Third Irish in Europe International Conference
Kilkenny campus of NUI Maynooth 14-15 May 2004
Venues: Divinity Hall and Green Room, St Kieran's College
Friday 14 May 2004
12.30pm onwards: registration in Divinity Hall, St Kieran's college, College Rd. Kilkenny
[Light buffet lunch available]
1.45 Welcome address
2.00 Opening session: Ciaran Brady (TCD) The Victorians and the decline of SpainThe conference continues in two parallel sessions
2.30 Ciaran O'Scea (Valladolid) Making Ireland literate: the role of service papers, cedulas and memorials in the transformation of Irish oral culture in early modern Castile
Patrick Clarke de Dromantin (Bordeaux) L'insertion des Jacobites dans la société française du XVIIIe siècle3.00 Coffee
3.30 Óscar Recio Morales (Madrid) Strangers in a strange land: in search of Irish identities in early modern Spain
Patrick Ferté (Toulouse) Étudiants et professeurs irlandais dans les universités de Toulouse et de Cahors (17e-18e siècles)4.00 Samuel Fannin (Murcia) Sons of Milesius: legend as history in Irish emigration and integration in 18th century Spain
Guillaume Vautravers (Dijon) The Geography of recruitment for the Irish brigade in French service, 1690-17904.30 Forum
Evening session at Butler House, Kilkenny
7.00 Louis M. Cullen (TCD) Apotheosis and crisis : the Irish diaspora in the age of Choiseul
7.45 Launch of the Irish in Europe database by John Keating and Denis Clancy (NUI Maynooth)
8.30 Conference Dinner (city restaurant)
Saturday 15 May 2004
10.00 Opening session: Pierre Joannon (Ireland Fund de France) Andrew McDonagh or the Irish Monte-Cristo
The conference continues in two parallel sessions
10.30 Patricia O Connell (Dublin) Irish students in Lisbon, Évora and Coimbra
Priscilla O'Connor (NUI Maynooth) The Irish community in 18th century Paris11.00 Martin Murphy (Oxford) Varieties of Irishness in 18th century Seville: The Whites and the Wisemans
Liam Chambers (MIC,UL) Eighteenth-century rivalry and dissent in the Irish College, Paris11.30 Coffee and forum
12.00 Begoña Villar García (Málaga) Los irlandeses en la España moderna: refujiados, mercenarios, comerciantes y estadistas
Éamon Ó Ciosáin (NUI Maynooth) The Irish in France 1660-1690: the point of no return?12.30 Enrique García Hernán (Madrid) The Irish Cleric in Madrid, 1600-1650
Steve Murdoch (St Andrew's) Entrepreneurs and industrialists: Irishmen in Sweden, 1660-17251.00 Buffet Lunch
2.30 Charlie Dillon (Queen's, Belfast) Translating the counter-reformation in Prague: Introduction à la vie dévote and An Bheatha Chrábhaidh c. 1647
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (UCD) Irish diplomatic missions to Rome in the 1640s3.00 Jan Parmentier (Gent) The Ray dynasty: Irish mercantile empire builders in Ostend, 1690-1790
Thomas Byrne (NUI Maynooth) Nathaniel Hooke and the French embassy to Saxony, 1711-123.30 Coffee and forum
4.15 Thomas Bartlett (UCD) Napoleon's Irish Legions
Declan Downey (UCD) The Irish cabal at the Viennese court, 1630-18304.45 Patrick Fitzgerald (Ulster Folk Park) The Irish in early modern Europe: towards a diasporic approach?
5.15 Plenary and closing session