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Conference Announcement:
The Irish in the Atlantic World
Tue. Feb. 27, 2007 - Fri. Mar. 02, 2007
The conference sponsors include the Humanities Council of South Carolina, American Conference for Irish Studies, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Msgr Manning Division 1, South Carolina Irish Historical Society, and the Charleston Hibernian Society.
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The Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) at the College of Charleston will host a major conference on the Irish in the Atlantic World. The conference will take place in Charleston, South Carolina, from Feb. 27 to March 2, 2007. It will examine the experience of Irish of all denominations and traditions around the Atlantic as well as the Irish impact on the Atlantic World as a whole, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; from the United States and Canada, to the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. In particular, it will assess the impact Irishmen and women have had on the Carolina lowcountry and American South.
Major scholars in the field have committed to speak and comment include Nicholas Canny, Kerby Miller, Janet Nolan, Bernadette Whelan, John Waters, Patrick Griffin, Eamonn Wall, Ruth-Ann Harris, Charles Fanning. Plenary speakers include Kieran Quinlan,”From John Mitchel to Margaret Mitchell: Winds of Continuity and Change between Ireland and the American South,” Donald MacRaild, “The Orange Atlantic,” Mick Moloney, “Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Music of Irish America” and Edmundo Murray, “The Irish in Latin America.” A volume of selected papers from the conference will be published in our Carolina Atlantic World Series by the University of South Carolina Press (see www.sc.edu/uscpress ) Other events include Irish walking tours, “Philadelphia Here I Come” by Brian Friel performed by College of Charleston Dept. of Theater. The conference will operate like a seminar with registered attendees receiving access to the papers online.
Charleston is a prime location for this conference. It was a major city in the Atlantic World with strong connections to Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean as well as other parts of North America. It was also a major entrepot for Ulster immigrants and boasted a sizable Irish Catholic population in the nineteenth century. Among its famous Irish-Americans were John and Edward Rutledge, signers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Pierce Butler (South Carolina’s first U.S. Senator), John England (first bishop of Charleston and founder of the first Catholic newspaper in the United State), noted etcher and artist Elizabeth O’Neill Verner and James “Jimmy” Byrnes (Secretary of State under President Harry Truman). The city boasts an active Hibernian society, founded in 1799, as well as other Irish ethnic organizations.
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