EIGHTH IRISH-AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE 1995
10-13 July 1995
St John Fisher College
University of Tasmania
Hobart
Convenors:
Richard Davis Michael Roe
Jennifer Livett Hugo McCann
MONDAY, 10 JULY 1995:
9.00 - 9.45am Registration and Coffee: St John Fisher
College
9.45 - 10.45am General welcome
Brian Walker (Director
Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast)
Changes in Irish Identity, Past and Present
10.45 - 11.10 Coffee
11.10 - 12.30
John Molony, Thomas Davis: Irish Romantic Realist
David Fitzpatrick, The failure: Representations of
the Famine in letters from Ireland to Australia
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2.45pm FORMAL OPENING University of Tasmania Centre
Theatre 2
The Vice-Chancellor's Welcome to Delegates
Keynote Address: Oliver MacDonagh:O'Connell and Parnell
2.45 - 3.10 Tea
3.10 - 5.10
Bob Reece, The Mixture and Probable Cross of Breeds: The
Origin of Irish Transportation to New South Wales
Jennifer Harrison, Wellington, Whiteboys and the
Brampton Men
Frank Molloy, The Exile of Erin: Irish Sentiments
with Colonial Appeal
Alternative Session
Madge Mitton, Some Strange Diseases: Trollope and the Famine
Frances Devlin, Glass Sound and Fury:
Signifying Massacres: O'Casey's,
Friel's and Davis's Responses
to acts of colonial oppression
Deborah O'Donnell, Oirfidigh in Australia:
Revival or Rebirth of Traditional Irish Musicians
EVENING VISIT
Meal at Parliament House - Welcome by the Hon. Fran Bladel, MHA
TUESDAY, 11 JULY 1995:
9.15 - 10.35am
James Griffin, Daniel Mannix in the Australian
Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 10:
Revisionism or Reality?
Hugh Laracy French Connection: Ireland,
New Zealand and its Freres Marists
10.35 - 11.00am Coffee
11.00 - 1.00pm
Trevor McClaughlin Vulnerable Irish Women in Mid-19th
Century Australia
Robin Haines Workhouse to Gangplank: The Mobilisation
of Irish Pauper Women and Girls
Bound for Australia in the Mid-19th Century
Pauline Rule We Feel Very Lonesome Here Without
a Brother in a Foreign Land:
Alternative Session
John Winter George Moore: 'The Condition of Irishness
and the Condition of Englishness'
Hugo McCann Governing the Tongue: a Celebration of
the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Cassandra Fusco Female Reconstruction of Irish Families
in Colonial Victoria
Brian Friel's Translations
1.00pm - 2.00pm Lunch
2.00 - 3.20pm
Chris Eipper The Virgin, the Visionary and the
Atheistic Ethnographer: Anthropological
Enquiry in the Light of Irish Apparitions.
Lyndon Fraser Crossings: The Structure of Catholic Irish
Migration to 19th Century Christchurch
Alternative Session
Paul Steele Hurt into Poetry in Contemporary Ireland
Lindsay Johnston Was James Joyce the Father of the
Architecture of Deconstruction?
3.20 - 3.40pm Tea
3.40 - 5.00pm
Philip Bull Irish Land and Australian Native Title
Martin Cheevers The Decline of the Clerical-Nationalist
Governing Consensus in Ireland.
Alternative Session
Albert Moran National Identity, Broadcasting and
Television Drama RTE's Drama Glenroe
Paul Ryder Cycles, Bicycles and Boxes: Morphology and
Cosmic Irony in Flann O'Brien's The Third
Policeman
8.00pm Conference Dinner
(Speaker: James Griffin, 'Those Enduring
Young Charms -- A Melologue')
WEDNESDAY, 12 JULY 1995
9.15 - 10.35am
Senia Paseta Women and the Irish University Question, 1879-1909
Rebecca Pelan Writing, Gender and Ideology in Contemporary Ireland
Alternative Session
The Personal Wealth of the Irish in South
Australia just prior to World War I
Deborah Edward The Catholic Family and the Formation of
Sydney Suburban Parishes
10.35 - 11.00am Coffee
11.00am - 1.00pm
Ruan O'Donnell Importing the Revolution: Defenders and
United Irishmen in New South Wales,
1798 - 1808
Colm Kiernan James Fintan Lalor and Peter Lalor:
Brothers in Arms, 1807-1854
Mark Finnane Violence in Ireland, 1860-1914:
Comment on a Social History
Alternative Session
Brian Coleborne Anti-Irish Bias in Standard Reference Books
Catherine Manathunga The Impact of Conor Cruise O'Brien's Role in
the Congo in 1961 on the Irish
Government and Public
Hugh Maguire Art on the Edge: Ireland and New Zealand
Looking in
1.00 - 2.00pm Lunch
2.00 - 3.20pm
Anne-Marie Whittaker Veterans of the Irish War of Independence
in Australia
Chris McConville Vintage Crop and the Rediscovery of Ireland
Alternative Session
Gregory Byrnes Irish Manuscripts in Australia
June Cullen Are National and International Cinemas
Mutually Exclusive: A Comparative
Analysis of Cultural Representation in
Film Policy in Contemporary
Australia and Ireland
3.20 - 3.40pm Tea
3.40 - 5.00pm
Noel Quirke Sean MacBride and Noel Browne:
Background to a Political Marriage of
Convenience and a Bitter Divorce
Val Noone The Church, The Pill and the Protests:
The Irish and Irish-Australian
Debates of the 1960s
Alternative Session
Jennifer Livett J.G. Farrell's Troubles: Newspapers, War, and Games
Robert Bell The Linen Hall Political
Collection and the Ulster Troubles
PUBLIC LECTURE 8.00pm
University of Tasmania Centre
Theatre 1
Tom Keneally A Ribbonman and a "Summer Famine" Thief in Australia
THURSDAY 13 JULY 1995
9.15 - 11.15am
Stefan Petrow Judas in Tasmania: John Donellan Balfe, 1850-1880
Peter MacFie The Irish Inheritance in Tasmanian Society and
the Richmond District, Tasmania
Maree Ring Martin Cash: His Life in the Colonies
George Brown W.P. Dowling and His Art
11.15pm - 11.45pm Coffee
11.45pm Optional Excursion to New Norfolk and Bothwell
[In the Steps of Smith O'Brien and John Mitchel]
Sandwich lunch at New Norfolk
8.00pm Old Campbell Street Gaol visit and dramatisation
of first trial (if numbers justify)
FRIDAY 14 JULY 1995
Optional excursion to PORT ARTHUR
Dickenson's organisation
for further information:
Richard Davis
History Department
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252 C
Hobart
Tasmania
Australia, 7001
Fax:Australia (002) 202392
Tel: (002) 202387 (Work) (002) 253339