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Forthcomming Events:

27 April 2009

Leverhulme Fourth Public Lecture

Dr Stephanie Rains, NUI Maynooth will deliver the fourth in the 2009/10 Sunderland Leverhulme Lecture Series on Wednesday 29th April 2008. Her topic is:

'The development of Modern Consumer Culture in Dublin: Department Stores and the Irish industrial Exhibition of 1853'.

The lecture will be held in Priestman A11, beginning at 5.30pm. For further details contact Professor John Strachan.

Press Releases:

Friday 11th July 2008	University honours one of Ireland’s truly cultured civil servants One of Ireland’s most respected civil servants has been honoured by the University of Sunderland. Derek Hannon has spent more than 20 years with the Irish Foreign Ministry, and is currently First Secretary in the Culture Office with the Irish Embassy in London.

1st February 2007	Professor Willy Maley appointed Visiting Lecturer at the University of Sunderland

20th December 2006	NEICN executive and founder member John Strachan awarded Professorship

6th November 2006	Sunderland to host largest Irish festival

Recent events:

3 December 2008	'Consumer Culture, Advertising and Literature in Ireland, 1848-1921’, next public lecture. Dr Helen O’Connell (University of Durham) will be delivering the next public lecture entitled: 'The Irish Novel and Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century' This will be at 17:30 in the Priestman Building, Room A12 Click for "Getting Here" info and Campus Map
12 December 2008	Call for Contributions The Other Capital: Irish Writing London Contributors are sought for a new collection of essays (edited by Tom Herron, Leeds Metropolitan University) examining London-Irish writing. The collection seeks to address the lack of sustained scholarly attention to the variety of ways in which London has been rendered by writers visiting or domiciled in the city. Proposals on the following writers are particularly welcome: W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNiece, J. M. O’Neill, John O’Donoghue, Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, Katherine Tynan, Martin McDonagh, Desmond Hogan, Anne Enright, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Mahon. Needless to say, contributions on other writers and on other media (music and film, in particular) are most welcome. Informal queries and abstracts of 300-500 words should be emailed to t.herron@leedsmet.ac.uk by 12 December 2008.

	Sixth Annual Irish Studies Conference - see details

14-16 November 2008	NEICN Conference – Re-imagining Ireland An interdisciplinary conference under the theme at St Peter’s Campus, University of Sunderland, UK.

8th October	INAUGURAL LECTURE AND RECEPTION Leverhulme Trust Major Research Award

30th August 2008	Sunderland Irish Festival 30th August in the Sunniside area of Sunderland. Check the festival home page for picture galleries.
4th July 2008	End of Term 2008 A celebration in Eauzone, one of Sunderland's premier night spots. See Gallery
22nd May 2008	Performing Ireland A NEICN Seminar with speakers Dr Katie Gough of the University of Glasgow, Dr Melissa Sihra of Trinity College Dublin and Paddy Lyons of the University of Glasgow.

12-15 September 2007	Louis MacNeice: Centenary Conference and Celebration Queen’s University Belfast

14th - 16th September 2007	New Irelands - Call for conference papers An interdisciplinary international conference 14-16 September 2007 under the combined auspices of the British Association for Irish Studies, the Institute of Irish Studies and the Department of Politics of the University of Liverpool.

9th - 11th November 2007	Ireland: At War and Peace Fifth Annual Irish Studies Conference at the University of Sunderland in association with the North East Irish Culture Network

22 - 24th June 2007	Annual Conference of The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland University of Glasgow

15th May 2007	Irish Ambassador invited director of NEICN to attend historic occasion Taoiseach Bertie Ahern addressed a joint session of the House of Commons and the House of Lords at Westminster

3rd May 2007	Paddy Lyons Paddy Lyons (University of Glasgow) lecture on Brian Friel’s Love Scenes at the Design Centre, University of Sunderland. Hosted by the University of Sunderland and Durham University.

17th March 2007	NEICN Charity Ball

20th February	Writers at York, A reading by John Banville University of York

26th January 2007	Professor Willy Maley, 'Exchanging Pleasantries with the Peasantry: Playboys, Ploughboys, Prostitutes, Protestants and Priests'

13th to 15th December 2006	Universidad de Sevilla – Facultad de Filología 6th EFACIS CONFERENCE: Dreaming the Future, New Horizons / Old Barriers in 21st Century Ireland. Seville, Spain.

10-12th November 2006	The Word, the Icon and the Ritual - Ireland Renaissance, Revolution and Regeneration. The 4th annual NEICN conference

25th October 2006	Forum and Debate, Literary Theory: What is it and Do we need it? Professor Terry Eagleton.

23rd October 2006	naugural Lecture: Irish Poetry and the English Language, Professor Stephen Regan, Co-Director of NEICN

10th July 2006	James Joyce study day

29th March 2006	“A Few Shakes of a Bard's Tale: Recent Irish Appropriations of Shakespeare”. Introduced by Professor Kate Chedgzoy, University of Newcastle, and hosted by Professor Willy Maley (University of Glasgow).

22nd February 2006	:*“Mrs Harrison’s Petition: a new look at Swift’s Dublin verse”* Professor Andrew Carpenter, (University College, Dublin), the University of Durham

21st February 2006	: “*A Tale of a Tub as an Irish Text”* Professor Andrew Carpenter, (University College, Dublin), the University of Sunderland.

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