Irish Studies @ the University of North Florida
Irish Studies Events — Past Events
| Date | Type of Event | Author/Lecturer/Performer | Event Title/Lecture Title | Poster/Advertisement |
| 03/22/94 | Music | Cuan | "Orange and Green and Songs In Between." | |
| 11/09/95 | Lecture | Seamus Deane | "Irish Studies: Rereading a Culture." | |
| 03/20/96 | Lecture | Owene Weber | "Irish Women Writers At Risk: Marginalized or Mainstreamed?" | |
| 03/22/96 | Music | Mick Moloney & Eugene O'Donnell | "Songs of the Irish Famine and Emigration." | |
| 11/07/96 | Poetry Reading | Richard Murphy | ||
| 03/24/97 | Poetry Reading | Eavan Boland | ||
| 03/25/97 | Lecture | Eavan Boland | "An Irish Poet In Her Time." | |
| 10/08/97 | Lecture | Michael J. O'Shea | "Coincidental Prophecy in Finnegan's Wake: Joyce, Elvis and the Bible in Millennial Studies." | |
| 11/03/97 | Poetry Reading | Katie Donovan | ||
| 11/04/97 | Lecture | Katie Donovan | "Irish Women Writers: An Introduction." | |
| 11/20/97 | Music/Lecture | Mick Moloney | "The Irish on the American Stage." | |
| 02/17/98 | Music | Dady Brothers, Dady Brothers, & Tom O'Carroll | "An Evening of Irish Music." | |
| 03/17/98 | Poetry Reading | Valerie Anthony & Jan Kathryn Wikstrom | "Irish Is the Language My Soul Speaks: a Celebration of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill" | |
| 10/05/98 | Lecture | Francis X. Beytagh | "Constitutionalism in 21st-Century Ireland." | |
| 10/12/98 | Poetry Reading | Peter Fallon | ||
| 10/29/98 | Opening Reception | "Homeland." (Photography exhibit) | ||
| 11/19/98 | Music | Celtic Soul | "Irish Pub Night." | |
| 02/01/99 | Poetry Reading | Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill | ||
| 02/17/99 | Music | Harry O'Donoghue, et. al. | "An Evening of Irish Music." | |
| 02/22/99 | Poetry Reading | Rita Ann Higgins | ||
| 03/30/99 | Lecture | Jane Decker | "Heritage, Tourism, and the Politics of Transforming Ireland's Economy." | |
| 10/18/99 | Lecture | Eamonn Wall | "From the Gorey Road to the Black Hills: Driving in Ireland and the United States." | |
| 10/19/99 | Poetry Reading | Eamonn Wall | ||
| 11/15/99 - 11/17/99 | Film Screening | David Hammond | "The David Hammon Film (and Music) Festival" | |
| 11/15/99 | Lecture/Film Screening | David Hammond | "The David Hammon Film (and Music) Festival" | " |
| 11/19/99 | Music | David Hammond with Celtic Soul | "A Musical Celebration of David Hammond." | " |
| 02/08/2000 | Poetry & Music | Cathal Ó Searcaigh & Lillis Ó Laoire | "Gaelic Voices: Poetry and Song from Ireland." | |
| 02/09/00 | Lecture | Lillis Ó Laoire | "Sean-nós: The Gaelic Song Tradition." | |
| 02/09/00 | Lecture | Cathal Ó Searcaigh | "A Voyage Into Poetry." | |
| 02/18/00 | Lecture | Danny Doyle | "A Terrible Beauty: The Heroic Struggle for Irish Freedom, 1913 - 1922." | |
| 03/24/00 | Lecture | Frank McCourt | "A Memoir of a Memoir." | |
| 10/02/00 | Lecture | Zack Bowen | "Joyce and Modernism." | |
| 10/15/00 | Theatrical Performance | Gerry Farrell | "Blooming Ulysses." | |
| 10/26/00 | Music | Morning Star | ||
| 11/16/00 | Lecture | David Gleeson | "The Irish in the Ante-Bellum South." | |
| 11/30/00 | Lecture | James Doan | "The Roots of Celtic Myth and Folklore." | |
| 02/23/01 | Film Screening/Discussion | Anne Crilly, Geraldine Higgins, Mary O'Malley, Catherine Shannon, & Eamonn Wall. | "Mother Ireland." | |
| 02/24/01 | Poetry & Music | Mary O'Malley, Mick Moloney, & Marie Reilly. | "An Evening of Irish Poetry and Music." | |
| 04/09/01 | Lecture | Alan Parkinson | "Media Representations of the Irish Conflict." | |
| 09/25/01 | Theatrical Performance | Macdara Mac Uibh Aille | "The Voice of the Sea." | |
| 10/18/01 | Lecture | Jack Carter | "The Thatched Cottage: The Heart of Rural Ireland." | |
| 11/06/01 | Lecture | Kieran Quinlan | "Strange Kin, Unfamiliar Kinship: Ireland and the American South." | |
| 11/27/01 | Lecture | Micheline Sheehy Skeffington | "Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Irish Women's Rights." | |
| 02/14/02 | Poetry Reading | Richard Murphy | ||
| 03/08/02 | Music & Dance | Celtic Soul, Grey Larsen and Paddy League, & the Glas Tara Dancers | "A Festive Evening of Irish Music and Dance." | |
| 03/14/02 | Talk | Bernard Cullen | "Growing Up in Northern Ireland." | |
| 03/27/02 | Lecture | Éilís Ní Dhuibhne | "Cathleen Ní Houlihan Fights Back: Irish Women Writers and the Nation in the 20th Century." | |
| 03/28/02 | Reading | Éilís Ní Dhuibhne | ||
| 09/23/02 | Music/Talk | Neil Martin | "The Uilleann Pipes and Irish Traditional Music." | |
| 11/18/02 | Poetry Reading | Eamon Grennan | ||
| 02/11/03 | Lecture | Jack Santino | "Parades, Murals, and Spontaneous Shrines: The Political Popular Art of Northern Ireland." | |
| 03/05/03 | Poetry Reading | Ciaran Carson | ||
| 04/15/03 | Poetry Reading | Katie Donovan | ||
| 10/03/03 | Music | Paddy League & Laura Risk | ||
| 10/14/03 | Poetry Reading | Kerry Hardie | ||
| 11/06/03 | Lecture | Edward Fennell | "The Titanic: The Irish Connection." | |
| 02/12/04 | Talk | Áine Greaney | "History on the Hearth: An Irish Grandmother's Stories Become a 21st-Century Novel." | |
| 03/14/04 | Music & Dance | Harry O'Donaghue & the Carmel Dempsey Band | "An Evening of Irish Music and Dance." | |
| 04/08/04 | Poetry Reading | Vona Groarke & Conor O'Callaghan | ||
| 10/08/04 | Theatrical Performance | Macdara Mac Uibh Aille | "Peacefire" | |
| 10/15/04 | Music | Paddy League & Laura Risk | ||
| 11/09/04 | Poetry Reading | Kerry Hardie | ||
| 02/17/05 | Lecture | Chris Smith | "Thousands Are Sailing: Irish Music as Cultural History, from St. Patrick to Riverdance" | |
| 02/18/05 | Music and Reading | Ceili with Chris Smith | "Traditional Music and Stories of Ireland" | |
| 03/10/05 | Poetry Reading | Paul Muldoon | ||
| 09/21/05 | Poetry Reading | Eamonn Wall | ||
| 10/11/05 | Lecture | Ronald Schuchard | "Building the Wall" | |
| 11/3/05 | Reading | Eddie Lenihan | ||
| 2/16/06 | Concert | Cathie Ryan Band | ||
| 3/9/06 | Auction | Irish Studies Silent Auction | ||
| 3/9/06 | Concert | Dervish | ||
| 10/12/06 | Poetry Reading | Moya Cannon | ||
| 10/21/06 | Concert | West Ocean String Quartet, with special guest star Matt Molloy, of the Chieftains | ||
| 11/03/06 | Concert | Triptych — Paddy League (bodhran, guitar, vocals), Laura Risk (fiddle), Kieran Jordan (stepdancer) | ||
| 11/14/06 | Concert | Cathie Ryan Band | ||
| 2/1/07 | Lecture | Robert Harris | "A Voyage to Skellig Michael," an illustrated lecture by Robert Harris | |
| 2/15/07 | Lecture | Pamela A. Zeiser | "A Necessary Evil? Northern Ireland's Turn to Terror," a lecture by Professor Pamela A. Zeiser | |
| 3/1/07 | Lecture | J. Philip Newell | "The Sacredness of Nature and the Medicine of Grace: a Celtic Perspective," a lecture by J. Philip Newell | |
| 3/29/07 | Poetry Reading | Poetry reading by Irish poet Eavan Boland | ||
| 9/20/07 | Poetry Reading | Poetry reading by Irish poets Dennis O'Driscoll and Julie O'Callaghan | ||
| 10/3/07 | Storytelling Event/One Man Show | Derek Coghlan | "The Great Ordinary Madness of Growing Up Irish" -- a One-man Show with actor Derek Coghlan | |
| 10/18/07 | Lecture | Christopher Smith | "Come West Along the Road: Constructing Ireland's Electronic Identity" an illustrated lecture by Christopher Smith | |
| 10/19/07 | Concert | Chris Smith & Angela Mariani | A Seisiún of Traditional Irish Music Featuring Chris Smith & Angela Mariani | |
| 11/15/07 | Fiction Reading | Fiction Reading by Irish Author Éilís Ní Dhuibhne | ||
