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2008
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Crossing the Minch and other Odysseys
A symposium of the AHRC funded Irish-Scottish Poetry Project, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast, in association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen. Humanity Manse 19 College Bounds, University of Aberdeen 9th May 2008 Fri 9th May Symposium Seminar Room, Humanity Manse 9.15 Welcome 9.30-10.30 Edna Longley ‘Phoenixes...
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Diaspora conference: Political Frontiers
Keynote speaker: Professor Patrick Griffin (Virginia) Patrick Griffin is author of The People with No Name Irelands Ulster Scots, Americas Scots Irish, & the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 16891764 (2001) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on...
April
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Nations, Diasporas, Identities
-Rationale Political and economic events over the last decade have begun radically to reshape the cultural identities of Ireland and Scotland.In Ireland, the dynamism of the 'Celtic Tiger' economy has catapulted the nation from being one of Europe's poorest to one of its most advanced. In Northern Ireland, the 'peace process'...
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The unravelling of a mystery Thomas Wilson (1758-1824) of Dullatur, the Scottish Second Husband of Matilda Tone
Dr Jane Rendall (University of York) Dr C.J. Woods (Dictionary of Irish Biography) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk Jane Rendall is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of York and author of...
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Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry: a new interpretation
Dr Paddy Bullard (University of Oxford) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk Paddy Bullard is AHRC Research Fellow for the forthcoming Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift. In January 2005 he was elected to a...
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Irish societies, clubs and organizations in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century London
Dr Craig Bailey (Villanova) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk Craig Bailey is assistant professor of History at Villanova University. His research interests include: Irish migration in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a particular...