Programme
Symposium: Ireland, Modernism and the fin de siècle
| Fri 16th April | |
| 1.00 | Registration: Summerville, Mary Immaculate College Limerick |
| 2.00 |
Conference Welcome: Prof. Michael Breen, Dean of Arts |
| 2.15 | Panel 1 (Room : SG3) Chair : John McDonagh Conor Montague. Anatole le Braz and the Irish Revival. Clare Gill. Taking out the Trash: Belfast’s Free Public Library and the fin de siècle Doctrine of Improvement. Aoife Leahy. Fin de siècle Dialogue in George Moore’s “Mildred Lawson”. |
| 3.45 | Break |
| 4.15 | Panel 2 (Room: SG3) Chair: tbc Maeve Tynan. The Gaelic Gothic: Degeneracy and Diffusion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Eibhear Walshe. Queering Oscar: Versions of Wilde in Modern Ireland. Ed Madden. Tabhair Dom do Lámh? Austin Clarke’s Washroom Encounter. |
| 6.00 | Plenary (Room: SG 1): Prof. Lyn Pykett Chair: Kathryn Laing |
| Sat 17th April | |
| 9.00 | Registration: Summerville, Mary Immaculate College Limerick |
| 10.00 | Panel 3 (Room: SG 1) Chair: Tadgh Foley Susan Cahill. Landscapes of Girlhood: The Girls' Fiction of L.T. Meade and Rosa Mulholland. Beth Rodgers “She Talks Ireland”: Irishness, Authorship and the Wild Irish Girls of L.T. Meade. Kathryn Laing & Faith Binckes. The Inconsistencies and Surprises of Sympathy: Hannah Lynch, Gender, Genre and Politics at the fin de siècle. Heidi Hansson. Emily Lawless and fin de siècle Literature as a Temporal Category. |
| 11.30 | Break |
| 12.00 | Panel 4 Chair: Ed Madden Maureen O’Connor. Inhuman Voices Wake Us: Animals and the Mythical Method in Irish New Woman Writing. Tina O’Toole. Cross-Lines: Egerton, Moore, Joyce. Elke D’hoker. Somerville & Ross and the Modern Irish Short Story. |
| 1.30 | Lunch |
| 2.30 | Plenary: Prof. Adrian Frazier |
| 3.30 | Panel 5 Chair: Patricia Coughlan Yvonne Ivory. Beyond Salomé: Oscar Wilde’s Afterlife in Modernist German Opera. Alex Davis. Learning to be Brutal: Synge, Linguistics, Decadence. Bruce Stewart. “The Curve of An Emotion”: fin de siècle Metaphysics in Wilde, Yeats and Joyce. Hedwig Schwall. Towards a New Definition of the ‘New Woman’? Rereading Yeats’s Ideas of the Individual on the Basis of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. |
| 5.15 | Break |
| 5.45 | Plenary: Prof. Joseph Bristow |
| 8.30 | Conference Dinner (optional) |
