Schedule
Join us for three days of illuminating lectures and panel discussions.
Afternoon
2:00 pm: Conference Opening Remarks
Larry Sault, Mississaugas of the New 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
Honouring the Indigenous Gift to Ireland, 1847
MODERATOR: Jason King, Irish Heritage Trust
KEYNOTE: Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto
Panel
Darin Wybenga: “1847 and the Mississaugas of the New Credit.”
Mark McGowan: “Indigenous Aid to Irish Famine Relief, 1847.”
Jonathan Hamilton Diabo: “Comments on Haudenosaunee Donations.”
Closing Poem
Duke Redbird
Reception
The Opening Day Reception is hosted by the University of St. Michael’s College.
Morning
Session 2
9:00 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
10:15 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: 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.”
Robert Brazeau: “Irish Nationalist Newspapers and Emigration to North America.”
Evening
5:30 pm: Celebratory Dinner in Charbonnel Lounge
You’re invited to attend the Conference’s Celebratory Dinner at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 28, at the elegant Charbonnel Lounge in Elmsley Hall. We would love to have you join us!
Please register for your dinner ticket(s) at $67.80 per person (including the HST).
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
10:15 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)
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.”
James Walsh: “Lessons from Leadville’s Pauper Graves.”
Paul Murphy: “Global Ireland’s Open Movement for North America: A Case Study of the Montreal Irish Famine Monument.”
3:00 pm: Conference Closing Remarks
Eamonn McKee, Ambassador of Ireland to Canada
Mark McGowan, University of St. Michael’s College