Ireland and Masculinities in the Longue Durée.
National University of Ireland, Galway: 19th and 20th August 2013.
This is the provisional programme. Changes may be made closer to the date.
Monday, 19 August 2013
Legal Musculature
Kevin McKenna (Independent Scholar)
“Primogeniture, strict settlement and the rituals of masculinity on an Irish landed estate, 1855-1890″
James Ward (Ulster)
“Caught in a contract: Congreve, Farquhar and Contractarian Masculinities”
Dara Purvis (Illinois)
“Masculinity, Marriage, and Fatherhood in the Twentieth Century”
Irishmen Abroad and the Irish as “Other”
Norma Clarke (Kingston)
“Goldsmith and ‘the brothers of the Quill’”
Peter Buckingham (Linfield College)
“Thomas A. Hickey: Irish Masculinity on Two Continents”
Ciaran McDonough (NUI Galway)
“Antiquarianism as a ‘Gentleman’s Hobby’”
Protestants on Parade
Jim MacPherson (Highlands and the Islands)
“Irish Protestant Masculinities and Orangewomen in Scotland and Canada, 1890 – 1930”
James Golden (Cambridge)
“Irish Anglican Political Masculinities: Disestablishment and Protestant
Democracy, 1860-70”
Pamela McKane (York, Ontario)
“‘No idle sightseers’: The Ulster Women’s Unionist Council and the masculine
world of politics during the Ulster Crisis”
Round Table
Sonya Rose (Michigan)
Sean Brady (Birkbeck, London)
Rebecca Barr (NUI Galway)
Jane McGaughey (Concordia)
CONFERENCE DINNER – venue to be confirmed
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Masculinities and Material Constraints: Incarceration, Childhood and Clothing
Conseulo Concepcion (Glasgow)
“Clothing, Gender and Colonial Policy in Early Modern Ireland”
Mary Hatfield (Trinity College, Dublin)
“Playing with gender: games and boyhood in early twentieth century Ireland”
Rosa Gilbert (Birkbeck, London)
“Special Category Imprisonment and Masculinity in Northern Ireland in the
1970s”
Performing Irishness
Charlotte McIvor (NUI Galway)
“Staging Intercultural Masculinities: Yeats, Tagore, Pearse and Modern(ist)
Theatre Aesthetics at the Abbey Theatre”
Ed Madden (South Carolina)
“Bachelor Trouble, Troubled Bachelors”
Sarah McKibben (Notre Dame)
“Endangered Masculinity and Homosociality in Early Modern Ireland”
Patriotism and the Pastoral
Lee Morrissey (Clemson)
“Masculinity, modernity, and, yes, shepherds: Spenser and Milton”
Cliona O’Gallchoir (University College Cork)
“Patriotism, Masculinity and Irish Economic Discourse in the eighteenth century”
Aidan Beatty (Chicago)
“The Economic War and the Irish Agrarian Man”
