Schedule

Join us for three days of illuminating lectures and panel discussions.


Afternoon


2:00 pm: Conference Opening Remarks

HOST: Mark G. McGowan, University of St. Michael’s College

Larry Sault, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation

David Sylvester, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto

Eamonn McKee, Ambassador of Ireland to Canada


Session 1:

2:30 pm: Honouring the Indigenous Gift to Ireland, 1847

MODERATOR: Jason King, Irish Heritage Trust

KEYNOTE: Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto


3:30 pm: Panel

Darin Wybenga: “1847 and the Mississaugas of the Credit.”

Mark McGowan: “Indigenous Aid to Irish Famine Relief, 1847.”

Jonathan Hamilton Diabo: “Comments on Haudenosaunee Donations.”


Closing Comment

Elder Duke Redbird, Saugeen Ojibway Nation


5:00 pm: Reception

The Opening Day Reception is hosted by the University of St. Michael’s College.


Morning


Session 2

9:00 am: Global Irish Famine Way and the Passing of the Bronze Shoes to the local Hamilton and Toronto GIFW Committees

MODERATOR: Mark G. McGowan, University of St. Michael’s College

9:15 am: Ireland and the Colonial Apparatus of British North America

MODERATOR: Eamonn McKee, Irish Ambassador to Canada

KEYNOTE: S. Karly Kehoe, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

10:00 am: Coffee Break

10:15 am: Speakers

Annie Trindley: “The World is Best Administered by and Irishman’: Lord Dufferin and the Remits of Power—Governing and the Self-Governed in Canada.”

William Jenkins: “The Ripples of Daniel O’Connell’s Repeal Movement in Canada West.”


Session 3

11:30 am: “What about the Other Half?” 

MODERATOR: David Wilson, University of St. Michael’s College

KEYNOTE: Donald Akenson, Queen’s University, Kingston


Afternoon


Session 4

2:00 pm: Transatlantic Technology, Culture, and Migrant Communities

MODERATOR: Irene Morra, Principal & Vice-President, University of St. Michael’s College

KEYNOTE: Christopher Morash, Trinity College Dublin

3:00 pm: Coffee Break

3:00 pm: Speakers

Rankin Sherling: “Language Thought and Canada as the Epicenter of a 19th Century Global Gaelic Archipelago.”

Aine O’Flynn: “Hospital Admissions in Dublin and Halifax to 1877.”


Evening


5:30 pm: Celebratory Dinner in Charbonnel Lounge, Elmsley Hall

The Conference’s Celebratory Dinner at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28, at the elegant Charbonnel Lounge in Elmsley Hall.

Please note that Registration for the Celebratory Dinner is now closed.


Morning


Session 5

9:00 am: Irish Religious Mission and Colonization

MODERATOR: Mark McGowan, University of St. Michael’s College

KEYNOTE: Deirdre Raftery, University College Dublin

10:00 am: Coffee Break

10:15 am: Speakers

Elizabeth Smyth: “You are an English lady.” “No Princess [Louise, Marchioness of Lorne]. I come from Dublin”: Mother Teresa Dease and the complexities of the Imperial Irish.

Laura Smith: “Laying the Foundation Stone of Mischief The Official Colonial Response to Anti-Orange Activism by Irish Catholics in 1820s Upper Canada.”

David Wilson: “The Woman, the Dragon, and the Wilderness: Revolution and Revelation in Ireland and the United States.”

11:45 am – 1:00 pm: Lunch

On your own. Please see the listings for local lunch spots, cafes, and pubs.


Afternoon

Session 6

1:15 pm: Post-Colonial Nationalism and Memory in Canada and Ireland

MODERATOR: Brent Miles, University of St. Michael’s College

1:30 pm: Speakers

Pa Sheehan: “The GAA in Canada and its Meaning to Members of the Irish Diaspora.”

Paul Murphy: “Global Ireland’s Open Movement for North America: A Case Study of the Montreal Irish Famine Monument.”


2:30 pm: Conference Closing Remarks

Eamonn McKee, Ambassador of Ireland to Canada

Mark McGowan, University of St. Michael’s College