1916: The Irish Rising at 100 Years

Friday, April 1, 2016  9:30am The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room

Registration

Free and open to the public

No registration necessary

First come, first seated

Sponsors

Heyman Center for the Humanities

British Studies at Columbia University

Department of English, Columbia University

Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway

    Event Videos
    1916: The Irish Rising at 100 Years Panel 1
    1916: The Irish Rising at 100 Years Conference Panel 2
    1916: The Irish Rising at 100 Years Conference Roundtable

Scholars from Ireland and New York discuss the 1916 Easter Rising on its centennial.

 

Schedule:

9:30am
Coffee and Opening Remarks


10:00am-12:45pm - Morning Program (Panels 1 and 2):
“New York, Ireland, and the 1916 Uprising”


10:00am - Panel 1

Conor McNamara, National University of Ireland, Galway
"The 1916 Rebellion and the Dream of America"

John Cunningham, National University of Ireland, Galway
"Irish Labor and the Wider World, c.1912-23"


11:15am - Break
 

11:30am - Panel 2

Mary Harris, National University of Ireland, Galway
"Romanticism and Realism: Patrick Pearse, Eoin MacNeill, the Revival and the Rising"

Adrian Paterson, National University of Ireland, Galway
"‘Ballad and story, rann and song’: Yeats’s 1916 and The Dreaming of the Bones"


12:45pm Lunch Break


2:30pm-4:30pm - Afternoon Program (Panel 3)
"1916 in Perspective, a Roundtable"

Featuring:
Emily Bloom, Columbia University
Therese Cox, Columbia University
Sarah Cole, Columbia University
Gregory Londe, Cornell University
Janet Lyon, Pennsylvania State University
Paul K. Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania

4:30pm - Reception

Participants

  • Emily Bloom

    Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature

    Columbia University

  • Sarah Cole

    Professor of English and Comparative Literature

    Columbia University

  • Therese Cox

    Ph.D. Student, English and Comparative Literature

    Columbia University

  • John Cunningham

    Lecturer in History

    National University of Ireland, Galway

  • Mary Harris

    Senior Lecturer in History

    National University of Ireland, Galway

  • Gregory Londe

    Assistant Professor of English

    Cornell University

  • Janet Lyon

    Associate Professor of English and Women Studies

    Pennsylvania State University

  • Conor McNamara

    Scholar-in-Residence

    National University of Ireland, Galway

  • Adrian Paterson

    Lecturer in English

    National University of Ireland, Galway

  • Paul K. Saint-Amour

    Associate Professor of English

    University of Pennsylvania

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