Irish Studies Summer School, 2014School of Irish Language and Literature

Irish Studies Summer School, Magee campus, University of Ulster, July-August 2014The University of Ulster is delighted to announce its Irish Studies Summer School to be held in Derry~Londonderry in July/August 2014. As ‘Atlantic Gateway’, ‘UK City of Culture’ (2013) and a ‘Lonely Planet’ top-ten tourist destination (2013), Derry is one of the most historic and culturally vibrant cities on the island.

LocationIt is also set amidst some of the most beautiful, archaeologically and culturally rich regions of Western Europe, adjacent to the Causeway Coast and Donegal and Sperrin Mountains.

Derry: A microcosm for Irish StudiesFounded in the 6th Century by Colm Cille, one of Ireland’s three patron saints, it is the mother-house of the great Columban monastic confederacy which blazed the trail for Irish involvement in the preservation of European Christianity. His monasteries are associated with the ‘Cathach’, one of Europe’s oldest books, the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, two of the glories of Western Christianity.

Derry and global literatureDerry is associated with Ireland’s major contributions to world letters; the dramatist and playwright George Farquhar, the philosopherGeorge Berkeley and Field-Day,

Seamus Heaney

The Annals of the Four Masters, a key source for Irish History, composed in north-west Ulster

founded and directed by Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Stephen Rea, Seamus Deane, Tom Paulin and Thomas Kilroy.

‘American Gateway’ and window on Ireland’s past’Derry became a key cock-pit for the post- Reformation, Tudor re-conquest of Ireland (1534- 1603) and its Tower Museum houses the ‘Trinidad Valencera’, one of the finest Spanish Armada wrecks which has been excavated off the Irish coast. It is also the primary, purpose-built citadel of the Ulster Plantation (1609) and the sister-city of London. Its

historic walls, among the finest in Western Europe, have been the setting for one of the most important sieges in Irish and British History. Derry is also the ‘Atlantic Gateway’, through which millions of Irish men and women would make their voyage to the Land of Caanan (America) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Derry and World War IIThe Royal Navy and US Marines based themselves in Derry for the war’s duration; the allies would subsequently win the Battle of the Atlantic (1940-42) from Lough Foyle and Admiral Dönitz, who succeeded Hitler as ‘Reichspräsident’, finally surrendered the German, North Atlantic U-boat fleet at nearby Lisahally.

Surrendered German U-boats, Lisahally

The ProgrammeOur interdisciplinary programme will enable participants to acquire specialist knowledge of Irish Studies across film, history, literature, peace and conflict studies and politics. Participants will also sample the rich cultural heritage of north-east Ireland, while immersing themselves in the Irish language (one of Western Europe’s oldest vernaculars) with a week-long residency in the adjacent Donegal ‘Gaeltacht’ (Irish-speaking region). The curriculum connects the inter-related cultures, histories, languages and literatures of north-west Ulster, Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America.

AccreditationThe participants will accrue credit points for the six-week course for which they will also receive a certificate from the University of Ulster.

‘The Troubles’ and Good Friday AgreementThe Civil Rights Movement (1968) and the subsequent ‘Troubles’ effectively commenced in Derry and it provided the setting for some of its worst violence. However, the city has emerged as a key focus of cross-community peace-building and reconciliation post-Good Friday Agreement (1998).

Peter Robinson, Martin McGuinness, President Clinton and John Hume

Madonna & Child, Book of Kells

Week 1

Tue 1st July

9.30am-11.00am Lecture: How the Irish saved civilisation? MF 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: English Conquest and Re-conquest, 1169-1603

ÉÓC

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Screening: ‘Colm Cille, Derry & Iona’ MCP 3.15pm-4.45pm Screening: ’Wolfland’ (with discussion)

MCP

Wed 2nd July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: The Irish Military Diaspora ÉÓC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Reformation to

Revolution, 1534-1688BK

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Lecture/Screening: ‘Plandáil’: The Plantation of Ulster

MCP 3.15pm-4.45pm Tour: ‘Derry’s Walls’ ÉÓC

Thu 3rd July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: Scotland and Nova Scotia IMP 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Ireland and her Celtic

NeighboursIW

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.30pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Lecture/Performance: Traditional Music of Donegal and Nova Scotia

LD 3.30pm-4.30pm Lecture: Irish Lyrical and Classical Poetry

AÓC

Fri 4th July Independence Day Reception

Week 2Tue 8th July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: The Irish Language: A gem of

European PhilologyAÓC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: The Irish Language:

Origin, Evolution and Present State

MÓN

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Screening: ‘Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom’ MÓN 3.15pm-4.45pm Lecture: Irish Language – Introduction to the spoken language

MÓN

Wed 9th July9.30am-11.00am Workshop: The Cultural Heritage of the

Foyle/Swilly BasinsLC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: The Great Irish Sagas MF

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Presentation: Celtic Art and Iconography, Jim Fitzpatrick to 2000AD

LC 3.15pm-4.45pm Lecture: The Irish Literary Tradition, 1534-1800

NMC

Thu 10th July9.30am-11.00am Workshop: Songs and Sounds of Irish 1 CNB 1.30pm-3.00pm Tutorial: Irish–

Basic ConversationCMS

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.30pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Workshop: Songs and Sounds of Irish 2 CNB 3.30pm-4.30pm Tutorial: Irish– Basic Conversation

CMS

Fri 11th July

Tour of O’Neill Lordship (ÉÓC/MÓN)

Week 3Tue 15th July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: The Oxford History of the Irish

Book ProjectÉÓC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Irish Literature in English –

Spenser to HeaneyÉÓC

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Lecture: Irish Scribes and their Manuscripts

NMC 3.15pm-4.45pm Walking Tour/Museum Visit: Derry’s Walls/Spanish Armada Exhibition

ÉÓC

Wed 16th JulyFree 1.00pm-5.00pm Lecture: The Irish Famine and its

Legacy, including a visit to Doagh Famine Village

ÉÓC

Thur 17th July9.30am-11.00am Discussion: The Gaelic Athletic

Association MÓN 1.30pm-3.00pm Tutorial: Irish Tutorial 3 CMS

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.30pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Screening: The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final, 2013

MÓN 3.30pm-4.30pm Lecture/Recital: Traditional Music and Song

PMG

Fri 18th JulyFree Weekend

Week 4

Tue 22nd July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: The Irish Military Diaspora:

The Reformation to the American Civil War

ÉÓC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Ireland and the Irish Exo-dus to America

DMR

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Screening: ‘The Siege of Vienna’ (1683) MCP 3.15pm-4.45pm Visit: Monreagh Ulster-Scots Heritage Centre

MCP

Wed 23rd July9.30am-11.00am The Great War, 1914-18 Guest 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Rising, Revolution and

Independence, 1916-23ÉÓC

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Screening: ‘Strumpet City’ MCP 3.15pm-4.45pm Film: ‘The Wind than Shakes the Barley’ (with discussion)

MCP

Thu 24th July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: The Ordnance Survey LC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Irish Place-names NC

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.30pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Screenings: Maurice Fitzpatrick, ‘Trans-lations’ (with discussion)

Guest 3.30pm-4.30pm Screening: Brian Friel’s Translations (with discussion)

ÉÓC

Fri 25th JulyFishing-Trip (weather permitting)

Week 5Week 5

Tue 29th July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: ‘The Troubles’, 1968-1998 ÉÓC 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: ‘The Troubles’, 1968-1998 MCP

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Film: ‘Five Minutes of Heaven’ (with discussion)

MCP 3.15pm-4.45pm Film: ‘Hunger’ (with discussion) MCP

Wed 30th July9.30am-11.00am Lecture: Flags, Marching, Historical

Memory: the Haas TalksPMD 1.30pm-3.00pm Lecture: Peace Process to Good

Friday AgreementMCP

11.00am-11.15am Break 3.00pm-3.15pm Break

11.15am-12.30pm Workshop: The Legacy of the Troubles PMD 3.15pm-4.45pm Talk/Visit: Pat Finucane Centre Guest

Thu 31st July9.30am-11.00am Derry: UK City of Culture 2013 MCP 1.00pm-5.00pm Trip: Belfast and Titanic Quarter

(Students based on Belfast Campus on this day)

MCP

11.00am-11.15am Break

11.15am-12.30pm

Fri 1st AugustFree Weekend (Dublin Trip)

Week 6

Gaeltacht Residential (Sun 3 August - Sat 9 August 2014)Unique experience

Week 6 offers participants a unique immersion education in an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal, amidst some of Ireland’s finest scenery and amenities. The course shows Irish as a vibrant language and culture, relevant to all aspects of modern life. Additional course information available at: www.gael-linn.ie. Language classes

This seven-day, conversation-focused course caters for all levels of ability. Classes run from 9.45 am -3.00 pm (concluding 1.00 pm on Sat and Sun). Evening activities

A varied evening program including lectures, poetry-readings, table-quiz, Irish dancing - students will also be treated to guided tours and walks in this area of outstanding natural beauty. Accommodation

Students will stay in ‘Teach Campbell’, a family-run Bed and Breakfast, which provides high-quality accommodation at a reasonable cost (www.teac-campbell.com). Student SupportStudents will be accompanied by at least one member of staff from the University of Ulster who will also be in residence. The summer school formally ends with a presentation dinner and Céilí Mór (the big céilí) on the Friday night.

MEET THE TEAM:

Liam Campbell holds a BA in Theology and Philosophy (NUI, Maynooth), an MA in Environmental Science (Queen’s) and a PhD in Cultural Heritage from Ulster. He is Cultural History and Heritage Innovator at the Holywell Trust and Heritage Officer for the Foyle Civic Trust. In addition he has worked for nearly twenty years as a TV producer for BBC, UTV , Channel 4 and RTÉ.

Niall Comer, a Lecturer in Irish and a member of the Northern Ireland languages Council, was formerly President of Comhaltas UIadh (2008) and editor of ‘An tUltach’, one of Ireland’s leading Irish-language journals. His major research interests include Irish- language lexicography and place-lore.

Fionntan De Brún has lectured at Ulster since 2006. His major research interests are in nineteenth and twentieth century Irish Literature, ‘The Irish Revival’, Cultural History, Film and Creative Writing.

Liz Doherty is an internationally-acclaimed fiddle player, educator and consultant in the traditional arts. A founder-member and performer with bands such as ‘Nomos’ and ‘Fiddlesticks’, ‘The Bumblebees’, ‘String Sisters’ and ‘Blazin’ Fiddles’, she has also performed with ‘Riverdance – The Show’. Before coming to Ulster, Liz taught at Cape Breton University (Canada) and Marshall University (US).

Maxim Fomin joined the University in 2003, and has studied at Moscow State and University College Cork. His main teaching and research interests are in early Irish literature, folklore, Celto-Slavic and Irish-Indian parallels, medieval narrative literature, comparative mythology and historical poetics, comparative linguistics and digitization.

Art Hughes, a Reader in Irish at Ulster, recently spent a year as visiting professor and senior Fulbright Scholar at New York University. His major research interests are in Old Irish to Modern Irish, pan-Gaelic dialects and phonetics and Old Irish to Modern Irish literature.

Billy Kelly, a native of Derry and a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University, Billy’s research interests are in early modern Irish and British History. He is general editor of the Ulster and Scotland Series (Four Courts Press) and managing editor of the ‘Commentarius Rinuccianus’, a Hiberno-Latin account of the Papal Nuncio’s embassy in Ireland, 1645-9.

Nioclas Mac Cathmhaoil completed his PhD at Ulster (2010) and served as a Fulbright Professor at UC Berkeley in 2012-3. During this sojourn, he also compiled a catalogue of the Irish manuscripts at the Huntington Library, California and completed his monograph on the Irish poet/scribe Muiris Ó Gormáin. His research interests include the Irish manuscripts tradition and Classical and Early Modern Irish, dialects and modern Irish literature.

Peadar Mac Gabhann joined the university in 2000, having been previously employed at Notre Dame. Before moving to the United States, Peadar held the position of Lecturer in Celtic at the University of Bonn. He has recently served as Ireland Canada University Foundation’s visiting Professor at St.

Michael’s College, University of Toronto.

Iain MacPherson having attended the universities of Alberta, Calgary & Saint Francis Xavier (Canada), and taught at Sabhal Mór Ostaig/ University of the Highlands & Islands (Scotland), Iain joined the university in 2006. His research involves close textual analysis of the song-poem enactments of Scottish-Gaelic emigration/immigration tradition.

Donald Mac Raild is Professor of History at Ulster, having previously held chairs at the Northumbria University (England) and Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Don has several overlapping fields of research and teaching expertise and interest, including the Irish in Britain and the wider British World.

Conal Mac Seáin received his BA and M.Res in Irish Language and Literature from the University of Ulster and is presently completing a Phd on Énrí Ó Muigheasa, one of Ulster’s leading Irish-language scholars.

Philip McDermott graduated with his PhD from Ulster (2008) and joined the faculty in 2012. His research focuses on the relationship between the state and minority groups, especially linguistic minorities. He has a specific interest in the perception of migrant languages in public places and the ways that government and communities deal with linguistic diversity.

Caitlín Ní Bhroin is a native-speaker of Irish from Machaire Rabhartaigh in the Donegal Gaeltacht. After working with various Irish language movements on both sides of the Irish border, she returned to third level education, completing her BA and M.Res at Ulster. She is presently completing her PhD on the Irish language scholar Risteárd Ó Glaiscne.

Éamonn Ó Ciardha has published books and articles on law and order, popular politics, cultural history, the outlaw, and the use of Irish language sources for Irish History. Formerly a research assistant at the University of Aberdeen and the Royal Irish Academy, he has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Notre Dame (US) and the Saarland (Germany). He is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Irish Language and Literature.

Ailbhe Ó Corráin is Professor of Irish at Ulster and Director of the Irish and Celtic Studies Research Institute. He taught at the Universities of Bonn (Germany) and Uppsala (Sweden). He is editor of Studia Celtica Upsaliensia, Vice-President of Societas Celtologica Nordica and a former president of the European Society for Irish Studies. A Docent of the University of Uppsala since 1992, he was appointed Visiting Professor there in 1997.

Malachy Ó Néill is Head of the School of Irish Language and Literature at Ulster. An award-winning teacher and passionate advocate of the Irish language, Dr Ó Néill has delivered guest-lectures at Freiburg, Notre Dame and New York Universities.

Marie-Claire Peters received her Ph.D from Ulster in 2012. She co-edited The Flight of the Earls/Imeacht na nIarlaí (2010) with Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha and Dr David Finnegan. This was named a BBC History Magazine ‘Book of the Year’ for 2011. She currently works as a researcher and educational facilitator for the Holywell Trust and also lectures at Ulster.

Iwan Wmffre Before joining the University in 2006, Iwan held lecturing and research positions at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (2003–05), the National University of Ireland, Galway (1999–2001) and the Welsh Dialect Survey of the University of Wales (1991–97). His research and teaching specialisms include the Brittonic languages (Welsh, Breton, Cornish) and the Gaelic languages. Other interests include the modern histories of Celtic countries and regions, societal linguistics, wartime Brittany, Celtic literary men and the Irish Revival.e.mail: e.ociardha@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha tel: 028 7137 5257mobile: 078 9630 6366e.mail: e.ociardha@ulster.ac.uk

Mrs Ros O’ Hagantel: 028 71675277mobile: 07921789445e.mail: r.ohagan1@ulster.ac.uk

School of Irish Language and Literature Magee campus, University of Ulster Northland Road, Derry BT 48 7JLNorthern Ireland