Lectures are broken into 2 separate sessions (A & B). When registering, choose which session you wish to attend. THURSDAY 12th July 2012 9.00am - 9.30am Registration at Ard Rí House Hotel, Tuam 9.30am Explore the Hidden Heritage of East Galway Tour 6.00pm Return to the Ard Rí House Hotel, Tuam
FRIDAY 13th July 2012 9.00am - 9.30am Registration 9.30am - 10.00am Welcome Address in Kilcloghan’s Suite: Anne Tierney, President of The Old Tuam Society; County Mayor*; Tuam Mayor*; Conor Newman, Chairman, The Heritage Council 10.00am - 11.00am Keynote Address Irish Diaspora by Professor Gearóid O Tuathaigh 11.00am -11.20 Tea/Coffee
SESSION A1 11.20am -12.00pm Major Dick Dowling, Hero of Confederate Texas by Tim Collins 12.00pm -12.40pm From Poverty to Plenty – Folk Perspectives on Emigration to America by Criostóir Mac Cárthaigh 12.40pm - 2.00pm Lunch
SESSION B1 11.20am - 12.00pm The Jackie Clarke Collection – focusing on Irish American artefacts by Sinéad McCoole 12.00pm - 12.40pm Plastic Paddy: The Irish in American Cinema by Tony Tracy 12.40pm - 2.00pm Lunch
SESSION A2 2.00pm - 2.40pm Colonel Patrick Kelly of the Irish Brigade, Gettysburg via Castlehackett by Brendan Higgins 2.40pm - 3.30pm The Influence of the Irish on American Church History by Professor Alan Delozier 3.30pm - 3.50pm Tea/Coffee 3.50pm - 4.30pm Irish Emigrant Geographies: Irish Writing and the Migrant Experience by Dr. Nessa Cronin 4.30pm - 5.00pm Pecha Kucha
SESSION B2 2.00pm- 2.40pm Graveyard Memorials – A Genealogical Resource by Dr. Christy Cunniffe 2.40pm - 3.30pm Reconstructing the world they left behind by Marie Boran & Brigid Clesham 3.30pm - 3.50pm Tea/Coffee 3.50pm - 4.30pm Tracing Your Ancestors, using the Sources and Services available at the Galway Genealogy Centres by Monica Hynes 4.30pm - 5.00pm Pecha Kucha
CONFERENCE DINNER 6.00pm -
7.00pm Corralea Court
Hotel, Tuam, Wine
Reception and Music of Emigration by John Faulkner 7.00pm -
9.00pm Conference Dinner-After
dinner speaker: Professor Christine Kinealy
SATURDAY 14th July 2012 9.00am - 10.00am Registration 10.00am - 11.00am Plenary Session in The Kilcloghans Suite The Kindness of Strangers by Professor Christina Kinealy 11.00am - 11.20am Tea/Coffee
SESSION A1 11.20am -
12.00pm Sending Out Ireland’s Poor: The Poor Law and
Irish Emigration in the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Gerard Moran 12.00pm -
12.40pm The Irish-American Link- A
Media Perspective by David Burke 12.40pm - 2.00pm Lunch
SESSION B1 11.20am - 12.00pm Ireland Reaching Out Programme by Mike Feerick 12.00pm -
12.40pm The Past in the Present:
Archaeology and History at Slievemore Deserted Village by Theresa McDonald 12.40pm - 2.00pm Lunch
SESSION A2 2.00pm -
2.40pm The Local, the National and
the International: Emigration and Irish Local History by Professor Raymond
Gillespie 2.40pm - 3.30pm Clifden 1812-Ireland’s Frontier Town by Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill 3.30pm - 3.50pm Tea/Coffee
SESSION B2 2.00pm -
2.40pm Common Threads in the
Healing Traditions of Ireland
and North America by Dr. Patricia A. Lynch 2.40pm - 3.30pm The Irish Workhouse Story by Ursula Marmion 3.30pm - 3.50pm Tea/Coffee
4.00pm - 5.15pm Plenary Session in the Kilcloghan’s Suite Atlantic Bridge: the Roots of American Music in Ireland by P. J. Curtis 5.15pm - 6.00pm A Kilbannon Emigrant and the American Dream by Pat O’Hora
CONFERENCE DINNER 6.40pm - 7.30pm Ard Rí Hotel, Tuam, Wine Reception - Tuam Musicians 8.00pm - 10.00pm Conference Dinner- After Dinner Speaker: TBC
SUNDAY 15th July 2012 8.30am - 9.00am Registration 9.00am - 10.00am Plenary Session in The Kilcloghans Suite From Ireland to Albany: Governor Hugh Carey’s Irish-American Journey by Professor Terry Golway 10.00am - 10.20am Tea/Coffee
SESSION A1 10.20am - 11.00am The Great Book of Irish Genealogies and its Treatment of Irish Families, Great and Small (including Ó Cearráin – Kirrane) by Dr Nollaig O Muraíle 11.00am -
11.40am Trans-Atlantic Women: Patterns
of Mobility between the West of Ireland
and the USA
by Professor Bronwen Walter
SESSION B1 10.20am -
11.00am An Illustrated Talk on
Traditional Irish Architecture and Furniture from the National Museum
Collections by Rosa Meehan 11.00am -
11.40am House, Clachán, Village and
Town: Studying Settlement and Infrastructure in 19th Century Ireland by Paul Gosling 11.50am - 12.30pm Plenary Session in Kilcloghan’s Suite Closing Panel Discussion: Dr. Nessa Cronin (Chair); Professor Raymond Gillespie; Professor Christine Kinealy; Marie Mannion, Heritage Officer, Galway County Council and Professor Bronwen
Walter 12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
SESSION C1 Milltown Community Centre* 3.00pm - 3.40pm Peter James (Pete) Conlan 1892 -1967 by Alan Morrisroe 3.40pm - 4.10pm Governor Carey’s Galway Roots by Dr. Anne Rodda 4.10pm - 4.40pm Traditional music, dancing and refreshments 5.00pm - 6.00pm Unveiling of Governor Carey Plaque in Milltown Heritage Park
MONDAY 16th July 2012 9.00am - 9.30am Registration at Ard Rí House Hotel, Tuam 9.30am Explore the Hidden Heritage of West Galway Tour 6.00pm Return to Ard Rí House Hotel, Tuam
*Please make your own way to Milltown Subject to change |