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Thanks to a generous grant from the Irish Cultural Society of Toronto, the Program is able to offer a series of evening lectures by distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic.
Admission is free, and students and members of the general public are welcome to attend. Other lectures are also offered from time to time by visitors to the Program.
Visit this page regularly for details as they become available.
May 28-31 Celtic Studies to Host the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. From May 28-31, for the first time in eighteen years, St. Michael’s College will be hosting the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies (CAIS). The conference, which has been running since the 1970s, is the central event in Canadian Irish Studies; it attracts first-class scholars from Ireland and the diaspora, brings together students and professors, and is attended by academics and the general public from Canada and beyond. It is, in short, the lifeblood of Irish Studies in Canada, sustaining interest, enthusiasm, research and writing in the field, and ensuring that young scholars continue to work in the area. It has also acquired a reputation for being the friendliest and most supportive Irish Studies conference on the continent.
This year, the theme is “Irish Eyes – Visions and Revisions.” There will be fifty presenters, with keynote addresses from Angela Bourke and Keith Jeffery. Professor Bourke’s talk will focus on the work of the folklorist Jeremiah Curtin, and Professor Jeffery will speak on Irish representations of the Great War. At the reception in Charbonnel Lounge from 5.00 to 7.30 on May 28, there will be a launch (open to non-conference and conference members alike) of David A. Wilson’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee Volume I: Passion, Reason, and Politics. On Thursday at 5.30, conference members will be visiting Ireland Park, where Mark McGowan and Robert Kearns will present a guided tour of the site.
The following evening, on Friday May 30 at 8.00 in Alumni Hall Room 100, there will be a concert featuring three groups: the Loretto Reid Band; James Stephens and Frank Cassidy; and Pierre Schryer and Andy Hillhouse. The concert is open to everyone; the admission for conference members is $10, and for the general public $15 – still one of the best deals in town! On Saturday, the conference concludes with a banquet, some storytelling and a few songs.
For more information, www.irishstudies.ca or email celtic.studies@utoronto.ca
Each year the Program hosts a one-day conference on a Celtic topic. The next conference will be held in the Fall of 2008. Visit this page for details as they become available.
For further information: Email celtic.studies@utoronto.ca or phone
416-926-7145
For other Celtic events, visit the Canadian Celtic Arts Association website.