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INTERNAL MEMORANDUMTO: Dr Ollivier Dyens, Vice-ProvostTeaching and LearningChair, Academic Programs CommitteeFROM: Dr Brian Lewis, DeanFaculty of Arts and ScienceDATE: January 14, 2011SUBJECT:2011-2012 Major Undergraduate Curriculum Proposal:BA Major in Canadian Irish StudiesCCIS-8The Academic Programs Committee has reviewed and approved thefollowing proposal and requests that it be considered at the January 21, 2011meeting of Senate.The School of Canadian Irish Studies is proposing the addition of a BAMajor in Canadian Irish Studies.The purpose of the BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies is to familiarizestudents with Ireland’s cultural, historical and literary traditions in a variety ofdomestic and diasporic contexts, thereby permitting them to consider criticallythe Irish experience in Quebec, Canada, and elsewhere in the Diaspora.Studying Ireland and the Irish communities throughout the globe providesstudents with a series of case studies on a range of subjects and issues thatcan be instructive in a variety of other contexts.The objective of the Major is to build on and develop from the success of theMinor and the Certificate in Canadian Irish Studies by providing a morestructured and coherent range of course offerings to attract a larger cohort oflocal, national, and international students from diverse backgrounds.Details regarding the program structure and resource implications aredescribed in the attached documentation.Thank you for your consideration of this proposal.Committee document nos.:FCC 09/6U-CCIS-8ASFC 2010-6M-F1

BACHELOR OF/BACCALAUREATE IN ARTSMAJOR IN CANADIAN IRISH STUDIESSCHOOL OF CANADIAN IRISH STUDIESFaculty of Arts and ScienceConcordia UniversityJanuary 14, 20112

Concordia UniversityFaculty of Arts and ScienceMajor in Canadian Irish StudiesTable of ContentsPage:EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ………………………………………………… 51. Program Identification1.1 Degree level …………….................................................. 81.2 Discipline or Field and degree designation ...………….................. 81.3 Responsible department and university ……....................……. 82. Fields of study within the program2.1 Description of the philosophy underlying the new program ………. 82.2 Definition of proposed fields of study encompassed within theprogram, clearly distinguishing program components, whereapplicable (i.e. specializations concentrations, profiles, options,orientations, etc.) ……….................................................................... 93. Rationale behind the program’s creation3.1 Scientific, socio-economic and cultural benefits ……………....... 93.2 The institution’s orientation and development ……………....... 123.3 Client base projection targeted for the first 5 years ofimplementation ………………………………………………………… 143.4 Status in relation to other programs currently offered, within thecontext of Québec or Canadian university network and in comparisonwith similar programs offered elsewhere worldwide ..…………………... 154. Program objectives, both general and specific ……….............. 165. Framework5.1 Description of the academic regulations, especially the admissionrequirements and procedures …….…………………………………... 185.2 Methods for imposing supplementary requirements such asbridging or preparatory courses .…………………………...………….... 185.3 Course length and schedule ….……………………………………… 185.4 Method of program management …………….………………........ 195.5 Curriculum structure …………….……………………………........... 205.6 Citation of collaborative agreements between academic unitswithin the applicant university, or with other partner institutions….……. 22BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20113

6. Required Activities6.1 Applicable courses, laboratories, internships, and researchactivities …………………………………………………………………. 226.2 Internship opportunities, method for training students, and seekingalternatives to internships ……………………….………………..……….. 296.3 Specific objectives and methods for participant evaluation ……….. 297. Faculty Resources7.1 CVs for the past 5 years ….........................................…………. 297.2 Faculty presently available …………………………………………. 307.3 New faculty required with specialization ……………………………. 327.4 Course sections required ………………….……………………….…. 337.5 Requirement for additional support staff ………………………….…. 337.6 Other resources ………………………………………………………… 337.7 Teaching Assistant Allocation ………………………………………… 338. Letters of Support ….……………………………..……………….…… 349. Cost Projection Analysis ….……………………………..…………… 35Calendar Update Forms …………………………………….……….……D1-D32AppendicesAppendix 1 List of Past Speakers at the School of Canadian IrishStudies’ Public Lecture Series Since 1991……….……………………….. 68Appendix 2 Annual O’Brien Visiting Scholars in Canadian Irish Studies.. 76Appendix 3 List of courses taught in Irish Studies since 1996-1997……………………………………………………………………………. 78Appendix 4 Letters of Support…………………………………………….... 82Appendix 5 Curricula Vitae ……………………………………..………….. 96BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20114

MAJOR IN CANADIAN IRISH STUDIESEXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe School of Canadian Irish Studies proposes to offer a Major in Canadian IrishStudies. The Major is designed to familiarize students with Ireland’s cultural,historical and literary traditions in a variety of domestic and diasporic contexts,and to encourage them to think critically about the Irish experience in Quebec,Canada, and elsewhere in the Diaspora. Studying Ireland and its Diaspora intheir multifaceted complexity will provide students with a series of case studieson a range of subjects and issues that can be instructive in fields outside of IrishStudies. The purpose of the Major is to build on and develop from the success ofthe Minor and the Certificate in Canadian Irish Studies by providing a morestructured and coherent range of course offerings to attract a larger cohort oflocal, national, and international students from diverse backgrounds. Since1991, Concordia’s Irish Studies classes have attracted a growing number ofstudents and support from the Irish communities in Montreal, the province, andacross Canada. More specifically, the increasing popularity and viability of theCanadian Irish Studies program at Concordia between 2002 and 2010 has beenconfirmed by the creation of the Research Chair in Canadian Irish Studies, thefoundation of the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, the implementation of aMinor and Certificate in Canadian Irish Studies, and the establishment of theJohnson Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies. Over thisperiod, Concordia’s program has developed to the point that it has now reachedsufficient critical mass to warrant the creation of a thematically focused Major asthe logical next step.Students in the Major in Canadian Irish Studies have the opportunity to study thehistory, literatures and cultures of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, and to learnmore about the significant contribution the Irish have made to the development ofboth Quebec and Canada. The Major is structured so that students first becomefamiliar with the rich historical tapestry of Irish politics, society and culture, andthen proceed to study the Irish global experience. An important aspect ofstudying Ireland and its diasporic communities is an examination of the role ofthe Irish in Canada, in particular Quebec where the Irish immigrant communitywas shaped by the dualities of language, religion and culture.The Major is comprised of 42 credits. Students are required to take 27 credits inan incremental series of Canadian Irish Studies courses, as well as an additional15 credits from a diverse range of program elective courses that the School ofCanadian Irish Studies offers each year. Students in their second year of theMajor have the option of enrolling in an exchange program with an Irish universityto do a semester abroad. Students are also encouraged, though not required, totake either a minor in another area of study, or a second major.The proposed Major in Canadian Irish Studies aims toBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20115

• introduce students to a wide range of academic and research issuesrelated to the history and culture of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora,particularly in Quebec and the rest of Canada;• promote an appreciation of these broad subjects by presenting specificcourses in such subjects as Irish literature, history, ethnomusicology,theatre and film;• introduce students to critical practices and theoretical approachesrelevant to a wide range of subjects and academic issues which, thoughthey have particular inflections in the case study offered by Irish nationaland diasporic histories, also resonate dramatically in other contexts andfor other groups;• investigate the ways in which the experiences of Irish immigrants inQuebec and other regions in Canada can serve as informative examplesfor immigrant groups seeking accommodation within the host society;• examine the processes of historical acculturation and accommodation ofQuebec’s Irish and French communities in social, political, economic,religious and educational spheres, and especially in cultural forms ofexpression such as music, literature and dance;• introduce students to research topics on Ireland, Quebec, and Canada,with an emphasis on how these former British colonies viewed eachother and developed national identities within evolving constitutionalforms and state structures shaped by their institutional relations withlarge neighbours (United States, Great Britain and the European Union);• introduce students to the social, cultural and commemorative practicesdevised by Montreal’s Irish community (associated with Grosse-Île, theBlack Stone, and the Saint Patrick’s Day parade, for example) as anexample of how a diasporic community constructs and preserves anidentity now little nourished by immigration from Ireland;• prepare undergraduates for graduate research in Irish Studies and otherdisciplines, whether in Canada or abroad;• create research expertise and a cohort of students for the eventualestablishment of an honours and graduate program in Canadian IrishStudies at Concordia.The popularity of the Minor and Certificate in Canadian Irish Studies suggeststhat there will be strong student interest in the Major as well. The studentclientele envisioned for the Major can be principally classified asBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20116

1) students interested in the cultural renaissance in Ireland, especiallythe country’s distinguished literary heritage (e.g. Yeats, Joyce, Shaw,Wilde, Beckett, Heaney);2) students interested in the wider issues exemplified by the history ofIreland and the Irish Diaspora;3) students majoring in cognate fields wishing to complement their Majorwith one in Canadian Irish Studies;4) students who wish to study Irish music, film, language, literature,theatre, history, politics, in Irish domestic and diasporic contexts;5) students with an interest in the broad subjects of emigration,settlement and integration, as well as the desire to contextualize therole of the Irish immigrant community with other immigrant groups inCanada.6) students of Irish-Canadian background who have an interest in thehistory and culture of Ireland and in aspects of the Irish experience inall regions of Canada;7) students who are interested in learning about the economic and socialinitiatives and cultural transformations undertaken in Ireland during therise and fall of the “Celtic Tiger” in the period from 1990 to 2010;8) students who, in increasing numbers, wish to travel to Ireland topursue field studies under the auspices of the School of CanadianIrish Studies, or who, after graduation, wish to seek employmentopportunities in Ireland or elsewhere in the European Union.The creation of the Major in Canadian Irish Studies confirms Concordia’s nationaland international reputation as the most important Canadian location for thestudy of Ireland and its Diaspora. At present, no comparable Major in CanadianIrish Studies exists elsewhere in Quebec or in Canada. This is a void thatConcordia University is favourably positioned to fill, as an institution known for itsspirit of innovation and responsiveness to its milieu.Additional resources required to offer the Major include a varying number ofadditional course sections beginning in the second year. In Year 2, threeadditional course sections are required, in Year 3, five additional course sectionsare required, in Year 4, four additional course sections, and beginning in Year 5,this levels off to five each year. In addition, there would be an augment to theexisting teaching assistant budget of $7,000 per year plus benefits. All full timefaculty and secretarial support required to teach and administer the program arein place.BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20117

1. Program identification1.1 Degree levelBachelor of / Baccalaureate in Arts1.2 Discipline or field and degree designationMajor in Canadian Irish Studies (42 credits)1.3 Responsible department and universityThe Bachelor of / Baccalaureate in Arts, Major in Canadian Irish Studieswill be housed at the School of Canadian Irish Studies in the Faculty ofArts and Science, Concordia University.2. Field(s) of study within the program2.1 Description of the philosophy underlying the new program"L'Irlande est un petit pays sur le sol duquel se débattent les plus grandsproblèmes de la politique, de la morale et de l'humanité." / "Ireland is asmall country which raises all the great issues of politics, religion andculture." -Gustave de BeaumontThe philosophy behind this proposal builds from the above perception thatstudying Ireland opens access to a myriad of issues that are relevant to,but also transcend, one specific country. Hence, the premise in thecreation of a Major in Canadian Irish Studies is that the study of Irelandand the Irish Diaspora, in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary context,will introduce students to a range of subjects, critical perspectives, andpractical methodologies that will simultaneously enhance theirappreciation of a broad spectrum of historical and contemporary issues,while at the same time enlarging their understanding of Ireland, itsDiaspora and Canada itself. The Major in Canadian Irish Studies atConcordia University will also be driven by the conviction that thisdiscipline can speak powerfully to the multiplicity of cultural, linguistic,ethnic and historical factors shaping Canadian identity, so that students,especially in the Quebec environment, can learn from, and relate to, all thesubjects and issues encompassed by this program.Within the field of Irish Studies as practiced internationally, the centralfocus of attention, as regards courses offered, is usually on the history andculture of Ireland. And indeed, at Concordia in recent years, as the Minorand Certificate were developed, courses in English and History formed theBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20118

cornerstone of the program. However, it was not long before increasedattention also began to be directed to other disciplines (Film, Music,Theatre, Geography, Religion and the Irish language) as well as subjectsrelated to the Irish Diaspora, especially the experience of the Irish inQuebec and elsewhere in Canada. Offering courses on Ireland’s historyand culture, and on the Irish Diaspora, has inevitably brought to the foreissues that go beyond the ostensible subject encompassed by a givencourse and connects them with wider areas of study and academicinterest.2.2 Definition of proposed fields of study encompassed within the program,clearly distinguishing program components, where applicable (i.e.specializations, concentrations, profiles, options, orientations, etc.)As it is conceptualized, the Major would broaden the base established bythe Minor and Certificate in order to offer foundational courses on aregular basis dealing with Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. While currentand additional courses in literature and history would still be central to theprogram, new courses in ethnomusicology, film and theatre would serve toprovide the distinct focus of the Major. Foundational courses on thesesubjects would, on a periodic basis, be complemented by courses inreligion, material and popular culture, language, politics, visual arts,cultural geography, and economics. Thus, Concordia’s Major in CanadianIrish Studies would be characterised by two distinct features: it would beinterdisciplinary in approach and would focus on the dual subjects ofIreland and the Irish Diaspora. Students, therefore, would learn about themultifaceted diversity of Ireland and its varieties of identities, as a preludeto an appreciation of the Irish experience in its global contexts. Inbecoming familiar with the rich spectrum of issues raised by studying theIrish at home and abroad, students will be equipped to recognize certainresonances and similarities with their other areas of study and evenperhaps with aspects of their own lives.3. Rationale behind the program’s creation3.1 Scientific, socio-economic and cultural benefitsGiven the special history of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora, Concordia’sMajor in Canadian Irish Studies will provide students with opportunities tostudy a range of subjects that, as well as being inherently valuable, willintroduce issues that have relevance in other contexts and for other ethnicand immigrant groups. The proposed interdisciplinary nature of the Majorin Canadian Irish Studies will offer courses in several disciplines that willengage with a broad range of subjects, including the following:BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 20119

1) colonisation and empire;2) nationalism and post-colonialism;3) the evolution of linguistic, religious and social identities in colonial andpost-colonial contexts;4) cultural nationalism and literary modernism;5) non-textual cultural expressions of individual and community identity(music, theatre, dance, oral narratives, material culture and visual art);6) rebellion, partition and political devolution;7) famine and mass trauma in cultural memory and publiccommemoration;8) sectarianism, conflict resolution and the politics of peace andreconciliation;9) emigration, exile, settlement and integration;10) the role of place, landscape, home and memory in identity formation,at home and abroad; and11) the shifts in national affiliation, the evolution of social formations, andthe transformation of regional economies (Ireland’s Celtic Tiger and itsaftermath) within transnational political structures (E.U.) andglobalization.The Major in Canadian Irish Studies is predicated, then, on the philosophythat to study Ireland and its Diaspora is to be introduced through ainterdisciplinary framework to sets of intellectual issues, academicdebates, critical methodologies and research findings that havereverberations beyond their specific manifestations in the Irish and IrishDiaspora contexts.The unique approach of Concordia's Major in Canadian Irish Studies willattract a growing cohort of local, national and international students toMontreal, and augment the city’s reputation as an important destination inNorth America for students seeking university education. As well as thebenefits additional students would bring to the university and the city, theconsolidation of Canadian Irish Studies within the framework of a Majorwould enhance and substantiate such activities as the Irish Public LectureSeries, the annual O’Brien Visiting Scholar, the recently establishedJohnson Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies, and thefinancial supplement provided by the Government of Ireland to support anannual Visiting Scholar from Ireland. In addition, by increasing the studentbase for Canadian Irish Studies, and contributing to the awareness of theprogram across the university and beyond, the Major would create inMontreal an environment all the more conducive to further academicevents (conferences, workshops, lectures, publications, visiting scholars,academic exchanges and international scholarly partnerships). Suchevents would raise the academic profile of Montreal and reinforceConcordia’s already strong links with universities in various parts of theworld as well as with the Irish community in Montreal and Quebec.BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201110

There would be considerable cultural and socio-economic benefits fromthe creation of the Major in Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia. In therecent years, Concordia PhDs working on Irish topics have beenappointed to tenure track and faculty positions at Université Laval andJohn Abbott College, and graduate students working on Canadian IrishStudies topics have been awarded Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council (SSHRC) and Fonds québécois de la recherche sur lasociété et la culture (FQRSC) doctoral fellowships, as well as IrelandCanada University Foundation Scholarships. Undergraduates with a Minorin Canadian Irish Studies have found employment in the educationalsector, film, publishing, and in working with the Irish community inMontreal and Quebec in a variety of occupations, including Irish food andcatering services. Concordia graduates with a Minor in Canadian IrishStudies have also been accepted into graduate programs both in Canadaand in Ireland. A Major in Canadian Irish Studies could provide thefoundation for a range of career opportunities in the culture and tourismindustries, community work, education, international relations, and otherdiverse areas and professions that require a humanities qualification andBachelor of Arts.As the discipline of Canadian Irish Studies developed at Concordia, anexcellent relationship has been maintained with the Irish communities inMontreal, Quebec and elsewhere in Canada; in turn, members of thesecommunities have consistently supported and benefited from the coursesand other activities coordinated by the School of Canadian Irish Studies.As well, the academic and cultural events organized by the Schoolroutinely attract the participation of Montreal’s Irish community and thewider population. The perception of Concordia’s School of Canadian IrishStudies as the most important public face of Montreal’s Irish community isevident in the amount of funding provided by the community ($300,000annually as of 2009), by the number of scholarships community membershave created (21, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels), and bythe active participation of community members in academic courses andother Canadian Irish Studies events. As Canadian Irish Studies hasdeveloped thus far at Concordia, Montreal’s academic and cultural statushas been enhanced for residents and visitors alike.The creation of the Major in Canadian Irish Studies will confirmConcordia’s national and international reputation as the most importantCanadian location for the study of Ireland and its Diaspora. The universitycan therefore take advantage of this increased recognition by seekingQuebec (FQRSC) , Canadian (SSHRC), and international funding (IrishCouncil for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences; CultureIreland) to create scholarly networks, initiate research projects, andconvene symposia, conferences and workshops that will build on previousBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201111

activities carried out by the School. Indeed, a $60,000 collaborativeresearch project has already been established at Concordia, jointlyfinanced by Fonds québécois de la recherché sur la société et la cultureand the Irish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.In 2011, the School will host a joint conference of the CanadianAssociation for Irish Studies with the Centre for the International Study ofLiteratures in English (University of Innsbruck, Austria), and in 2012 willhost the annual conference of the International Association for the Studyof Irish Literatures. Therefore, with the launch of the Major, Concordiaand Montreal will attract significant research funding, community supportand international visitors.3.2 The institution’s orientation and developmentConcordia University already enjoys a reputation in Canadian Irish Studiesthat is unparalleled in Canada. Canadian Irish Studies courses have beenoffered at Concordia since 1991, and the Centre for Canadian IrishStudies was created in 2000 through the joint financial support ofConcordia University and the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation. In 2009,the Centre was reclassified as the School of Canadian Irish Studies, anindependent academic unit and one of the six colleges within the Facultyof Arts and Science. This change reflects both the growth of the institutionand its increased responsibility in managing its own courses, programs,and other activities such as student exchanges. The School’s mandate isto promote a fuller understanding of Ireland and the Irish experience inCanada. Between 2000-2009, the creation of the Research Chair inCanadian Irish Studies, the creation of the Centre for Canadian IrishStudies, the implementation of a multi-disciplinary Minor and Certificate inCanadian Irish Studies, and the establishment of the annual O’BrienVisiting Scholar in Canadian Irish Studies have all attested to theincreasing popularity and viability of the Canadian Irish Studies program atConcordia. This incremental development has been confirmed by adonation of $2million from the Gouvernement du Québec, along with$1million from the Concordia University Foundation, to endow theJohnson Research Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies. Theinaugural holder of this prestigious research chair, Dr. GearóidÓ hAllmhuráin, was appointed in August, 2009. He is a distinguished Irishanthropologist and ethnomusicologist whose research focuses onmapping the history of Irish immigration, settlement and integration intoQuebec society, through the particular lens of traditional music, song anddance. His work will serve as an instructive model for other immigranthistories in Quebec, Canada and other areas of the Irish Diaspora.Among the academic and cultural activities organised by the School ofCanadian Irish Studies and open to Concordia students and the public atlarge areBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201112

• an internationally acclaimed public lecture series attracting more than180 distinguished speakers from Ireland (e.g. Noble Laureate SeamusHeaney, former Prime Minister Dr. Garret FitzGerald), England,Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Austria, Canada, and the UnitedStates (see Appendix 1);• funding of the annual O'Brien Visiting Scholar to teach in the programeach fall term (see Appendix 2);• library holdings which comprise several important individual items, thearchives of the St Patrick's Society, the D'Arcy McGee collection, theprivate research library of Professor Ann Saddlemyer, a Canadianpioneer in the study of Irish literature, and a book collection donated byretired McGill History Professor Hereward Senior;• since 1998 the annual Canadian Irish Studies Seminar for graduatestudents and faculty;• since 1993, Cine Gael Montreal, the annual festival of Irish films, withthe participation of faculty members from Communications Studies,Cinema, English and History;• funding of a student production of Synge's Playboy of the WesternWorld, with support from the Department of Theatre;• The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies was edited at Concordia from2000-2002, during which time the journal's editorial policy waschanged to emphasize Irish-Canadian culture and research. TheJournal was edited at the University of Alberta from 2003 to 2009 and,in 2010, has returned to Concordia;• establishment of the Canadian Irish Studies Electronic Listserv offeringweekly information about Irish academic and cultural events inMontreal and Canada to over 2000 subscribers.• in 2011, a joint conference of the Canadian Association for IrishStudies and the Centre for the International Study of Literatures inEnglish (University of Innsbruck, Austria)• in 2012, the annual conference of the 800-member InternationalAssociation for the Study of Irish LiteraturesBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201113

3.3 Client base projection targeted for the first five years of implementationThe achievements of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia over the pastfifteen years and, in particular, the momentum generated in recent years –both within the university and the wider community – suggest that the timeis now ripe for the creation of a Major. There are currently more thanseventy students enrolled in the Minor and Certificate in Canadian IrishStudies. The popularity of these programs, and growing enrolment inprevious courses at Concordia, suggest that a Major in Canadian IrishStudies would be welcomed by both current students and new studentswho would be attracted by Concordia’s unique course offerings. As isevident from the enrolment numbers in a wide spectrum of courses, thereis a broad-based student cohort who would wish to study Canadian IrishStudies subjects. Given the interest in the history and culture of Irelandand in the Irish in the Diaspora, especially Canada, a Major would alsoattract new students to Concordia from elsewhere in Canada (since nocomparable programs exist). As well, students from the United States,where the field of Irish Studies has grown at a significant rate over thepast ten years, might very well be attracted by the opportunity to studyanother aspect of the Irish experience in North America, especially sincemany North Americans can trace their ancestry to those Irish who came toQuebec via Grosse-Île and later moved to the United States.Since the inception of the Centre in 2000, and especially since thecreation of the Minor and Certificate in Canadian Irish Studies, theuniversity has attracted more than 6,000 students to over one hundredand fifty-three Canadian Irish Studies courses (Appendix 3). Enrolment inboth the Minor and the Certificate has exceeded projections and manyCanadian Irish Studies students have expressed a wish to pursue theirinterest in the comprehensive manner that the Major would offer.Students would also be able to combine the Major in Canadian IrishStudies with a second Major in cognate fields such as History, English,Sociology, Anthropology, Music, Film, Theatre and Religion. Moreover, theMajor would attract to Concordia a whole new cohort of students fromQuebec, the rest of Canada, and abroad, who want to specialize inCanadian Irish Studies as the primary rather than secondary focus of theirundergraduate degree. The formal creation of a Major in Canadian IrishStudies is therefore now desirable to widen the options for Concordiastudents and to attract external students.The student clientele envisioned for the Major can be principally classified as1) students who wish to study Irish literature, history, music, film,theatre, as well as social and political formations in Irish domestic anddiaspora contexts;BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201114

2) students interested in the wider issues exemplified by the history ofIreland and the Irish Diaspora such as colonialism, culturalnationalism, famine, linguistic preservation, rebellion andindependence, dual sectarian traditions, partition and evolving politicalallegiances;3) students with an interest in the subject of emigration, settlement andintegration, as well as the desire to explore the unique role which theIrish immigrant community in particular has played since thesettlement of all regions of Canada and North America;4) students majoring in cognate fields wishing to complement their Majorwith one in Canadian Irish Studies;5) students who upon graduation plan to study or work in Ireland or inother countries in the European Union.Table of Enrolment Projections for 2011/2012-2015/2016BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016Admitted 20 1 20 2 20 3 25 4 25 5Continue 2 nd14 1 14 2 14 3 17 4YearContinue 3 rd14 1 14 2 14 3YearIn Program 20 34 48 53 561Cohort 12Cohort 23Cohort 34Cohort 45Cohort 53.4 status in relation to other programs currently offered, within the context ofQuebec or Canadian university network and in comparison with similarprograms offered elsewhere worldwide.No comparable undergraduate Major in Canadian Irish Studies exists inQuebec or in Canada. The Celtic Studies Major at the University ofToronto offers a specialization in the ancient cultures and histories ofIreland, Scotland and Wales. St. Mary’s University in Halifax offers anundergraduate Major in Irish Studies dealing almost exclusively with theIrish language. Similarly, St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NovaScotia offers undergraduate Major and MA programs in Celtic Studies withBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201115

a particular emphasis on Scottish Gaelic. Because of their relativelynarrow and tangential areas of specialization, lack of a broad curriculum ofIrish Studies courses, and limited coverage of the Irish experience inCanada, none of these programs will compete with Concordia’s CanadianIrish Studies Major for students at the national level. No post-secondaryinstitution in Quebec apart from Concordia offers courses in CanadianIrish Studies.Institution Area of Focus Program Type Program Name LocationSt. Michael’s Ancient cultures and Major, Minor, Celtic Studies Toronto, ONCollege,University ofTorontohistories of Ireland,Scotland and WalesSpecialistSt. Mary’s Irish language BA Irish Studies Halifax, NSUniversitySt. FrancisXavierUniversitySt. ThomasUniversityScottish Gaelic,languages,literatures andhistories of CelticspeakingpeoplesInterdisciplinaryliberal artsMajor, AdvancedMajor, Honoursand MAIndividualcourses onlyCeltic StudiesIrish StudiesIn the North Eastern United States, Irish Studies has a presence in five orsix universities, among which New York University and Boston College arethe most important. However, none of these programs is characterised bythe core hallmarks of Concordia’s proposed Major in Canadian IrishStudies, namely a focus on Ireland, the Irish in Canada and the IrishDiaspora, course offerings in a wide spectrum of disciplines (twelve), anda strong interdisciplinary perspective.Antigonish,NSFredericton,NB4. Program objectives both general and specificThe Major in Canadian Irish Studies will build on and develop fromthe success of the Minor and the Certificate in Canadian IrishStudies, by providing a more logically structured and coherentrange of course offerings that will attract a larger cohort of local,national and international students from diverse backgrounds. Theprimary objective of the program is to provide students with theopportunity to explore Irish Studies issues in domestic and diasporaperspectives, with a special emphasis on the Irish in Canada and inQuebec. More specifically, the Major in Canadian Irish Studies atConcordia aims to:BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201116

• introduce students to a wide range of academic and researchissues related to the history and culture of Ireland and the IrishDiaspora, particularly in Quebec and the rest of Canada;• promote an appreciation of these broad subjects by presentingspecific courses in such subjects as Irish literature, history,ethnomusicology, theatre and film;• introduce students to critical practices and theoretical approachesrelevant to a wide range of subjects and academic issues such ascolonialism, cultural nationalism, famine, rebellion andindependence, emigration and settlement, dual sectarian traditionsand linguistic preservation, all of which have particular inflections inthe case study offered by Irish national and diasporic histories butalso resonate dramatically for other groups in different contexts;• investigate how the experiences of Irish immigrants, particularlytheir influence on the social, political, cultural, artistic and economiclife of various regions in Canada, particularly in Quebec, can serveas informative examples for other immigrant groups seekingaccommodation within the host society;• examine the processes of historical acculturation andaccommodation of Quebec’s Irish and French communities insocial, political, linguistic, economic, religious and educationalspheres, and especially in cultural forms of expression such asmusic, literature and dance;• introduce students to research on Ireland, Quebec, and Canada,with an emphasis on how these former British colonies viewed eachother and developed national identities within evolvingconstitutional forms and state structures shaped by theirinstitutional relations with large neighbours in the United States,Great Britain and the European Union;• introduce students to the social, cultural and commemorativepractices devised by Montreal’s Irish community (associated withGrosse-île, the Black Stone, and Saint Patrick’s Day parade, forexample) to construct and preserve an identity now little nourishedby more recent immigration from Ireland;• design academic programs that will build on and expand theinterest already manifested by regular students, mature students,and lifelong learners from both the Irish and larger communities,BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201117

5. Frameworkand encourage dialogue between students and the members ofthese communities in Montreal, Quebec, or Canada;• prepare undergraduates for graduate research, in Canada andabroad, in Irish Studies and related cognate disciplines;• create research expertise and a cohort of students for the eventualestablishment of an honours and graduate program in CanadianIrish Studies at Concordia.5.1 Description of the academic regulations, especially the admissionrequirements and proceduresApplicants must have successfully completed a two-year pre-universityprogram in a Cégep and qualify for a Diploma of Collegial Studies (DEC) orthe equivalent. Applicants who have completed a three-year professionalprogram in a Cégep or have obtained a French International Baccalaureateare also eligible for admission. No specific courses are required beyond aDEC.5.2 Methods for imposing supplementary requirements such as bridging orpreparatory courses, etc.Not applicable5.3 Course length and scheduleA full time student can complete the BA, Major in Canadian Irish Studies inthree years.Required courses:(*) denotes new courses.ENGL 357IRST 211/HIST 211IRST 203IRST 303IRST 403*HIST 212/IRST 210IRST 270*IRST 300*ENGL 358*Irish Literary RevivalHistory of IrelandIntroduction to Irish StudiesIrish Studies: Diasporic Dispersal and SettlementPrerequisite: IRST 203Irish Studies: Diasporic Transformation and IntegrationPrerequisite: IRST 303The Irish in CanadaIrish Traditional Music: A Global SoundscapeResearch Methods in Irish StudiesEmigrants and Immigrants: Writing the Irish DiasporaBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201118

Program ElectivesIn addition to these required courses (27 credits), students must also take 15credits from the following program elective courses covering Ireland and the IrishDiaspora.+ In a given year, 18 credits from the following list will be offered as programelectives:ENGL 355 James JoyceENGL 359 Studies in Irish LiteratureHIST 213/IRST 205 The Irish in MontrealIRST 230 Irish Mythology and FolkloreIRST 233 The Irish Language and its Culture I (6 credits)IRST 290 Field Studies in IrelandHIST 330/1RST 312 The Great Irish FamineIRST 314 Ireland in the 20 th CenturyIRST 315 The Troubles in Northern IrelandIRST 316 The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923ENGL 353 Contemporary Irish LiteratureENGL 356 The Irish Short Story TraditionIRST 333 The Irish Language and its Culture II* (6 credits)IRST 343 Cinema in Quebec and IrelandIRST 344 Irish Plays: DramaturgyIRST 345 Irish Plays: PerformanceIRST 371 Irish Cultural Traditions in QuebecIRST 373 Irish Traditional Music in Canada: A Cultural HistoryIRST 412 Rebellion in Ireland and QuebecTHEO 327 Celtic ChristianityWSDB 335 Gender and Nation: The Irish ExperienceIRST 298IRST 299IRST 398IRST 399IRST 498IRST 499Selected Topics in Irish Studies (3 credits)Selected Topics in Irish Studies (6 credits)Special Topics in Irish Studies (3 credits)Special Topics in Irish Studies (6 credits)Advanced Topics in Irish Studies*Advanced Topics in Studies* (6 credits)5.4 Method of program managementThe majority of courses making up the 42 courses required for the Major inCanadian Irish Studies already exist and are offered on a frequent basis. Thefollowing is a chart indicating the new courses to be added (marked *), with thetiming of the addition.BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201119

Code Title Year 12011-2012ENGL 357 Irish Literary RevivalENGL 358*IRST 211 /HIST 211IRST 203HIST 212/IRST 210IRST 270*Emigrants and Immigrants: Writing theIrish DiasporaHistory of IrelandIntroduction to Irish StudiesThe Irish in CanadaIrish Traditional Music: A GlobalSoundscapeYear 22012-2013Year 32013-2014Year 42014-2015Year 52015-2016X X X XX X X XX X X X XX X X X XX X X X XX X X X XIRST 300* Research Methods in Irish Studies X X X XIRST 303IRST 403*Elective 1Elective 2Elective 3Elective 4Irish Studies: Diasporic Dispersal andSettlement X X X XIrish Studies: DiasporicTransformation and Integration X X XX X X X XXXXX X X XX X X XX X X XElective 5 X X X XElective 6 X X X XTotal number of course sectionsrequired to offer the Major (includes a 3- 9 15 16 16 16credit remission for an undergraduate programdirector)Principal 1 2 1 2 1JohnsonChair2 2 2 2 2Faculty 3 4 4 4 4 4New Hire 3 4 4 4 4Number of course sections alreadytaught by existing faculty10 12 11 12 11Additional course sections required - 3 5 4 55.5 Curriculum StructureThe Major in Canadian Irish Studies requires 42 program credits. Studentsmust complete 27 credits of core courses as well as 15 credits of programelectives.BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201120

The Major follows a logical path of learning based on a wideningunderstanding of Ireland and its Diaspora, in their historical, cultural andgeographical dimensions. The curriculum is structured to encouragestudents to think critically about Ireland, the Irish Diaspora and the evolvingrelationships between them. In each year of the Major, students will normallyenrol in a Canadian Irish Studies course that will familiarize them with theIrish experience.– By taking IRST 203 Introduction to Irish Studies, IRST 211/HIST 211History of Ireland and ENGL 357 The Irish Literary Revival, the student isintroduced to the cultural, historical, and literary traditions and social andpolitical systems of Ireland.– By taking IRST 303 Irish Studies: Diasporic Dispersal and Settlement,ENGL 358 Emigrants and Immigrants: Writing the Irish Diaspora, IRST210 The Irish in Canada, and IRST 300 Research Methods in IrishStudies, the student learns about the effects of colonization and itsdislocating impact on Irish culture and society. Special emphasis isplaced on the Irish experience of emigration, exile and resettlement, andespecially the Great Famine and its legacy in shaping Irish communities inCanada and elsewhere in the Diaspora.– By taking IRST 403 Irish Studies: Diasporic Transformation, the studentwill also be encouraged to engage in a field work project with an Irishcommunity in Montreal, Canada, the Diaspora, or in Ireland itself, thestudent learns about the Irish experiences of adaptation and integration inQuebec and Canada, as case studies that exemplify such issues ascultural accommodation and community formation, ethnic co-operationand strife, and the development of minority identities in culturally diversesocieties.– All of the above are complemented by program electives.Students will also have the option of studying for a semester in Ireland or in otherinternational Irish Studies programs in their second year of the Major; ConcordiaUniversity has an Academic Exchange Agreement with the National University ofIreland, Cork, which presents opportunities for Concordia students to study inIreland for a year. Similar agreements are being negotiated with otheruniversities in Ireland. Students can also pursue their own field studies in Irelandat any point in the Major by enrolling in IRST 290 Field Studies in Ireland.Students choose 15 credits of program electives from the list of courses inSection 5.3; these courses will be offered on a rotational basis.BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201121

5.6 Citation of collaborative agreements between academic units within theapplicant university, or with other partner institutions should also beincluded, where applicableCanadian Irish Studies has been able to develop as a field of study atConcordia because of the close cooperation between the School andtwelve academic units across two Faculties. From the beginning, corecourses have been housed in English and History, and then graduallyexpanded to other departments in the Faculty of Arts and Science and theFaculty of Fine Arts. Students who will choose the Major in Canadian IrishStudies will therefore be able to complement their studies in a range ofother disciplines (English, History, Theatre, Film, Music, Political Science,Sociology, Anthropology and Women’s Studies), and consequently gain agreater understanding of both fields and develop a wider range ofknowledge bases and practical skills.6. Required activities6.1 Applicable courses, laboratories, internships, and research activities(*) denotes new courses.Required Courses:ENGL 357 The Irish Literary Revival (3 credits)This course traces the origins and nature of the extraordinary literaryrenaissance that occurred in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s. Itexamines issues such as the rise of Irish cultural nationalism and theconcomitant turn to Ireland’s past, both mythic and historic, as well as thecontinuing influence of the Catholic Church and the British state. Writers tobe studied include W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, James Joyce,and Sean O’Casey.ENGL 358 Emigrants and Immigrants: Writing the Irish Diaspora* (3 credits)This course examines various forms of literary expression – novels, stories,poems and life-writing (memoirs, autobiographies, letters) – from Ireland andthe Irish Diaspora that address the experience of emigration, settlement andintegration of Irish migrants in various countries around the world. Issuesexplored include concepts of disaporic and transnational identities; thenegotiation of forms of self-understanding and self-transformation in thecontext of hybridity, fluidity and multiplicity; and the roles of landscape,memory and cultural production as determining factors in the competinghegemonies of homeland and diaspora. A selection of texts by writers fromIreland (Brian Friel, Joseph O’Connor, Eavan Boland), Canada (D’ArcyMcGee, Brian Moore, Jane Urquhart), America (William Kennedy, AliceBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201122

McDermott, Maeve Brennan), England (Patrick MacGill, Elizabeth Bowen,William Trevor) and Australia (Thomas Keneally, Vincent Buckley) isexplored. A selection of letters, diaries and personal reflections by Irishimmigrants is also studied.NOTE: Students have received credit for this topic under an ENGL 359number may not take this course for credit.HIST 211/IRST 211 History of Ireland (3 credits)This survey course traces the history of Ireland from the earliest times tothe present, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Special attention is given to the development of Irish nationalism andrelations with Great Britain.IRST 203 Introduction to Irish Studies (3 credits)This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to the field of Irish Studies, adiscipline that embraces a broad range of historical and contemporaryissues as they have manifested themselves in Ireland. In particular,questions related to individual identity in the context of political and socialhistory, language, culture, landscape, and religion are explored anddebated.HIST 212/IRST 210 The Irish in Canada (3 credits)From seventeenth-century fisherman and traders arriving in Newfoundlandto displaced victims of the Famine in the nineteenth-century, tocontemporary immigrants from Ireland, the Irish have had a presence in allparts of Canada from the earliest days of settlement. This course willexamine the emigration and settlement patterns of Irish immigrants in thevarious regions of Canada across a period of three centuries, payingparticular attention to their role in the social, economic, political, culturaland educational development of Canadian society. The course willexamine the various strategies by which Irish immigrants both adapted toand transformed the particular host society in which they foundthemselves, and will look at other immigrant communities as a means ofunderstanding the special contribution of the Irish to Canada.IRST 270 Irish Traditional Music: A Global Soundscape* (3 credits)Covering a tapestry of cultural history from the ancient Celts to modernmega shows like Riverdance, this multidisciplinary course focuses on Irishtraditional music performed in Ireland, as well as throughout the world.Drawing on historiographical and ethnomusicological theory, the courseuses recordings and documentary films to explore how globalization hasinterfaced with this traditional genre to create a thriving transnationalarena of performance and creativity.IRST 300 Research Methods in Irish Studies* (3 credits)Irish Studies span a spectrum of disciplines from the Humanities, Fine ArtsBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201123

and the Social and Political Sciences. Conducting research within thisdiverse domain requires a broad-based set of applied and theoreticalskills. This interdisciplinary course prepares upper-level undergraduatesfor research in Irish Studies, for academic and field situations in Ireland,and in Irish diasporic settings overseas. While cross-disciplinarymethodologies are emphasized throughout the course, particular attentionis given to research planning and logistics, archival investigation, crossculturalinterviewing, ‘participant observation’ fieldwork training, appliedtheoretical modelling, and thesis management.IRST 303 Irish Studies: Diasporic Dispersal and Settlement (3 credits)This course examines the Irish experience of emigration, exile andresettlement, emphasizing the Great Famine and its legacy in shapingIrish communities in Canada and elsewhere. It highlights debates aboutthe impact of the Famine, the significance of Quebec’s Grosse-Île in Irishand Irish Canadian cultural memory, the relationship between Irishemigration and nationalism, the role of immigrant women, and the manystrategies by which Irish communities adopted a self-image of exile.IRST 403 Irish Studies: Diasporic Transformation and Integration* (3credits)This course examines the adaptation and integration of Irish communitiesinto various host societies, with a particular emphasis on the Irish inQuebec and Canada. The course will examine the role which suchcommunities played in shaping the social, cultural, political, economic,educational and religious fabric of these host societies.Program Electives:ENGL 353 Contemporary Irish Literature (3 credits)This course examines a selection of Irish literary texts reflecting the social,economic, political and cultural transformations in both the North and theSouth, written since 1960 by writers such as Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney,Deirdre Madden, Eavan Boland, Dermot Bolger, Patrick McCabe, JohnMcGahern, Hugo Hamilton, among others.NOTE: Students have received credit for this topic under an ENGL 359number may not take this course for credit.ENGL 355 Joyce (3 credits)This course will examine Joyce’s Ulysses in its formal, historical, andcultural contexts. Other writings of Joyce may receive some attention.ENGL 356 The Irish Short Story Tradition (3 credits)This course traces the development of the Irish short story from its roots inthe Gaelic story-telling tradition and its origins as a literary form in thenineteenth century in stories by such writers as James Joyce, FrankBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201124

O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien,William Trevor, Ellis Ni Dhuibhne, and Bernard MacLaverty. Studentsdiscuss the narrative strategies used to explore various versions of Irishidentity.NOTE: Students have received credit for this topic under an ENGL 359number may not take this course for credit.ENGL 359 Studies in Irish Literature (3 credits)This course examines selected subjects in the history of Irish literature.Specific topics and prerequisites for this course are stated in theUndergraduate Class Schedule.HIST 213/IRST 205 The Irish in Montreal (3 credits)Drawing on a diversity of historiographical materials, this interdisciplinarycourse examines the story of the Irish in Canada with a particularemphasis on Quebec, from the French colonial period through the City ofMontreal’s golden era of mercantile prominence in the mid nineteenthcentury to the break-up of its older Irish neighbourhoods a centuryafterwards. Starting with the demographics of Irish immigration andsettlement, it devotes special attention to social and cultural relationsbetween the Irish and other ethnic groups.IRST 230 Irish Mythology and Folklore (3 credits)This course explores Irish culture through folklore and myth - in particular,their manifestations in Irish music, literature, performing arts, and cinema.It addresses the significance of myth and folklore in written and oralhistory, traditions, and iconography. The course focuses on the forms,functions, and influences of Irish legends, myths, and folktales that attractlearned and popular interest in Ireland and abroad.IRST 233 The Irish Language and its Culture I (6 credits)This course provides a general introduction to Irish linguistic and culturalpractices in modern and contemporary Ireland. It explores the principles ofthe Irish language and introduces students to the language throughfolklore, song, poetry, film, drama and storytelling.NOTE: Students who have received credit for MIRI 290 may not take thiscourse for credit.IRST 290 Field Studies in Ireland (3 credits)Prerequisite: Permission of the School. Prerequisites are determined onan individual basis by the School. This course is designed to allowstudents to conduct focused study of a given subject (e.g. literature,history, language, music, film) in an Irish context. The experience inIreland may be in the context of a structured school environment or maytake the form of a more independent exploration. Based upon preparatoryreadings and assignments done at Concordia, students enrich theirBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201125

learning experience in Ireland, followed by assignments completed upontheir return to Concordia. All course content and requirements areestablished in consultation with the School.NOTE: Students may take this course two times for credit provided thesubject matter is different.IRST 298 Selected Topics in Irish Studies (3 credits)IRST 299 Selected Topics in Irish Studies (6 credits)Specific topics for these courses, and prerequisites relevant in each case,will be stated in the Undergraduate Class Schedule.HIST 330/IRST 312 The Great Irish Famine (3 credits)This course examines the Irish Famine and its impact on Irish society,culture and history. Beginning with a thorough examination of theeconomic, political and social structures in pre-Famine Ireland, the coursestudies the causes of, and responses to, the Famine and its impact onsociety in Ireland and the world, including Quebec. Consideration is alsogiven to the continuing re-examination of the Famine and its role in thepolitics of memory.IRST 314 Ireland in the 20th Century (3 credits)This course surveys Irish political and social developments during the lastcentury. Key themes include the struggle for independence from Britain,Anglo-Irish relations after independence, Partition and the Northern Irish‘Troubles’, and the emergence of a globalized and more prosperousIreland.IRST 315 The Troubles in Northern Ireland (3 credits)Prerequisite: IRST 314 or HIST 3CC. After surveying the historical roots ofthe divisions in Northern Irish society, the course traces the successivephases of the prolonged ‘Troubles’ (1968 to 1998): the Catholic civil rightsmovement; the period of armed conflict between the IRA, loyalistparamilitaries, and security forces; and the recent peace process. Thecourse also considers the impact of the Troubles on Ireland (North andSouth) and Britain.IRST 316 The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (3 credits)Prerequisite: IRST 314 or HIST 3CC. This course explores the political,military, social and cultural dimensions of the turbulent period in Irishhistory that dissolved over a century of Anglo-Irish Union and establishedtwo new states. The course necessarily focuses on Sinn Féin and the IrishRepublican Army’s efforts to achieve independence from Britain, butconsiderable attention is also given to Ulster Unionist resistance toseparatism. Additionally, other forces and dynamics that shaped thisBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201126

seminal period are explored, such as sectarian violence in NorthernIreland; conflict between rival nationalist factions in the south; labour andsocialist agitations; agrarian discontents; and the women’s suffrage andfeminist movements.IRST 333 The Irish Language and its Culture II* (6 credits)Prerequisite: IRST 233; MIRI 290; or permission from the School. Underpressure for over two hundred years from the expanding use of English,Irish is still considered by many a crucial underpinning of Irish nationalidentity. This course assumes elementary knowledge of the Irish languageas a platform for students to access cultural forms (memoirs, poetry, shortstories, sean-nós songs, films) and media such as radio, newspapers,television, podcasts, etc. In particular, the course examines how languageis intimately tied to place and landscape (dinnsheanchas: the Irish lore ofplace names) and how it both actively and subliminally remains a potentforce in Irish cultural life.IRST 344 Irish Plays: Dramaturgy (3 credits)This lecture/seminar course examines selected Irish plays, covering thebackground research necessary for their deeper contextual understanding-- geography, politics, society, economy, class, history, religion, and moralvalues of the time and place. In addition to attending lectures and havingthe option to participate in play readings, students are expected toundertake research assignments in the above fields, to contribute to thecreation of dramaturgical folders and to participate in group presentations.IRST 345 Irish Plays: Performance (3 credits)This acting class in applied dramaturgy undertakes in-depth scene studyof play extracts. There is an option for students to act as dramaturg(e)sand assistant directors to the scene study groups, that is, to have nonperformingroles in the class. The students undertake extendeddramaturgical analyses of plays, characters and scenes, as well aslearning the appropriate accents.IRST 343 Cinema in Quebec and Ireland (3 credits)This course offers a comparative study of Quebec and Ireland’s cinema.As cultures, Quebec and Ireland share a history of Catholicism, arelationship with British colonialism, anxiety around language, andunresolved debates about nationalism and state formation. But thesepoints of contact are problematic. This course teases out the complexitiesand importance of some of these points of contact and divergence so asto engage, in a fully-realized way, in a comparative analysis.IRST 371 Irish Cultural Traditions in Quebec (3 credits)Music, song, and dance have consistently acted as conduits for theintegration of the Irish immigrants into Québécois society. ThisBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201127

interdisciplinary course explores the history of Irish traditional music inQuebec since the eighteenth century. Using archive recordings, ballads,and dance music, the course traces the history of Irish settlement inQuebec, and focuses specifically on the diaspora of Irish music makers tothe province. In exploring this eclectic soundscape, particular emphasis isgiven to Irish music communities in rural and urban Quebec, from theGaspé through Quebec City and Montreal, to the Gatineau and OttawaValleys.IRST 373 Irish Traditional Music in Canada: A Cultural History (3 credits)The cultural history of Irish traditional music in Canada is inextricablylinked to a matrix of Irish immigration and settlement that began in the late1600s and that stretched from Newfoundland to the Yukon, from HudsonBay to the Great Lakes, evidenced in music played by Irish, French,Scottish, and First Nation communities across Canada today. Exploringthe music history of the Irish in the Atlantic provinces, Lower and UpperCanada, and the Western provinces, this course draws on analyticalmodels in history, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well asethnomusicology and music criticism.IRST 398 Special Topics in Irish Studies (3 credits)IRST 399 Special Topics in Irish Studies (6 credits)Specific topics for these courses, and prerequisites relevant in each case,will be stated in the Undergraduate Class Schedule.IRST 412 Rebellion in Ireland and Quebec (3 credits)This seminar explores, from a variety of angles, two rebellions that markedthe histories of Ireland and Quebec. The Irish Rising of 1798 and theRebellions of 1837-8 in Lower Canada both pitted various sectors insociety against one another. Students read broadly about the tworebellions, considering both their similarities and differences, reflecting onthe different ways that historians have written about them, and exploringtheir place in the public memory of the two societies.IRST 498 Advanced Topics in Irish Studies* (3 credits)Specific topics for these courses, and prerequisites relevant in each case,will be stated in the Undergraduate Class Schedule.IRST 499 Advanced Topics in Irish Studies* (6 credits)Specific topics for these courses, and prerequisites relevant in each case,will be stated in the Undergraduate Class Schedule.THEO 327 Celtic Christianity (3 credits)This course follows a historical line to show the connections of the pre-BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201128

Christian Celtic beliefs with the early Christian Church of Celtic countries.It focuses on the spirituality of the Celtic people in the context of Celtichistory and culture.NOTE: Students who have received credit for THEO 208 or for this topicunder a THEO 298 number may not take this course for credit.WSDB 335 Gender and Nation: The Irish Experience (3 credits)This course looks at women in Irish politics, culture, and society from thelate eighteenth century to the present, with particular focus on thetwentieth century. It examines the nature of women’s involvement innationalist and feminist movements, their position in relation to the state,the Church (Catholic and Protestant), education, work, sexuality, andcultural production (literature, visual art, and film).NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a WSDB398 number may not take this course for credit.6.2 In cases where internships are planned, the applicant must outlineinternship opportunities, detail the method for training students andseeking internship alternatives (if a student cannot secure an internship)Not applicable.6.3 The specific objectives and methods for participant evaluationNot applicable.7. Faculty resources7.1 C.V.s for the past 5 years using a standard formatCurricula vitae are attached for the following faculty members in Appendix 5:1. Professor Michael Kenneally, Research Chair of Canadian IrishStudies and Principal of the School of Canadian Irish Studies.2. Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Johnson Chair in Quebec andCanadian Irish Studies3. Professor Gavin Foster, Assistant Professor in Canadian Irish Studies4. Professor Lorrie Blair (Art Education), Fellow of the School ofCanadian Irish Studies5. Professor Rhona Richman Kenneally (Design and Computation Arts),Fellow of the School of Canadian Irish Studies6. Professor Ronald Rudin (History), Fellow of the School of CanadianIrish StudiesBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201129

7.2 Faculty presently availableFull-time FacultyMichael Kenneally, PhD, Professor, Research Chair in Canadian IrishStudies. Professor Kenneally received his doctorate in English Literaturefrom the University of Toronto. He has published articles on W. B. Yeats,James Joyce, Jack Hodgins, Sean O’Casey, Brian Moore, as well as oncontemporary Irish drama, Irish literary autobiographies and Irish-Canadianlife writing. He is the author of Sean O’Casey and the Art of Autobiographyand has edited three collections of essays on Irish writing: Irish Literature andCulture; Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary IrishLiterature; and Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature. He has co-edited fouradditional collections of essays dealing with the New Literatures in English.He is co-editor of Studies in English and Comparative Literature, amonograph series which to date has published twenty one titles. He is theformer editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. In 2008, he co-edited,with Rhona Richman Kenneally and Ron Rudin, a special issue of theCanadian Journal of Irish Studies, dealing with Ireland and Quebec. In 2006,he was awarded a SSHRC multi-annual research grant of $51,432 to carryout research on “re/presenting nineteenth-century Irish identities in theCanadas: life writing, 1800-1936”. Additional SSHRC research funding of$17,500 was awarded to Professor Kenneally, Professor Rhona RichmanKenneally, and Professor Ron Rudin to host an international workshop on“Constructions of Identity in Ireland and Quebec” at the Centre for CanadianIrish Studies in October, 2006. In 2010, he was awarded $20,000 from theFonds québécois de la recherche sur la société at la culture (FQRSC) topartner with the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and SocialSciences (€30,000) on a series of workshops on “Memory andRepresentations of the Past in Ireland and Quebec.”Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, MA (UCC), DUEF (Université du Sud-Toulon-Var),MBA (IUA), Ph.D.(Queen’s University Belfast), Professor, Johnson Chair inQuébec and Canadian Irish Studies. An anthropologist and ethnomusicologistspecializing in Irish music history and folklife, he is author of A Pocket Historyof Irish Traditional Music (1996/2003), as well as book chapters, academicarticles, encyclopedia entries, and liner essays on Irish music and culturalhistory. His work has been featured on PBS (USA), CBC (Canada), RTE(Ireland), BBC (UK), and TF1 (France). An All Ireland champion uilleann piperand concertina player, he was formerly Jefferson Smurfit Professor of IrishStudies and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. As aprofessional performer and producer, he has presented over one thousandconcerts on four continents during the past thirty years. A consultant foraward-winning documentaries on Irish cultural history, including theDisney/PBS mini series The Irish in America: Long JourneyHome (1998), his commercial recordings include Traditional Music FromBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201130

Clare and Beyond (1996), Tracin – Traditional Music from the West of Ireland(1999), The Independence Suite –Traditional Music from Ireland, Scotlandand Cape Breton (2004), and the ethnographic recording Paddy Murphy:Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina (2007), which wasalso published as a digital archive in 2008. Two books The Hesitation Step:Traditional Music and Folklife in an Irish Community and Quest for theKeepers: Musical Journeys through the Irish Diaspora in North America arepresently being prepared for publication. As Johnson Chair, he is conductingan interdisciplinary study of the soundscape of the Irish in Quebec entitledSonorités Oubliées: Identity, Place and Memory in Quebec’s Irish MusicCommunities that integrates research models from historical anthropology,ethnomusicology, and cultural geography.Gavin Foster, PhD, Assistant Professor. Professor Foster received hisdoctorate from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. His doctoraldissertation, titled ‘The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish CivilWar,’ examines the overlooked social and cultural dimensions of the bitterconflict fought between rival nationalist factions on the eve of independence(1922-23). His project relates the notoriously intense and long-livedanimosities associated with the Civil War to the fraught relationship betweennationalist politics, class interests, and cultural identities in early twentiethcenturyIreland. Over the past few years he has taught courses at theUniversity of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and ConcordiaUniversity; presented at conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Europe; andpublished in History Ireland, Field Day Review, and Saothar: Journal of theIrish Labour History Society. Along with modern Irish/British history and theinterdisciplinary field of Irish Studies, his scholarly interests includecomparative nationalism, history of memory, migration studies, oral history,and labour studies.FellowsLorrie Blair, PhD, Associate Professor. Professor Blair received herdoctorate in Art Education from Ohio State University. She has publishedarticles and presented papers on Grosse-Île and other famine memorial sites,Saint Patrick’s Day Parades, and on various aspects of Irish popular culture.She teaches undergraduate courses in popular visual culture and IrishPopular Culture. She is on the Advisory Council of the Centre for CanadianIrish Studies and has served on the Graduate Scholarship Committee for fouryears.Rhona Richman Kenneally is an Associate Professor and Chair of theDepartment of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, and aFellow of Concordia’s School of Canadian Irish Studies. She holds a B.A. inEnglish literature, an M.A. in social history, and both a professional degreeand Ph.D. in architecture. Her research follows two threads. One is mid-BA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201131

twentieth-century Canadian food culture especially related to the domesticfoodscape, with recent articles in Food, Culture & Society, Meals in Scienceand Practice, and What's to Eat? Entrées in Canadian Food History; she alsohas a monograph work-in-progress for the University of Toronto Press. Asecond addresses architecture, landscape, and material culture asconstructions of Irish and Canadian-Irish identity, including articles in EireIreland and the recently-published Ireland’s Great Hunger, Vol. 2. In addition,she has a four-year grant to investigate food, architecture and design withinthe built environment of the Irish home during the mid-twentieth century, as ameans to explore women’s agency and the practices of everyday life. Inaddition to her writings, Richman Kenneally has co-organized conferences ondesign and social activism, constructions of identity in Ireland and Quebec,the culture of food within the home, and Montreal’s Expo 67. She is the coeditorof a collection of essays on Expo 67 (University of Toronto Press,2010), and special issues of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and theMaterial Culture Review. She is Editor of the Canadian Journal of IrishStudies.Ronald Rudin, PhD, Professor. Professor Rudin received his doctorate inHistory from York University. He has published six books and numerousarticles that touch upon the economic, social, intellectual and cultural historyof French Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most recently, hehas published Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journeythrough Public Memory, winner of the 2010 Book Award of the NationalCouncil on Public History. He is also the producer of the documentary film,Life After Île Ste-Croix. He has offered Irish history courses at Concordiasince 1990, has been involved with the Centre for Canadian Irish Studiessince its inception and chaired the committee that recommended the creationof the School in 2008. He was also part of a research group exploring thelinks between Ireland and Quebec. In 2008, he co-edited, with MichaelKenneally and Rhona Richman Kenneally, a special issue of the CanadianJournal of Irish Studies, dealing with Ireland and Quebec. He has recentlycompleted his second documentary film, Remembering a Memory, whichdeals with the Celtic Cross on Grosse-Île and which was premiered in May2010 at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studiesat St. Mary’s University in Halifax. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society ofCanada and became a Fellow of the School of Canadian Irish Studies in2009.7.3 New faculty required, with specializationWith partial funding provided by the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, theSchool of Canadian Irish Studies is currently advertising for a new position inIrish Literature, to begin in July 2011, ahead of the introduction of the Major.An appointment in this area of specialization will balance existing faculty andBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201132

allow for more courses in Irish literary subjects dealing with Ireland and theIrish Diaspora.In the following years, although not required for the implementation of theMajor, faculty appointments in disciplines such as film and theatre will besought to complement existing courses. Financial support for these positionswill be requested from the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation. For each ofthese positions, candidates will be sought who possess an interdisciplinaryexpertise and who can engage with the multifaceted ways societies in Irelandand the Irish Diaspora have constructed and shaped identity.New faculty will teach already-listed courses in their disciplines, along withnew courses reflecting their specific specialisations.7.4 Course sections required each year in addition to those taught by full-timefacultyIn order to offer the program requirements (9 core courses) and a minimum of5 program electives in year 1 and 6 program electives each year, additionalcourse sections will be required. These include 0 in year 1, 3 in year 2, 5 inyear 3, 4 in year 4 and 5 in year 5, and each year thereafter.7.5 Requirements for additional support staffThere are no requirements for additional support staff.7.6 Other resourcesIn summer 2011, the School of Canadian Irish Studies will be relocated to acentral area on the downtown campus to accommodate the anticipated needsof the School. This space will consist of office space for the following: 1) thePrincipal of the School of Canadian Irish Studies; 2) Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin,Johnson Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish Studies; 3) Gavin Foster,Assistant Professor in Canadian Irish Studies; 4) Assistant to the Principal ofthe School of Canadian Irish Studies; 5) a second administrative assistant; 6)The annual O’Brien Visiting Scholar and other visiting faculty; 7) Part timefaculty; and 8) three new faculty appointments. A multi-purpose libraryspace/lecture/meeting room is also planned.Since 2006, the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation has been providinggrowing funding to the Concordia University Libraries to support researchmaterials for these students. These amounts are: $2,000 (2006), $1,000(2007), $3,500 (2008) and $3,500 (2009). An amount of $5,000 is currentlybeing processed for 2010, and in future years the annual level of support willremain, at a minimum, at this level. The total of $15,000 contributed thus farBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201133

has been used to provide research materials for students in the programs ofCanadian Irish Studies in the form of monograph collections andsubscriptions to electronic databases. For example, beginning in 2008, theCanadian Irish Studies Foundation contributed $1,500 annually to theJSTOR, an electronic subscription instrument providing access to a widearray of international journals and periodicals in Irish Studies. In addition, theCanadian Irish Studies Foundation has paid for the transportation costs ofvarious personal libraries in Irish Studies which have been donated to theSchool, and a private donor has contributed $150,000 to create the Fr.Thomas McEntee Library and Reading Room at Concordia University. Thiswill be a state-of-the-art research resource available to students in CanadianIrish Studies which will augment the services provided by the ConcordiaLibraries. Thus, students in the School of Canadian Irish Studies at ConcordiaUniversity will have at their disposal a highly advanced set of research tools inIrish Studies.7.7 Teaching Assistant AllocationOne additional teaching assistantship is to be added to the TA budgetallocation in the amount of $7000 + benefits.8. Letters of support from the following have been supplied and areappended in Appendix 4.Dr Clare CarrollDirector, Irish Studies and Professor, Comparative LiteratureQueens College and the Graduate CentreCity University of New YorkDr Kevin WhelanMichael J. Smurfit Director,Keough Naughton University of Notre-Dame CentreDublin, IrelandDr Munira H. MutranPresident, Brazilian Association for Irish StudiesUniversity of Sao Paulo, BrazilDr Peter KuchEamon Cleary Professor of Irish StudiesUniversity of Otago, New-ZealandDr Margaret Kelleher, DirectorAn Foras Feasa: the Institute for Research in Irish Historical and CulturalTraditionsNational University of Ireland, MaynoothBA Major in Canadian Irish Studies, January 14, 201134

9. Cost Projection AnalysisConcordia University 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2013-14 2015-16 2016-17 6 Year TotalFTEs for Yr 1 students @ 30 crs/student 16 16.00 10.00 10.00 36.00FTEs for Yr 2 students 16 16.00 10.00 10.00 36.00FTEs for Yr 3 students 16 16.00 10.00 10.00 36.00FTEs for Yr 4 students 20 20.00 12.00 12.00 44.00FTEs for Yr 5 students 20 20.00 12.00 32.00FTEs for Yr 6 students 20 20.00 20.00Student Enrollment 16.00 26.00 36.00 40.00 42.00 44.00 204.00RevenueMELS FTE Funding (base of $3,546.07x1.07) 3,794 - 60,709 98,652 136,595 151,772 159,360 607,087Tuition Revenue ($1,601.69 per FTE) 1,602 25,627 41,644 57,661 64,068 67,271 70,474 326,745Soutien ($1,439 per FTE) - No current rates available 1,439 - 23,024 37,414 51,804 57,560 60,438 230,240Terrains et batiments ($687 per FTE) - No current rates available 687 - 10,992 17,862 24,732 27,480 28,854 109,920Offset / Other administration fees (at $270 per FTE) - No current rates available 270 - 4,320 7,020 9,720 10,800 11,340 43,200Total Anticipated University Revenue 25,627 140,689 218,609 286,918 314,883 330,467 1,317,192ExpensesTenure track position (teaching load of 9 credits -first year;12 credits after first year - - - - - - -Additional course sections (0,3,5,4,5,5) - Rate provided by financial services - 24,758 43,327 34,043 43,327 43,327 188,782.00Teaching Assistantships per year ($7,000 + benefits/T.A.) - Fall/Winter 7,910 7,910 7,910 7,910 7,910 7,910 47,460.00Operating expenses - Will use current ressources - - - - - - -Total Anticipated Arts & Science Expenses 7,910 32,668 51,237 41,953 51,237 51,237 236,242Anticipated University Expenditures (Sout., Terr. et bat.) - 38,336 62,296 86,256 95,840 100,632 383,360Total Anticipated Expenses 7,910 71,004 113,533 128,209 147,077 151,869 619,602Anticipated Gain (Loss) for the University 17,717 69,685 105,076 158,709 167,806 178,598 697,59035

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2PROGRAM CHANGE: New Major in Canadian Irish StudiesProposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Editorial[X] New Program[ ] Requirements [ ] Regulations [ ] Program DeletionPresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed Text42 BA Major in Canadian Irish StudiesStage I12 HIST 211 3 ; HIST 212 3 /IRST 210 3 ; IRST 203 3 , 270 3Stage II12 ENGL 357 3 ; IRST 300 3 , 303 3 , ENGL 358 3Stage III3 IRST 403 3Rationale: Please see the attached proposal document.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal document.15 chosen from ENGL 353 3 , 355 3 , 356 3 , 359 3 ; IRST 230 3 , 233 6 , 290 3 , 298 3 , 299 6 , 333 6 , 343 3 , 344 3 , 345 3 , 398 3 ,399 6 ; 498 3 , 499 6 ; IRST 205 3 or HIST 213 3 ; IRST 312 3 or HIST 330 3 ; IRST 314 3 ; IRST 315 3 ; IRST 316 3 ; IRST371 3 ; IRST 373 3 ; IRST 412 3 ; THEO 327 3 ; WSDB 335 336D1

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: ENGL 353New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:EnglishProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.100Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[X] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[ ] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed TextENGL 353 Contemporary Irish Literature (3 credits)This course examines a selection of Irish literary texts reflecting the social, economic, political andcultural transformations in both the North and the South, written since 1960 by writers such as Brian Friel,Seamus Heaney, Deirdre Madden, Eavan Boland, Dermot Bolger, Patrick McCabe, John McGahern, Hugo Hamilton,among others.NOTE: Students have received credit for this topic under an ENGL 359 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course provides students with an opportunity to study the continuing development of Irish literature and to understand its place in the wider European context.Resource Implications: Please see the attached documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.37D2

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: ENGL 356New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:EnglishProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.100Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextENGL 356 The Irish Short Story Tradition (3 credits)This course traces the development of the Irish short story from its roots in the Gaelic story-tellingtradition and its origins as a literary form in the nineteenth century in stories by such writers as JamesJoyce, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, Ellis NiDhuibhne, and Bernard MacLaverty. Students discuss the narrative strategies used to explore various versionsof Irish identity.NOTE: Students have received credit for this topic under an ENGL 359 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course provides an opportunity to become familiar with the richness of the Irish short story tradition and see it in the broader context of English language writing.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.38D3

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: ENGL 358New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:EnglishProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.100Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextENGL 358 Emigrants and Immigrants: Writing the Irish Diaspora (3 credits)This course examines various forms of literary expression – novels, stories, poems and life-writing (memoirs,autobiographies, letters) – from Ireland and the Irish Diaspora that address the experience of emigration,settlement and integration of Irish migrants in various countries around the world. Issues explored includeconcepts of disaporic and transnational identities; the negotiation of forms of self-understanding andself-transformation in the context of hybridity, fluidity and multiplicity; and the roles of landscape, memory andcultural production as determining factors in the competing hegemonies of homeland and diaspora. A selection oftexts by writers from Ireland (Brian Friel, Joseph O’Connor, Eavan Boland), Canada (D’Arcy McGee, Brian Moore, JaneUrquhart), America (William Kennedy, Alice McDermott, Maeve Brennan), England (Patrick MacGill, Elizabeth Bowen,William Trevor) and Australia (Thomas Keneally, Vincent Buckley) is explored. A selection of letters, diaries andpersonal reflections by Irish immigrants is also studied.NOTE: Students have received credit for this topic under an ENGL 359 number may not take this course for credit.Rationale: This course provides students with an in depth understanding of archetypal aspects of the Irish literary imagination. Investigating these specific themes within the context ofmodernism and the Irish literary revival, this course expands on other Irish Studies course offerings in literature and also feeds into similar thematic approaches through courses inother areas of Irish Studies such as history, music, theatre and politics.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.39D4

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: HIST 211New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[X] Course Title[ ] Editorial[X] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[ ] New CourseNote change.[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 2010/2011) calendarProposed TextHIST 211 History of Ireland (3 credits)This survey course traces the history of Ireland from the earliesttimes to the present, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. Special attention is given to the development of Irishnationalism and relations with Great Britain.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under anIRST 298 number may not take this course for credit.HIST 211 (also listed as IRST 211)History of Ireland (3 credits)This survey course traces the history of Ireland from the earliesttimes to the present, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. Special attention is given to the development of Irishnationalism and relations with Great Britain.NOTE: Students who have received credit for IRST 211 or for thistopic under an IRST 298 number may not take this course for credit.Rationale: The exclusion note and title are updated to reflect the cross-listing with IRST 211.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.40D5

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: HIST 212New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2011/2012Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextHIST 212 (also listed as IRST 210)The Irish in Canada (3 credits)From seventeenth-century fisherman and traders arriving in Newfoundland to displaced victims of the Famine in thenineteenth-century, to contemporary immigrants from Ireland, the Irish have had a presence in all parts of Canadafrom the earliest days of settlement. This course examines the emigration and settlement patterns of Irishimmigrants in the various regions of Canada across a period of three centuries, paying particular attention totheir role in the social, economic, political, cultural and educational development of Canadian society. Thecourse explores the various strategies by which Irish immigrants both adapted to and transformed the particularhost society in which they found themselves, and will look at other immigrant communities as a means ofunderstanding the special contribution of the Irish to Canada.Note: Students who have received credit for IRST 210 or for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take thiscourse for credit.Rationale: Cross-listing of IRST 210 and HIST 212.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documentsOther Programs within which course is listed:None.41D6

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: HIST 213New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextRationale: This new course is cross-listed with IRST 205.HIST 213 (also listed as IRST 205)The Irish in Montreal (3 credits)Drawing on a diversity of historiographical materials, this interdisciplinary course examines the story of theIrish in Canada with a particular emphasis on Quebec, from the French colonial period through the City ofMontreal’s golden era of mercantile prominence in the mid nineteenth century to the break-up of its older Irishneighbourhoods a century afterwards. Starting with the demographics of Irish immigration and settlement, itdevotes special attention to social and cultural relations between the Irish and other ethnic groups.NOTE: Students who have received credit for IRST 205 or for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take thiscourse for credit.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.42D7

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: HIST 330New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:HistoryProgram:Degree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.160Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextRationale: This new course is cross-listed with IRST 312.HIST 330 (also listed as IRST 312)The Great Irish Famine (3 credits)This course examines the Irish Famine and its impact on Irish society, culture and history. Beginning with athorough examination of the economic, political and social structures in pre-Famine Ireland, the course studiesthe causes of, and responses to, the Famine and its impact on society in Ireland and the world, includingQuebec. Consideration is also given to the continuing re-examination of the Famine and its role in the politicsof memory.NOTE: Students who have received credit for IRST 312 or for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not takethis course for credit.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.43D8

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 205New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 205 (also listed as HIST 213)The Irish in Montreal (3 credits)Drawing on a diversity of historiographical materials, this interdisciplinary course examines the story of theIrish in Canada with a particular emphasis on Quebec, from the French colonial period through the City ofMontreal’s golden era of mercantile prominence in the mid nineteenth century to the break-up of its older Irishneighbourhoods a century afterwards. Starting with the demographics of Irish immigration and settlement, itdevotes special attention to social and cultural relations between the Irish and other ethnic groups.NOTE: Students who have received credit for HIST 213 or for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take thiscourse for credit.Rationale: This course speaks directly to the cross-disciplinary and community contexts of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University by examining the multifaceted role of theIrish in the historical and cultural development of Montreal.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.44D9

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 210New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 210 (also listed as HIST 212)The Irish in Canada (3 credits)From seventeenth-century fisherman and traders arriving in Newfoundland to displaced victims of the Famine in thenineteenth-century, to contemporary immigrants from Ireland, the Irish have had a presence in all parts of Canadafrom the earliest days of settlement. This course examines the emigration and settlement patterns of Irishimmigrants in the various regions of Canada across a period of three centuries, paying particular attention totheir role in the social, economic, political, cultural and educational development of Canadian society. Thecourse explores the various strategies by which Irish immigrants both adapted to and transformed the particularhost society in which they found themselves, and will look at other immigrant communities as a means ofunderstanding the special contribution of the Irish to Canada.Note: Students who have received credit for HIST 212 or for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take thiscourse for credit.Rationale: This course speaks directly to the cross-disciplinary and community contexts of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University by examining the multifaceted role of theIrish in the historical and cultural development of Canada.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.45D10

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 211New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed TextRationale: This course is cross-listed with the existing HIST 211.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.IRST 211 (also listed as HIST 211)History of Ireland (3 credits)This survey course traces the history of Ireland from the earliest times to the present, with emphasis onthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Special attention is given to the development of Irishnationalism and relations with Great Britain.NOTE: Students who have received credit for HIST 211 or for this topic under an IRST 298 number may nottake this course for credit.46D11

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 230New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 230 Irish Mythology and Folklore (3 credits)This course explores Irish culture through folklore and myth - in particular, their manifestations in Irishmusic, literature, performing arts, and cinema. It addresses the significance of myth and folklore in writtenand oral history, traditions, and iconography. The course focuses on the forms, functions, and influences ofIrish legends, myths, and folktales that attract learned and popular interest in Ireland and abroad.Rationale: Cognizant of the global popularity of Irish mythology and folklore (from popular literature to Hollywood movies), this course will appeal to a broad cross-section ofstudents as well as to members of the general public, and will fulfill the mission of the School of Canadian Irish Studies to deliver wide-ranging multidisciplinary courses for multiplestudent cohorts.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.47D12

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 233New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2020Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed TextIRST 233 The Irish Language and its Culture I (6 credits)This course provides a general introduction to Irish linguistic and cultural practices in modern andcontemporary Ireland. It explores the principles of the Irish language and introduces students to thelanguage through folklore, song, poetry, film, drama and storytelling.NOTE: Students who have received credit for MIRI 290 may not take this course for credit.Rationale: This course provides students with a foundational knowledge of the Irish language as a basis for more advanced study in this specific area and also as a means to fullyaccess the various disciplines dealing with the society, arts and culture of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. As such it acts as an important vehicle to understanding the linguistic contextfor many of the multi-disciplinary course offerings in Irish Studies.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.48D13

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 270New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 270 Irish Traditional Music: A Global Soundscape (3 credits)Covering a tapestry of cultural history from the ancient Celts to modern mega shows like Riverdance, thismultidisciplinary course focuses on Irish traditional music performed in Ireland, as well as throughout theworld. Drawing on historiographical and ethnomusicological theory, the course uses recordings and documentaryfilms to explore how globalization has interfaced with this traditional genre to create a thriving transnationalarena of performance and creativity.Rationale: Vigilant of the popularity of Irish world music today, this course uses music, song, and dance as a lens to view the complex interlocking currents of Irish cultural history.Particular attention is given to the role of the traditional music maker in Irish society, as well as among the constituent communities of the Irish diaspora over-seas. In evaluating theimpact of contemporary media on this ancient yet evolving tradition, the course spans a broad spectrum of academic discourse, from music appreciation to cultural criticism.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal document.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.49D14

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 300New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 300 Research Methods in Irish Studies (3 credits)Irish Studies span a spectrum of disciplines from the Humanities, Fine Arts and the Social and Political Sciences.Conducting research within this diverse domain requires a broad-based set of applied and theoretical skills. Thisinterdisciplinary course prepares upper-level undergraduates for research in Irish Studies, for academic and fieldsituations in Ireland, and in Irish diasporic settings overseas. While cross-disciplinary methodologies areemphasized throughout the course, particular attention is given to research planning and logistics, archivalinvestigation, cross-cultural interviewing, ‘participant observation’ fieldwork training, applied theoreticalmodelling, and thesis management.Rationale: Aware of the many challenges confronting research students in Irish Studies (logistical and theoretical), this multidisciplinary course is designed as a training module forstudents who plan to undertake serious research in the field. Vigilant of the need to produce highly-qualified undergraduate and graduate students, the School of Canadian IrishStudies regards courses of this kind as a keystone in its longterm strategy to develop and maintain Irish Studies excellence at Concordia.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.50D15

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 312New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 312 (also listed as HIST 330)The Great Irish Famine (3 credits)This course examines the Irish Famine and its impact on Irish society, culture and history. Beginning with athorough examination of the economic, political and social structures in pre-Famine Ireland, the course studiesthe causes of, and responses to, the Famine and its impact on society in Ireland and the world, includingQuebec. Consideration is also given to the continuing re-examination of the Famine and its role in the politicsof memory.NOTE: Students who have received credit for HIST 330 or for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not takethis course for credit.Rationale: This elective course examines the Irish Famine, arguably the most traumatic and most resonant experience in modern Ireland, to explore its impact on Irish society, cultureand history. Beginning with an examination of the economic, political and social structures in pre-Famine Ireland, the course addresses the causes of, and responses to, the Famine,and considers its impact both in Ireland and abroad, especially in Quebec. Attention is also paid to the continuing scholarly engagement with the Famine and how the politics ofmemory have influenced Famine commemorative events and memorials in Ireland and in the diaspora.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None51D16

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 314New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed TextIRST 314 Ireland in the 20th Century (3 credits)This course surveys Irish political and social developments during the last century. Key themes include thestruggle for independence from Britain, Anglo-Irish relations after independence, Partition and theNorthern Irish ‘Troubles’, and the emergence of a globalized and more prosperous Ireland.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course familiarizes students with the major developments and issues during a critical period of Irish history that saw the emergence of an independent Irish state, thepartitioning of the country by Britain, the outbreak of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’, and profound changes within Irish society and in Ireland’s place in the world. As such it alsoprovides necessary historical context for many of the multi-disciplinary course offerings in Irish Studies.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.52D17

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 315New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 315 The Troubles in Northern Ireland (3 credits)Prerequisite: IRST 314. After surveying the historical roots of the divisions in Northern Irish society, thecourse traces the successive phases of the prolonged ‘Troubles’ (1968 to 1998): the Catholic civil rightsmovement; the period of armed conflict between the IRA, loyalist paramilitaries, and security forces; and therecent peace process. The course also considers the impact of the Troubles on Ireland (North and South) andBritain.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course introduces students to the complex political, historical, social and cultural issues that frame the recent Northern Irish ‘Troubles.’ It provides necessary historicalcontext for other courses in Irish literature, cultural studies, film, and political science, to name a few. Additionally, the broader questions and issues that the course engages with - e.g.state treatment of minority groups; para-militarism and political violence; competing national identities; the legacies of colonialism; and the pursuit of peace and reconciliation in apolarized, post-conflict society - are of direct relevant to many other countries and periods.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.53D18

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 316New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 316 The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923 (3 credits)Prerequisite: IRST 314. This course explores the political, military, social and cultural dimensions of theturbulent period in Irish history that dissolved over a century of Anglo-Irish Union and established two newstates. The course necessarily focuses on Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army’s efforts to achieveindependence from Britain, but considerable attention is also given to Ulster Unionist resistance to separatism.Additionally, other forces and dynamics that shaped this seminal period are explored, such as sectarian violencein Northern Ireland; conflict between rival nationalist factions in the south; labour and socialist agitations;agrarian discontents; and the women’s suffrage and feminist movements.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course provides students with an in depth understanding of a seminal period in Irish, and indeed British, history, the legacy of which continues to inform Irish politicsand society and Anglo-Irish relations. Coinciding with the internationally renowned Irish literary revival, this course also provides crucial historical context for Irish Studies’ courseofferings in literature and cultural studies.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.54D19

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 333New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 333 The Irish Language and its Culture II (6 credits)Prerequisite: IRST 233; MIRI 290; or permission from the School. Under pressure for over two hundred years fromthe expanding use of English, Irish is still considered by many a crucial underpinning of Irish national identity.This course assumes elementary knowledge of the Irish language as a platform for students to access cultural forms(memoirs, poetry, short stories, sean-nós songs, films) and media such as radio, newspapers, television, podcasts,etc. In particular, the course examines how language is intimately tied to place and landscape (dinnsheanchas: theIrish lore of place names) and how it both actively and subliminally remains a potent force in Irish culturallife.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under an IRST 399 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: Building on linguistic proficiencies acquired through IRST 233 The Irish Language and its Culture, this more advanced course enables students to deepen theirunderstanding of both the Irish language and its influence on the study of Irish culture generally as it touches upon various disciplines within Irish Studies.Resource Implications: Please see attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.55D20

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 343New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 343 Cinema in Quebec and Ireland (3 credits)This course offers a comparative study of Quebec and Ireland’s cinema. As cultures, Quebec and Ireland share ahistory of Catholicism, a relationship with British colonialism, anxiety around language, and unresolved debatesabout nationalism and state formation. But these points of contact are problematic. This course teases out thecomplexities and importance of some of these points of contact and divergence so as to engage, in afully-realized way, in a comparative analysis.Rationale:This course allows students to perform a comparative investigation of Québécois and Irish societies through the lens of nationalcinema. It this way, it complements other course offerings focussing the national cinema of Ireland as well as other comparativeapproaches looking at Ireland and Quebec through Music, History and Politics.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.56D21

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 344New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 344 Irish Plays: Dramaturgy (3 credits)This lecture/seminar course examines selected Irish plays, covering the background research necessary for theirdeeper contextual understanding -- geography, politics, society, economy, class, history, religion, and moralvalues of the time and place. In addition to attending lectures and having the option to participate in playreadings, students are expected to undertake research assignments in the above fields, to contribute to thecreation of dramaturgical folders and to participate in group presentations.Rationale:This course provides students with the opportunity to become familiar with major figures working in Irish theatre and their artisticaims. Situated within their historical and cultural contexts, these investigations provide important insights into the development ofIrish society and, in this way, complement several of the multi-disciplinary course offerings in Irish Studies.Resource Implications: See the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.57D22

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 345New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 345 Irish Plays: Performance (3 credits)This acting class in applied dramaturgy undertakes in-depth scene study of play extracts. There is an optionfor students to act as dramaturg(e)s and assistant directors to the scene study groups, that is, to havenon-performing roles in the class. The students undertake extended dramaturgical analyses of plays, charactersand scenes, as well as learning the appropriate accents.Rationale:This course provides applied practice in both researching the historical, cultural and geographical contexts of Irish plays, and intranslating the knowledge gained through such research into dramatic performances. Students gain a deepened understanding of many ofthe artistic and cultural themes found in such plays; the process provides them with a visceral connection to and an analyticalcomprehension of many central themes preoccupying Irish playwrights; they also gain experience of some particular performance stylesfound in this dramatic genre. It thus enables a more profound and expressive engagement with the Irish experience, as reflected by oneor more Irish playwrights.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.58D23

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 371New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 371 Irish Cultural Traditions in Quebec (3 credits)Music, song, and dance have consistently acted as conduits for the integration of the Irish immigrants intoQuébécois society. This interdisciplinary course explores the history of Irish traditional music in Quebec sincethe eighteenth century. Using archive recordings, ballads, and dance music, the course traces the history of Irishsettlement in Quebec, and focuses specifically on the diaspora of Irish music makers to the province. In exploringthis eclectic soundscape, particular emphasis is given to Irish music communities in rural and urban Quebec, fromthe Gaspé through Quebec City and Montreal, to the Gatineau and Ottawa Valleys.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: This course explores the intersection of musical, song, and dance traditions in the cultures of Ireland and Quebec, thereby providing a distinct lens through which eachunderstands the other. Using historiographical and ethnomusicological analysis to understand the pervasive echoes of Irish music in Quebec, the course offers a distinct point of accessto understand the patterns of Irish immigrant settlements and the influence of the Irish in the cultural life of the province. It addresses Irish music history in Quebec from bothFrancophone and Anglophone perspectives.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.59D24

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 373New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 373 Irish Traditional Music in Canada: A Cultural History (3 credits)The cultural history of Irish traditional music in Canada is inextricably linked to a matrix of Irish immigrationand settlement that began in the late 1600s and that stretched from Newfoundland to the Yukon, from Hudson Bay tothe Great Lakes, evidenced in music played by Irish, French, Scottish, and First Nation communities across Canadatoday. Exploring the music history of the Irish in the Atlantic provinces, Lower and Upper Canada, and theWestern provinces, this course draws on analytical models in history, anthropology, and cultural studies, as wellas ethnomusicology and music criticism.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 number may not take this course forcredit.Rationale: Canada has enjoyed a long historical relationship with Ireland. The Irish in various religious, socioeconomic, and political guises have made a substantial contribution tothe evolution of Canadian culture since the late seventeenth century. Focusing on the musical elements of this cultural and historical matrix, this course shines a new light on ancientlinkages and exemplifies the raison d’être of the School of Canadian Irish Studies, both academically and pedagogically.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.60D25

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 403New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx)calendarProposed TextIRST 403 Irish Studies: Diasporic Transformation and Integration (3 credits)This course examines the adaptation and integration of Irish communities into various host societies, with aparticular emphasis on the Irish in Quebec and Canada. The course will examine the role which suchcommunities played in shaping the social, cultural, political, economic, educational and religious fabric ofthese host societies.Rationale: As a logical sequence to IRST 203 Ireland and IRST 303 Canadian Irish Studies: Dispersal and Settlement, this core multidisciplinary seminar will examine the patterns ofadaptation and integration of Irish immigrants into various host communities, with a particular emphasis on the Irish in Montreal, Quebec, and Canada. It will examine the role playedby Irish immigrants in the social, cultural, educational, political and economic development of the host society and look at the cultural strategies they devised to construct and preservecommunity identity.Resource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.61D26

PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: CCIS-8 VERSION: 2COURSE CHANGE: IRST 412New Course Number:Proposed [X] Undergraduate or [ ] Graduate Curriculum changesCalendar for academic year: 2012/2013Implementation Month/year: September 2011Faculty/School:Arts and ScienceDepartment:School of Canadian Irish StudiesProgram:Canadian Irish StudiesDegree:BACalendar Section/Graduate Page Number:31.530Type of Change:[ ] Course Number[ ] Course Description[ ] Course Deletion[ ] Course Title[ ] Editorial[ ] Other - Specify:[ ] Credit Value[X] New Course[ ] PrerequisitePresent Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendarProposed TextIRST 412 Rebellion in Ireland and Quebec (3 credits)This seminar explores, from a variety of angles, two rebellions that marked the histories of Ireland and Quebec.The Irish Rising of 1798 and the Rebellions of 1837-8 in Lower Canada both pitted various sectors in societyagainst one another. Students read broadly about the two rebellions, considering both their similarities anddifferences, reflecting on the different ways that historians have written about them, and exploring their placein the public memory of the two societies.NOTE: Students who have received credit for this topic under a HIST 398 or 412 number may not take this coursefor credit.Rationale: While offering a comparative study of crucial historical events in both Ireland and Quebec, this course build upon Irish history courses made available at 200 and 300 level,further informing students' understanding of Ireland's relationship with Britain, and also providing insights into Quebec's parallel history. It also complements courses in other IrishStudies disciplines which investigate points of comparison between Ireland and QuebecResource Implications: Please see the attached proposal documents.Other Programs within which course is listed:None.62D27

Appendix 1: List of Past Speakers at the School of Canadian Irish Studies’ PublicLectures Series since 1991.1991/1992Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (Irish-language poet)Cecil Houston (History, University of Toronto)1992/93Ira Nadel (English, University of British Columbia)Luke Gibbons (Film and Cultural Studies, Dublin City University)Angela Bourke (Dept of Irish, University College Dublin)Maria Campbell (Native Canadian Writer)Sam Clark (Sociology, University of Western Ontario)Grace Neville (French, University College Cork)Wolfgang Zach (English, University of Graz)1993/94Maurice Elliott (English, York University, Toronto)Andy Hinds (Irish Theatre Director)Jennifer Johnston (Novelist, Northern Ireland)Hiroshi Suzuki (English, University of Waseda, Tokyo)Steven Ellis (History, University College Galway)Teresa O'Connor (English, University of Connecticut)1994/95Andrea Brozyna (History, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)3363

Seamus Connolly (Traditional Musician, Boston College)Michael Longley (Poet, Northern Ireland)Angela Bourke (Dept. of Irish, University College Dublin)Ciaran Carson (Poet, Northern Ireland)Moya Cannon (Poet, Galway)Cormac O Grada (History, University College Dublin)1995/96Sean O'Laoire (Dublin Architect)Tony Gibbs (English, Macquarie University, Melbourne)Ann Saddlemyer (English, University of Toronto)Kevin Whelan (History/Geography, Visiting Professor, Boston College)Brendan Walsh (Professor of Economics, University College, Dublin)1996/97Richard Cave (Professor of Theatre, Royal Holloway College, University of London)Catherine Wilson (History, University of Guelph)Tag Gallagher (Film Critic, Boston)Famine Commemoration Panel:Kevin Whelan (Visiting Scholar, Notre Dame University)Luke Gibbons (Film and Cultural Studies, Dublin City University)Avril Doyle (Irish Minister of State)Anne Devlin (Northern Irish Playwright)Peter Kuch (English, University of New South Wales, Sydney)John Hill (Film Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine; in conjunction with Cine Gael,Montreal)3464

1997/98George O’Brien (Novelist and Critic)Peter Gray (History, University of Southampton)Padraig O’Gormaile (Department of French, University College Galway)Neil Sammells (Dean, Faculty of Arts; Dept. of English, Bath Spa University College)1998/99Johanne Trew (Ethnomusicology, University of Limerick)Sherry Olson (Geography, McGill University)Hiram Morgan (History, University College Cork)1798 Commemoration Panel:Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame Dublin Campus)Thomas Bartlett (History, University College DublinDaire Keogh (History, Dublin City University)Gary Owens (History, University of Western Ontario)Jerry Pocius (Folklore, Memorial University, Newfoundland)Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch (Irish Portrait Director, National Gallery of Ireland)Panel of Northern Irish Writers:John Brown (Poet)Moira Donaldson (Poet)Glen Patterson (Novelist)Richard Curl (Emeritus Professor of Architectural History, De Montfort University, England)Wolfgang Zach (Professor of English, University of Innsbruck)1999/2000Pol Maguire (dramatist)Alex Johnston (dramatist)3565

Vera Kreilkamp (English, Editor Eire-Ireland)Michelle Tisseyre (Montreal novelist)Jenny Cook (Material Culture, McGill University)Kevin James (History, University of Edinburgh)Liam O’Kelly (Art History, University of Ulster, Belfast)2000/2001Bernard O’Donoghue (English) Oxford UniversityChristina Mahony (English, Catholic University of America)France Laberge and Lucienne Cornet (Architecture, Quebec City)Edwin Thumboo (Poet, National University of Singapore)2001/2002James Donnelly (History, University of Madison, Wisconsin; in conjunction with the Dept. ofHistory)Gary Owens (History, University of Western Ontario)Jamie O’Neill (Irish novelist)Bernard Mac Laverty (Irish novelist)Matthew Sweeney (Irish poet)2002/2003Margaret Kelleher (English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)Maureen Murphy (English, Hofstra University, New York)Claire Connolly (English, University of Swansea)Brian Graham (Geography, University of Ulster)3666

David Wilson (History, University of Toronto)2003/2004Garret Fitzgerald (former Prime Minister of Ireland)Tom Hayden (California Senator and political acitivist)Lucy McDiarmid (English, Villanova University, Philadephia)Vincent Carey (History, SUNY Platsburgh)Angus Mitchell (History, University of Limerick, Ireland)IRELAND ON THE ST. LAWRENCE:Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame Keough Institute of Irish Studies, Dublin)Lorrie Blair (Art Education, Concordia University)Desi Wilkinson (Music, University of Limerick)Rhona Richman Kenneally (Design and Computational Art, Concordia University)Michael Kenneally (Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University)2004-2005Colm Toibin (Man Booker-nominated novelist)Henry Glassie (Folklorist, Indiana University)Yvonne Whelan (Geography, O’Brien Visiting Scholar, Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages,University of Ulster, Northern Ireland)Liam Harte (English, Manchester University)2005-2006Sebastian Barry (Booker Man-nominated novelist)Glenn Patterson (Northern Ireland novelist)Sean Farrell (History, O’Brien Visiting Scholar, University of Northern Illinois)John McGarry (Political Science, Queen’s University, Kingston)3767

2006-2007Patrick McCabe (Booker Man-nominated novelist)Garret FitzGerald (Former Prime Minister of Ireland)Charles Foran (Canadian novelist)Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill (Irish Language Poet, Notre Dame University)Margaret Kelleher (English, O’Brien Visiting Scholar, National University of Ireland,Maynooth)Guy Beiner (History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) February, 2007.2007-2008Darina Allen (Chef, Author and Cultural Personality)Colum McCann (Novelist)Kevin Whelan (Notre Dame Keough Institute of Irish Studies, Dublin)Maurice Bric (History, UCD)Clare Carroll (O’Brien Visiting Scholar, Director of Irish Studies, CUNY)Catherine Phil MacCarthy (Irish Poet)Mary Burke (English, University of Connecticut)Rory Sweetman (History, University of Otago, New-Zealand)David A. Wilson (Celtic Studies, University of Toronto)2008-2009Kerby Miller (History, University of Missouri)Niall O’Dowd (Journalist, Founder of Irish America and The Irish Voice, Adjunct Professor,Columbia University School of Journalism)Michael Cronin (Translation Studies, Dublin City University)3868

Ann Saddlemyer (Former Master, Massey College, University of Toronto; Former Director,Drama Centre, University of Toronto)Christopher Murray (Theatre, University College Dublin)Louis de Paor (Director, Irish Studies, NUI, Galway)Nessa Cronin (Irish Studies, NUI, Galway)Linda Cardinal (Political Science, Université d’Ottawa)Katie Gough (Theatre, Film and Television, University of Glasgow)2009-2010Claire Connolly (English Literature, Cardiff University)Claudia Kinmonth (furniture conservation specialist)David Wilson (Celtic Studies, University of Toronto)Fintan O’Toole (political and cultural commentator)Jim Kennelly (International Business, Skidmore College)Sinéad Morrissey (poet)2010-11Bernard McLaverty (writer)Fiach Mac Conghail (Director, Abbey Theatre)IRISH WOMEN WRITERS:Ivy BannisterMary Rose CallaghanCatherine DunneCelia de FreineLia MillsLOCAL IRISH WRITERS:Sharon CallaghanSharon Doyle DriedgerCatharine Fleming McKentyStephen Morrissey3969

Hugh McQueen (Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, ConcordiaUniversity)Joe Lee (History, Director, Irish Studies, New York University)Patricia Coughlan (English, National University of Ireland, Cork), O’Brien Visiting Scholar4070

Appendix 2:Annual O’Brien Visiting Scholars in Canadian Irish StudiesThis position, jointly funded by Concordia University and the Canadian Irish StudiesFoundation, brings distinguished scholars to teach within the programs of the Centre forCanadian Irish Studies. The appointment is for the fall semester. The duties of the O’BrienVisiting Scholar are to teach two undergraduate courses give a public lecture under the auspicesof the School Irish Lecture Series.Holders Since Inception:2004: Yvonne Whelan (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster,Northern Ireland)Courses in Department of Geography:Dublin Through Space and TimeInterrogating the Cultural Landscapes of Ireland2005: Sean Farrell (Department of History, Northern Illinois University)Courses in Department of History :The Irish DiasporaThe History of Northern Ireland2006: Margaret Kelleher (Dept. of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth)Courses in Department of English:Literature of the Irish Famine in a Comparative ContextHistory and Memory in Modern Irish Literature2007: Clare Carroll (Director of Irish Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature,Queen’s College, City University of New York)Courses in Department of History:Early Modern Irish Cultural HistoryIreland in the 20th Century2008: Linda Cardinal (School of Political Studies, Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie etles politiques publiques, University of Ottawa)Courses in Department of Political Science:Nationalism and Ethnicity: Ireland and CanadaPolitics and Identity Debates in Ireland and in Québec4171

2009: Maurice Bric (History, University College Dublin)Courses in the School of Canadian Irish Studies:Ireland 1750-1850Ireland in the 20th Century2010: Patricia Coughlan (School of English, University College, Cork)Courses in the Department of English:Irish Literary Revival: The Uncreated Conscience of My RaceContemporary Irish Literature: Fiction 1960s to 20004272

Appendix 3:List of courses taught in Canadian Irish Studies since 19971997-1998The Irish FamineHistory of IrelandJames JoyceContemporary Irish LiteratureThe Making of the Irish LandscapeThe Irish Economy and the European UnionFeminist Perspectives on Culture1998-1999The Irish in QuebecConquest & Colonization: Ireland 1170-1690History of IrelandIrish Literary RevivalContemporary Irish LiteratureThe Making of the Irish Landscape1999-2000History of IrelandRebellion in Ireland and QuebecSwift and 18th C. Irish LiteratureJames JoyceThe Irish Short Story TraditionNewfoundland Irishness: Region and IdentityField Studies in IrelandCeltic ChristianityEuropean PoliticsTransitions in Irish Art and Culture2000-2001Structure of Modern IrishContemporary Irish LiteratureIrish Literary RevivalThe Making of the Irish LandscapeCeltic ChristianityThe Irish Economy and the European UnionIrish Visual CultureIrish Culture in CanadaHistory of Irish MusicFilm Studies: Cinema, Ireland and Peace2001-2002James Joyce4373

Twentieth Century Irish DramaThe Irish Economy and the European UnionGender and Nation – Women in Irish Politics, Culture & Society2002-2003The Great Irish FamineThe Troubles in IrelandStructure of Modern IrishContemporary Irish LiteratureIrish Literary RevivalContemporary Irish Writing: Landscape, Nation and IdentityThe Making of the Irish Landscape2003-2004Conquest and Colonization: Ireland 1170-1690Rebellion in Ireland and QuebecHistory of IrelandIrish Short Story TraditionJames JoyceQuébec and Irish Cinema2004-2005The Irish FamineThe Irish in Nineteenth-Century MontrealHistory of IrelandExile, Emigration and Irish WritingDublin Through Space and TimeInterrogating Cultural Landscapes of IrelandCeltic ChristianityThe Irish Economy and the European UnionGender and Nation: Women in Irish Politics, Culture & SocietyThe Politics of Irish NationalismIrish and Quebecois Music: Developments and InfluencesIntroduction to Irish Studies2005-2006The Irish DiasporaThe History of Northern IrelandHistory of IrelandJames JoyceThe Making of the Irish LandscapeCeltic ChristianityThe Politics of Irish NationalismIntroduction to Irish FilmIntroduction to Irish Studies4474

2006-2007The Irish Experience in MontrealConquest and Colonization: Ireland 1170-1690Rebellion in Ireland and QuebecHistory of IrelandConquest and Resistance in Early Modern IrelandModern IrishThe Irish Literary RevivalJames JoyceLiterature of the Irish Famine in a Comparative ContextHistory and Memory in Modern Irish LiteratureContemporary Irish LiteratureBritish & Irish Post-colonial LiteratureGlobalisation and Irish Historical Memories of MigrationThe Making of the Irish LandscapeCeltic ChristianityContemporary Irish PoliticsGovernment and Institutions in Contemporary IrelandIntroduction to Irish Popular CultureIntroduction to Irish Studies2007-2008Early Modern Irish Cultural HistoryIreland in the 20th CenturyHistory of IrelandModern Irish IIThe Irish Short Story TraditionJames JoyceThe Irish Literary RevivalModern Irish LiteratureContemporary Irish LiteratureCeltic ChristianityThe Irish Economy and the European UnionGender and Nation: Women in Irish Politics, Culture & SocietyThe Films of Neil JordanField Studies in IrelandIntroduction to Irish Studies2008-2009Irish Traditional MusicModern IrishIntroduction to Irish FilmContemporary Irish Literature20th Century Irish Drama20th C. British and Irish LiteratureNationalism & Ethnicity: Ireland & Canada4575

Politics and Identity Debates in Ireland and QuébecCeltic ChristianityIntroduction to Canadian Irish StudiesEarly C20th Irish Plays I: DramaturgyThe Irish and African Diasporas in the Atlantic WorldWomen, Nationalism, Civil Rights: Case Studies fromNorthern Ireland and the Southern U.S. (1955-1969)James JoyceHistory of IrelandEarly 20th Century Irish Plays II: Scene Study2009-2010Introduction to Canadian Irish StudiesHistory of IrelandJames JoyceIrish Literary RevivalIreland, 1750-1850Irish Traditional MusicIrish Linguistic and Cultural TraditionsTranslating Ireland’s Cultural IdentitiesCeltic ChristianityIreland in the 20th CenturyIrish Traditional Music in Quebec: Cultural History and FolklifeIrish Dramatic LiteratureThe Great Irish FamineFilm Culture in Ireland2010-2011Introduction to Canadian Irish StudiesHistory of IrelandThe Irish Language and its CultureThe Irish Short Story TraditionIrish Literary Revival: The Uncreated Conscience of My RaceContemporary Irish Literature: Fiction 1960s To 2000The Making of the Irish LandscapeVoices from the Past: Irish Immigration, Oral Histories & Story TellingThe Troubles in Northern IrelandCinema and Northern IrelandA Cultural History of Irish Traditional Music in Canada 1750-2000The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923Rebellion in Ireland and QuebecContemporary Irish Dramatic LiteratureIrish FolkloreCeltic ChristianityIrish Cultural Traditions in Quebec4676

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Appendix 5:Curriculum VitaeMichael KenneallyBiographical Informationborn:Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland,address:5630 Queen Mary Road,Hampstead, Montreal,Quebec, Canada H3X 1W9phone/fax: (514) 489 7122institutional address:School of Canadian Irish Studies,Concordia University,1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. WestGM 903-19,Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8phone: (514) 848 2424 ex 7389email:Michael.Kenneally@concordia.caEmployment History2007- Professor, Research Chair in Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University2002-2007 Associate Professor, Research Chair in Canadian Irish Studies, ConcordiaUniversity1991-2002 Adjunct Professor, Concordia University1973-2002 Professor, Marianopolis College2006 Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, May2004 Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, May2002 Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, May1990 Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo1983 Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University, VancouverAcademic Background91

1978 Ph. D. (English), University of Toronto.Dissertation: “Design in the Autobiography of Sean O’Casey.”1971 M.A. (English), McGill University, Montreal.Thesis: “Contrapuntal Relationships in Selected Short Stories of WilliamFaulkner.”1968 B.A. (Hons. English), University of British Columbia, VancouverHonours and Awards2010 Appointed by the Foreign Affairs Minister of Ireland to the Global IrishNetwork to advise the Government of Ireland on educational, cultural andeconomic matters.2009 Recipient, Montreal Community Award, St. Patrick’s Society of Montreal.Named to Global Irish 100 by Irish America Magazine (New York) as the100 people in the Irish Diaspora who have raised the profile of Irish culture.Named to Education 100 by the Irish Voice (New York), the list of Irish inNorth America who have made a significant contribution to universityeducation.2002 Grand Marshall, St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Montreal2002 Appointed by the Government of Irelandas Honorary Consul General ofIreland.1997 Named Montreal Irishman of the Year for educational and cultural servicesto the community.LanguagesIrish: spoken, reading (basic), writing (basic)French: spoken (basic), reading (basic)ResearchPublications2010 Co-editor, (with Wolfgang Zack and Jacqueline Hurtley).92

Literatures in English: Ethnic, Colonial and Cultural Encounters.Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag. At press.2010 “Brian Moore: Transforming the Irish Exile Motif in Montreal.”Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Spring, 2010. At press.2009 “Representing the Famine, Writing the Self: Irish Canadian Narratives.” Ed.David Valone. Ireland’s Great Hunger: Representation andPreservation. New York: University Press of America, 2010, pp. 73-87.2008 Co-guest editor, Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies,selected papers from the Concordia workshop, “Constructions of NationalIdentity in Ireland and Quebec.”2008 Co-editor. (with Wolfgang Zach). Literatures in English: Priorities ofResearch. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag.2007 “Re-configuring Irish Studies in Canada: Writing Back to the Centre.”Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-FistCentury. Eds. Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan.London: Pluto Press. 2007. pp. 28-382007 Review of A History of Irish Theatre: 1601-2000 by Christopher Morash.English Studies in Canada, Vol. 31, Nos. 2-3, Spring.2002-9 Co-editor, with Wolfgang Zach. Studies in English and ComparativeLiterature, a series of critical studies devoted to an examination of worldliteratures in English and selected aspects of comparative literature,published byGunter Narr, Tubingen, Germany. 20 Volumes published to date. Thefollowing three titles published since 2002:XVIII: Gortschacher, Wolfgang and Holger Klein, eds. Austria andAustrians: Images in World Literature. 2003.XVIIII: Wildburger, Eleonore, ed. Politics, Power and Poetry: AnIntercultural Perspective on Aboringional Identity in Black AustralianPoetry, 2003.XX: Gortschacher, Wolfgang and Holger Klein, eds. Tale Novella, ShortStory: Currents in Short Fiction, 2004. Michael Kenneally and WolfgangZach, eds. Literatures in English: Priorities of Research. Tübingen,Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag. 2008.Twenty two volumes published to date.2006 “An International Agency to Promote the Study of Irish Culture,” TheFuture of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum. Chales University,Prague: Centre for Irish Studies: 107-122.93

2005 “Irish Immigration to Nineteenth-Century Canada: Alternative Narratives.”Proceedings of the Canadian American Research Symposium. Ellis IslandImmigration Museum, New York, Sept. 2005. Canadian Issues/ ThèmesCanadiens (Fall): 38-402005 Co-editor, with Rhona Richman Kenneally. From ‘English Literature’ to‘Literatures in English’: International Perspectives: Festschrift in Honourof Wolfgang Zach. Heindelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Individualessay included.2005 “Incribing Irish Identities in Upper Canada: Patrick Slater’s The YellowBriar.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 31 no. 1: 60-662005 Review of Sean O’Casey, Writer at Work: A Biography by ChristopherMurray. Irish University Review 35 no. 1: 211-216.2004 Preface. Swn Duncan. Postcolonial Theory in Irish Drama from 1800-2000. Edwin Mellen Press.2004 Review of Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing by Patrick Ward. NewHibernia Review 8, no 1: 146-50.2000-2003 Editor. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Four issues:28, no. 2/Fall, 2002/29, no. 1, Spring 200327, no. 2/Fall, 2001/28, no. 1, Spring 200226, no. 2/Fall, 2000/27, no. 1, Spring 200126, no. 1, Spring 2000.2001 “Irish Literary Studies: A Paradigm for the New Literatures in English?”English Studies: Past – Present – Future. Proceedings of the 1998conference marking the centenary of the Institut für Anglistik, University ofInnsbruck. Ed. Wolfgang Zach. Hamburg: Kovacs Publishing House: 102-116.1996 “The Internationalism of Jack Hodgin’s Regional Imagination.”Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter) National Dimensions ofLiteratures in English. Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the EuropeanAssociation of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Eds.Wolfgang Zach and Ken L. Goodwin. Tübingen, Germany: StauffenburgVerlag: 319-324.1996 Preface. Ines Praga Terent. Una Belleza Terrible: La Poesía IrlandesaContemporánea (1940-95). Barcelona: Promociones y PublicacionesUniversitarias.94

1996 “The Transcendent Impulse in Contemporary Irish Drama." InternationalAspects of Irish Literature. Proceedings of the 1990 IASAIL conference atOtani University, Kyoto. Ed. Toshi Furomoto et al. Gerrard’s Cross, Eng.:Colin Smythe: 272-282.1996 Five entries in The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.1995 Editor, with introduction. Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature. Studiesin Contemporary Irish Literature, vol. 2. Gerrards Cross, Eng.: ColinSmythe; New York: Barnes and Noble.1992 Editor, with introduction. Irish Literature and Culture. Gerrards Cross,Eng.: Colin Smythe; New York: Barnes and Noble.1989 “The Autobiographical Imagination and Irish Literary Autobiography."Critical Approaches to Anglo-Irish Literature. Ed. Michael Allen andAngela Wilcox. Gerrards Cross, Eng.: Colin Smythe.1989 “Joyce, O'Casey and the Genre of Autobiography." O'Casey Annual, III.Ed. R. Lowery. London: Macmillan, 1984. 124-133. Reprinted in JamesJoyce and His Contemporaries: A Centenary Tribute. Eds. Diana Ben-Merre and Maureen Murphy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.1988 Portraying the Self: Sean O'Casey and the Art of Autobiography. GerrardsCross, Eng.: Colin Smythe; New York: Barnes and Noble.1988 Preface. Map-Makers' Colours: New Poets of Northern Ireland. Ed. ToddSwift and Martin Mooney. Montreal: Nu-Age Editions.1988 Editor, with introduction. Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms inContemporary Irish. Literature. Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature,vol 1. Gerrards Cross, Eng.: Colin Smythe; NewYork: Barnes and Noble.1987 "Ireland and Russia in the Autobiographical Imagination of Sean O'Casey.Literary Relations: Ireland, England and the World, Vol. III; NationalImages and Stereotypes. Ed. Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok. Tübingen,Germany: Gunter Narr: 189-196.1984 Interview with Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston. Irish Literary Supplement3, no. 2: 25-27. Reprinted in Writing Irish: Selected Interviews with IrishWriters from the Irish Literary Supplement. Ed. James P. Myers, Jr.Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. 11-25.1983 "Models and Mediators in O'Casey's Autobiography." O'Casey Annual, II.Ed. R. Lowery. London: Macmillan: 74-87.95

1982 "The Changing Contents of O'Casey's Autobiography." O'Casey Annual, I.Ed. R. Lowery. London: Macmillan: 148-166.1981 "Autobiographical Revelation in O'Casey's I Knock at the Door." CanadianJournal of Irish Studies 7, no. 2: 21-38.1980 "Principles of Organization in O'Casey's Drums Under the Windows."Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 6, no. 2: 34-57.1980-1998 Selected Reviews in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Irish LiterarySupplement, O'Casey Annual and English Studies in Canada.Conference Presentations2010 Proposal for panel for Canadian Historical Association, Congress 2010,Concordia University, “Memories of Ireland, Stories of Canada MappingPrivate Geographies in Contemporary Canadian HistoricalFiction.”2009 Annual conference of the International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures, University of Glasgow. “Transporting Irishness: Landscapeand Memory in E. H. Walshe’s Cedar Creek, From the Shanty to theSettlement: A Tale of Canadian Life. (1863)2008 University of Toronto, Annual conference of the Canadian Association forIrish Studies, “Home Re-Visited and Re-Imagined: Textual Irelands bynineteenth-century Irish-Canadian Immigrants.”2007 University of St. Louis Chair in Irish Studies Lecture Series, InvitedLecture, “Irish Studies in Montreal: Academic and CommunityDimensions.”2007 Annual Conference of the American Association for Irish Studies. CityUniversity of New York, Institute for Irish-American Studies.“Representing History in Patrick Slater’s The Yellow Briar: A Story of theIrish on the Canadian Countryside.”2007 University of Barcleona, 2007 Conference of The Centre for theInternational Study of Literatures in English, University of Innsbruck.“Through Colonial Eyes: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Perspectives onIreland in the Writings of Margaret MacDougall (Norah) and M.H.Clayton.”2007 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad National de La Pampa,Universidad Nacional de San Martin, et al. Conference on Ireland and Latin96

America: Towards New Perspectives. Two Plenary Lectures: “Irish Studiesin Canada: A Paradigm for the Diaspora?” and “Life Writing and the IrishImmigrant Experience in Canada.”2006 Roundtable Discussion—Mapping Directions in Irish Studies. Library andArchives Canada, Ottawa. Irish Studies Symposium.2006 “Images that Memory Begets: Home and Away in Frances Stewart’s OurForest Home.” Annual Conference of the International Association for theStudy of Irish Literatures, University of New South, Wales, Sydney.2005 “Co-opting the Famine in Irish-Canadian Life Writing and Historiography.”Conference: Ireland’s Great Hunger: Representation and Preservation.Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT.2005 ”Irish Immigration to Nineteenth-Century Canada: Alternative Narratives.”Canadian American Research Symposium. Ellis Island ImmigrationMuseum, New York.2005 “Patrick Slater’s The Yellow Briar: Fictional Subversion and IrishImmigrant Identity in Nineteenth-Century Canada.” InternationalConference: Literatures in English—Priorities of Research, University ofInnsbruck.2005 Responder to panel: Literature of the Irish Diaspora. Annual Conference ofthe International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, CharlesUniversity Prague.2005 “Irish Immigration in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Alternative Narratives.”Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures, Charles University, Prague.2005 “Textualizing Irish Immigrant Identities in Canada: The EmergingLandscape.” Keynote Lecture. Annual Conference of the CanadianAssociation for Irish Studies. National University of Ireland, Maynooth.2005 “Negotiating Otherness in Nineteenth-Century Irish-Canadian LifeWriting.” Seminar on The Other in Canadian Society, McGill Institute forthe Study of Canada.2005 "Patrick Slater's The Yellow Briar: Autobiography, Fictional Subversionand Ethnic Reconfiguration." Conference: Beyond Autoethnography:Writing Race and Ethnicity in Canada, Wilfred Laurier University.2004 “Brian Moore: Transforming the Irish Exile Motif in Montreal.”International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Galway, Ireland.97

2004 “Re-Configuring Irish Studies in Canada: Writing Back to the Centre.”American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Liverpool.2004 “‘God, she’s a right looking eejit in the dress’: Material Culture in JamesJoyce and Edna O’Brien.” Popular Culture Association of America annualconference. San Antonio.Texas.2003 “Landscape, Exile and Identity in the Poetry of Thomas D’Arcy McGee.”Canadian Association for Irish Studies, University of New Brunswick.2003 “The Irish in Canada: Laying the Historical Foundations,” Invited Lecture,Center for Irish Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington.2002 “‘Lost/Unhappy and at home’: Place and Identity in Selected Novels ofDeirdre Madden and Colm Tóibín.” Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference ofthe American Conference for Irish Studies, Lehman College, The CityUniversity of New York.1999 “Material Culture in Selected Irish Short Stories.” InternationalAssociation for the Study of Irish Literatures, Annual Conference,University of Barcelona, Spain.1998 “The Future of Irish Studies in North America.” Irish Studies TwentiethAnniversary Conference, Boston College.1998 “Irish Studies in the Context of New Literary Studies.” Plenary Lecture,Innsbruck University, Austria. Institut Für Anglistik Centenary Conferenceon English Studies: Present Problems and Future Perspectives.1998 “Seamus Kelly’s ‘The Weaver’s Grave’: Landscape and the Irish ShortStory Tradition.” International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures, Annual Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland.1995 “Geographies of the Mind: Landscape, Language and NationalConsciousness in Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney.” Inaugural Asia-PacificIrish Studies Conference, National University of Singapore.1995 “Voyaging into Otherness: Place in Joyce’ Dubliners.” InternationalAssociation for the Study of Irish Literatures, Annual Conference,University College Cork, Ireland.1993 “The Internationalism of Jack Hodgins's Regional Imagination." EuropeanAssociation for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria.98

1990 “Irishness and Contemporary Irish Drama.” Plenary lecture, Yeats Societyof Japan Annual Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo.1990 “Sean O’Casey Autobiographical Writings and Expressionistic Drama.”Irish Literary Studies Seminar Invited Lecture. Waseda University, Tokyo.1990 “The Transcendent Impulse in Contemporary Irish Drama.” InternationalAssociation for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature Annual Conference,Otani University, Kyoto.1990 “Language, Identity and the Past in Irish Writing.” Irish Lecture Series,University of Loyola, Chicago.1987 “Sean O'Casey as Autobiographer.” McGill University, Montreal, IrishLecture Series.1986 “Themes and Forms in Contemporary Irish Drama and Fiction.” CanadianAssociation for Irish Studies Annual Conference, York University, Toronto.1986 “Contemporary Irish Writing.” Invited lecture in conjunction with a oneweekseminar conducted on Irish drama, Yeats International SummerSchool, Sligo, Ireland.1985 “The Autobiographical Imagination and Irish Literary Autobiographies.”Keynote lecture, International Association for the Study of Anglo-IrishLiterature Conference, Queen's U. Belfast.1984 “Ireland and Russia in the Autobiographical Imagination of Sean O'Casey.”International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, AnnualConference, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria.1984 “Images of Ireland in the Autobiographies of George Moore and W. B.Yeats.” American Committee for Irish Studies Annual Conference, Wake-Forest University, North Carolina.1983 “Anglo-Irish Autobiographies: George Moore, W.B. Yeats and SeanO'Casey.” Invited lecture in conjunction with a one-week seminarconducted on Irish drama, Yeats International Summer Sligo, School, Sligo,Ireland.1982 “Interrogating the Self: The Autobiographies of Liam O'Flaherty, SeanO'Faolain and Patrick Kavanagh.” Quebec Association of College Teachersof English, Annual Conference, Marianopolis College, Montreal.1982 “Joyce, O'Casey and the Genre of Autobiography.” Joyce CentenaryConference, Hofstra University, New York.99

1982 “Closure in Joyce’s Dubliners,” Continuing Education Conference,Marianopolis College, Montreal.1981 “O’Casey’s Autobiography: Narrative Strategies,” Mid-Hudson ModernLanguage Association Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NewYork.1980 “Sean O'Casey's Autobiography and The Silver Tassie.” O'Casey CentenaryConference, Hofstra University.Community Lectures 2002-2006 The St. James Literary Society, McGill University, “James Joyce’s Ulysses.2004 The St. James Literary Society, McGill University, “The Irish in Quebec:An Outline”2004 Saidye Bronfman Theatre, “Theatre and Politics in Northern Ireland”2003 Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, “A History of the Jews in Ireland”Individual Funding2009 Principal Quebec research recipient of $20,000 from Fonds québécois de larecherché sur la société at la culture (FQRSC) to partner with the IrishResearch Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (€30,000) on aseries of workshops on “Memory and Representations of the Past.”2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Aid to ResearchWorkshops in Canada. P.I. “Constructions of Identity in Ireland andQuebec” $17,500. Co-investigators: Ronald Rudin and Rhona RichmanKenneally.2006- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard ResearchGrant, P.I. Three years: $51,432.1992-1999 Annual CUPFA Professional Development Grants, Concordia University1997 British Council Special Travel Grant1996 Special Grant, Cultural Relations Committee, Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs1992-4; 1989, 87, 85 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Travel Grant100

1990 Distinguished Scholar Research Fellowship, Japan Society for thePromotion of Science1984, 86, 91, 92, 94 Professional Development Travel Grants, Marianopolis College1983 Professional Development Sabbatical Grant, Marianopolis College1971-3 Ontario Graduate Fellowship Award (University of Toronto)1969-70 McConnell Fellowship (McGill University)Funding for Canadian Irish Studies1996-2009 Executive Director, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation which raised $5million to develop Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University,Montreal.2009 Government of Ireland grant ($145,000) for two Visiting Scholars in Irishlanguage and culture.2008 $3 million endowment to establish the Johnson Chair in Quebec andCanadian Irish Studies.2006-09 Government of Ireland Grant, for Irish language courses: Three years.$46,000.2004 Histor!ca Foundation, special conference funding for Ireland on the St.Lawrence. $15,000.TeachingFrom 2002 to the present, I have taught the following courses in rotation as required by curriculum needs:The Irish Literary RevivalIntroduction to Irish StudiesContemporary Irish LiteratureJames JoyceExile, Literature and Irish WritingThe Irish Short Story TraditionIrish Landscape, Nation and IdentityTwentieth Century Irish Drama101

Student Supervision2007- Ph.D. Advisor. Heather Macdougall, Ph. D. Humanities Program2007- M.A. Advisor, Geoffrey Rayburn. Department of English.2002-2006 Ph.D. Advisor. Brad Kent, Ph.D. Humanities Program. Defended, Aug.2006.2004-2005 M.A, Advisor. Cindy Durack.2005-2007 M.A. Advisor, Christine Walsh. Department of English.Student Committees2009 Ph.D. Examination Committee, Matthew Barlow, “‘The House of the Irish’.Irishness, History, and Memory in Griffintown, Montreal, 1868-2009.”Department of History.2008 Ph.D. Examination Committee. Simon Jolivet. “Les deux questionirlandaises du Québec, 1898-1921: des considerations canadiennesfrançaiseset irlando-catholiques.” Department of History.2006 Ph.D. External Examination Committee. William Martin. “The recurrenceof rhythm: Configurations of the voice in Homer, Plato and Joyce.”Graduate Research School, University of New South Wales. School ofEnglish.2006 Examiner, M.A. Laurel Wypkema. “Sex, Loyalty, Betrayal and UnexpectedLove: The Landscape of Neil Jordan’s FictionWriting and Films.” Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.2005 Ph.D. Defense Committee. D’Arcy Ryan. “Commissioners, Guardians andPaupers: Life and Death in the Limerick Poor Law Union, 1838-1850.”Department of History.2005 M.A. Defense Committee. Cindy Durack. “(Re)Mapping 'Woman' and'Nature': An Ecofeminist Reading of Away and Afterimage.” Department ofEnglish.ServiceProfessional102

2010 Marsden Fund Referee, Marsden Fund Council and The Royal Society ofNew Zealand2010- Member, International Advisory Board of An Foras Feasa: The Institute forResearch in Irish Historical and Cultural Traditions, National University ofIreland Maynooth.2006-2009 Member of the International Assessment Committee for Post-doctoralFellowships, funded by Irish Research Council for the Humanities andSocial Sciences.1996-2009 Manuscript Reader:Carleton University PressBarnes and Noble (New York)Routledge (London)Gill and Macmillan (Dublin)Syracuse University PressManchester University Press2006 Manuscript advisor: Grosse Île: Island of Hope and Sorrow. Anne Renaud.Montreal: Lobster Press, Canadian Immigration Series, 2007.2005 Manuscript assessor: Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish ShortStory. Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm. Oxford:Blackwell Publishing.2004 Manuscript assessor: Patrick G. Lyons. Broadview Anthology ofNineteenth-century Irish Literature. Peterborugh, ON: Broadview Press.1994- Vice-Chair, CISLE Centre for the International Study of Literatures inEnglish, University of Innsbruck.2001 Board of Advisors, Center for Irish Studies, Catholic University ofAmerica, Washington, D.C.1988- Correspondant étranger Etudes Irlandaises (Marquillies, France)1992- Tenure and Promotion Assessor:Bath Spa University CollegeUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Paderborn (Germany)Dublin City UniversityUniversity of Leeds103

Dongguk University (Seoul)Indiana University-Purdue UniversityUniversity of Limerick, Ireland1987-93 Chair, Board of Directors, International Centre for the Study of Literaturesin English, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria.1991 Chair, 1991 Academic Book Prize Committee, American Conference forIrish Studies.1987-90 Editor, Newsletter of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies.Referee for scholarly journals, including Canadian Journal of Irish Studies,Hibernia Review, English Studies in Canada, Irish University Review, TheBrazilian Journal of Irish Studies and Mosaic.External Examiner for Dissertations:University of Zululand, (Ph.D.) 2001McGill University, (M.A.) 1991McMaster University, (Ph.D.) 1990Université de Sherbrooke, (Ph.D.) 1988External assessor for research proposals submitted to:Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaFCAR (Québec)Australian Research CouncilThe Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College)Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (Univ. of British Columbia)Academic Administration2010- Principal, School of Canadian Irish Studies2009-2010 Interim Principal, School of Canadian Irish Studies2002-2009 Director, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies2001-2002 Interim Director, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies2000-2001 Concordia UniversityInterim Director, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies1991- Coordinator, Concordia University's Visiting Irish Lecture Series1991-2000 Coordinator, Irish Studies104

1985-1998 Marianopolis College:College Council; Curriculum and Academic Planning Committee;Educational Resources Committee; English Department Hiring Committee;English Department Curriculum CommitteeConference Planning/Convening2012 Co-chair, with Professor Rhona Richman Kenneally, of the annualconference of the International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures.2011 Co-chair, with Professor Rhona Richman Kenneally, of the annualconference of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies.2011 With Professors Wolfgang Zach and Rhona Richman Kenneally, co-chairof joint conference of the Centre for the International Study of Literaturesin English, University of Innsbruck, and the School of Canadian IrishStudies at Concordia University, Montreal.2010 Workshop on Ireland-Quebec: Representations of the Past, jointly fundedby FQRSC (Michael Kenneally, P.I.) and Irish Research Council for theHumanities and Social Sciences (Margaret Kelleher, National University ofIreland, Maynooth, P.I.)2007 Co-Chair. University of Barcelona, Literatures in English: Ethnic, Colonialand Cultural Encounters. July.2006 Co-Chair, Workshop, Constructions of Identity in Ireland and Quebec, withRonald Rudin and Rhona Richman Kenneally, Concordia, October.2005 Organizing Committee, Forum on Irish Studies, University of Fiesole,Florence, November.2005 Co-Chair. Literatures in English: Priorities of Research, with WolfgangZach and Edwin Thumboo. Hall and Innsbruck, July.1995 Co-Chair. Inaugural Asia-Pacific Irish Studies Conference, NationalUniversity of Singapore, Singapore.1992 Co-organizer of joint conference of Canadian Association for Irish Studiesand American Conference of Irish Studies, University College Galway.1988 Chair and convener of the 21st Annual Conference of the CanadianAssociation for Irish Studies, Irish Literature and Culture.Editorial Positions105

2000-2003 Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies1996- Editorial board, New Hibernia Review (United States)1996- Editorial board, Irish Studies Review (England)1990-2000; 2003- Editorial board, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies1982- Canadian Editor, Irish Literary Supplement (United States)Professional AssociationsInternational Association for the Study of Irish Literatures2000-2003 Member, Executive Committee (as Immediate Past-Chair)1994-2000 Chair1991-94 Vice-Chair, North America1985-91 Member, Executive Committee1980-86 Canadian Representative on Bibliographical Sub-CommitteeCanadian Association for Irish Studies:1990-96 Executive Committee (as Past-President)1987-90 President1980-83, 2000- Member, Executive CommitteeAmerican Conference for Irish Studies:1987-89 Literary Representative on Executive Committee.106

Dr. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráinJohnson Endowed Chair in Quebec and Canadian Irish StudiesSchool of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University1455, boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest - GM 903-23, Montréal (Québec) Canada H3G 1M8Work: 514-848-2424 - Poste: 5120 Fax: 514-848-2866 Home: 514-279-2013Email: gearoid@alcor.concordia.caWebsites: www.gearoid.us - http://cdnirish.concordia.caCitizenship: Irish & USA (Dual Citizen)Marital Status: Married / One SonLanguages: Irish, English & French (read, write & speak fluently)Place & Date of Birth: Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland - May 28, 1955Educational ProfileSynopsis of DegreesMBA International University of America (1995) San Francisco, USADUEF Université de Toulon et du Var (1991) Toulon, FRANCEPh.D. Queen’s University Belfast (1990) Belfast, N. IRELANDCLCF Université de la Sorbonne (1989) Paris, FRANCEHDE Trinity College Dublin (1982) Dublin, IRELANDMA University College Cork: UCC (1981) Cork, IRELANDBA University College Cork: UCC (1978) Cork, IRELANDDescription of Degrees1993 - 1995 International University of America San Francisco, USAMBA Magna Cum Laude: Master of Business Administration in Transnational BusinessManagement, Strategic Planning & Marketing Research. Thesis: The Hidden Asset: CulturalEconomics and Traditional Arts Management in the West of Ireland 1960-1995. Supervisor: Dr.Ibrahim Warde (IUA San Francisco and Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris).1991 Université de Toulon et du Var Toulon, FRANCEDUEF: Diplôme d’Université d’Études Françaises (Niveau Supérieur). Cours de Civilisation et deLittérature Française du XX siècle.1985 - 1990 Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, N. IRELANDPh.D: Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology. Thesis: The Concertinain the Traditional Music of Clare. Course work in Social Anthropology, Ethnomusicology &Cultural Geography. Fieldwork in the West of Ireland and among Irish diaspora communities in theUS. Supervisor: Prof. John Blacking (dec. 1990) QUB.1988 Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV) Paris, FRANCECLCF: Certificat de Langue et de Civilisation Française (Niveau Supérieur). Cours de CivilisationFrançaise de la Sorbonne.107

1981 - 82 Trinity College Dublin Dublin, IRELANDHDE: Higher Diploma in Education. Majored in History Teaching, Irish Language and Literature,and Psycho-Linguistics. Graduated with Second Class Honors, Grade 1.1978 - 81 University College Cork Cork, IRELANDMA: Master of Arts in Early Irish History & Mediaeval Hagiography. Thesis: The Cult and Lives ofSenán of Inis Cathaigh. Course work in Old Irish, Latin, French, Historical Geography &Archaeology. Supervisor: Prof. Donncha Ó Corráin, University College Cork. Extern Examiner:Prof. Thomas Charles-Edwards, Oxford University.1974 - 78 University College Cork Cork, IRELANDBA: Bachelor of Arts (Double History Major). Specialized in Irish and Mediaeval History, IrishAmerican History, and International Relations. Minored in Irish and Welsh.Professional Profile2000 - 2009 University of Missouri-St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri, USASmurfit Stone Endowed Professor of Irish Studies and Professor of Music2008 Concordia University Montreal, Quebec, CanadaVisiting Scholar: Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University. Designed and taught a performance basedprogram in Irish and Canadian Irish Music History. Hosted concert performances on the Concordia campus, andcontributed to a study tour to the Irish Famine memorial on Grosse Ile.2001- Present National University of Ireland Galway, IrelandDoctoral Student Advisor in Irish Music: Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland-Galway.1998 - Present Radio Teilifís Éireann Dublin, IrelandUS Political Correspondent: Raidió na Gaeltachta & TG4 (Irish Language Radio & Television Networks).1995 - Present Celtic Music Summer Schools USA / Canada / IrelandFaculty: Warren Wilson College, North Carolina; Catskills Irish Arts Week, New York; Irish Music School;University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Goderich Celtic College, Ontario; Friday Harbor Irish Music School, Universityof Washington; Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, Ireland.1994 - 1998 University of San Francisco San Francisco, CALecturer & Research Advisor: College of Professional Studies, USF. Taught courses in Expository Writing andQualitative Research Methods in Information Technology and Organizational Behavior programs.1994 - 1996 International University of America San Francisco, CA108

MBA Faculty and DBA/Ph.D. Advisor: Taught courses in Transnational Business, Cross-Cultural Communication,and Strategic Planning to MBA, Ph.D. and DBA students.1993 - 1995 Independent Consultant San Francisco, CAEuropean Research Director: Institute for the Study of Distributed Work, Oakland, CA. (Designed telework modulesfor US and European clients). Consultant, Euro-Worldwide Investments, Inc, San Francisco.1991 - 1993 St. Francis Xavier University Nova Scotia, CANADAAssistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Celtic Studies. Designed and taught undergraduate courses inIrish History and Civilization, Social Anthropology, Media Sociology and Popular Culture. Community Liaison:Celtic Studies Program. Portfolio involved planning and directing student performances in Gaelic-speakingcommunities in rural Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island.1988 - 1989 Université de la Sorbonne (Paris IV) Paris, FRANCEResearch advisor for postgraduate work in Irish history, folklife and literature at the Department of English andAmerican Literature, Université de la Sorbonne, (Paris IV), France.1985-1991 Marymount International School Paris, FRANCEChair: Social Studies. Directed a department comprised of international students from Europe, the Middle East, NorthAmerica, Africa, and South East Asia. Supervised field studies in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This was abilingual curriculum based on American and French educational models.1983 - 1985 Blakestown Community College Dublin, IRELANDSenior Lecturer: History and Irish Language. Portfolio also included participation in an experimental MinorityLanguage teaching project funded by the Education Commission of the European Union.1981 - 1983 Plunkett’s Pre-University Centre Dublin, IRELANDLecturer: Irish & European History, and Irish Language. Developed experimental Irish language programs.1978 - 1981 University College Cork Cork, IRELANDDirector: Undergraduate Tutorial Program, Department of Irish and Medieval History. Managed a corps of 14 tutorsand 200 undergraduate students, including American students attending University College Cork.Archival Experience & Ethnographic Fieldwork1978 - 1981 University College Cork Cork, IRELANDFieldwork in Historical Geography and Ecclesiastical Mapping: Conducted fieldwork and mapping of the mediaevalcult of St. Senán of Inis Cathaigh (an Early Christian monastery located on the Shannon estuary between Clare andKerry) in conjunction with my MA thesis in Early Irish History. My fieldwork took me from the Shannon estuary,through the southwest of Ireland, to south Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.1981 - 1984 Cultúrlann na hÉireann - CCÉ Dublin, IRELANDArchivist: Cultúrlann na hÉireann, Irish Music Institute, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Irish Musicians Association),Monkstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Responsible for indexing audio tapes, historical photographs and music transcripts,fieldwork editing, and LP cataloguing. This international archive contains holdings from all over Ireland, as well asfrom Irish music communities in Britain, North America and Australia.109

1985 - 2005 Clare Music and Dance Communities IRELAND / UK / USAEthnographic fieldwork in Clare and among Clare diaspora communities in Britain and the US: Since 1985, I haveundertaken extensive fieldwork among music communities in Clare and among Clare immigrant performers inLondon, Salisbury and Port Talbot (UK), and in Boston, New York, Buffalo, Chicago and San Francisco (USA). Thiswork (over one hundred hours of analog and digital field recordings) was used for my doctoral thesis, and forms thebasis of a major multimedia publication that is now reaching fruition. Several monographs and archival recordingshave already been compiled and published from this corpus.1985 - 1991 Franco-Irish Music Communities Paris, FRANCEEthnographic fieldwork in Franco-Irish music communities - mainly, Francophone performers who learned Irishmusic in Ile de France and in the Champagne region of eastern France: Some of this fieldwork was published inmonographs and commercial discs, and led to cultural exchanges between Ireland and France.1991 - 1993 Highland Scottish Music Communities Cape Breton, CANADAEthnographic fieldwork among Highland Scottish and French Acadian communities on Cape Breton Island, NovaScotia: This research was funded by St. Francis Xavier University and resulted in exhibitions and performances, aswell as cultural exchanges between Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Scotland, and Ireland.1993 - 2003 Irish Communities in San Francisco California, USAEthnographic fieldwork among Irish language and music communities in Northern California, especially, in the SanFrancisco Bay Area: This resulted in published monographs, commercial recordings, Irish language projects andexhibits, as well as cultural exchanges between California, Connemara, and the Aran Islands.2005 - Canadian-Irish Music Communities Québec, CANADAIn 2005, I began preliminary fieldwork among Irish music communities in Montreal with a view to producing acompendium CD of Irish and Québecois performers. I have also made preliminary trips to Canadian-Irish musiccommunities in Montmagny and Québec City, as well as to older communities in the Gatineau and Ottawa valleys.These will be used as a base to expand the scope of my fieldwork throughout the province - which, I hope, willeventually extend from the Gaspé peninsula to the Eastern townships.FellowshipFellowships, Grants, Honors & Awards2009 The Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar in Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, MontréalResearch Grants110

2000-09 Smurfit Stone Endowment Research Grant, University of Missouri-St. Louis. $84,000 to conductethnomusicological fieldwork in the West of Ireland and among Irish diaspora communities in the UnitedStates.2008 Shared Production Grant: Deis - Traditional Arts Initiative: Arts Council of Ireland. €18,000 ($23,000) toproduce a comprehensive historical and ethnomusicological website dedicated to the life and music of Irishconcertina master Paddy Murphy (1913-1993).2006 Shared Production Grant: Deis - Traditional Arts Initiative: Arts Council of Ireland. €7,500 ($10,000) toproduce an archive CD of Irish concertina master Paddy Murphy (1913-1993).1992 Cultural Studies Grant, University Council for Research, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. $2,000to conduct a topographical study of Highland Scottish music communities on Cape Breton Island, NovaScotia.1982 Irish Traditional Music Research Grant, National Arts Council of Ireland £2,000 (Irish Punt - $3,000 US) tocollect concertina music in the West of Ireland.Performance Grants2000 Folklife Grant, New York Council for the Humanities. $3,000 to conduct workshops and concerts on Irishmusic and folklife in Amsterdam, New York.1997-99 Ethnic Arts Grant, New York Council for the Humanities $4,000 to conduct a series of lectures on IrishHistory and Culture at the Catskills Irish Arts Summer School.1997-99 Celtic Music History Grant, Mid West Regional Council of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann (Irish Musicians'Association) $1,000 to present a series of lectures in Detroit, MI on the music of the Irish and ScottishDiasporas in North America.Citoyen d’Honneur1992 Titre de Citoyenneté Acadienne: La Municipalité de Clare, Nouvelle Écosse, Canada Honorary FrenchAcadian Citizen, Municipality of Clare, Nova Scotia, Canada.MBA Magna Cum Laude1995 MBA Magna Cum Laude - International University of America, San Francisco, CATheoretical InfluencesResearch ProfileMy training as an Irish historian at University College Cork in the 1970s and 1980s coincided with the ‘GreatHistoriographical Debate’ between Irish nationalists and revisionists, and I was impressed by ideological and methodologicalissues voiced by protagonists on both sides of the controversy. During my tenure as President of the History Society in UCC, Ihosted many of the key ideologues in this debate. My Masters work in Early Irish and Mediaeval History drew on researchmodels developed by scholars of the French Annales School (specifically, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff andPierre Nora). While my doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology and Ethnomusicology continued to draw on Annales canons,111

my more recent work in Historical Anthropology and Cultural History has been shaped by interdisciplinary currents derivedfrom Hermeneutics (Gadamer), Formalism (Bakhtin), and Phenomenology (Heidegger). In developing Memory/Identity/Placebasedresearch in Irish Studies, I have found the theoretical work of Keith Basso (Language and Landscape), Arjun Appadurai(Global Cultural Flows), Andy Nercessian (Postmodernism and Globalization in Ethnomusicology), and Jacques Attali(Cultural Historiography) seminal in conducting cross-disciplinary research in Irish communities on both sides of the Atlantic.General Research InterestsIrish Language, Folklife and Cultural History; Québecois and Canadian Irish History; The Diaspora of Irish MusicCommunities in the United States; Cultural Tourism in Ireland; Music in Early and Mediaeval Ireland; Music History ofScotland and its Diaspora Communities in Canada; Contemporary Issues in Irish Cultural Transformation.Specific Research InterestsMemory, Place and Identity in Irish and English-speaking Communities in the West of Ireland; Digital Ethnography of IrishMusic Communities in Rural and Urban Québec; Irish Music Communities in Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland and NovaScotia); Irish Traditional Music and American Popular Culture - Historical and Contemporary Interfaces; Inventing andMarketing Irish Traditions in an Age of Globalization; Enclosing the Commons: Copyright and Traditional Music Property inIreland; Irish Traditional Music in France: An Exported Anomaly.Current Research ProjectsThe Hesitation Step: Music, Culture and Folklife in an Irish Community. Based on ethnographic research (that has yielded onehundred plus hours of audio and video interviews) in Co. Clare on the west coast of Ireland, and among Clare immigrantcommunities in Britain and North America, this regional study traces the history of music making and folklife in a small Irishmusic community since the Great Famine of the 1840s. Combining experiential oral history, music analyses, and photo essayswith topographical music maps, local history, and general cultural studies, this 400 page critique (which began in 2000) is nownearing completion. Its anticipated publication date is 2010.Quest for the Keepers: A Transatlantic History of Four Irish Music Communities. Ranging in geographic scope fromNewfoundland to California and in linguistic scope from Irish-speaking Connemara to French-speaking Irish communities inQuébec, this historical-ethnomusicological study begins with a critique of the Great Famine (1845-50) and its impact on Irishtraditional music, song, and dance. In tracing the exodus of Irish music makers to the New World, it eschews mainstreamperspectives that the Great Famine was ‘the’ key catalyst in the exportation of Irish music to North America. Exploring a vasttransatlantic nexus linking music communities in Ireland with immigrant communities in locations as diverse asNewfoundland, Québec, New York, and San Francisco, this study argues that Irish traditional music in the New World is partof a broader cultural tapestry that predates the Great Famine and that was absorbed by diverse artistic communities (within andwithout the Irish milieu) for over three centuries as it flowed back and forth across the Atlantic. Began in 2007, it is anticipatedthat this work will be ready for publication in 2010, when the remaining component - on the history of Irish music, song anddance in Québec - is finalized.BooksSelective Academic & Music PublicationsA Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1998/2003/2008), 189 pp. This work has been translatedinto Japanese and Czech. It is used as a university text in North America, Australia, Asia and Europe.The Hesitation Step: Music, Culture and Folklife in an Irish Community, (Anticipated publication date: 2010).Quest for the Keepers: A Transatlantic History of Four Irish Music Communities, (Anticipated publication: 2010).Chapters112

‘Dance Halls of Romance and Culchies in Tuxedos: Irish Traditional Music in America in the 1950s,’ in James Rogers andMatthew O’Brien (eds) After the Flood: Irish America 1945-60, (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, forthcoming, 2009).‘Old Age Pipers and New Age Punters: Irish Traditional Music and Musicians in San Francisco 1850-2000,’ in Donald Jordanand Timothy O’Keefe (eds), The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune, (San Francisco: Irish Literaryand Historical Society, 2005).‘The Great Famine: A Catalyst in Irish Traditional Music,’ in Arthur Gribben (ed.) The Great Famine and the Irish Diasporato North America, (Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).‘Irish Traditional Music on the American West Coast’ in Fintan Vallely (ed.) The Companion to Irish Traditional Music,(Cork: Cork University Press, 1999).‘Irish Traditional Music among Native Americans Performers: The Athabaskans in Alaska and the Yukon,’ in Fintan Vallely(ed.) The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, (Cork: Cork University Press, 1999).Peer Reviewed Articles‘Soundscape of the Wintermen: Irish Traditional Music in Newfoundland,’ Canadian Journal of Irish Studies: Revuecanadienne d’études irlandaises, (Volume 34 / Number 2, Winter 2008), pp. 33-46.‘Clare: Heartland of the Irish Concertina,’ in Allan Atlas (ed), PICA: Papers of the International Concertina Association, Vol.3, (New York: CUNY, 2006), pp. 1-20.‘Dancing on the Hobs of Hell: Rural Communities in Clare and the Dance Halls Act of 1935,’ New Hibernia Review, Vol. 9,Number 4, Winter 2005, (St. Paul: University of St. Thomas Press), 9-18.‘Amhrán an Ghorta: The Great Famine and Irish Traditional Music,’ New Hibernia Review, Vol. 3, Number 1, Spring 1999,(St. Paul: University of St. Thomas Press), 19-44.Encyclopedia Entries‘The Music of William J. Mullaly,’ ‘The Impact of the Great Famine on Irish Traditional Music,’ ‘The Dance Halls Act 1935,’‘The Concertina in Irish Traditional Music,’ ‘Chris Droney,’ ‘Mrs. Elizabeth Crotty,’ ‘Paddy Murphy: Pioneer of the IrishConcertina,’ in Harry White and Barra Boydell (eds.), Encyclopedia of Music in Ireland (Dublin: University College DublinPress, forthcoming, 2010).‘Traditional Music in Early Modern Ireland 1500-1800,’ in James Donnelly (ed.) Encyclopedia of Ireland: Volume One,Nations of the World, (New York: Macmillan USA, 2004).‘The Concertina in Irish Traditional Music History’ in Brian Lalor (ed), The Encyclopedia of Ireland, (New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 2003).Forewords to Academic PublicationsMichael Breen, The Influence of Mass Media on Divorce Referenda in Ireland, (London: EMP, 2009).Grey Larsen, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle, (Pacific: Mel Bay Publication, 2003).Commercial & Archive RecordingsMélange with Canadian Grand Master Pierre Schryer, (Thunder Bay: New Canadian Records, 2008).Paddy Murphy: In Good Hands: Field Recordings from a Pioneer of the Irish Concertina, (San Francisco: Celtic Crossings,2007).The Independent Suite: Traditional Music from Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton Island, (San Francisco: Celtic Crossings,2004).There’s a Spot in Old Ireland, (Cois na hAbhna Music Archive, Ennis, Co, Clare, Ireland, 2003).113

Tracin’- Traditional Music from the West of Ireland, (San Francisco: Celtic Crossings, 1999).Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin: Traditional Music from Clare and Beyond (San Francisco, Celtic Crossings, 1996 & 2005).Daniel Kobialka: Celtic Quilt, (with David Grisman and members of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra), (Daly City, CA:Li-Sem, 1996).The Kilfenora Céilí Band: Traditional Music from Ireland’s Number One Céilí Band, (Galway: GDT, 1993).The Humours of Clare: Music and Song from Clare FM, (Clare FM Radio: Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, 1991).Snakes Alive: St. Patrick’s Night in Paris, (Live recording for L’Association Irlandaise, Paris 1988).Dísirt Tóla: Traditional Music from Clare and Dublin, (Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland, 1983).St. Flannan’s College Céilí Bands Reunion: Centenary Issue, (Cultúrlann na hÉireann, Dublin, Ireland 1981).Reviews of Academic Publications‘The Clare Set: Monumental but Hardly Definitive,’ in Allan Atlas (ed), PICA: Papers of the International ConcertinaAssociation, Vol. 5, (New York: CUNY, 2008).Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture, by Marie McCarthy, (Cork University Press, 1999), published inNew Hibernia Review, (St. Paul: University of St. Thomas Press, Spring 2001).The Keeper’s Recital: Music and Cultural History in Ireland 1770-1970, by Harry White, (Field Day Monographs VI, CorkUniversity Press, 1998), published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Fall 2000).Documentary Films (Consultant / Performer)A Century of Music: The Kilfenora Céilí Band - Ireland’s Oldest Traditional Music Ensemble, (RTE Ireland / Newgrange FilmProductions, 2009).Live at the Celtic Roots Festival: Vol. 3, (Goderich, Canada: Celtic Roots Festival, 2005). (Aired on PBS and CBC).For the Love of the Tune: Irish Women and Traditional Music, (Portland, OR: Spellman Productions, 2002).Photos to Send: Dorothy Lange’s Ireland. A documentary on the US photographer’s visit to Ireland in 1955, (San Francisco:Lynch Productions, 2001). Produced & directed by Deirdre Lynch, KBHK-TV. Winner of the documentary category at theGalway International Film Festival 2001. Nominated for a HBO Frame by Frame Award 2002.Long Journey Home: The Story of the Irish in America. Historical Documentary, (Los Angeles: PBS Television and DisneyProductions Inc, 1998).Through the Eyes of a Poet. Documentary on Irish poet, Desmond Egan, Director, Gerald Manley Hopkins Summer School,(Kansas: Washburn University, 1998).Buddy MacMaster: Master of the Cape Breton Fiddle, (Antigonish, Nova Scotia: Produced by Peter Murphy for SeabrightProductions, 1993).Commercial CD Liner EssaysMélange. Canadian Grand Master Pierre Schryer, (Thunder Bay: New Canadian Records, 2008).Reed Only. Irish Uilleann Pipes and Concertina - Brian McNamara & Tim Collins, (Dublin: Croisín Music, 2007).Dancing on Silver. Tim Collins - Irish Concertina Master, (Dublin: Croisín Music, 2004).An Trí is a Rian. John Weir, Eithne Ní Dhónaile and Claire Keville, (Dublin: Tubber Music, 2004).114

Celtic Quilt. Daniel Kobialka - San Francisco Symphony, (San Francisco: Li-Sem Music 1996).Micho Russell: Traditional Music from Doolin, Co. Clare, (London: Free Reed Music 1977).Arts Journal Publications‘Traditional Music and Society in Post Famine Clare,’ Aisling: Journal of the Goodman Society III, (Tralee: Goodman Society,1992).‘Irish Traditional Music in France: An Exported Anomaly,’ An tÉireannach, Journal of the Irish Association in France, (Paris:Irish Association, 1988).‘Ceol agus Cultúr an Chláir,’ Comhar - Irish Language Arts Journal, (Dublin: Comhar, 1979).‘Senán of Inis Cathaigh: Mediaeval Hagiography and Ecclesiastical Politics in the West of Ireland,’ Dal gCais: Journal ofClare, its People and Culture, Vol. IV, (Shannon: Dal gCais, 1978).‘The Festival of Lughnasa: A Regional Survey of Celtic Folklore and Oral History,’ Dal gCais: Journal of Clare, its Peopleand Culture, Vol. III, (Shannon: Dal gCais, 1977).Selective Academic CitationsSeán Crosson, The Given Note: Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge ScholarsPublishing, 2008).Christina Smith, ‘Crooked as the Road to Branch,’ Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1 Spring 2007.Lillis Ó Laoire and Seán Williams, ‘Singing the Famine: Joe Heaney, ‘Johnny Seoighe’ and the Poetics of Performance,’ inAnne Clune (ed.) Dear Far-Voiced Veteran: Essays in Honour of Tom Munnelly, (Miltown Malbay: The Old KilfarboySociety, 2007).Harry Long, Walton’s Guide to Irish Traditional Music, (Dublin: Walton’s Music, 2005).Irene Whelan, The Bible War in Ireland: The ‘Second Reformation’ and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations,1800-1840, (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2005).Sally K. Sommers Smith, ‘Interpretations and Translations of Irish Traditional Music,’ in Maria Tymoczko and Colin Ireland(eds.) Language and Traditions in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts & ACIS,2004).Dorothea E. Hast & Stanley Scott, Music in Ireland: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, (Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 2004)Susan Gedutis, See you at the Hall: Boston’s Golden Era of Irish Music and Dance, (Boston: Northeastern University Press,2004).Judith A. Coe, Traditional Music and the Interface with Popular Culture: Continuity and Change, (Cyberspace Music:University of Colorado, 2003).Anthony McCann, Beyond the Common: The Elimination of Uncertainty and the Politics of Enclosure, (Ph.D. Limerick:University of Limerick, 2003).Gilbert Carrère, Les Maîtres du Concertina Anglo-Irlandais, (Paris: l’Association Française du Concertina, 2003).Margaret Farrell, Who Owns the Tunes? An Exploration of Composition Ownership in Irish Traditional Music, (New York:CUNY, 2003).115

Geoff Wallis and Sue Wilson, The Rough Guide to Irish Music, (London: Penguin Press, 2001).Sally Sommers Smith, ‘Irish Traditional Music in a Modern World,’ New Hibernia Review Vol. 5, Number 2, summer 2001,(St. Paul: University of St. Thomas Press).Kenny Mathieson, Celtic Music, (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2001)Barry Foy, Field Guide to the Irish Music Session, (Boulder: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1999).Marie McCarthy, Passing It On: The Transmission of Music in Irish Culture, (Cork: Cork University Press, 1999).Fintan Vallely, ‘Annotated Discography and Bibliography,’ in Fintan Vallely (ed.), The Cork Companion to Irish TraditionalMusic, (Cork: Cork University Press, 1999).Alan Ng, ‘An Irish Tunography’ in Irish Traditional Music for Adult Students, an internet-based program directed by theDepartment of Continuing Education in Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1998.Chris Keane, The Tulla Céilí Band 1946-1997: A History and Tribute, (Shannon: McNamara Press, 1998).Harry Hughes & Éamonn McGivney, ‘Playing It Solid and Straight,’ Dal gCais: The Journal of Clare, Number 11, 1993,(Miltown Malbay: Dal gCais Publications).Selective Conference PresentationsForgotten Soundscapes: Irish Traditional Music in Québec. Irish Studies Symposium, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada -Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada, (November 2008).Plenary Address: The Green Fields of Canada Forgotten: Irish Traditional Music in Canada. Celtic Studies Conference:Traditional Irish and Scottish Music in Canada. University of Toronto, Canada, (November 2008).Plenary Symposium: Media and the Oral Tradition in Music. Conference on New Media and the Global Diaspora, RogerWilliams University, Bristol, Rhode Island, (October 2008).The Patriot, the Tourist, and the Mogul: Packaging Irish Traditional Culture in an Age of Globalisation. Conference of theCanadian Association of Irish Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, (June 2008).Sonorités Oubliées: La musique traditionnelle irlandaise au Québec. 76e Congrès ACFAS (Association francophone pour lesavoir), Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec, (Mai 2008).Plenary Address: Beyond the Cold Embrace of Queen Victoria: Irish Traditional Music in Canada. Conference of theCanadian Association of Irish Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, (June 2007).Wintermen, Pioneers, and Patriots: Irish Traditional Music in Atlantic Canada. American Conference for Irish Studies,Graduate Center, City University of New York, (April 2007).Germans in the Alcove: The Concertina in the Traditional Music of Clare. First Galway Conference on Orality, NationalUniversity of Ireland-Galway, Ireland, (June, 2006).Jazz, Flappers and All that Foreign Depravity: Controlling Dancing in Ireland in the 1930s. Irish Studies Symposium,National University of Ireland-Galway, Ireland, (December 2005).Dancing on the Hobs of Hell: Traditional Music and the Dance Halls Act 1935 - Ethnographic Evidence from Clare.116

American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, (April 2005).Ar Scáth a Chéile: Irish Folk Music - A Community Bond. Ohio State University, Bowling Green (April 2005).From Kitchen Cuaird to Global Stage: The Changing Role of Women in Irish Traditional Music. Canadian Irish Studiesprogram, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, (March 2005).Music: The Sovereign Ghost of the Irish Literary Tradition, lecture and performance of Irish music presented at the Universityof Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in association with poet Irish Éamonn Wall, (October 2004).Memory, Identity and Imagination: Growing up with traditional music in the West of Ireland. Irish-American CrossroadsSymposium, Koret Auditorium, City Library San Francisco. (March 2004).The Patriot, the Tourist, and the Mogul: Packaging Irish Culture in an Age of Globalisation. Global Collaborative - Universityof Toyo, Japan; UM-St. Louis, USA & Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, (March 2004).Beyond the Kitsch: The Role of the Traditional Music Maker in Irish Culture. UFR des Langues Vivantes, Université MarcBloch, Strasbourg, France (October 2003).Handel to Napoleon: Musical Culture in late Eighteenth Century Ireland, presented with Irish poet Desmond Egan atRiverside Arts Center, Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland, (June 2003).Friend of Yeats, Fiddler of the People: Homage to Music Educator Jack Mulkere, presented with Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú,Director General of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Crusheen Arts Center, Co. Clare, Ireland, (May 2003).From the Gaspé to the Sierras: Irish Music History in North America. Illinois Wesleyan University, (March 2003).Forgotten Cousins: Musicians in Irish Rural Communities in the American Midwest. Music Symposium presented to theMcLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, Illinois, (October 2002).Haste to the Wedding: Match Making and Other Folk Customs in the Irish Music Calendar. Leslie Williams MemorialLecture, Cincinnati Folklife Heritage, (September 2002).Irish: A Living Language. Four lectures presented at the Goderich Celtic College, Ontario, Canada (August 2002).The Poor Cousin: Free Reed Instruments in the Music of the Irish Diaspora. Texas Folklife Forum, International AccordionSymposium, San Antonio, Texas (September, 2001).Gaelic Songs and Folklore from the West of Ireland, a series of four lectures, presented at the Goderich Celtic College,Ontario, Canada, (August 2001).Traditional Music in Gaelic-speaking Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton Island, Canada. Five ethnomusicological seminarspresented at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC, (July 2001).Old Age Pipers and New Age Punters: Irish Music and Musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area since the Gold Rush.American Conference of Irish Studies, Fordham University, New York City, (June 2001).From Indigenous Traditions to MTV: Children, Education and Music in Modern Ireland. Presented with the children of St.Louis Irish Arts School at the State of the World Conference, University of Missouri-St. Louis, (April 2001).Uses and Misuses of Irish Traditional Music by Corporate Culture: An Ethnomusicological Roundtable. American Conferenceof Irish Studies: Midwest, Oakland University, Detroit, MI, (October 2000).The Role of the Traditional Music Maker in Irish Folklife. New Amsterdam Arts Council, New York, (July 2000).Traditional Music and Music Makers in Irish Society, a series of five seminars presented to the Departments of Music, History,Folklore, Anthropology and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, (April - May 2000).117

The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in North America: A Catalyst in Irish Traditional Music and Folklife. BrownUniversity, Providence, RI, (October 1999).Inventing and Reinventing Tradition: Traditional Music and Modern Ireland. Boston College, MA, (October 1999).Music and Music Makers in Irish Rural Communities, a series of five illustrated seminars presented at the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee, (August 1999).Plenary Address: Turmoil in the Gemeinschaft: The Irish Traditional Music Maker in Post Famine Ireland. AmericanConference of Irish Studies: Midwest, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, (October 1998).The Stranger’s Land: The Great Famine and the Irish Music Diaspora to North America. University of Fairbanks, Alaska,(November 1997).The Stranger’s Land: The Great Famine and the Irish Music Diaspora to North America. University of Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada, (October 1997).Music in Early and Medieval Ireland. American Conference for Irish Studies: West, University of San Diego, CA, (October1997).The Great Famine: A Catalyst in Irish Traditional Music. American Committee of Irish Studies: West, San Francisco StateUniversity, CA, (October 1996).The Great Famine: A Catalyst in Irish Traditional Music. Irish Cultural Association, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,(November 1995).Clients of God and Earthly Heretics: Art and Learning in Early Christian Ireland. University of Prince Edward Island,Canada, (March 1993).Drawing Rooms and Wild Mountainy Places: Irish Music Collecting and Antiquarianism in the Nineteenth Century.Conference of the Canadian Association of Irish Studies, Bishop’s University, Québec, Canada, (March 1993).The Long Frolic to a Global Stage: Traditional Music on Cape Breton Island. Annual Conference of the Atlantic Associationof Sociologists & Anthropologists, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, (March 1993).Beyond the Duanaire: Music and Music Makers in Mediaeval Ireland. Annual Conference of the Celtic Studies Association ofNorth America, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, (May 1992).The Regional Dimension in Irish Music. Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, (February 1992).Selective Radio & Television ProjectsA Century of Music: The Kilfenora Céilí Band - Ireland’s Oldest Traditional Music Ensemble. RTE Irish Public Television /Newgrange Film Productions, (March 2009).The Celtic Fiddlers of Clare. The Celtic Shores, KOHM South Plains Public Radio, Texas, (September 2008).Clare’s Legacy of Concertina Music. Interview on ‘Cuisle an Cheoil,’ Clare FM - Community Radio, (July 2008).118

Ceol ó Scoil Shamhraidh Willie Clancy. Interview and performance on RTE - Raidió na Gaeltachta, (July 2008).Music and Musicians of Ireland and Newfoundland. Interview and performance on Jamie Fitzpatrick’s ‘The PerformanceHour,’ CBC Radio Newfoundland, (June 2007). Broadcast from coast to coast in Canada, (Winter 2007).Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day: An Irish American Legacy. Interview on NPR National Public Radio, (March 2006).Reflections on Irish Music in America. Interview on PBS - TPT, Twin Cities Public Television, (August 2005).Truths and Lies about St. Patrick. Interview on NBC - KSDK TV, Channel 5, St. Louis, MO, (March 2004).Shamrock Rocks: The Americanization of St. Patrick’s Day. Interview on ABC NEWS, (March, 2002).A Critique of Celtic Music and Musicians in Northern California. Interview and performance on Sedge Thomson’s ‘WestCoast Live’ - San Francisco’s Live Radio Show to the World, KALW Radio, San Francisco, (October 1998).La Musique Irlandaise au Québec. Performance and interview on CBC Radio, Quebec City, (July 1996).Irish Music in the Canadian Maritimes. Interview on CBC Radio, Prince Edward Island, (March 1993).Festival de Musique Traditional Irlandaise avec Alan Stivell, TF1 Télévision, Paris, France, (September 1985).Ceol na gCloch: Dísirt Tóla plays music from the Burren region of northwest Clare on Peter Canning’s ‘Anything Goes,’ RTEIrish Public Television, Dublin, Ireland, (March 1985).The Music of Dísirt Tóla: Performance with the Clare-Dublin ensemble Dísirt Tóla, on Tony MacMahon’s ‘The MountainLark.’ RTE Irish Public Television, Dublin, Ireland, (April 1984).Music and Set Dancing from West Clare. Performance with West Clare fiddler Junior Crehan on Tony MacMahon’s ‘BringDown the Lamp,’ RTE Irish Public Television, Dublin, Ireland, (March 1974).Selective Newspaper & Periodical ArticlesIrish Travelers: A Misunderstood Class in American Society, St. Louis Post Dispatch, (October, 2002).The Irish Language: Cultural Resource or Political Fossil, San Francisco Gael, (May, 1999, San Francisco, USA).St. Patrick was a Gentleman, Irish Echo, (Mar. 13, 1996, New York, USA).St. Patrick’s Confession: Revisiting the Message, San Francisco Examiner, (Mar. 15, 1996, San Francisco, USA).An Gael sa Ghael, San Francisco Gael, (1994 - 1999). Irish language current affairs column.From Hughdie’s to the Latin Quarter: A Tribute to Concertina Player Paddy Murphy, Treoir: Journal of the IrishTraditional Musicians’ Association, Vol. I, (Dublin, Ireland, 1993).119

Un Plaisir Rare d’Authenticité: Paddy Murphy, Peter O’Loughlin et Paddy Canny invités au Festival de Ris-Orangis, TradMagazine, (May 1991, Paris, France).An Introduction to French Civil Administration and Social Security, Fáilte à Paris: A Handbook for Irish Immigrants inFrance, (Co-Editor, Dublin, Ireland, 1991).Seán Reid: The Diary of a Cultural Radical, Treoir, Journal of the Irish Traditional Musicians Association, Vols. I, II, III& IV, (Dublin, Ireland, 1978 - 1979).Selective Public LecturesPaddy Murphy: Pioneer of the Irish Concertina. Willie Clancy Summer School, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare, Ireland, (July2008).Nationalism and Irish Musical Culture: The Myth and the Reality. Xavier University, Cincinnati, (February 2007).The Céilí Band: Jewel in Crown of Irish Music. Catskills Irish Arts Week, East Durham, New York, (July 2006).Out of the Kitchen and onto the Global Stage: The Changing Role of Women in Irish Traditional Music. North AmericanConvention of the Irish Traditional Musicians’ Association (CCE), Ottawa, Canada, (April 2005).The Harvest Home: Calendar Customs and the Irish Musical Year. Catskills Irish Arts Week, East Durham, New York,(July, 2002).Clichés and Authenticity: Irish Music and the Formation of Irish-America Identities. Irish Music Association of Connecticut,Bridgeton, CT, (February 2001).The Stranger’s Land: The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora to North America, North American Convention of the IrishTraditional Musicians’ Association (CCE), Boston, MA, (April 1997).Traditional Music and Society in Post Famine Clare, North American Convention of the Irish Traditional Musicians’Association (CCE), New York, (April 1995).Peace in Northern Ireland: Illusion or Dilemma. World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, CA,(March 1994).The Stranger’s Land: The Emigrant Experience in Irish Traditional Music, North American Convention of the IrishTraditional Musicians’ Association (CCE), Montréal, Québec, (April 1992).Irish Traditional Music in France: An Exported Anomaly. An Fleadh Nua: Seán Reid Memorial Lecture, InternationalForum for Irish Music, Ennis, Clare, Ireland, (May 1989).The Other Side of ‘92: Traditional Irish Culture and European Integration. Deoraíocht: Irish Emigrants’ AssociationConference, Brussels, Belgium, (May 1989).Service, Editorial & Advising Projects120

Tenure and Promotion Committee, Music Department, University of Missouri-St. Louis, (ongoing since 2000).Strategic Planning Committee, College of Fine Arts & Communication, University of Missouri-St. Louis, (2005).Chair: Department Review Committee, Department of Art & Art History, University of Missouri-St. Louis, (2004).Irish Traditional Music Editor: New Hibernia Review, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, (since 1998).Advisory Board: Áras Shorcha Ní Ghuairim, Traditional Music Archive, Carna, Connemara, Ireland - National Universityof Ireland-Galway, (since 2001).Advisor and Adjudicator, North American and World Championship Competitions in Irish traditional music,Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, international organization dedicated to the preservation of Irish music, (since 1975).Advisory Board: Tall Grass Folk Music Educational Resource, Lawrence, Kansas, (since 2001).Irish Music and Folklife Contributor: E. Desmond Lee Music Education Collaborative, University of Missouri-St. Louis,Missouri, (since October 2000).Research Advisor: Irish Music in the New Europe. National Geographic Society, Washington DC, (October 2000).Irish Music and Language Advisor, St. Louis Irish Arts School of Music, St. Louis, Missouri, (since 2000).Since 1995, I have advised faculty and graduate students conducting research on Irish traditional music and folklife atthe following institutions:Brown University; University of Portland; Loyola University; Boston College; University of NotreDame; New York University; University of California-Los Angeles; St. Francis Xavier University,Nova Scotia, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Université de Montréal; Concordia University,Montréal, University of Toronto; National University of Ireland-Galway; University of Limerick;University College Cork; University College Dublin; NUI-Maynooth; University of London; CzechAcademy of Sciences; Budapest University; Toho Music University Japan; The Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, and Morash University, Melbourne, Australia.Learned Society MembershipsACFAS: L’Association francophone pour le savoir CAIS: Canadian Association of Irish StudiesACIS: American Conference for Irish StudiesIACI: Irish American Cultural InstituteILHS: Irish Literary & Historical Society San Francisco CHS: California Historical SocietyASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors & PublishersWorld Championship AwardsMusic Profile - Prestigious Awards & Performances1993 All-Ireland Senior Céilí Band Championship, Kilfenora Céilí Band, Co. Clare.121

1982 All-Ireland Senior Concertina Champion. Traditional Dance Music Contest1980 All-Ireland Solo Uilleann Piping Champion. Traditional Slow Airs Contest1979 All-Ireland Solo Uilleann Piping Champion. Traditional Slow Airs Contest1972 All-Ireland Céilí Band Championship, St. Flannan’s College Céilí Band, Co. ClareNational & International Arts Administration Projects1995-PresentDirector of Folklore & Irish Concertina, Catskills Irish Arts Week, New York1996-98 Musical Director of Éigse Mrs. Crotty Irish Music School, County Clare, Ireland.1990-94 Concertina player and music arranger: Kilfenora Céilí Band, County Clare, Ireland.The oldest traditional dance band in Ireland (founded in 1909), Kilfenora competitiveand professional standards are rigorous and exceptional. In 1996, the ensemble won itsseventh World Championship - an unprecedented achievement in Irish music history.1992-93 Musical Director of Oidhreacht: Traditional Performers of Atlantic Canada.This ensemble of musicians, signers and dancers comprised of sixteen folk artists of Gaelic originfrom Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland including Cape Breton fiddler NatalieMac Master and Canadian Irish singer Denis Ryan.1981-91 Co-director of Dísirt Tóla Irish Traditional Musicians Cooperative, Co. Clare, IrelandThis ensemble toured North America, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Russia.1980-81 Founding Director: Éigse na Laoi, Irish Traditional Music Festival, UniversityCollege Cork. (First Auditor/Chairman: Irish Traditional Music Society, UCC).122

GAVIN FOSTERAssistant ProfessorSchool of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University1455 de Maisonneuve W. GM 903-23Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8(514) 848-2424 ext. 5117gfoster@alcor.concordia.caEDUCATIONUniversity of Notre DamePh.D. History, August 2009Dissertation: ‘The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War’M.A. History, January 2006San Francisco State UniversityB.A. Philosophy and Religion, May 1994 (Magna cum Laude)PUBLICATIONS‘Class dismissed? The debate over a social basis to the Treaty split and Irish civil war,’ Saothar: Journalof the Irish Labour History Society, No. 33, 2008‘Scotsmen, Stand by Ireland! John Maclean and the Irish Revolution,’ History Ireland, Vol. 16, No. 1,January/February 2008‘In the Shadow of the Split: Writing the Irish Civil War,’ Field Day Review, No. 2, 2006SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES‘The Politics of Memory in Irish Revolutionary Memoirs,’ International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures, National University of Ireland Maynooth, July 2010“Lemass is gone, and the earlier he is forgotten the better’: An Irish Civil War Story,’ Canadian HistoricalAssociation, 89 th Annual General Meeting, Concordia University, May-June 2010‘Enforcing ‘Law-and-Order’ in a Civil War: The Paradox of Early Irish Free State Policing,’ CanadianAssociation for Irish Studies, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, May 2010‘‘Padjoes,’ ‘Shoneens,’ ‘Riff-Raff,’ and ‘the Plain People of Ireland’: Social Perceptions in the Irish CivilWar,’ Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Public Lectures and Seminars, University of NotreDame, September 2008123

''No Wild Geese This Time?' The Politics of Exile in Post-Civil War Ireland,' 46th National Meeting ofthe American Conference for Irish Studies, St. Ambrose University, April 2008‘Res Publica na hÉireann: Classical Republican Liberty and the Politics of the Irish Civil War,’ 65 thAnnual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2007‘Will the show go on? The IRA’s campaign against popular amusements during the Irish Civil War,’ 31stAnnual Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, October 2006‘The Politics of Respectability in the Irish Civil War,’ International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures, Charles University (Prague), July 2005COURSES TAUGHTConcordia UniversityHIST 398X/IRST 398P: ‘The Great Irish Famine’, Winter 2010HIST 398N/IRST 398J: ‘Ireland in the Twentieth Century,’ Winter 2010HIST 211/IRST 298A: ‘History of Ireland,’ Fall 2009University of Illinois at ChicagoHIST 421: ‘Nationalism and Unionism in Britain and Ireland, 1707 to the Present,’ Spring 2009University of Notre DameHIST 30437: ‘Ireland: From Famine to Independence,’ Spring 2006COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTSPre -Doctoral Fellowship, Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning, UND, 2008–2009Dissertation Year Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, UND, 2006–2007Zahm Research Travel Grant, Graduate School, UND, 2006Graduate Research Seed Money Grant, Kellogg Institute, UND, 2005Research and Travel Grant, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, UND, 2005SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICEMember of selection committee for the ‘Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book’, theAmerican Conference for Irish Studies, 2010-2011 competitionHistory Book Review Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Spring 2010–present124

Faculty Judge for the Faculty of Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Day, Concordia University,Spring 2010Adjudicator, Irish Protestant Benevolent Society History Essay Prize, School of Canadian Irish Studies,Spring 2010Adjudicator, ‘Canadian Student Irish Language Award,’ Ireland Canada University Foundation, Spring2010WORKS IN PROGRESSPreparing book manuscript of 2009 Ph.D. thesis, ‘The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the IrishCivil War,’ for submission to academic publishers“No ‘Wild Geese’ this time? Exile and the Irish Civil War”: an article proposal accepted in the “initialselection process” for “New Approaches to Irish Migration,” a special issue of Éire-Ireland: Journal ofIrish Studies, Fall/Winter 2012. (Once submitted, the finished article must undergo external review)‘Will the show go on? The IRA’s campaign against popular amusements during the Irish Civil War’: anarticle draft being prepared for submission to New Hibernia Review‘Res Publica na hÉireann: Classical Republican Liberty and the Politics of the Irish Civil War’: articledraft being prepared for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, TBDBook review of John O’Callaghan, Revolutionary Limerick: The Republican Campaign for Independencein Limerick, 1913–1921 (Dublin, 2010), commissioned by H-Albion (an Irish and British Historylistserv), Due October, 2010125

Ronald RudinProfessor of HistoryConcordia University Research Fellow, 2010-11Concordia University1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal QC H3G 1M8Tel: 514-848-2424 (office); 514-481-8621 (home)Fax: 514-848-4538email: ronald.rudin@concordia.caCitizenship:Languages:CanadianEnglish (mother tongue)French: (fluent)Degrees: Ph.D., York University, 1977M.A., York University, 1973B.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1972University Positions: 1991- Professor, Concordia University1981-91 Associate Professor, Concordia University1977-81 Assistant Professor, Concordia University1976-77 Lecturer, Concordia University1975-76 Lecturer, Erindale College, University of TorontoScholarly ProductionsBooks1. Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journey through Public Memory. Toronto: University ofToronto Press, 2009. Accompanied by the website: rememberingacadie.concordia.ca2. L'histoire dans les rues de Québec: La célébration de Champlain et de Mgr de Laval, 1878-1908. Ste-Foy: Pressesde l'Université Laval, 2004 (Translation of Founding Fathers).3. Founding Fathers: The Celebration of Champlain and Laval in the Streets of Quebec. Toronto: University ofToronto Press, 2003.4. Faire de l'histoire au Québec. Sillery QC: Septentrion, 1998. (Translation of Making History in Twentieth CenturyQuebec).5. Making History in Twentieth-Century Quebec. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 19976. In Whose Interest?: Quebec's Caisses Populaires,1900-1945. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.7. Banking en français: Histoire des banques canadiennes-françaises (Translation of Banking en français: TheFrench Banks of Quebec). Montréal: Boréal, 1988.8. Histoire du Québec anglophone (translation of The Forgotten Quebecers). Quebec: Institut québécois de recherchesur la culture, 1986.9. Banking en français:The French Banks of Quebec,1835-1925 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985.10. The Forgotten Quebecers: A History of English-Speaking Quebec, 1759-1980. Quebec: Institut québécois derecherche sur la culture, 1985.Films1. Whose Island?. Digital Video: 25 minutes. 2010. In collaboration with Rob McMahon, Royal Ontario Museum.2. Life After Ile Ste. Croix : Digital Video, 60:00 min, 2006. In collaboration with Leo Aristimuño (Professor ofVideo Production and Media Studies, Rutgers University, Newark). Distributed by National Film Board of Canada.Chapters in Books1. "Caisses populaires" and "Quebec Tercentenary" in Gerald Hallowell, ed. Oxford Companion to Canadian History(OUP, 2004).126

2. "Unravelling Dichotomies: Ethnic and Civic understanding of the Nation in Quebec Nationalist Discourse," in BrunoCoppieters and Richard Sakwa, Contextualizing Secession - Normative Studies in Comparative Perspective (Oxford:OUP, 2004).3. "Réflexions québécoises alimentées par l'expérience irlandaise," in Stéphane Kelly, ed, Les idées mènent le Québec:Essais sur une sensibilité historique (Ste-Foy: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003).4. "From the Nation to the Citizen: Quebec Historical Writing and the Shaping of Identity," in Robert Adamoski,Dorothy E. Chunn and Robert Menzies, eds., Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings (PeterboroughON: Broadview Press, 2002), pp. 95-111.5. "Bargaining from Strength: Historical Writing and Political Autonomy in Late-Twentieth-Century Quebec," in BrunoCoppieters and Michel Huysseune, Secession, History and the Social Sciences (Brussels: VUB Brussels UniversityPress, 2002), pp.159-177.6. "The Discovery of the Body of Mgr François de Laval and the Construction of Identity in Quebec," in Jean-PierreWallot, ed, Constructions identitaires et pratiques sociales (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2002), pp. 229-242.7. "Lionel Groulx" and "Fernand Ouellet" in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. London ; Chicago :Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.8. "Le rôle de l'histoire comparée dans l'historiographie québécoise," in Robert Comeau et Bernard Dionne, eds., Àpropos de l'histoire nationale. Sillery: Septentrion, 1998.9. "Richard William Heneker," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIV. University of Toronto Press, 1998.10. "Contested Terrain: Commemorative Celebrations and National Identity in Ireland and Quebec," in Yvan Lamondeand Gérard Bouchard, eds., La nation dans tous ses états : le Québec en comparaison. Montréal: Harmattan, 1997.11. "Canadian Historical Writing in French," in Eugene Benson, William Toye, eds., The Oxford Companion toCanadian Literature, 2nd ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press,1997.12. "The Megantic Outlaw and His Times: Ethnic Tensions in Quebec in the 1880s," in Tina Loo and Lorna McLean,eds., Historical Perspectives on Law and Society in Canada. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman, 1994.15 pages.(Originally published in journal; see below).13. "F-X St-Charles" and "William Weir," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIII. University of Toronto Press,1994.14. "Banking and Finance in Nineteenth Century Canada," Plate 52 in Historical Atlas of Canada, vol II. University ofToronto Press, 1993. Also published in French by Les Presses de l'Université Laval as Altlas historique du Canada.15. "English-Speaking Quebec: Still a World Apart," in Alain Gagnon, ed., Quebec: State and Society, second edition.Nelson Canada, 1993.16. "Population anglophone," in Jacques Rouillard, ed., Guide d'histoire du Québec. Méridien, 1991; 2nd ed, 1993.17. "Alphonse Desjardins et le marketing des caisses populaires, 1900-20," in Pierre Lanthier et Guildo Rousseau, eds.,La culture inventée. Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture,1992, 14 pages.18. "Collective Rights, the English-Speaking Minority and the Quebec Government, 1867-1988," in DavidSchneiderman, ed., Language and the State: The Law and the Politics of Identity. Editions Yvon Blais, 1991.19. "The Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914," in A. Artibise and G. Stelter, eds.,Shaping the Urban Landscape. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1982.Articles in Scholarly Journals1. "The Champlain-De Monts Tercentenary: Voices from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine, June 1904,"Acadiensis, 33 (Spring 2004), 3-26.2. "Où est le véritable débat?: Une réplique à Yves Gingras," Bulletin d'histoire politique, Vol 9, no1, automne 2000.This is a response to a lengthy commentary on my book, Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec (translated asFaire de l'histoire au Québec).3. "Marching and Memory in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec: La Fête-Dieu, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and le MonumentLaval," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 1999, pp 209-235.4. "On Difference and National Identity in Quebec Historical Writing: A Response to Jean-Marie Fecteau," CanadianHistorical Review 80 (December 1999), 666-76. This article-length response was published by the CHR along with asimilarly lengthy assessment of my Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec.5. "Les lunettes différentes," Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (hereafter RHAF) (51, 1998), 425-8. This formedpart of a published debate over my article, "Retour sur les vingt premières années de l'Institut; see below)6. "Retour sur les vingt premières années de l'Institut: Regards sur l'IHAF et la RHAF à l'époque de Groulx," Revued’histoire de l’Amérique française, 51 (1997), 24 pages. (R).127

7. "Au-delà du révisionnisme," Bulletin d'histoire politique, 4 (1995). 18 pages. This number of the journal also includeseight other articles, all of which were responding to my "La quête d'une société normale", noted below.8. "La quête d'une société normale: Critique de la réinterprétation de l'histoire du Québec," Bulletin d'histoire politique,3 (1995), 34 pages.9. "One Model, Two Responses: Quebec, Ireland and the Study of Rural Society," Canadian Papers in Rural History, 9(1994), 31 pages. (R)10. "Revisionism and the Search for a Normal Society: A Critique of Recent Historical Writing in Quebec," CanadianHistorical Review, 53 (1992), 31 pages. (R)11. "Class and Cooperatives: The Struggle for Power within the Caisses Populaires of Quebec, 1900-1945," CanadianPapers in Business History, 1989.12. "English-Speaking Quebec and the Canadian Constitution, 1867-1988," Language, Culture, and Curriculum, 1989.13. "In Whose Interest? The First Years of the First Caisse Populaire, 1900-1945," Canadian Historical Association,Historical Papers, 1987.14. "Bankers' Hours: Life Behind the Wicket at the Banque d'Hochelaga," Labour/Le Travail, 1986.15. "The Megantic Outlaw and His Times: Ethnic Tensions in Quebec in the 1880s," Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1986.16. "Recent Trends in Quebec Historiography," Queen's Quarterly, 1985.17. "Banking on Quebec: The French Banks and the Mobilization of French Funds, 1835-1925," Journal of CanadianStudies, 1985.18. "The Transformation of the Eastern Townships of Richard William Heneker," Journal of Canadian Studies, 1984.19. "Naissance et déclin d'une élite locale: La Banque des Cantons de l'Est," Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française,1984.20. "History from Quebec, 1981," Canadian Historical Review, 1982.21. "Boosting the French Canadian Town: Municipal Government and Urban Growth in Quebec, 1850-1900," UrbanHistory Review, 1982.22. "A Bank Merger Unlike the Others: The Establishment of the Banque Canadienne Nationale," Canadian HistoricalReview, 1980.23. "Land Ownership and Urban Growth: The Experience of Two Quebec Towns, 1840-1914," Urban History Review,1979.24. Saint-Hyacinthe and the Development of a Regional Economy, 1840-95, Discussion Paper No. 15, Department ofGeography, York University, 1977.25. "Regional Complexity and Political Behaviour in a Quebec County, 1867-86," Social History/ Histoire sociale, 1976.Book and Exhibition Reviews1. David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream, in Literary Review of Canada, April 2009.2. Garth Stevenson, Parallel Paths in Mens: Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française, Volume VIII,numéro 2 (printemps 2008).3. Michael Gauvreau, The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution in Amercian Historical Review, April 2007, pp488-9.4. "Old Montréal in a New Light." Exhibition at Pointe-à-Callière: Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, inJournal of American History, 92:3 (2005)128

5. Alan Gordon , Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930, in CanadianHistorical Review 85:3 (2004).6. Laurence Geary, ed., Rebellion and Remembrance in Modern Ireland in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies7. James S Donnelly, Jr, The Great Irish Potato Famine in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies8. HV Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary in Canadian HistoricalReview 81 (2000).9. Robert Hill, Voice of the Vanishing Minority: Robert Sellar and the Huntingdon Gleaner, 1863-1919 and JF Bosher,The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1977 in The Beaver, Fall 1999.10. Jacques Lacoursière, Histoire populaire du Québec, vol 4 in Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (52), 1998 (87-9).11. Yvan Lamonde, Combats libéraux, in Recherches sociographiques, 38 (1997), 563-7.12. Yvan Rousseau et Roger Levasseur, Du comptoir au réseau financier, in Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française,49 (1996), 443-4. This review resulted in a response from the authors as well as my reply, Revue d’histoire del’Amérique française 50(1996), 132-7.13. Yves Lavertu, L’affaire Bernonville, in Recherches sociographiques 37 (1996), 336-8.14. Gérard Bergeron, Lire François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866): notre "historien national", in Revue québécoise descience politique 27 (1995), 264-8.15. Fernande Roy, Histoire des idéologies au Québec aux XIXe et XXe siècles in Revue d'histoire de l'amériquefrançaise, 48 (1994), 275-7.16. Jean Lamarre, Le devenir de la nation québécoise selon Maurice Séguin, Guy Frégault et Michel Brunet, 1944-69, inLiterary Review of Canada 3 (October 1994),13-15.17. Roger Hall et al, The World of William Notman, in Literary Review of Canada, 3 (April 1994), 3-4.18. Paul-André Linteau, René Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert and François Ricard, Quebec Since 1930, in CanadianHistorical Review, (74)1993, 104-6.19. JI Little, Crofters and Habitants, in Canadian Ethnic Studies, 25 (1993), 116-17.20. Josée Légault, L'invention d'une minorité. Les Anglo-Québécois, in Recherches sociographiques, 34 (1993), 134-7.21. George Bervin, Québec au XIXe siècle: l'activité des grands marchands, in Literary Review of Canada, January 1993.22. Paul-André Linteau, Histoire de Montréal depuis la Confédération, in Histoire sociale, 1992.23. Pierre Fournier, A Meech Lake Post-Mortem: Is Quebec Sovereignty Inevitable?, in Canadian Historical Review.,December 1992.24. Jean Daigle, Une force qui nous appartient: La fédération des caisses acadiennes, in Literary Review of Canada,December 1991.25. Peter Baskerville, The Bank of Upper Canada, in Social History, 1989.26. JI Little, Nationalism, Capitalism and Colonization in Nineteenth Century Quebec, in Canadian Ethnic Studies,1989.27. Susan Mann Trofimenkoff, Visions nationales, in Recherches sociographiques, 1988.28. Brendan O'Donnell, Printed Sources for the Study of English-Speaking Quebec, in Canadian Historical Review, 1987.29. Elinor Senior, Redcoats and Patriots: The Rebellions in Lower Canada, 1837-8, in Recherches sociographiques,1987.30. Robert Armstrong, Stucture and Change: An Economic History of Quebec in Canadian Historical Review, 1985.31. Sheila McLeod-Arnopoulos and Dominique Clift, The English Fact in Quebec, second ed., in Le Devoir, 9 January1985.32. Brian Young, George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal Bourgeois in Queen's Quarterly, 1983.33. Gary Caldwell and Eric Waddell, eds., The English of Quebec: From Majority to Minority Status in CanadianHistorical Review, 1983.34. Marcel Bellavance, A Village in Transition in Canadian Historical Review, 1983.35. David Rome et al, The Jews in Quebec: Annotated Retrospective Bibliography in Revue d'histoire de l'amériquefrançaise, 1983.36. Joseph-Edmond McComber, Memoires d'un bourgeois de Montréal in Canadian Historical Review, 1981.Conference Papers and Invited Presentations or Lectures1. Presentations of documentary film, Life After Ile Ste-Croix (see above), with introduction and participation inquestion and answer periods: New Brunswick Museum, May 2005; Atlantic Canada Studies Conference (Universityof New Brunswick, Fredericton), May 2005; Canadian Historical Association, University of Western Ontario, June129

2005; Concordia University, September 2005; Silver Wave Film Festival (Fredericton, New Brunswick), November2005; St Andrews (New Brunswick) Film Society, November 2005; University of Ottawa, March 2006; colloque,"Lieux de mémoire, commémoration et identité dans la francophonie canadienne", Université d'Ottawa, Novembre2006; Annual Conference of the National Council on Public History (Louisville KY), April 2008.2. "Making Kouchibouguac: Film, Public Memory and the Creation of a National Park," presented to Atlantic CanadaStudies Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, May 2009.3. "Champlain et l'Acadie, 1904-2004," communication présentée au séminaire de la CEFAN (Université Laval),November 2008.4. "Kouchibouguac in Acadian Memory," presented to the meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, UBC, June2008.5. "Pourquoi l'Irlande et le Québec?" keynote address presented to the colloque: Culture, histoire, identité: le Québec etl'Irlande, d'hier à aujourd'hui, ACFAS, Quebec City, May 2008.6. "How Do You Know If You Are Being Used?: A Historian's Reflections on His Sources," presented to theconference: Sharing Authority: Building Community-University Alliances through Oral History, Digital Storytellingand Collaboration, Concordia University, February 2008.7. " Faut-il tourner la page? Acadian Memories of the grand dérangement, 250 Years Later," presented to the AtlanticCanada Studies Conference, St Mary's University (Halifax), May 2007.8. "Les lieux de mémoire et le 250e anniversaire du Grand Dérangement," communication présentée au colloque, "Lieuxde mémoire, commémoration et identité dans la francophonie canadienne", Université d'Ottawa, Novembre 2006.9. "Rebellion and Identity in Ireland and in Quebec," presented to workshop "Constructions of Identity in Ireland andQuebec", Concordia University, October 2006.10. "Making Contact in 2004: First Nations and the 'Celebration' of 400 Years of European Settlement", presented to theconference, "Encounter 1604: Historical Perspectives on the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine", New BrunswickMuseum (Saint John, NB), September 2004.11. "Celebrating the Origins of French Settlement and the Construction of Canadian Identity", presented to theconference, "Constructing National Identities in Canada and the United- States", Ellis Island Immigration Museum,NYC, September 2004.12. "La mémoire de Champlain, hier et aujourd'hui", communication présentée à la séance plénière du 2e colloqueinternational Québec-Brétagne (Mémoires du 21e siècle), Université Laval, Avril 2004.13. "Champlain's First Tercentenary: Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Summer 1904," presented to Canadian HistoricalAssociation, Dalhousie University (Halifax), May 2003.14. "Celebrating the Past: Now and Then", presented to 2003 Spring Heritage Conference (Federation of Nova ScotianHeritage and the Heritage Division of the NS Dept of Tourism and Culture), Amherst NS, May 2003.15. "Listening for Acadian Voices: Celebrating the Tercentenary and Quadricentenary of European Settlement in AtlanticCanada", Atlantic Canada Studies Conference, Memorial University (St John's), May 2003.16. "The Changing Face of Champlain" presentation to Historica General Council meeting, Toronto, October 2002.17. "Pratique historienne et commémoration", presentation to Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, Sherbrooke,October 2002.18. "Telling the Truth About '98", presented to Canadian Association of Irish Studies, University of Toronto atMississauga, May 2002.19. "La Fête-Dieu en honneur de Mgr de Laval: Québec, 1908," presented to seminar organized by CIRCEM (Centreinterdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorités), Université d'Ottawa, April 2002.20. "History and Nationhood in Comparative Perspective", presentation to "Future of the Past" conference, University ofWestern Ontario, March 2002.21. "Une Fête-Dieu hors de commun : Une procession de masse et le dévoilement du Monument Laval", presented toSociété canadienne pour l'histoire de l'Église catholique, Montreal (UQAM), September 2001.22. "La découverte du corps de Mgr François de Laval et la construction d'identité au Québec," paper presented to theconference "Constructions identitaires et pratiques sociales" (Conference to the memory of Pierre Savard), Universityof Ottawa, October 2000.23. "Faire de l'histoire en Irlande", presentation at Université Laval, September 2000.24. "Unravelling Dichotomies: The Contested Nature of Secessionist Discourse in Quebec,"paper presented to theconference: "Contextualizing Secession: Normative Judgements in a Comparative Perspective", KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven (Belgium), May 2000.25. "L'historien professionnel et le grand public: Quelques réflexions sur la situation québécoise inspirées parl'expérience irlandaise", presented to colloque sur "La nouvelle sensibilité historique", McGill University, March2000.130

26. "Faire de l'histoire au Québec," Institut interuniversitaire de recherches sur les populations (IREP), Journéesscientifiques, Montreal, 7 février 2000.27. "Quel Champlain? Quelle France? Les perspectives québécoises sur la France dans les représentations de Samuel deChamplain, 1898-1908," presented to the conference, "Français et québécois: le regard de l’autre," Paris, October1999.28. "Making History", invited lecture, McGill University, October 1999.29. "Marching and Memory in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec: La Fête-Dieu, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and le MonumentLaval," presented to Canadian Historical Association, Université de Sherbrooke, June 1999. (This paper has beenaccepted for publication in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.)30. "From Canadiens français to Québécois: The Reconstruction of Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century Quebec", lecturepresented to History in the Making conference, Concordia University, February 1999.31. "Faire de l'histoire au Québec", invited lecture, Université de Sherbrooke, November 1998.32. "Bargaining from Strength: Historical Writing and the Movement for Political Autonomy in Late-Twentieth-CenturyQuebec", paper presented to international conference on "The Social Sciences and the Right to Secession", VrijeUniversiteit Brussel; Brussels, Belgium; November 1998.33. Table ronde, discussion of Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec, annual congress of Institut d'histoire del'Amérique française, Quebec City, October 1998.34. Colloque on Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec, UQAM, September 1998.35. "L'histoire nationale et l'histoire comparative," presented to ACFAS, Quebec City, May 1998.36. "Lionel Groulx and the Historical Profession in Twentieth-Century Quebec" and "Quebec Historians and the Searchfor the French-Speaking Businessman": lectures presented at University of Toronto, February 1998.37. "Regards sur l'IHAF et la RHAF à l'époque de Groulx," presented to congrès de l'Institut d'histoire de l'Amériquefrançaise, Montreal, October 1997.38. "Historians and their Society in Twentieth Century Quebec," lecture presented to history department, University ofOttawa, 20 March 199739. "Contested Terrain: Commemorative Celebrations and National Identity in Ireland and Quebec," presented toconference on "Mythes fondateurs nationaux et citoyenneté," organized by Institut interuniversitaire de recherchessur les populations (IREP), Université de Montréal, November 1996.40. "Les caisses populaires, la petite bougeoisie et la nouvelle classe moyenne 1900-45", presented to conference:"Desjardins: un mouvement et une entreprise", Colloque annuel sur les leaders du Québec contemporain (UQAM),March 1996.41. "Representations of the Past in Ireland and Quebec", general meeting of Institut interuniversitaire de recherches surles populations (IREP), Montreal, November 1995.42. "Le révisionnisme est bien vivant," presented to colloquium on Quebec historical writing, UQAM, February 1995.This colloquium was dedicated to a discussion of my article in the Bulletin d'histoire politique (February 1995) notedabove.43. "Recontructing the Rural Past: Historians' Conceptions of Ireland and Quebec in the Nineteenth Century," paperpresented to American Conference on Irish Studies, Galway, Ireland, July 1992.44. "Alphonse Desjardins et le marketing des caisses populaires, 1900-20," colloque sur, "Les stratégies culturelles auQuébec," Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, novembre 1990.45. "Collective Rights, the English-Speaking Minority and the Quebec Government, 1867-1988", paper presented toconference on "Language and the State," University of Alberta, 1989.46. "Centralizing Power within a Decentralized Enterprise: The Struggle for Power within the Caisses Populaires ofQuebec, 1900-1945," paper presented to Second Canadian Business History Conference, University of Victoria, 1988.47. "English-Speaking Quebec and the Canadian Constitution, 1867-1988," paper presented to conference onbilingualism and language minorites in Canada and Ireland, Maynooth College, Ireland, 1988.48. "Les Caisses populaires et les classes sociales," présenté au congrès de la Semaine de coopération, Université duQuébec à Montréal, 1988.49. "In Whose Interest? The First Years of the First Caisse Populaire, 1900-1945," presented to Canadian HistoricalAssociation, McMaster University, 1987.50. "Les archives d'institutions financières," présenté au congrès de l'Association des archivistes du Québec, Sherbrooke,Quebec, 1986.51. "Naissance et déclin d'une élite locale: La Banque des Cantons de l'Est," présenté au congrès de l'Institut d'histoire del'Amérique française, Compton, Quebec, 1984.52. "Le Québec anglophone au XIXe siècle," présenté au congrès de l"ACFAS, Université Laval 1984.131

53. "Banking on Quebec: The French Banks and the Mobilization of French Funds, 1835-1925," presented to conferenceon Canadian business history, Trent University, 1984.54. "Quebec and the Canadian Banking System, 1871-1911," presented to Canadian Historical Association, University ofBritish Columbia,1983.55. "L'histoire des communautés culturelles: par où commencer," présenté au congrès de l'Institut d'histoire de l'Amériquefrançaise, UQAM, 1982.56. "Boosting the French Canadian Town: Municipal Government and Urban Growth in Quebec, 1850-1900," presentedto conference on the French experience in North America, University of Maine,1980.57. "The Functioning of La Banque Jacques Cartier," presented to the Canadian Historical Association,University ofSaskatchewan, 1979.58. "La formation de la Banque Canadienne Nationale," présenté au congrès de l'Institut d'histoire de l'Amériquefrançaise, Université de Montreal, 1978.59. "The Montreal Banks and the Urban Development of Quebec, 1840-1914," presented at conference on Canada's urbanpast, University of Guelph, 1977.Awards and Funded ResearchNational Council on Public History, 2010 Book Award, for Remembering and Forgetting in Acadie: A Historian's Journeythrough Public MemoryUniversity Research Award, 2010-11. Awarded by Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies, Concordia University, June2010Member, Provost's Circle of Distinction, Concordia University, May 2010.Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2009-.Dean's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, 2006.Funded researchDate of Award Project Title Granting Agency Amount1 2010-11 Mémoire d'un souvenir (French version of Celtic Vice-President, Research and $2000Cross film project)Graduate Studies2 2009-13 Kouchibouguac in History and Memory SSHRC $52,5003 2008-9 Whose Island? (Documentary Film Project on the Vice-President, Research and $5000Celtic Cross, Grosse-Île)Graduate Studies4 2008-9 Whose Island? (Documentary Film Project on the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, $5000Celtic Cross, Grosse-Île)Concordia University5 2007 Constructions of Identity in Ireland and Quebec (in Vice-President, Research and $15,000collaboration with Profs. Michael Kenneally(English) and Rhona Richman Kenneally (Designand Computation Arts)Graduate Studies (seed funding forFQRSC application)6 2003-2006 Constructing the 400th Anniversary of European SSHRC $94,000Settlement in Canada7 1999-2000 Visualizing Irish Studies Concordia Centre for Teaching and $3000Learning Services8 1998-2001 Founding Fathers SSHRC $21,2509 1997 Founding Fathers Concordia, General Research Funds $200010 1991-1994 Ireland and Quebec SSHRC $25,80011 1986-1989 Caisses populaires SSHRC $24,30812 1982 – 1983 Banking in Quebec SSHRC $13,89313 1982 – 1983 Banking in Quebec FCAR $13,440Teaching Fields (Representative courses taught in parentheses)• Canadian history (Introduction to Canadian history; Canadian historical writing; Public Memory in Canada)• Quebec history (Introduction to Quebec History; History of Montreal; Rebellions in Ireland and Quebec)132

• Irish history (Introduction to Irish history; Rebellions in Ireland and Quebec)Service to the Concordia University CommunityAdministrative Experience• Chair, Department of History, 2001-2004; 2006-7.• Director, Graduate Program, Department of History, 1991-2; 1985-6• Concordia Representative on CREPUQ Bodies (Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec)• Concordia representative on Commission d'évaluation des projets de programmes (CREPUQ), 1998-2000 (Thiscommittee approves all new programs, in all disciplines, in all Quebec universities).• Concordia representative to sub-commission on history, Commission des universités sur les programmes (CUP),1998-9 (CREPUQ mandated commission to rationalize university programs in Quebec)Service on Significant University Bodies• Member, Senate, 2005-2007• Member, organizing committee of conference to mark Concordia's move into Grey Nuns property, 2006-7• Member, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Science, 2005.• History Department Representative to Arts and Science Faculty Council, 2001-4; 2006-7• Member, Faculty Personnel and Tenure Committee (Advises dean on all such decisions), 2002-4• Member, University Committee to Name Professors Emeriti, 2001-2004• Member, University Graduate Fellowship Committee, 1997-8• Member, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Steering Committee, 1993-present• Member, Various search committees for department chairs, 1989-present• Member, University Research Committee, 1987-9; 1981-2• Arts and Science Tenure Committee, 1986-8• Dean's Advisory Committee on Promotion, 1983-4• Co-director, Centre for the Study of Anglophone Quebec, 1980-1Service on Significant Committees within History Department• Chair, Public History Committee, 2002-2006• Member, History Department Personnel Committee (elected by peers), 1996-8; 1988-9; 1983-4• Member, Graduate Committee, 1994-7; 1987-9; 1990-2• Member, Long-Term Planning Committee, 1990-1; 1980-1• Convener, Department colloquium series, 1994-7Service to the Larger Academic Community• Academic Convenor, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010 (2008-10)• Member, Editorial board, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2001-2009.• Institut interuniversitaire de recherches sur les populations (IREP): chercheur titulaire (1994-2000). This researchinstitute, directed by Gérard Bouchard (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) and funded by various Quebecuniversitites including Concordia, furthered research on the population of Quebec.• Member, comité des prix, Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 1995-7 (This jury awards the literary prizes ofthe professional association of Quebec historians.)• Member, comité consultatif, Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 1992-7.• Member, comité scientifique, Colloque annuel sur les leaders du Québec contemporain (UQAM), 1996.• Member, organizing committee, international conference on "Mythes fondateurs nationaux et citoyenneté," organizedby IREP (see above), 1996.• Member, organizing committee for annual conference of Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 1989; 1992.• Member, comité d'archives, Institut d'histoire de l'amérique française.• Evaluator of numerous manuscripts including both articles for journals and books for publishers.133

• Evaluator of numerous manuscripts for the Social Science Federation of Canada.• Evaluator of numerous grant applications for both SSHRC and FCAR/FQRSC.134

Rhona Richman KenneallyBiographical Information:Personal Data:Citizenship:Address:CanadianDepartment of Design and Computation ArtsConcordia University1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. WestEV 6.753Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8tel: (514) 848-2424 local 4276email: rrk@alcor.concordia.caCurrent Academic Employment:2010-13: Chair, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts,Concordia University, Montreal.2001-: Associate Professor, Department of Design and Computation Arts (tenured since2006). Teaching and administrative responsibilities in the undergraduate Designprogram, as well as the Graduate Certificate program, Digital Technologies inDesign Art Practice.Previous Academic Employment:1999-2001: Part-time faculty, Department of Design Art, Concordia University.1996-2001: Course lecturer, School of Architecture, McGill University, in conjunction withthe McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.Major Design-Related Projects:2005-6: two domestic renovation projects in Montreal.2002-3: Advisor and design contributor, design and space allocation, Department ofDesign Art and Digital Image/Sound and the Fine Arts, in new Visual ArtsBuilding, Concordia University. Also contributed to design of space occupiedby Dean’s Offices, other Faculty spaces such as amphitheatres, and consulted reselection of furniture and other equipment.2000-1: Architectural Consultant, redesign of exterior façade and landscaping, suburbanhome, Montréal, Quebec.1999-2000: Architectural Consultant, Office and Warehouse complex, Montreal, Québec.Budget approximately $2 million. Design of office space, interior design,consultation re landscaping.Academic Background:June 03:Ph.D. (supported by SSHRC), School of Architecture, McGill University,Montreal. Dissertation Title: The Tempered Gaze: Medieval ChurchArchitecture, Scripted Tourism, and Ecclesiology in Early Victorian Britain.Recommended by thesis and defense committees for consideration, Dean’s135

June 94:June 92:Honour Roll; controversially deemed ineligible because of a retroactivelyapplied time limitations policy.Bachelor of Architecture, McGill University (professional degree). Thesis title:The Architecture of the Narrative and the Narrative of Architecture: MycenaeComes Homer Through Choyce. Thesis supervisor Prof. Ricardo Castro.Bachelor of Science, Architecture, McGill University.June 83:June 79:Master of Arts in Canadian History (supported by FCAR, currently FQRSC),Department of History, McGill University. Thesis topic: The MontrealMaternity, 1843-1926: Evolution of a Hospital; supervisor Prof. Brian Young.Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English Literature, Department of English,McGill University.Research:Editorial Work, Books and Special-Issue Periodicals:In planningMaterial Ireland, collection of essays and images co-edited stages:with Lucy McDiarmid(Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Chair in English, Montclair University), on the Irish domesticbuilt environment2010-15: Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies2010: Expo 67: Not just a souvenir, co-edited with Johanne Sloan (Dept. of Art History,Concordia University). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, to appear in Fall 2010.2010: Special issue, “Domestic Foodscapes,” Material Culture Review, co-edited with JordanLeBel (Dept. of Marketing, Concordia University), 70 (Fall 2009).2008: Special issue, “Constructions of Identity in Ireland and Quebec,” Canadian Journal ofIrish Studies 33:1 (Spring 2007), co-editors Ronald Rudin and Michael Kenneally.2005: From English Literature to Literatures in English: International Perspectives, collectionof essays co-edited with Michael Kenneally (Centre for Canadian Irish Studies) andWolfgang Zach (University of Innsbruck, Austria). Universitatsverläg Winter, 2005.Exploration of diverse methodological approaches to literary criticism, including materialculture and landscape analysis.Curation:2005: “Expo 67: Not just a souvenir,” exhibition co-curated with Johanne Sloan (Dept. of ArtHistory, Concordia University), Canadian Centre for Architecture, March –September. http://cca.qc.ca/pages/Niveau3.asp?page=expo67&lang=eng136

Programming (including Conference Organization):2012: “Beyond Words: Irish Literature and the other Disciplines,” annual meeting of theInternational Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, co-organized with MichaelKenneally, to take place at Concordia University in July.2011: “Text and Beyond Text: New Visual, Material, Spatial and Performative Perspectives inIrish Studies,” annual meeting of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies, coorganizedwith Michael Kenneally, to take place at Concordia University in July.2010: “History and Representation in Ireland and Quebec,” FQRSC- and IRCHSS- (IrishResearch Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) funded workshop, coorganizedwith Margaret Kelleher (National University of Ireland Maynooth) andMichael Kenneally (School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia). First of threemeetings, the second to take place at Concordia in October 2010 and the third in Irelandin 2011.2008- creator, Food Culture Group, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Society andCulture, Concordia, consisting of thirteen professors from all faculties of ConcordiaUniversity.2008: “Domestic Foodscapes: Toward Mindful Eating?” SSHRC-funded workshop coorganizedwith Jordan LeBel (Cornell University), Concordia University.2006: “Constructions of Identity in Ireland and Quebec,” SSHRC-funded workshop coorganizedwith Michael Kenneally and Ronald Rudin, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies,Concordia University.2005: “Montreal at Street Level: Revisiting the Material, Visual and Spatial Culture of the 60s,”SSHRC-funded conference co-organized with Johanne Sloan (Dept. of Art History,Concordia University), in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture.2001: “Declarations of Interdependence and the Immediacy of Design,” SSHRC-sponsoredconference co-organized with Michael Longford, pk langshaw, and Lydia Sharman(Dept. of Design Art, Concordia University).Publications:In planning“Good Canadian Cuisine” during the mid-Twentieth Century: stages: Food, Place, andIdentity, monograph accepted for publication by University of Toronto Press.2011: “Remembering Domestic Foodscapes,” in Edible Histories, eds. Valerie J. Korinek,Marlene Epp and Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto Press.2011: “Renovating the Irish Cottage: A Material Culture Perspective,” invited submission forMemory Ireland, ed. Oona Frawley, Syracuse University Press.2010: with Jordan LeBel, “Childhood Memories of the Domestic Foodscape: The Home as aSite of Mindful Eating and “Mindful Eating,” Material Culture Review 70 (Fall 2009),pp. 69-81.2010: Biographical entry on Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, for the Dictionary of IrishBiography, editors James Quinn et al, Royal Irish Academy. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.137

2010: “‘The Greatest Dining Extravaganza in Canada’s History’: Food Culture at Expo 67,”Expo 67, Not just a souvenir, co-edited with Johanne Sloan, University of Toronto Press.2009: with Jordan LeBel, “Designing Meal Environments for ‘Mindful’ Eating,” chapter of abook entitled Meals in Science and Practice: Interdisciplinary Research and BusinessApplications, ed. Herbert L. Meiselman. Abington, Cambridge, UK: WoodheadPublishing Limited, pp. 575-593.2009: “‘There is a Canadian cuisine, and it is unique in all the world’: Crafting national foodculture during the long 1960s,” in What’s to Eat?: Entrées in Canadian Food History ed.Nathalie Cooke, (Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen’s University 2009), pp. 167-196.2009: “The Cyberculture of Grosse Ile,” in Ireland’s Great Hunger: Representation andPreservation, ed. David Valone, (University Press of America), pp. 111-120.2008: “Replicating the Authentic Irish Cottage: The Quiet Man as Text/Film/Museum,” in ANew Ireland in Brazil: Festschrift for Prof. Munira H. Mutran, Laura P. Z. Izarra &Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos (eds.). SP: Ed. Humanitas.2008: “The Cuisine of the Tundra: Toward a Canadian Food Culture at Expo 67,” special issueof Food, Culture, and Society on Canadian Food Studies, ed. Elaine Power and MustafaKoc, 11:3 (Sept. 2008), p. 287-313.2005: “Digesting Food Writing,” review essay in Material History Review, 61 (Spring 05): 84-86.2003: “Now you Don’t See it, Now You Do: Situating the Irish in the Material Culture ofGrosse Île,” article and original photographs, Éire-Ireland, XXXVIII: 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter2003): 33-53.2003: Review of Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture by Robert JamesBelton, Material History Review, 58 (Fall 03): 80-83.2003: Review of Design in Canada by Rachel Gotlieb and Sara Golden, Material HistoryReview, 57 (Spring 2003): 102-4.2002: Review of Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture by Sherrie A. Innessand Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? American Women and the Kitchen in the TwentiethCentury by Mary Drake McFeely, Material History Review, 55 (Spring 2002): 107-111.2002: “Japanese Design from Canadian Hands: Dave Kucer’s Miniatures,” article and originalphotographs, Daruma, 36 (2002): 36-37.2002: “Parr Excellence,” review of Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and theEconomic in the Postwar Years by Joy Parr, Material History Review, 55 (Spring 2002):115-117.2002: “Feminism and Femininity in Design,” review of two books, Material History Review, 54(Fall 2001): 121-5.2000: “Landscape to Inscape: Topography as Ecclesiological Vision,” Landscape/Architecture:Between Vision and Memory, ed. Jan Birkstead, (London: Spon).2000: “Love and Marriage,” review of Karen Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment:Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls, and Linda May Ballard, Forgetting138

Frolic: Marriage Traditions in Ireland. Material History Review, 51 (Spring, 2000): 72-74.2000: “Exposition/Exhibition En Chantier,” exhibition review of En Chantier, Canadian Centrefor Architecture. Muse, XVIII, no. 1 (2000): 16-19.2000: “Architecture as Irish Material Culture,” book review essay on Sean Rothery, A FieldGuide to the Buildings of Ireland and Sean D. O’Reilly, Irish Churches and Monasteries:An Historical and Architectural Guide. Irish Literary Supplement (New York), 19: 2(Fall 2000): 1, 3-4.1998: “Depictions of Progress: Montreal in Contemporary Guidebooks, 1839-1900,” essay inthe Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, 23:1 (Spring 1998): 9-15.1998: “Empirical Underpinnings: Ecclesiology, the Excursion, and Church Schemes, 1830s-1850s,” essay in Ecclesiology Today (London, U.K.), #15 (January 1998): 14-19.1998: “Clothing in Two Acts,” exhibition review of two exhibitions on the culture of clothing atthe Victoria and Albert and Imperial War Museums in London, UK, Material HistoryReview, 47 (Spring 1998): 68-73.1996: Exhibition review of Power and Planning: Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950,exhibition, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Material History Review, 44 (Fall 1996):123-7.Conference/Symposia Presentations (Includes Guest Lectures, Interviews, and ConferenceParticipation as Moderator):2010: “The Material Culture of the Kitchen,” lecture presented at the Summer Institute ofMaterial Culture Research, Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa Ontario.2010: “Telling Stories: Irish Food, Culture, and Identity.” Annual conference of the CanadianHistorical Association, Concordia University.2010: “Cookbooks as Food Culture,” “The Restaurants of Expo 67,” and “Kitchen Design andMindful Eating,” a series of three public lectures presented at the Eleanor LondonLibrary, Montreal.2010: “Food, Culture, and Domestic Space: Women’s Agency and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada.” Keynote address, Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland,Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.2010: “Food-Related Memories and Representations of the Past in Ireland and Quebec,”workshop entitled Memories and Representations of the Past in Ireland and Quebec,Concordia University, Montreal.2010: “Reproducing the authentic Irish cottage: The Quiet Man as text-film-museum.” Invitedlecture, Graduate Program in English Literature, Montclair University, New Jersey.2010: “Food, Wellness and the Built Environment.” Invited lecture, McGill Seminar onHealing, Programs on Whole Person Care, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University.2010: “Performing the Quiet Man.” Invited lecture, Cinema Dept., Concordia University(course in Irish Film).139

2010: “Food as Material Culture: The Case of Expo 67.” Invited lecture, course on museologyand material culture, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.2009: “Shashlyk, Tandoori and Grouse, Oh My! The Exotic (Food) World of Expo 67.”Invited lecture, Culinary Historians of Ontario, and the Ontario Historical Society,Toronto.2009: “Recipes for the Irish Domestic Foodscape: Tracking Women’s Lives in mid-Twentieth-Century Cookbooks,” abstract for paper submitted for the conference entitledRemarkable Irish Women: Radicals, Republicans and Writers, Drew University,Madison, N.J.2009: “‘Rebellion’ in the Kitchen? Women, Food and Home in mid-Twentieth-CenturyIreland,” abstract for paper submitted for the annual (and, this year, joint) conference ofthe Women’s History Association of Ireland and Women’s History Scotland, TrinityCollege, Dublin, Ireland.2009: “‘Check Your Kitchen’: Food, Culture, and the Domestic Foodscape in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada,” abstract for paper submitted for the annual conference of theAssociation for the Study of Food and Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.2008: Interview for CBC Radio 1, Cinq à Six, special edition on food and culture. AnnaAsimacopulos, interviewer.2008: “Design ⇔ Food ⇔ Architecture,” lecture given to the Food Research Group, Centre forthe Interdisciplinary Study of Society and Culture, Concordia University.2008: “Nourishing ‘a Complex and Remarkable Assortment’: Irish Food Culture During themid-Twentieth Century,” second Irish Studies Symposium, Library and Archives Canada,Ottawa, Ontario. Podcast: http://www.thegaelichour.ca/mp3/20081109.mp32008: “Salted and Unsalted Life”: Food and Culture in Sebastian Barry’s Annie Dunne, annualconference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, Universityof Oporto, Oporto, Portugal. Invited to submit for publication.2008: “Performing The Quiet Man,” annual conference of the Canadian Association for IrishStudies, University of Toronto.2008: “Food and Domestic Foodscapes in Canada,” paper accepted for the workshop “EdibleHistories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, University of Waterloo.2008: “Beyond nostalgia: The impact of childhood foodscapes on adulthood eating styles,” cowrittenby Jordan LeBel (Cornell University), conference entitled Domestic Foodscapes:Towards Mindless Eating, Concordia University.2007: “Replicating the Authentic Irish Cottage: The Quiet Man as Text/Film/Museum,” secondannual symposium of Irish Studies in South America, entitled Ireland and Latin America:Towards New Perspectives, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Invited to submit for publication.2007: “Like beaten eggwhites folded into sugar”: the culture of food in Sebastian Barry’s AnnieDunne,” annual conference of the Centre for the International Study of Literatures inEnglish, University of Barcelona, Spain.2007: “‘Woman of the house, where’s me tay!’: reconstructing the authenticity of The QuietMan,” annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, CUNY, New York.140

2007: “Would you like some maple syrup with your pizza?” Invited lecture, Centre forCanadian Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria.2007: moderator, Logo Cities conference, Concordia University, Montreal. Conferenceorganizer Matt Soar.2007: interviewed by Donna Nebenzahl re Irish food culture for article in Montreal Gazette.2007: interviewed by Danielle Adams re food culture of Expo 67 for website on the fortiethanniversary of Expo67: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/features/expo67/theexpo.html#2006: “Kitchener Kartoffel Kloesse and Curry for Canada: Nationalism and multiculturalism inMid-twentieth-century cookbooks”: Cookbooks as History international conference,Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink, Adelaide University, Adelaide,Australia.2006: "Spatial Reproductions of The Quiet Man: The Quiet Man Museum in Mayo, Ireland, asan interactive enactment of text and film,” annual conference of the InternationalAssociation for the Study of Irish Literatures, Sydney, Australia.2006: “Design and Material Culture,” guest lecture, Graduate Program M.Sc.A. «option designet complexité», l’ Université de Montréal, at the invitation of Prof. Diane Bisson.2006: “Materiality and the Everyday: the souvenirs of Expo 67,” guest lecture for the CanadianMuseums, Galleries and Material Culture course taught under the auspices of the McGillInstitute for the Study of Canada, Montreal.2005: “The Cyberculture of Grosse Ile,” paper presented at “Ireland’s Great Hunger:Representation and Preservation,” international conference, Quinnipiac University,Connecticut.2005: “Ojibway Kee Wee Sen and other “Hearty Fare”: The Culture of Food at Expo 67,” paperpresented at "What's for Dinner? The Daily Meal Through History," McCord Museum inconjunction with the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montreal.2005: “Web-citing Grosse Ile: Ireland, Canada and the Construction of Ethnicity,” paperpresented at the conference entitled “Literatures in English: Priorities of Research,”University of Innsbruck, Austria.2005: “Trucking Along in Cyberspace: The Irishness of Grosse Ile,” paper presented at“Beyond Autoethnography: Writing Race and Ethnicity in Canada,” national conference,Wilfred Laurier University.2005: “Tasting Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s,” paper presented to the St. James LiterarySociety, Montreal.2005: “Ecclesiological Tourism in Early Victorian Britain,” paper presented by invitation,Society of Architectural Historians, annual international conference, Vancouver, B.C.2005: “Communicating Heritage / Culture :: place :: cyberspace,” paper presented by invitationof Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Fine Arts as part of the Defiant Imaginationseries, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, in conjunction with the MontrealMuseum of Fine Arts.141

2004: “Eating Expo: The Food Culture of Montreal in the 1960s,” paper presented inconjunction with CBC Radio One’s Montreal Matters annual project, ConcordiaUniversity.2004: “‘Free Coffins for Dying “Micks”’: Grosse Île in Cyberspace,” paper presented at theAmerican Conference for Irish Studies/ British Association for Irish Studies, annualconference, Institute for Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, UK.2004: “Grosse Île as Ethnic Tourism: Depicting Irishness in Cyberspace,” paper prepared at theSociety for the Study of Architecture in Canada, annual conference, Kingston, Ontario.Paper not given due to illness.2004: “‘The Trials of Mr. Spicee’: Ethnic Eating at Expo 67,” paper presented at the PopularCulture Association, annual national conference, San Antonio, Texas.2003: “Belvederes and Defamiliarization,” lecture presented as part of the Charrette designcompetition, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.2003: with Michael Longford, “Reconfiguring the Boundaries: Teaching Design in Montréal,”read by Rhona Richman Kenneally at the Northeast Popular Culture/American CultureAssociation, annual regional conference, Worcester State College, Worcester MA.2003: with Michael Longford, “Reconfiguring the Boundaries: Engaging Design Pedagogy,”read by Michael Longford at “Design: Refining our Knowledge,” national conference,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul.2003: “Tasting Modernity: Community Cookbooks, Expo 67, and Evolving Culinary Practicesin 1960s Montreal,” paper presented at “The Sixties: Style and Substance,” nationalcolloquium, McCord Museum, Montreal, in conjunction with l’Université du Québec àMontréal.2003: Guest Critic, Thesis Projects, Masters in Architecture Program, McGill University.2003: “The Tempered Gaze: Medieval Church Architecture, Scripted Tourism, andEcclesiology in Early Victorian Britain,” paper presented to the Research Institute for theHistory of Architecture (IRHA), Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.2003: “Edible Consumption: Material Food Culture in Context, 1950s-70s,” lecture presentedunder the auspices of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University.2002: “Interstitial Installations,” lecture presented in conjunction with the Charrette designcompetition, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.2002: “Canadian Chop Suey and Curry for Canada: Reading Montreal Culture in CommunityCookbooks, 1950s-70s,” paper presented for the North East Popular Culture Association,regional conference, Colby-Sawyer College, Maine.2002: “Irish or No? The Re-Visited Material Culture of Grosse Île,” paper presented for theCanadian Historical Association, annual national conference, Toronto, Canada.2002: “Activism by Design: Exploring Strategies of Social Responsibility in Popular Culture.”conference paper for Protest Issues and Actions section, Popular Culture Association,annual national conference, Toronto, Canada.142

2002: Interview for Art Talks, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio programme hostedby Catherine Gombay. Subject: contemporary responsibilities of graphic designers. Cointerviewee:Michael Longford.2002: Interview by Eva Friede, Fashion Editor of the Montreal Gazette, included in articleentitled “Into the Blue,” Arts and Life Section, 16 April.2001: “Re-visiting Emigration through the Material Culture of Grosse-Île,” paper presented atthe North East Popular Culture Association, annual regional conference, SouthernConnecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut.2001: “Gory or Glam?: Perceptions of Emigration in the Re-Visited Material Culture of GrosseÎle,” paper presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, annual nationalconference, Fordham University, New York.2000: “Stimulating the Designer’s Eye: Teaching Popular Material Culture,” paper presented atthe North Eastern Popular Culture Association, annual regional conference, SpringfieldCollege, Springfield, Mass.2000: “Everything Else is Immaterial.” Guest lecture, Women’s Arts Club, Montreal Museumof Fine Arts.1999: “All Dressed Up and Where do They Go?: Museology, Material Culture and TwoClothing Exhibitions,” guest lecture for course on Canadian museology and materialculture, McGill University.1999: “Ecclesiological Material Culture: Reading Architectural Spaces, 1830s-1850s,” paperpresented at the Canadian Historical Association, annual national conference, Bishop’sUniversity/University of Sherbrooke.1999: Round table discussion “Teaching Material Culture: Ideology and Methodology.” Roundtable discussion with Profs. Jane L. Cook (McGill University), Adrienne Hood(University of Toronto) and Gerald Pocius (Memorial University), Canadian HistoricalAssociation, annual national conference, Bishop’s University/University of Sherbrooke.One of the principal topics of discussion was the efficacy of course websites in theteaching of courses on material culture.1998: “Excursions into the Past: The Church Scheme and Victorian Travel, 1840-1860,” paperpresented at Gothic Revival Conference, national conference, Miami University, Oxford,Ohio.1998: “Going the Distance: The Medieval Church as Travel Destination, 1840-1850s,” panelaccepted for presentation at “Practicing Places and Tourist Performances,” internationalconference, University of Durham, England. Invitation declined due to revised teachingobligations.Funding/Commissions/Acquisitions2010-12: SSHRC Publication Grant, for Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, $30,000.2009-13: Standard Research Grant, SSHRC, “Food, Home, and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-CenturyIreland,” sole investigator, $109,000.143

2009: (with Michael Kenneally et al), FQRSC, special grant for research on Ireland andQuebec, $20,000.2009: (with Michael Kenneally et al), Irish Research Council for the Humanities and SocialSciences, special grant for research on Ireland and Quebec, €30,000.2008: (with Johanne Sloan), Publication Grant, Aid to Scholarly Publications Program,Canadian Federation for the Humanities, for the publication of Expo 67: Not Just aSouvenir, University of Toronto Press.2008: Research Completion Grant, Expo 67: Not Just a Souvenir, Faculty of Fine Arts / Officeof the Vice-President, Research, $10,000.2008: SSHRC Travel Grant, paper given at the International Association for the Study of IrishLiteratures conference, University of Oporto, Oporto, Portugal, $1000.2007: With Ron Rudin and Michael Kenneally, Seed Funding Program, Concordia University,“Constructions of Identity in Ireland and Quebec,” $15,000.2006: SSHRC, co-investigator, “Constructions of identity in Ireland and Quebec,” workshoporganized by Michael Kenneally (Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia); myself;and Ronald Rudin (Department of History, Concordia). Aid to Research Workshops inCanada, $17,500 plus $10,000 from Centre for Canadian-Irish Studies.2006: SSHRC Travel Grant, administered by Concordia University. Travel Grant forconference participation, "Spatial Reproductions of The Quiet Man: The Quiet ManMuseum in Mayo, Ireland, as an interactive enactment of text and film,” InternationalAssociation for the Study of Irish Literatures, annual conference, Sydney, Australia.2006: Research and Development grant (CASA), Concordia University, “Material Ireland,”$2800.2005: SSHRC, co-investigator, “Montreal at Street Level: Revisiting the Material, Visual andSpatial Culture of the 60s,” conference organized by Johanne Sloane (Art History,Concordia) and myself, and held jointly at Concordia University and the Canadian Centrefor Architecture. Aid to Research Conferences in Canada, $20,000.2005: SSHRC Travel Grant, administered by Concordia University. Travel Grant forconference participation, “Ecclesiological Tourism in Early Victorian Britain,” paperpresented, by invitation, at the international meeting of the Society of ArchitecturalHistorians, Vancouver, B.C., April 2005, $950.2004: Research and Development grant (CASA), Concordia University, “Grosse Ile’s everymessage…on mother Ireland’s shore”: Reverberations of Irish enculturation between twoislands,” $2700.2004-8: SSHRC, co-investigator, “What we eat and how we eat: change and continuity inCanadian foodways during the twentieth century,” Standard Research Grant, $240,000over three years. My share is one-fifth of that amount. Grant deadline extended by oneyear.2003: SSHRC Travel Grant, administered by Concordia University. Travel grant forconference participation, “The Trials of Mr. Spicee: Ethnic Eating at Expo 67,” paper144

presented at the national Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, San Antonio,Texas, April 2004, $770.2003: Research and Development grant (CASA), Concordia University: “My Pegasus or HobbyHorse: Scripted Tourism of Medieval Churches,” $2995.2002-4: Faculty Research and Development Project Major Grant, Concordia University, “Designand Culinary Consumption: Material Food Culture in Canada,” $15,000.2002: SSHRC Travel Grant, administered by Concordia University for conferenceparticipation, “Activism by Design: Exploring Strategies of Social Responsibility inPopular Culture,” $550; individual project.2001: Mondriaan Foundation Grant (The Netherlands), for the international symposium,“Declarations of Interdependence and the Immediacy of Design,” approximately $6000in Canadian funds; primary applicant.2001: City of Montreal special grant, “Declarations of Interdependence and the Immediacy ofDesign,” $5000; primary applicant.2001: Government of Quebec special grant, “Declarations of Interdependence and theImmediacy of Design,” $2000; primary applicant.2001: British Council, grant for “Declarations of Interdependence and the Immediacy ofDesign,” approximately $2000 in Canadian funds, co-recipient.2001: SSHRC Grant, Aid to Occasional Research Conferences and International Congresses inCanada, “Declarations of Interdependence and the Immediacy of Design,” $10,000; coinvestigator.2001: McConnell Foundation, “Mediating the Visual: A Collaborative Assessment of Means toExplore Image-Text Relationships and Graphic Agitation in the Urban Environment,”$6000, co-investigator.1994-8: SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, “The Tempered Gaze: Medieval Church Architecture,Scripted Tourism, and Ecclesiology in Early Victorian Britain,” $57,744.1991: Wilfred Truman Shaver Scholarship, School of Architecture, McGill University (travelscholarship, “in the Wake of Ulysses,” to Greece; approximate value $4000.1980-1982: FCAC (Government of Québec) Graduate Fellowship, Master’s level, “The MontrealMaternity, 1843-1926: Evolution of a Hospital,” $12,000.Teaching:Courses Taught:(on sabbatical Winter 2008 and Winter 2009; course remission in Fall 2007 and as a result of being Chair,Jan. 2010-2013)Fall 10:Fall 09:DART 446 Encultured Space. Studio course.DART 498 Food in the Built Environment. Studio course.145

Spring 08:Winter 06, 07:Landscape and Material Culture in Ireland and Quebec (3 credits).DART 501 Professional Workshop, Graduate Certificate Programme, “DigitalTechnologies in Design Art Practice” (3 credits).Fall 01-Fall 10: DART 400 Design Art Seminar (6 credits); later renamed DART 490 Discursive DesignResearch (6 credits); later divided into DART 491 and 492 Discursive Design Research Iand II (3 credits each). 491 is taught in the Fall and 492 in the Winter semesters.Fall 01-Winter 10:DART 260 (later divided into two three-credit courses, DART 261 and 262) DesignHistory: Theory and Practice.Fall 01-Winter 10:Internship and Independent Study Courses eg. DART 471: I supervise internships forstudents undertaking various projects, as well as upper-level, superlative students whowish to undertake advanced projects in my fields of research. I average eight suchstudents per year.Student Supervision:2010-: principal supervisor, S.I.P. PhD Program, David Szanto2010-: co-supervisor, S.I.P. PhD Program, Guppy Ahluwalia-Lopez2009-10: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technologies in Design, David Szanto, MiaRoper, Ana Thereza Caiado2009-: principal supervisor, S.I.P. Master’s Program, Anne-Marie Laflamme2007-: co-supervisor, S.I.P. PhD Program, André Arnold.2007-10: co-supervisor, Master’s Program, Department of Communication Studies, ConcordiaUniversity, Sarah Musgrave.2006-7: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice, Sanjit KaurSingh and Sarah Butler.2005-6: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice, Tim Dolla.2004-5: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice, LizDempster, Mali Kos.2003-4: external member, Master’s Thesis Committee (Katherine Davey), Department ofLandscape Architecture, University of Manitoba.2003-4: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice, CeciliaTam, Gerard Cleal.2002-3: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technology in Design Art Practice, Wen LeeSoo.2001-2: supervisor, Graduate Certificate, Digital Technology in Design Art Practice, NicholasChamproux, Kevin Lo.146

Service:( - denotes continuation to present)2010-13: Chair, Department of Design and Computation Arts2010-: DPC, School of Canadian Irish Studies2010: member, Committee to replace members of the FPTC, Faculty of Fine Arts2010-: Fellow, School of Canadian Irish Studies2010: External Internal, Doctoral Defence, Cristelle Charlebois, Dept. of Art Education,Concordia University2009: Peer reviewer, Cuizine, McGill University2009: External reader, Master’s Thesis, Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink,University of Adelaide2008-: Project co-leader, undergraduate Minor in Food Studies, programme to be submitted toFaculties of Arts/Science and Fine Arts, Concordia University2008-: Affiliation, Special Individualized Programs, Concordia University, research areas ofCanadian Irish Studies and Food Studies2008-: Faculty Affiliate, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University2008-: Member, SSHRC-funded expert panel on Food Studies Research in Canada, MustafaKoc, PI, Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson University2007-: Advisory Council, Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University2004-: Member, Faculty Council, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University2002-: Advisory Board, Material Culture Review.2002-10: Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies2009: External internal reviewer, doctoral defence, Hilary Inwood (Dept. of Art Education)2009: Peer reviewer, International Independent Peer Review, Irish Research Council for theHumanities and Social Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme2008: Peer reviewer, article in Food Culture and Society2007-8 Fulltime Hiring Committee, Dept. of Design and Computation Arts2007: Peer reviewer, article in Journal of Canadian Studies.2007: member, Faculty of Fine Arts, committee to review performance of FOFA gallery coordinator.2007: member, M.A. Defence Committee, Nancy Long, Department of Art Education,Concordia University147

2006: member, Master’s Defence Committee (external to department), Eloisa Aquino,Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University.2006: member, Ph.D. Defence Committee (external to university), Ernesto Morales,Department of Design, Université de Montréal.2006: Professeure-concepteure, “Charrette” Student Design Competition, Canadian Centre forArchitecture, Montreal.2006: Member, Graduation Committee, Concordia University.2006: Member, Research Committee, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.2006-7: Member, Part-time Hiring Committee, Department of Design and Computation Arts,Concordia University.2005-6: Member, Ph.D. Humanities Committee, Concordia University.2005: Member, Patrimoine Religieux Committee, Concordia University.2005: Member, Ph.D. Defence Committee (external to department), Nicolas Gaudreau, Dept. ofArt History, Concordia University.2005: Full-time faculty representative on the part-time hiring committee for the FFAR/FFAZ398 courses, administered by the office of the Associate Dean, Curriculum, Faculty ofFine Arts.2004: Chair, Ph.D. Defence committee, Kinga Araya, Dept. of Art History, ConcordiaUniversity.2004: Chair, Ph.D. Defence Committee, Anna Carlevaris, Dept. of Art History, ConcordiaUniversity.2003-7: Member, Board of Governors, Concordia University (elected).2004-7: Member, Real Estate Sub-Committee, Board of Governors, Concordia University.2004: Member, Graduate Student Fellowship and Fee Remission Committee, ConcordiaUniversity.2003-4: Member, Steering Committee, “Ireland on the St. Lawrence,” summer colloquium held in2004 under the auspices of the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University.2003: external reader, Ph.D. Dissertation Defence Committee, Department of Education,McGill University, Tiiu Vaikla-Poldma.2003: Member, Selection Committee, first stage of Quartier Concordia project, to define andrevitalize the downtown Concordia campus. Selection of teams to advance to the designsubmission stage.2003-4: Research Committee, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University.2002-3: Representative from Faculty of Fine Arts, Committee to award the Governor General’sPrize to the outstanding doctoral candidate, Concordia University. Prize won by CynthiaHammond, Fine Arts nominee.148

2002-4: Professeure-concepteure, four-member Steering Committee, “Charrette” Student DesignCompetition, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (annual event for students atuniversity-level design and architecture schools in Québec and Ontario).2002-3: Member, Architecture and Space Committee, Departments of Design and ComputationArt, EV Building, Concordia149

LORRIE BLAIRConcordia Universitylblair@alcor.concordia.ca1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West 935 - 50th AvenueMontréal, Québec H3G 1M9Lachine, Québec H8T 2V2(514) 848-4646 (514) 634-3589EDUCATION1991 The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.Ph.D. in art education.1987 Ohio University. Athens, Ohio.M.A. in art education.1979 Ohio University. Athens, Ohio.B.F.A., cum laude; in photography.TEACHING EXPERIENCE1994 - present Concordia University. Montréal, QuébecDepartment of Art EducationAssociate Professor (1997-present)Assistant Professor (1994-1997)1990 - 1994 Northern Kentucky University. Highland Heights, KY.Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Art1988 - 1990 The Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio.Graduate Teaching AssociateDepartment of Art Education1979 - 1988 Southern Local Schools. Hemlock, Ohio.Art teacher, K-12.AWARDS/GRANTS – External2008 SSHRC Aid to Workshops: Teenage Cultural Practices: Setting aResearch Agenda. $25,000.150

1997 Gouvernement du Québec, Ministère de l’éducation. Les Technologiesde l’information et de la communication - Plan d’Intervention en sciencesde l’éducation. Submitted for Concordia University Teacher TrainingPrograms. $84,000.1995 Fonds pour la formation de chercheurs et l’aide à la recherche.Toward a student/community centered pre-service art education program.Three year award. $42,000 plus $7,970 equipment.AWARDS/GRANTS - Internal2007 Concordia Artist Seed Award: An Ethnographic Study of an AllWomen’s Tattoo Convention. $1922.2005 Distinguished Teaching Award for Faculty of Fine Arts. $1500.2002 Concordia Artist Seed Award. Lessons from December 6. $2,000.1- SSHRC. Travel grant to conferences in Omagh, Northern Ireland andLimerick, Ireland. 1000$1998 Concordia Artist Seed Award. Artists’ Response to Grosse-Île: AVisual Representation of the Irish Diaspora. $2,000.1995 Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program.Local folk art: A catalyst for making schools culturally relevant.Three year award. $27,000.1992 Northern Kentucky University Faculty Project Grant.The forgotten art of John Henry’s children: A study of AfricanAmerican Appalachian Artists. $3000.1990 Ohio State University Graduate Student Alumni ResearchAward. $1500 for dissertation research.PUBLICATIONS - REFEREED JOURNALS(2007). Tattoos and teenagers: An art educator’s response. Art Education, 60 (5), 39-44.(2006). Art Teacher Barbie: Friend or Foe. Canadian Journal of Education 29 (1), 329-346.(2005). Cosmetic surgery and the cultural construction of beauty. Art Education 58(3)14-18. Co-written with Maya Shalmon.151

(2000). Outsider Art: Some ethical considerations for Art Educators. Canadian ReviewofArt Education, 27(2), 33-50.(1999). Art Education in Québec. Journal of the Canadian Society for Educationthrough Art, 30(1), 52-54. Co-with Jacques-Albert Wallott.(1997). Fundamentalists in the art classroom: Toward an understanding. Journal ofMulticultural and Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 14, 58-65.(1996) Strategies for dealing with censorship. Art Education, 49 (5), 57-61.(1995). A descriptive study of three Eastern Kentucky painters. Journal of Multiculturaland Cross-cultural Research in Art Education, 12, 88-97.(1995). The critical eye: Children’s art contests from one juror’s perspective. ArtEducation, 48 (1), 62-64.(1993). Prophets without honor: A Case study of two Appalachian painters.Appalachian Studies Journal, 5, 117-123.PUBLICATIONS - NON-REFEREED(2008). Censorship Revisited. In Readings in Canadian Art Teacher Education. Editedby Rita Irwin and Kit Grauer. Québec: Canadian Society of Education through Art.(2008). Body Modification. In Claudia Mitchell & Jacqui Reid-Walsh (Eds.), GirlCulture: An Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing.(2006). Cutters - Actes du Colloque sur la Recherche en Enseignement des Arts Visuals.Montréal: CRÉA Éditions.(2003). Profile of Irish-Canadians: Paul Kane. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 27-28(2-1), 112-115.(2002). (De)Constructing the Irish Famine Memorial in Contemporary Quebec. InIreland’s Great Hunger: Silence, Memory and Commemoration. Edited by DavidValone and Christine Kinealy. Maryland: University of America Press. 311-329.(2000). Outsider art -Actes du Colloque sur la Recherche en Enseignement des ArtsVisuals. Montréal: CRÉA Éditions. 7-11.(2000). The Art of Remembrance: What Memorials Can Teach Us. Actes du Colloquesur la Recherche en Enseignement des Arts Visuals. Montréal: CRÉA Éditions. 7-11.152

(1998). Territoires non balisés: quelle route prendre? In Les arts plastiques à l' école.Edited by Moniques Richard and Suzanne Lemerise. Montreal: Les Éditions Logiques.(1997). Censorship Canadian Style. In Readings in Canadian Art Teacher Education.Edited by Rita Irwin and Kit Grauer. Québec: Canadian Society of Education throughArt. 125-130.(1996). Creating a flag quilt to symbolize diversity. British Columbia Art Teachers’Association Journal for Art Teachers, 36 (2), 9-12.(1995). Baskets: Containers of culture. In Lessons for teaching art criticism. Edited byTerry Barrett. Bloomington, Indiana: Eric Art. 65-67.PUBLICATIONS - ART CRITICISM1999 The Montreal Biennale. Artpapers, 22(2), 63.1998 The Dead/Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. Artpapers,, 22 (1), 67.1998 Appalachian Portraits/Galerie Vox. Artpapers, 22 (1), 66.1997-98 Hour: - SelectedFaye HeavyShield/Spiral and Other Parts of the Body.Appellation Shots: Appalachian Portraits/Galerie Vox.Contemporary Arab Art/Maison de la Culture Côte des NeigesSein, corps, et âmes/Maison de la Culture Marie-UgayAIDS and its metaphors/Saidye BronfmanFrancois Morelli/CircaLibby Hague/ArticuleStephen Lack/BellefeuilleMarie-Denise Douyon/Gallerie d’art d’OutremontEvergon/Gallerie trois pointsSheri Hatt/OboroTim Whiten/Saidye BronfmanFrere Palmerino/Notre Dame1997 The Dead/Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. Canadian Art,, 58, 60-61.1994 Poetic Objects/Contemporary American Jewelry. Metalsmith, 14 (3), 43.1994 Elegance, Disintegration, Power/Marta Hewett Gallery. The PhotoReview, 17 (1), 16-17.153

1994 The Holocaust Series/ C.A.G.E. Dialogue.BOOK REVIEWS1998 The North Shore: Newfoundland’s Port-au-Port Peninsula. ARTSatlantic16(1), 57-58.1998 Intertwining/Book review. Hour1997 Shades of Black and White/Book review. Hour1995 Selling illusions: The cult of multiculturalism in Canada. CanadianReview of Art Education, 21 (2), 81-83.1992 Gone Primitive. The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, 12 , 177-178.1992 Primitive art in civilized places. The Journal of Social Theory in ArtEducation, 12 , 174-176.JOURNAL EDITORSHIPS1993-1995 Co-editor. Arts and Learning: The Journal of the Arts and LearningSpecial Interest group of the American Education Research Association.1993-1994 Regional editor. Dialogue.1992-1994 Regional editor. New Art Examiner.1989-1990 Managing editor. Columbus Art.JOURNAL REVIEW BOARDSCanadian Review of Art Education (2008-present)Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2008-present)Visual Arts Research (2003-present)PAPER PRESENTATIONS2008154

Canadian by Birth, Celtic by Choice: Celtic Tattoos and Cultural Identity. CanadianAssociation for Irish Studies Conference. Toronto, Ontario.Signs and Symbols: Teaching about the cultural significance of body modification.International Society for Education through the Arts. Osaka, Japan.My body, myself: Using body modification as a teaching strategy to explore adolescentidentity. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Montreal, Québec.A Body of Reseach. Invited lecture. Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore,Maryland.2007Pratiques cuturelles adolescents: Deux visions. Association Québécoise des Éducatriceset Éducateurs Spécialisés en Arts Plastiques. Québec City, Québec. Avec ChristineFaucheréEcology of an incident: Censorship. National Art Education Association. New York.2006Teaching about Female Body Modification, National Art Education Association.Chicago, IllinoisNorth American by Birth, Celtic by Choice. Mid-American Popular Culture Conference.Indianapolis, Indiana.Location/dislocation: Famine Memorials. Canadian Association for Irish Studies. OttawaGender/body. Actes du colloque sur la research en enseignment des arts visuals.Montreal2005Reinterpreting the Past: Visual Metaphors of Famine Immigration. The Great HungerConference. Quinnipiac University, ConnecticutVisual Storytelling: Visual Metaphors of Famine Immigration. Canadian Association forIrish Studies Conference. Maynooth, Ireland2004Visualising Montreal’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. XV Ulster-American HeritageSymposium. Omagh, Northern Ireland.Parades as Popular Culture. Actes du colloque sur la research en enseignment des artsvisuals. Montreal155

Art teacher Barbie: Art Education’s Friend or Foe? The Visual Culture of Childhood andAdolescence: Child Art After Modernism” Penn State University.2003Invited Presentation The Razor’s Edge: An Art Educator’s Response to Self-Mutilation.Canadian Anthropology Society. Halifax, Nova Scotia.2002Artists' Response to Grosse île and the Irish Diaspora. The Canadian Association forIrish Studies. Laval, Québec.2000(De)Constructing the Irish Famine Memorial in Contemporary Quebec. The GreatHunger Conference. Quinnipiac University, Connecticut.Grosse-Ile and the Irish Diaspora. The 13 th Annual Ulster-American Symposium.Omagh, Northern Ireland.Re-framing the Irish Diaspora. The American Conference for Irish Studies. Limerick,Ireland.1999Teaching about Sacred Objects in the Classroom. With L. Szabad-Smyth and J.Haggar. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Halifax, Nova Scotia.1998Cross-Canada Panel. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Calgary, Alberta.Outsider art: An Art Educator’s Perspective. National Art Education AssociationConference. Chicago, IL.Critical Analysis of Images in Pre-service textbooks. National Art Education AssociationConference. Chicago, IL.1997Strategies for Dealing with Religious Themes in Folk Art. Canadian Society forEducation through Art. Montréal, Québec.Preparing preservice teachers for the multiethnic classroom. National Art EducationAssociation Conference. New Orleans, LA.Selling delusions: Outsider art and the art market. Folk Art Symposium. Art Gallery ofNova Scotia. Halifax, NS.1996If you could see through my eyes: Creating cultural self-portraits. With Davidson, M.and Dubé. Canadian Society for Education through Art. Fredericton, New Brunswick.156

Strategies for dealing with censorship. National Art Education Association Conference.San Francisco, CA.Learning to teach art in the multi-ethnic classroom. Ethnography in Education ResearchForum. Philadelphia, PA.Community art education. Invited lecture. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.Halifax, NS.1995Pre-service elementary teachers’ beliefs about creativity. Learned Society Conference.Montréal, Québec.Using Canadian folk art as a basis for studio activities. Canadian Society for Educationthrough Art, Toronto, ON, and British Columbia Society for Education through Art,Burnaby, British Columbia.Religion, censorship, and art in public schools. National Art Education AssociationConference. Houston, TX.The art of teaching craft. National Art Education Association Conference. Houston, TX.1994Identifying folk artists as community resources for the elementary and middle schoolclassroom. National Art Education Association. Baltimore, MD.Flashes of the spirit: Contemporary Appalachian art. The Contemporary Arts Center’sTeacher Tuesday program. Cincinnati, OH.The forgotten art of John Henry’s children: A study of African American Appalachianartists. Appalachian Studies Conference. Blacksburg, VA.SELECTED EXHIBITIONS1997 Across the Nation. Group show. University of Victoria, BritishColumbia.1997 Exploration de nouveaux territoires. Group show. Galerie de l’UQÀM.Montréal, Québec.1995 Women Art/Group Show. ARTKORE Gallery. Montréal, Québec.1994 Revealing Moments: Manipulated Photographs. InSitu Gallery.Cincinnati, OH.157

1993 Women Waxing, Women Weaving. Fine Arts Gallery, IndianaUniversity.1992 Vital Signs: Four photographers. 4th Street Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.1991 15th Annual Juried Competition. Arts Consortium, Cincinnati, OH.SERVICE TO FACULTY AND UNIVERSITYPresent:Past:Faculty SenateAdvisory Council of the Centre for Canadian Irish StudiesCentre for Teaching and Learning Advisory CommitteeConcordia University Faculty Association (CUFA)Concordia Teacher Education Committee (CTEC)Faculty of Fine Arts Research CommitteeVisiting Lectures Committee, ChairUndergraduate Awards CommitteeGraduate Curriculum CommitteeJuror for Concordia Fellowship/Fee RemissionFine Arts Faculty CouncilFaculty Appraisal CommitteeFaculty Personnel and Tenure CommitteeJoint Grievance Committee, ChairSearch committee, Theatre, Art Therapy, other various departmentsInternational Society for Arts EducationCanadian Society for Education through the ArtsNational Art Education AssociationCanadian Irish Studies SocietyPROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS158