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The Irish in New England is a three-day conference of seventeen lectures spanning the early eighteenth century to about the middle of the twentieth. Beginning with issues of immigration and the Irish diaspora, the program addresses the work typically associated with foreign-born Irish families: railroad building, domestic service, and groundskeeping. Other sessions deal with Irish-born merchants and mariners; Revolutionary-period Irish loyalty and law enforcement; Irish suffrage; and folklore and memory. The conference concludes with a session on the growth of Irish neighborhoods and charitable societies, and the work of Irish craftsmen, artists, and entertainers.
The Seminar is designed for educators, historians, genealogists, collectors, authors, librarians, and museum curators; students and the general public are cordially invited to attend. A selected and edited transcript of this conference will appear as the 2012 Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, to be issued about two years after the conference. Past Seminar Proceedings and publications by program speakers will be available at the conference.
The thirty-seventh annual meeting in the Dublin Seminar series, The Irish in New England will take place on the weekend of June 22 through 24, 2012, at Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts. The lecture program will begin at 7:00 P.M. on Friday evening and will continue until approximately 11:30 A.M. on Sunday. The weekend includes an optional program on Irish genealogy on Friday afternoon, 2:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M., and a concert of Irish songs on Saturday evening. Lunch and dinner will be provided on Saturday, June 23; coffee and doughnuts will be served each morning. Dormitory accommodations will be available at the campus of Eaglebrook School beginning Friday afternoon.
LECTURE PROGRAM
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22
OPTIONAL SESSION ON IRISH GENEALOGY
Marie Daley and Judith Lucey, New England Historic Genealogical Society:
A Virtual Way to Tipperary: Researching Irish Ancestors Online
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 22
IMMIGRATION ROUTES
Hannah M. Lane, Mount Allison University:
The Irish in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, and Calais and Baring, Maine, 1840 to 1871
Donald R. Friary, Colonial Society of Massachusetts:
New Ireland to New England: The McCormick Family’s Peregrinations from Ulster to New Brunswick to the Boston States, 1823 to 1935
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 23
WORK
Katheryn Viens, Boston University and Massachusetts Historical Society:
Irish Labor Unrest on the Early Massachusetts Railroads
Margaret Lynch-Brennan, Independent Scholar:
The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service, 1840 to 1930
John F. Quinn, Salve Regina University:
Irish Influence in Gilded Age Newport
IRISH AS MERCHANTS AND MARINERS
Richard M. Candee, Boston University, and Louise P. Richardson, Strawbery Banke Museum:
Starting Over at Fifty: A Northern Ireland Merchant’s Move to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1796
Frederic C. Detwiller, New England Landmarks:
Magee Family Mariners, circa 1750 to 1820
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23
LOYALTY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND SUFFRAGE
Peter Gilmore, Carlow University:
“An Enemy to this country”: Rev. John Houston and Revolutionary
Culture War among New Hampshire’s Irish Presbyterians
J. L. Bell, Boston1775.net:
Wemms et al.: The Enlisted Men at the Boston Massacre
Robert William Hayman, Providence College:
Foreign-born Irish Suffrage in Rhode Island, 1840 to 1890
FOLKLORE AND IRISH MEMORY
Jonathan Keljik, George Washington University:
Irish Immigrant Families in New England and Ethnic Inheritance
Scott Molloy, University of RhodeIsland:
Keeping Alive the Memory of John Gorden
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23
CONCERT
Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee, Castlebay Music: Irish Music of Maine
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 24
IRISH NEIGHBORHOODS, IRISH GENEROSITY
Catherine B. Shannon, CharitableIrish Society:
“With Good Will Doing Service”: Highlights in the History of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston
Patricia J. Fanning, Bridgewater State University: The Greening of Norwood:
Irish Migration and Life in a Massachusetts Town
CRAFTSMEN, ARTISTS, AND ENTERTAINERS
Gerald W. R. Ward, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Faces and Makers:
The Irish Presence in Eighteenth-Century Boston Furniture and Silver
Jack Larkin, American Antiquarian Society:
D. C. Johnston’s Irish and Catholic Background
Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar:
John Brenon: An Eighteenth-Century Irish Showman
Register for this conference online or download a registration form at http://www.historic-deerfield.org/Dublin-seminar . Reservations are limited and will be accepted in the order received and must arrive on or before June 10, 2012. Registrants may request complimentary lecture abstracts through e-mail. Advance registrations are refundable, less $10 handling, if returned before June 10, 2012. For information and phone reservations contact Julie Orvis Marcinkiewicz at 413-775-7179 or events@historic-deerfield.org.
Past seminar topics and a current list of publications for sale may be consulted at the conference website, www.dublinseminar.org.
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