Irish Studies

Activities and Events

Upcoming Events:

 

Thursday, March 1, 2012

The D'Arcy McGee Lecture

Friday, March 16, 2012
The Cyril Byrne Memorial Lecture - Anne Carson

 

Past Events:

  • October 27, 2011 - D'Arcy McGee and the Maritimes - book launch for Dr. David Wilson from the University of Toronto on newest book Thomas D'Arcy McGee: The Extreme Moderat, 1857-1868 Volume 2.
  • October 24, 2011 - Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh gave a lecture on "Power and Politics: an Irish Senator's Perspective". He also met with students from the Intermediate Irish Language class.

  • May 17, 2011 - Ambassador Ray Bissett from Ireland to Canada visits Saint Mary's University

  • March 11, 2011- James Smith of Boston College spoke at the D'Arcy McGee Lecture. His subject was on the Magdalen laundries.
  • March 7, 2011 - Earn a certificate in Irish Studies. Literature and Culture: “Coming to Canada Immigrants in Canadian/Irish Literature” by Pádraig Ó Siadhail.
  • February 11, 2011 - Anne Enright spoke at the Cyril Byrne Memorial lecture.
  • February 7, 2011 - Earn a certificate in Irish Studies. Politics: “The Irish in Atlantic Canada” by Peter Twohig.
  • January 10, 2011 - Earn a certificate in Irish Studies. History: “Women and Irish Migration” by Michael Vance.
  • May 19-22, 2010- CAIS Annual Conference - Ireland and its Discontent: Success and Failure in Modern Ireland was held on Saint Mary's University Campus.
  • March 19, 2010 - 'University College Dublin Graduate Studies extends a welcome to students in Canada.' Visit by University College Dublin professor, Dr. Máire Ní Annracháin. Dr. Ní Annracháin highlighted the opportunities and challenges facing non-Irish students who might be considering studying in an Irish university.
  • March 19, 2010 - Thomas Bartlett - Early Historians of the 'Wild Geese' In French Service, 1840-1950 - D'Arcy McGee Lecture in Irish Studies, 2010 will hosting Thomas Bartlett (The Boston College Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, 2009-2010). Bartlett is a visiting scholar at the Burns Library from University of Aberdeen where he has been professor in Modern Irish History.
  • March 12, 2010 - Alistair MacLeod: "The Closing Down of Summer" - Cyril Byrne Memorial Lecture, 2010 hosted Alistair MacLeod.
  • October 9, 2009 . - Batt Burns, a professional Irish storyteller, or seanchaí, visited Nova Scotia on a regional tour arranged by the Coordinator of Irish Studies.
  • September 18-19, 2009 - Queering Ireland: An International Inter-disciplinary Conference. (Schedule of Speakers)
  • "Lost Urban Histories: Historiography of the Irish in Newfoundland and Canada" presented by Doyle Lahey, student of the master program in the History Department of Saint Mary's University. Open to all.  Wednesday 6, May 2009. Starting at 1:30 pm in McNally Main 307A.
  • March 13, 2009 - Inventory: Notes on a Poem.  Dionne Brand is the guest speaker for the Cyril Byrne Memorial Lecture. It will be held 7:30 p.m. at the Scotiabank Conference Theatre.
  • October 2008 - General John de Chastelain Receives Honorary Degree
  • September 2008 - Senator Pearse Doherty, a member of the Irish Senate visits Saint Mary's University
  • June 2008 - Declan Kelly, Ireland's ambassador to Canada visits Saint Mary's Irish Studies
  • March 14, 2008 - The second annual Cyril J. Byrne Memorial Lecture was sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and the Visiting Speakers Committee. The lecture entitled "The Reverse Side of the Picture: How to make Fiction from Truth" featured the renowned Irish author Colm Tóibin.
  • May 4, 2007 - The D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, the Department of English, and the Atlantic Canada Studies Program sponsored the first Cyril Byrne Memorial Lecture featuring the prominent Canadian author, Wayne Johnston
  • March 23, 2006 - The Irish Studies Film Club presented: Irish Halifax in the First Half of the 20th Century on Thursday
  • January 19, 2006 - The Irish Studies Film Club presented: The Boys and Girl from County Clare
  • October 7, 2005 - Noel Hill's Concertina Concert (traditional Irish music)
Irish Lecture Series:
  • March 28, 2005 - “Irish High Crosses in the art of Aileen Meagher: Ancient images in stone translated and reinterpreted." Dr. Cyril J. Byrne.
  • March 16, 2005 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee after whom the Chair is named will be the subject of University of Toronto scholar, Dr. David Wilson's paper: "Orange and Green: D'Arcy McGee and Irish Secret Societies."
  • March 7, 2005 - "The Rise and Fall of the House of Ryan - 'in Bonavista, did you say?' ” which will deal with an important Irish run business in outport Newfoundland. Dr. James Candow, Parks Canada historian.
  • February 27, 2005 which is the 201st anniversary of the birth of Lawrence O'Connor Doyle, a 19th century champion of Saint Mary's and the Halifax Irish. “Doyle and Howe; a Study in Congruence and Divergence." Dr. Terrence Punch, Adjunct scholar to the Chair.
  • February 13, 2005 - "John Moxley disinterred: Assertions of ethnic identity in 18th and 19th century Conception Bay." Dr. Willeen Keough, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
  • January 24, 2005 - "Rioters, Informers and Revisionists: Synge's Playboy at the Abbey Theatre, 1907." Dr. Pádraig Ó Siadhail.



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