.

Language classes This seven-day, conversation-focused course caters for all levels of ability. Classes run from 9.45 am -3.00 pm (concluding 1.00 pm on Sat and Sun).

Evening activities A varied evening program including lectures, poetry-readings, table-quiz, Irish dancing - students will also be treated to guided tours and walks in this area of outstanding natural beauty.

Accommodation Students will stay in ‘Teach Campbell’, a family-run Bed and Breakfast, which provides high-quality accommodation at a reasonable cost (www.teac-campbell.com).

Student Support Students will be accompanied by at least one member of staff from the University of Ulster who will also be in residence. The summer school formally ends with a presentation dinner and Céilí Mór (the big céilí) on the Friday night.

MEET THE TEAM: 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 History and Heritage Innovator at the Holywell Trust and Heritage Officer for the Foyle Civic Trust. In addition he has worked for nearly twenty years as a TV producer for BBC, UTV , Channel 4 and RTÉ.

Niall Comer, a Lecturer in Irish and a member

of the Northern Ireland languages Council, was formerly President of Comhaltas UIadh (2008) and editor of ‘An tUltach’, one of Ireland’s leading Irishlanguage journals. His major research interests include Irish- language lexicography and place-lore.

Fionntan De Brún has lectured at Ulster since

2006. His major research interests are in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish Literature, ‘The Irish Revival’, Cultural History, Film and Creative Writing.

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).

Maxim Fomin joined the University in 2003, and

has studied at Moscow State and University College Cork. His main teaching and research interests are in early Irish literature, folklore, Celto-Slavic and Irish-Indian parallels, medieval narrative literature, comparative mythology and historical poetics, comparative linguistics and digitization.

Art Hughes, a Reader in Irish at Ulster, recently

spent a year as visiting professor and senior Fulbright Scholar at New York University. His major research interests are in Old Irish to Modern Irish, pan-Gaelic dialects and phonetics and Old Irish to Modern Irish literature.

Billy Kelly, a native of Derry and a graduate of

Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University, Billy’s research interests are in early modern Irish and British History. He is general editor of the Ulster and Scotland Series (Four Courts Press) and managing editor of the ‘Commentarius Rinuccianus’, a Hiberno-Latin account of the Papal Nuncio’s embassy in Ireland, 1645-9.

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 also compiled a catalogue of the Irish manuscripts at the Huntington Library, California and completed his monograph on the Irish poet/scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin. His research interests include the Irish manuscripts tradition and Classical and Early Modern Irish, dialects and modern Irish literature.

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 Ireland Canada University Foundation’s visiting Professor at St.

Michael’s College, University of Toronto.

Iain MacPherson having attended the universities of Alberta, Calgary & Saint Francis Xavier (Canada), and taught at Sabhal Mór Ostaig/ University of the Highlands & Islands (Scotland), Iain joined the university in 2006. His research involves close textual analysis of the song-poem enactments of ScottishGaelic emigration/immigration tradition.

Donald Mac Raild is Professor of History

at Ulster, having previously held chairs at the Northumbria University (England) and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Don has several overlapping fields of research and teaching expertise and interest, including the Irish in Britain and the wider British World.

Conal Mac Seáin received his BA and M.Res

in Irish Language and Literature from the University of Ulster and is presently completing a Phd on Énrí Ó Muigheasa, one of Ulster’s leading Irish-language scholars.

Philip McDermott graduated with his PhD from Ulster (2008) and joined the faculty in 2012. His research focuses on the relationship between the state and minority groups, especially linguistic minorities. He has a specific interest in the perception of migrant languages in public places and the ways that government and communities deal with linguistic diversity. Caitlín Ní Bhroin is a native-speaker of Irish

from Machaire Rabhartaigh in the Donegal Gaeltacht. After working with various Irish language movements on both sides of the Irish border, she returned to third level education, completing her BA and M.Res at Ulster. She is presently completing her PhD on the Irish language scholar Risteárd Ó Glaiscne.

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 and the Royal Irish Academy, he has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Notre Dame (US) and the Saarland (Germany). He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Irish Language and Literature.

Ailbhe Ó Corráin is Professor of Irish at Ulster

and Director of the Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute. He taught at the Universities of Bonn (Germany) and Uppsala (Sweden). He is editor of Studia Celtica Upsaliensia, Vice-President of Societas Celtologica Nordica and a former president of the European Society for Irish Studies. A Docent of the University of Uppsala since 1992, he was appointed Visiting Professor there in 1997.

Malachy Ó Néill is Head of the School of Irish

Language and Literature at Ulster. An award-winning teacher and passionate advocate of the Irish language, Dr Ó Néill has delivered guest-lectures at Freiburg, Notre Dame and New York Universities.

Marie-Claire Peters received her Ph.D from

Ulster in 2012. She co-edited The Flight of the Earls/ Imeacht na nIarlaí (2010) with Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha and Dr David Finnegan. This was named a BBC History Magazine ‘Book of the Year’ for 2011. She currently works as a researcher and educational facilitator for the Holywell Trust and also lectures at Ulster.

Iwan Wmffre Before joining the University in

2006, Iwan held lecturing and research positions at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (2003– 05), the National University of Ireland, Galway (1999–2001) and the Welsh Dialect Survey of the University of Wales (1991–97). His research and teaching specialisms include the Brittonic languages (Welsh, Breton, Cornish) and the Gaelic languages. Other interests include the modern histories of Celtic countries and regions, societal linguistics, wartime Brittany, Celtic literary men and the Irish Revival.e.mail: [email protected]

Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha tel: 028 7137 5257 mobile: 078 9630 6366 e.mail: [email protected] Mrs Ros O’ Hagan tel: 028 71675277 mobile: 07921789445 e.mail: [email protected] School of Irish Language and Literature Magee campus, University of Ulster Northland Road, Derry BT 48 7JL Northern Ireland