Certificate in Irish Language and Contemporary Irish History and Culture:
3rd & 4th modules (study days)

10.00 – 16.30, admission free, reservation recommended, in English
These study days are open to all members of the public as well as to Certificate students  
 

 
23 January 2010
Gender and Irish Literature,
by Prof. Margaret Kelleher

Margaret Kelleher is Associate Professor of English at National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) and Director of ‘An Foras Feasa’ The Institute for Research in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions. Her most recent publications include The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (edited with Philip O’Leary), Cambridge University Press, 2006; Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Research (edited with Dr Larry Geary), University College Dublin Press, 2005 and Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres (edited with Dr James H. Murphy), Irish Academic Press, 1997.
  

 
13 March 2010
Representations of conflict in Northern Ireland
by Dr. Colin Coulter

Colin Coulter is a Lecturer in Sociology at NUIM. His research on contemporary Northern Ireland has resulted in the publication of Northern Ireland After the Troubles? A Society in Transition (edited with Michael Murray), Manchester University Press, 2008; Contemporary Northern Irish Society: An Introduction, Pluto Press, London, 1999 and Unionism, Protestantism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland, Pluto Press, 1997.
 

 

Thursday 25 March 2010, 19.30
Regard sur l’Irlande :
Mary Raftery
admission free, reservation recommended,
in English
 
Mary Raftery is a broadcaster, film-maker and writer, best known for her scrutiny of the Irish childcare system between the 1930s and 1980s. Her film States of Fear, first screened in 1999, was influential in leading to the establishment of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse by the Irish government; this report was finally published in May 2009. Suffer the Little Children, co-written with Dr Eoin O’Sullivan, was published in 2001. Mary Raftery is a regular columnist with the Irish Times.