IES will host
a new speaker series on Irish Studies, thanks to the generous
support of the Irish government, the Irish Consulate of San
Francisco in association with the Western Institute of Irish
Studies, and the Center for British Studies at Berkeley.
The Western Institute of Irish Studies has kindly posted videos of two Irish
Studies lectures given at Berkeley in Fall 2006 -- one on old Irish histories
by Jane
Ohlmeyer and the other on the contemporary Irish economy by Paul
Sweeney (see below) . Go here to
view the videos (Real Player is required and can be downloaded free).
The Reasons for Ireland’s Economic Miracle and
its Unfinished Business
Paul Sweeney, Economic Advisor to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and author of books on the Irish economy and business
Paul Sweeney explains how Ireland, one of the poorest European countries, soared to become one of the richest economies in the world in just 16 years. It moved from mass emigration to become a magnet for job seekers, especially those from Central Europe. Since 1990, the number of net new jobs grew by a staggering 80 per cent, possibly the fastest job creation of any country in the world. And real incomes for workers rose by 50 per cent in the 10 years to 2005.
Sweeney is the author of the first book on Ireland’s economic miracle, the Celtic Tiger, Ireland’s Economic Miracle Explained. This was followed by another book on the Celtic Tiger and many newspaper articles. Sweeney is the Economic Advisor to the Irish trade union centre, the Irish Congress of Trade unions, which plays an important role in Ireland’s unique form of social partnership.
October 18, 2006, 4 pm, Moses Hall
201
Sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker Series. Co-sponsored by Center for British Studies, Consul General of Ireland, Western Institute for Irish Studies, Department of History, Celtic Studies.
Irish Poetry Reading by
Greg Delanty and Liam Ó Muirthile
October 14, 2005, 11-12:30; Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler
Greg Delanty was born in Cork in 1958. His collections are Cast in the Fire (Mountrath, The Dolmen Press, 1986); Southward (Dublin, Dedalus, 1992); American Wake (1995); The Hellbox (Oxford, The Oxford University Press, 1998); The Blind Stitch (Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2001); and The Ship of Birth (Carcanet Press, 2003).
Liam Ó Muirthile was born in Cork in 1950. His poetry collections include Tine Chnámh (Sáorséal Ó Marcaigh, 1984), which was awarded the Irish-American Cultural Institute Prize; and Dialann Bothair (Gallery, 1992). Tine Chnámh was produced in the Project Theatre, Dublin, in 1993, followed by Fear an Tae at Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin and An Taidhbhearc, Galway in 1995. His novel Ar Bhruach na Laoi (Comhar, 1995) won the Duais chuimhneacháin Sheáin Uí Éogeartaigh. He is a member of Aosdána, and lives in Dublin.
Free and Open to the Public.
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Lectures
The "Old British and
Irish Histories": Where Do We Go From Here?
Dr. Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor
of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
This talk will reflect on the historiographical debates
around what we once called the 'New British and Irish Histories'
and suggest alternative routes forward (i.e. using a 'three
kingdoms' approach as a way of promoting comparative history,
history that is multi-centered and encourages multi-disciplinarity
and that looks to the 'wider worlds' of Europe, the Atlantic
and Empire).
Monday, September 12, 2005, 4 pm, Geballe
Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker Series.
Co-sponsored by Center for British Studies, Consul General
of Ireland, Western Institute for Irish Studies, Department
of History, Celtic Studies.
Contact: Heidi
Sutton
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Workshop with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
Revisionism: Debates on Irish History
Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 3-5 pm,
201 Moses Hall
Readings: J. G. A. Pocock, “British
History: A Plea for a New Subject,” Journal
of Modern History 47:4 (1975): 601-21; Nicholas Canny, “Writing
Early Modern History: Ireland, Britain, and the Wider World,” The
Historical Journal 46:3 (2003): 723-47. (Linked files
are .pdfs)
Sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker Series. Co-sponsored
by Center for British Studies, Consul General of Ireland, Western Institute
for Irish Studies, Department of History, Celtic Studies.
Links
Celtic Studies Program
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/celtic/
The Irish Consulate General http://www.aneki.com/consulate/
Irish_consulate_san_francisco.html
Western Institute of Irish Studies
http://www.wiisonline.org/
For more information, contact: Candace
Groskreutz
