This is a past event
Keynote Speakers
Geraint Jenkins(University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
Ged Martin(Formerly, University of Edinburgh)
Graeme Morton (University of Guelph)
Dan Mulhall(Irish European Office Director)
Panel topics include: Soviet Union; Scottish Perceptions of Union; The United Kingdom’s Impact on Language; Twentieth-Century Poetry; Irish Views on the Making of Union I and II; The European Union’s Impact on Language; Dialect I and II; North America: The State of the Unions; Law and the People in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; The Break up of Britain; Nationhood and Union 1900-1939; Union and the National Tale; Company Colonies; Twentieth-Century Literary Connections
Requests for further details should be addressed to the conference organiser:Dr Michael Brown: m.brown@abdn.ac.uk
ISAI was set up in 1995 as a formal link between universities in Scotland and Ireland. Members include the University of Aberdeen, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh, Queen's University, Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin.
3.30-4.30: Registration
James MacKay Hall
4.30-5.00: Opening
Professor Cairns Craig (Director of the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies)Dr Michael Brown (ISAI Conference Convenor) Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy (Crosscurrents Convenor) King's Conference Centre
5.00-6.30: Parallel Sessions
Session A: Soviet UnionKQF2: Catherine Gavin RoomChair: Paul Dukes (Aberdeen)
Robert Frost (Aberdeen), Poland and the Ghost of UnionMary Buckley (Cambridge), The Disintegration of the USSR: A Complex Protracted Process Ron Hill (Trinity College, Dublin), An Unbreakable Union of Free Republics
Session B: Scottish Perceptions of UnionKQF3: Carnegie Room
David Dumville (Aberdeen), The So-Called 'Union of Picts and Scots', 842: A Product of Unionist Imagination?Kathleen Midleton (Trinity College, Dublin), Protestant Unity and Scottish Immigration in Ulster, 1690-1715Cheryl Garrett (Aberdeen), The Scottish Civil War and the Dukes of Atholl, 1689-1745
Session C: The United Kingdom’s Impact on LanguageKQG3: Multimedia RoomChair: Robert Dunbar (Aberdeen)
John Kirk (Queen’s University Belfast), Does the UK have a Language Policy? Janet Muller (POBAL), UK Implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Respect of Irish and the Impact of the 2006-7 Consultation on Proposed Irish Language Legislation for NIAodan Mac Poilin (ULTACH Trust), An Infusion of British Manners’: Linguistic assimilation and the Union
Session D: Crosscurrents - Scottish and Irish FictionKQG4: City of Aberdeen RoomChair: Stephen Dornan (Aberdeen)
Adelaine Amar (Edinburgh), Memory, economy and Modernity: Maturin’s Irish National TaleMargaret Matthews (Trinity College Dublin), Scotland and Ireland in the Work of Jane AustenDan Wall (Aberdeen), Grand Napoleons of the Realm of Print: Lockhart, Scott, and 'Filthy Lucre’
7.00-9.00: Buffet
Aberdeen Art Gallery (Bus from King's College departing 18.50) Launch of the first issue of the Journal for Irish-Scottish Studies
9.00-10.00: Plenary Lecture
Ged Martin (Formerly, University of Edinburgh)Canadian Confederation: The Origins Of The Idea 1854-1864Chair: Michael Brown King’s Conference Centre
10.30-12.00: Parallel Sessions
Session A: PoetryKQF2: Catherine Gavin RoomChair: Cairns Craig (Aberdeen)
Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen), Yeats and MacDiarmidFran Brearton (Queen's University, Belfast), 'Curable Romantics'?: Alasdair Reid and Derek Mahon Peter Mackay (Queen's University, Belfast), An Guth and the Leabhar Mor: Devolved Dialogues in Scottish Gaelic and Irish Poetry
Session B: The European Union’s Impact on LanguageKQF3: Carnegie RoomChair: Barbara Fennell (Aberdeen)
Robert Phillipson (Copenhagen), The New Linguistic Imperial Order: English as an EU Lingua Franca or Lingua Frankensteinia? Dónall Ó Riagáin, TBC
Session C: Irish Views on the Making of Union IKQG3: Multimedia RoomChair: Michael Brown
Breandán Mac Suibhne (Notre Dame) The Ghost of Former Days: John Gamble (1771–1831), Uniting and the Act of UnionJonathan Wright (Queens University, Belfast), The Act of Union and the Political Development of Belfast Presbyterianism, c.1801-1832Patrick M. Geoghegan (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘The text-book of my political career': Daniel O'Connell, Ireland, and the Union, 1782-1830
Session D: Crosscurrents - Scottish and Irish Film and TelevisionKQG4: City of Aberdeen RoomChair: Dan Wall (Aberdeen)
Cristina Serén Bouzas (Amergin Research Institute of Irish Studies, Spain), Irish and Scottish Cinema: Making and Unmaking Mythology of CinemaSally Baxter (Aberdeen), Neither Here nor There: Children and Orphans in the Films of Lynne RamsayLindsay Milligan (Aberdeen), Where Have All the Lassies Gone?: An Examination of Proportionate Representation in Scotland’s Gaelic Television Programming
12.00-1.00: Lunch
James MacKay Hall
1.00-2.00: Plenary Lecture
Dan Mulhall (Irish European Office Director) Chair: Cairns Craig (Aberdeen) King’s Conference Centre
2.30- 4.00: Parallel Sessions
Session A: DialectKQF2: Catherine Gavin RoomChair: David Hewitt (Aberdeen)
Robert McColl Millar (Aberdeen), 'To bring my language near to the language of men'? Dialect and dialect use in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: some observations Janet Cruickshank (Glasgow), The Move Towards Written Standard English in Eighteenth-Centry North East Scotland John Corbett (Glasgow), Scots Project at Glasgow
Session B: North America: The State of the UnionsKQF3: Carnegie RoomChair: Rosalyn Trigger (Aberdeen)
James Kennedy (Edinburgh), ‘1867 and all that’: ‘Federalism’ in Britain and CanadaQuincy Lehr (Trinity College Dublin), The Persistence of Region in the United States: The Southern QuestionCairns Craig (Aberdeen), Irish, Scots and the California Secession
Session C: Irish Views on the Making of Union IIKQG3: Multimedia RoomChair: Michael Brown (Aberdeen)
Richard Holmes (Bristol), James Arbuckle and the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707Alison Fitzgerald (NUI, Dublin), Survival of the Fittest: Selling Luxury Goods in Post-Union Ireland
Session D: Crosscurrents - Contemporary Irish and Scottish PoetryKQG4: City of Aberdeen Room
Megan Buckley (NUI, Galway), ‘The Visionary Place, the Obstructed Moment’: Meditations on the ‘Liminal’ in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Mary O’MalleyVal Nolan (NUI, Galway), The Reception of Contemporary Scottish Poetry in Ireland: The Case of Poetry Ireland ReviewShane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen), The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
4.30-6.00: Parallel Sessions
Session A: EdgeworthKQF2: Catherine Gavin RoomChair: David Hewitt (Aberdeen)
Jeremy Smith (Glasgow) Robert Burns's Linguistic Choices Stephen Dornan (Aberdeen), Some Strange Creature: Representations of Irish Dialect in the Long Eighteenth Century Barbara Fennell (Aberdeen), Maria Edgeworth’s Linguistic ChoicesDavid Hewitt (Aberdeen), The Politics of Dialect Use in Fiction in Scotland and Ireland 1750 - 1850: a Thesis and a Hypothesis
Session B: LawKQF3: Carnegie RoomChair: Elizabeth Macknight
Sean Donlan (Limerick), Arthur Browne’s Acts of UnionJohn Bergin (Queen’s University, Belfast), Irish Catholic Lawyer-Agents and Lawyer-Lobbyists at the Inns of Court in London, 1687–1797Andrew Mackillop (Aberdeen), Scots Law and English Empire: Law and Identity in the Eastern British Empire, c.1700-1815
Session C: Break-Up of BritainKQG3: Multimedia RoomChair: Cairns Craig
Michael Gardiner (Aberdeen) Gerry Hassan (Glasgow 2020)John Osmond (Institute of Welsh Affairs)
Session D: Crosscurrents - Seamus HeaneyKQG4: City of Aberdeen RoomChair: Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Sukanya Basu (Aberdeen), Learning from Eliot? Seamus Heaney and ExemplarityMaría Elena Morado Sobrido (Amergin Research Institute of Irish Studies, Spain), Heaney slays the Linguistic Beowulf MonsterAshley Lange (Aberdeen) Seamus Heaney and James Joyce
6.15- 7.15: Plenary Lecture
Geraint Jenkins (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)'Taffy-land historians' and their own UnionChair: Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen) King’s Conference Centre
7.30: ISAI Dinner and Entertainment
Crynoch at LairhillockBook in AdvanceEntertainment
7.30: Crosscurrents Reception
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
9.00-10.30: Parallel Sessions
Session A: Nationhood and Union, 1900-1939KQF2: Catherine Gavin RoomChair: Patrick Crotty (Aberdeen)
Bob Purdie (Ruskin College, Oxford), ‘Croose London Scotties’: Scottish Nationalists in London, Irish Nationalism and the Formation of the SNPMarnie Hay (Trinity College Dublin), The 1907 Amalgamation of Sinn Féin:Unifying against the 1801 Union between Great Britain and IrelandMargery Palmer McCulloch (Glasgow), Emigrating from North Britain: The importance of Little Magazines in the Interwar Movement for Scottish Renewal
Session B: Union and the National Tale KQF3: Carnegie RoomChair: Stephen Dornan (Aberdeen)
Aaron Clayton (Binghamton), Enunciating Difference: Sydney Owenson's (extra-) National TalePenelope Cole (Colorado, Boulder), The ‘ethno-symbolic reconstruction’ of Scotland: Joanna Baillie’s The Family Legend in PerformanceYuki Yoshino (Edinburgh), Writing the Borders: Faeries and Ambivalent National Identity in Andrew Lang’s The Gold of Fairnilee
Session C: Intellectual UnionsKQG3: Multimedia RoomChair: Cairns Craig (Aberdeen)
Gavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan), A death in Aberdeen is an unheard-of-career in itself’: The Intellectual Union of Adler’s Psychoanalysis with Scottish IdeasPaul Shanks (Aberdeen), MacDiarmid and Beckett David Clark (University of A Coruña, Spain), Between Corkery and Joyce: Irish Intellectuals and Scottish Writing 1924-1932
Session D: Crosscurrents - Northern Irish Literature IKQG4: City of Aberdeen RoomChair: Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Lynne Crook (Lancaster), Comedy in the Community: Confrontation in Mary Costello’s Titanic TownKatherine Meffen (Aberdeen): Seamus Deane’s Reading in the DarkMargaret Maxwell (Aberdeen), Atalkin’ to you’self’: R. D. Laing and The Divided Self in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!
11.00-12.30: Parallel Sessions
Session A: Crosscurrents - MigrationsKQF2: Catherine Gavin RoomChair: Rosalyn Trigger (Aberdeen)
John Sherry (Ulster), ‘Weaklings Sucking at England’: A Re-assessment of Scottish Migration during the Plantation of UlsterRobert McLaughlan (Glasgow), The Mission at Home – Dawn in the DistrictsKatrin Urschel (NUI, Galway), Disrupted Identities: Irish Emigrant Poetry in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Session B: Crosscurrents - Northern Irish Literature IIKQF3: Carnegie RoomChair: Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Michela Dettori (Queen’s University, Belfast), Images of Children and Adolescents in Troubles PoetryDaniel Smith (Aberdeen), Representing the Hunger StrikeGavin T.A. Browne (Aberdeen): Louis MacNeice and Paul Muldoon
Session C: Crosscurrents - The Cultural History of MusicKQG3: Multimedia RoomChair: Daniel Smith (Aberdeen)
Emily Cullen (NUI, Galway), Functions of the Harper Bard Trope in Textual Constructions of Irish and Scottish IdentitySharon Phelan, De-Anglicizing Irish Dance: Disputing Identity
Session D: Crosscurrents - Constructions of IdentityKQG4: City of Aberdeen RoomChair: Sukanya Basu (Aberdeen)
Andrea Redmond (Ulster), Irish Traveller Women’s Identity and the ‘Metaphysical Economy’Helen O’Shea (Edinburgh), ‘Bloody Mavericks in ‘Never Never Land’? Irish Response to the Cyprus Question in the Context of British Decolonisation and UN InterventionAisling Macquarrie (Aberdeen), ‘From Bombay to Canton’: The Development of the NorthWest Company’s Trans-oceanic Activities
12.30-2.00: Lunch
James MacKay Hall
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen