THE FAMINE IRISH: EMIGRATION AND NEW LIVES
THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FAMINE CONFERENCE
STROKESTOWN PARK HOUSE 19-20 JULY 2013
Day 1
9.00 Conference Registration -Tea & Coffee
9.30 Welcome
John O'Driscoll, Curator & General Manager Strokestown Park House
9.40 Opening Address
Tim O'Connor, Chairman of The Gathering Ireland 2013
Session 1
Chair: Professor Terence Dooley (Department of History, NUI Maynooth)
10.00 Patrick Fitzgerald, (Mellon Centre for Migration Studies), Irish hunger,
migration and denomination, 1550-1850
10.25 Jason King (University of Limerick), From Roscommon to Quebec: Irish Famine
orphans as models of
10.50 Lawrence W. Kennedy (University of Scranton), Patrick A. Collins: An
emigrant in the U.S. Congress and Boston City Hall
11.15 Tea & Coffee
Session 2
Chair: Nollaig Feeney (Roscommon Heritage Officer)
11.30 Bláthnaid Nolan (University College Dublin), From Carlow to Athy to Hobart: Crime
and punishment in nineteenth century Ireland
11.55 Gerard Moran (NUI Maynooth), 'To the nearest place that was not Ireland':
The Famine Irish emigrants in Provincial Britain
12.20 Brendan McGowan (Galway City Museum), The Famine Irish in Leeds & the
unfortunate case of Patrick Bourke
12.45 Lunch
Session 3
Chair: Declan Jones (Managing Director, Property Division, Westward
Group of Companies)
2.00 Gail Baylis (University of Ulster), Ireland, photography and Famine memory
2.25 Ciarán Reilly (NUI Maynooth), 'A Mayo man on the Cape': Robert Stanford
and Anti-Irish sentiment in South Africa in the 1840s
2.50 James M. Farrell (University of New Hampshire), Reporting the Irish Famine
in America
3.15 Tea & Coffee
Session 4
Chair: (Mark O'Brien, Investec Specialist Bank)
3.30 Elaine Farrell (Queen's University Belfast), 'Bad luck to you ... you were the cause of
my killing my child': women transported from Ireland for infant murder
3.55 Gail Gráinne Whitchurch (Indiana University), ''The Colony" to Cleveland:
An autoethnographic case study of an orphan raised at the Achill Mission
Keynote address
Chair: Professor Marian Lyons (Head of Department of History, NUI
Maynooth)
4.30.-5.30 Professor Christine Kinealy (Drew University, New Jersey),
'Chained Wolves': Young Ireland in Van Dieman's Land
NOTE: The Tye (Tighe) Family Homecoming will take place in Strokestown Park House on
Friday evening, 19 July. For further details of the event & dinner please see
www.strokestowngatheringcelebration.com
Day 2
Session 1
Chair: Michael Blanch (Committee for the Commemoration of the Irish Famine
Victims)
09.30 Damien Sheils (Independent Scholar), ‘Allow me to mingle my tears’: The
impact of the American Civil War on female Famine survivors
9.55 Regina Donlon (NUI Maynooth), Constructing an immigrant profile: using
statistics to identify famine immigrants in Toledo, Ohio, 1850-1900
10.25 Michael Quigley (Independent Scholar), Quebec remembers the Famine
10.50 Tea & Coffee
Session 2
Chair: Pat McCarrick (Botháir)
11.10 Fidelma Byrne (NUI Maynooth), The mechanics of assisted emigration: the case of
the Fitzwilliam estate, county Wicklow
11.35 Charles Read (Christ’s College, Cambridge) Famine, economic shocks, and
Emigration in 1840s Ireland
12.00 Jo-Anick Proulx (Visitor Experience Manager, Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial
National Historic Site Parks Canada), Grosse-Île: a new home, a new hope
12.30 Closing Remarks
Patrick D. Kenny (Executive Chairman, Westward Group of Companies)
Strokestown Park International Famine Conference 2013
In association with CSHIHE, NUI Maynooth & Investec Specialist Bank.
PLEASE COMPLETE THIS FORM IN BLOCK CAPITALS AND RETURN WITH THE RELEVANT BOOKING FEE TO
SROKESTOWN PARK HOUSE 12th July 2013 (details below)
Conference Registration Fee is €25 per person (includes light lunch)
Number of delegates:
Total amount enclosed: Payment must be made in euro only
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2013. Cheques and bank drafts should be made payable to Westward Holdings Ltd..
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