September

Wednesday, 15 September

Director Desmond Bell will introduce a screening of his new documentary film Rebel Frontier (Asylum Pictures). Narrated by Martin Sheen, the film focuses on the lives of Irish immigrant workers on the western American mining during World War I. Inter-weaving eye-witness testimony, reminiscences and interpretative commentary, the film graphically documents anti-war protests, the Speculator mine disaster and the miners' strike that followed, and, finally, the imposition of martial law. Co-hosted by the Higgins Center Film Series

October

Friday, 1 October 2004

Ireland, Europe and the United States: A Post-Presidency Perspective.
His Excellency Mr. Noel Fahey, The Irish Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Fahey's address will coincide with the inauguration of the new Department of Irish Language and Literature and the launch of two faculty books: Peter McQuillan's Native and Natural Aspects of the concepts of 'Right' and 'Freedom' in Irish and Angela Bourke's Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker.

Thursday 7 October 2004

Edward. W. Said: "A Commemorative Symposium.
Guest Speaker: Professor Paul Bové, University of Pittsburgh, a former colleague of Said and author of several books on literary theory and Western literature. Additional speakers include Professors Seamus Deane, Joseph Buttigieg, and Asma Afsaruddin. Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Keough Institute of Irish Studies, the Ph.D in Literature Program and the Program in Middle East Studies.

Friday, 22 October 2004

Irish Music in America: from 'Daddy' Rice to John McCormick
The Hibernia Lecture
Mick Moloney
New York University
Sponsored by the Cushwa Centre