Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

Week 1

June 18

Introduction & Program Orientation
Chown, Negra, Self

Tour: Book of Kells & Trinity Long Room

Lecture: "Irish Political History"
Self & Chown

Film: Death on the Rock

7:30 Literary Pub Crawl: Duke Pub, Duke St.

Lecture: "Language & Image in Irish Culture"
Luke Gibbons (DCU)

Films: After '68

10:00 Irish Film Centre, archive screenings

Hush-a-Bye Baby
December Bride

8:00 Peacock Theatre
Mrs. Warren's Profession

Weekend Trip: Derry

4:00 Margot Harkin
5:00 Derry City Tour

County Donegal
Dunfanaghy

Week 2

June 25

Lecture: "Contemporary Independent Filmmaking in Ireland
Orla Walsh, fiction filmmaker

Films: Bent Out of Shape
The Visit
Blessed Fruit

Lecture: "Irish Gangster Narratives"
Lance Pettit (St. Mary's, London)

Film: The General

Day Trip:

The Boyne Valley
Loughcrew excavations
Mellifont Abbey
Royal Hill of Tara

10:00 Irish Film Centre, archive screenings

The Family 1 & 2
Harvest Emergency
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone

11:00 DCU Lecture: "Forces and Themes in Contemporary Irish Literature"
Gerald Dawe (Trinity)

Week 3

July 2

IFC Lecture: "Man of Aran: Documenting the Imaginary"
Jeff Chown

Films: Man of Aran
Mother Ireland

8:00 PM Lecture: "Roll Over Cuchulain"
John Bolland (Trinity)

Lecture: "Sexuality and Marginality in Contemporary Irish Culture"
Ailbhe Smyth (UCD)

Film: Cool Clear Crystal Stream

Lecture: "The Screening of the Green: US Media and the Possessive Investment in Irishness"
Diane Negra

Film: The Irish Empire (5)

8:00 PM Gaity Theatre
The Plough & the Stars (Sean O'Casey)

Trip: Into the West

County Roscommon
Strokestown: Famine Museum & Strokes Park House
Cong
Galway

Trip: Aran Islands

Inish Mor

Week 4

July 9

Lecture:"Irish Culture & the Myth of the West"
Luke Gibbons

Films: The Making of the Myth
Ballroom of Romance

8:00 PM Irish Traditional Music, Trinity College

Day Trip:

Wicklow Mountains:
Glendalough Monastery
Powerscourt Estate

8:00 Lecture: "Joyce, Modernity, and the Real"
Frederick Jamison (Duke University) National Concert Hall

Lectures: "Politics of the Peripheral Detail: The Dead"
Luke Gibbons

"Decolonizing Gender: In the Name of the Father"
Margot Backus (University of Houston)

Films: The Dead
The Family 4

10:00 Irish Film Centre, archive screenings

I Went Down
Korea

6:00 Dinner:
Washerwoman Hill Cafe
Tolka House

10:00 Irish Film Centre, archive screenings

He Shoots, He Scores
Thirty-five a Side
Shooting to Stardom

Farewell


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