PhD Scholarship in Early Modern English Literature – University of Galway
Deadline for applications is 15th April 2024
Full details here: https://mooreinstitute.ie/2024/03/07/phd-scholarship-in-early-modern-english-drama
More info at the Moore Institute website here.
Publication: The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century by Connie Kelleher
In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privately-commissioned ships in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many who had been former ‘privateers’, merchant sailors and seamen and who had no recourse but to turn to plunder, joined forces with traditional pirates. With the closing of the ports, they transferred their base of operations from England to Ireland and formed an alliance. Within the context of the Munster Plantation, many of the pirates came to settle, some bringing families. These men and their activities not alone influenced the socio-economic and geo-political landscape of Ireland at that time but challenged European maritime power centres, while also forging links across the North Atlantic that touched the Mediterranean, Northwest Africa and the New World.
Tracing the cultural origins of this particular period in maritime plunder from the late-1500s and throughout its heyday in the opening decades of the 1600s, The Alliance of Pirates analyses the nature and extent of this predation and looks at its impact and influence in Ireland and across the Atlantic. Operating during a period of emerging global maritime empires, when nations across Europe were vying for supremacy of the seas, the pirates built their own highly lucrative and highly potent piratical power base.
Drawing on extensive primary and secondary historical sources Dr Connie Kelleher explores who these pirates were, their main theatre of operations and the characters that aided and abetted them. Archaeological evidence uniquely supports the investigation and provides a tangible cultural link through time to the pirates, their cohorts and their bases.
For more info, see the book on the Cork University Press website. Published April 2020 | 9781782053651 | €30 £27| Hardback |234 x 156mm| 552 pages | 60 illustrations
Dr Connie Kelleher is a State underwater archaeologist with the National Monuments Service and visiting lecturer in underwater archaeology in University College Cork.
The exhibition “Readers & Reputations: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700” will be held in the foyer of the Hardiman Research Building, NUI Galway. The exhibition runs from 16th January to 2nd April 2020.
This exhibition showcases the work of RECIRC and is funded by the Irish Research Council. RECIRC is a 5 year project that has produced a large-scale, quantitative analysis of the reception and circulation of women’s writing from 1550 to 1700, and is funded by the European Research Council. For more on the project, see the RECIRC website, follow the project on Twitter at @RECIRC_ or contact the project’s Principal Investigator Prof Marie-Louise Coolahan.
The 22nd meeting of the Irish Renaissance Seminar will be held in Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Dublin 8, and hosted by UCD English on Saturday 12th October 2019.
1.30pm Welcome
1.45pm Natural philosophy and human bodies
Dr Sue Hemmens (Marsh’s Library), ‘Some things worth a philosophical pen’: queries and desiderata relating to Ireland, 1650 to 1700
Dr Harriet Knight (independent scholar), Meaningful chaos: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle’s Indigested Particulars
Mark Ronan (UCD), From Hal to Henry, ‘breaking through the foul and ugly mists’: Addiction and Maturing Out in the Henriad
3.15pm Break
3.45pm Plenary: Prof. Kevin Killeen (University of York), “The symphonic unknowability of the world: early modern poetics, science and the Book of Job”
4.45pm Response to the afternoon’s papers by Prof. Danielle Clarke (UCD)
We are very grateful for the support of the Society for Renaissance Studies, the World Universities Network and Marsh’s Library.
The 20th Meeting of the Irish Renaissance Seminar will be hosted at Maynooth University, Department of English, on Saturday 10th November 2018, in the Iontas Building.
The theme is “Earth Songs: Eco-Criticism and Early Modern Studies”
1.30 Welcome / Light Lunch
2.00 Paper Session I:
Dr Kevin De Ornellas (University of Ulster): “‘Great is the beauty of Creatures’: Godfrey Goodman Praising Animals Praising God”
Professor Pat Palmer (Department of English, NUI Maynooth): “Earthen Bodies: The Chthonic in Country House Poetry”
Chair: Dr Edel Semple (Department of English, University College Cork)
3.00 Tea / Coffee
3.15 Keynote Paper
Dr Deana Rankin (Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, Department of English & Drama, Royal Holloway), “Border Disputes”
Chair: Professor Andy Murphy, School of English, Trinity College Dublin
4.15 Paper Session II:
“Dramatising Denial: A Looking Glass for London and new directions for ecocriticism”: Dr Gwilym Jones (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature, University of Westminster)
Chair: Professor Marie-Louise Coolhan (Department of English, NUI Galway)
5.15 IRS Discussion / Business meeting, followed by wine reception to mark 20th anniversary.
The organisers, Dr Stephen O’Neill and Professor Pat Palmer, acknowledge the support of Maynooth University Conference & Workshop Fund, and Maynooth University Department of English.
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9-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-11 Plenary I: Prof Andrew Hadfield (Sussex), Reading The Life Between the Lines: Nashe, Spenser and Others
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30 Panel 1: The Religious Self
Richard Kirwan (UL) “Trouble Every Day: Experiences of Religious Exile in the Writings of Jacob Reihing”
John McCafferty (UCD) ‘”O Felix Columba Caeli/ O Happy Dove of Heaven”: a manuscript life shredded by early modern print’
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30—2.30 Panel 2: Unmooring life-writing: method, memory, and genre
Chair: Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle)
Ramona Wray (QUB), “Reading Life-Writing in the Cary/Tanfield Record”
Kate Hodgkin (U of East London), “Memory, melancholy and the languages of loss in 17th century life writing”
2.30-3 Break
3-4.15 Panel 3: – Life writing and religion
Ann-Maria Walsh (UCD) “Mary (née Boyle) Rich, Countess of Warwick (1624-1678): Writing and Experimenting – A Spiritual Life”
Mark Empey (NUIG) “Life writer and Life writing: the parallel worlds of Sir James Ware”
5pm Wine reception – Common Room, Newman Building, UCD
9.30-11 Plenary II: Prof Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle), Writing Children’s Lives
11-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1 Panel 4 – Women in the 17th Century
Carol Baxter (independent scholar) “’Serving God rather than my father’: religious life writing as a rejection of the patriarchal family”
Naomi McAreavey (UCD) – The Countess of Ormonde’s Letters (title tbc)
Danielle Clarke (UCD) “Irish women’s recipe books as life writing: form, process, method”
1-2pm Lunch (exhibition and archive visit)
2-3pm Panel 5 – Travel and formation of the self
Maria Luis Dominguez-Guerrero (Seville) “Rhetoric of the Conquest: Narrations from Castilian Explorers”
Eva Holmberg (Helsinki) “Visual Self-Description in Seventeenth-Century British Travel Accounts”
4-6pm Walking tour of Renaissance Dublin (AM Walsh), followed by pub visit and conference dinner, at Le Pichet, Trinity Street, Dublin 2* [* Dinner is €40 per head. ]
Saturday 8th September 2018, K114, Newman Building
9.30-11 Plenary III: Prof Alan Stewart (Columbia), Writing Lives under Duress
11-11.15 Coffee
11.15-1 Panel 6 – Alternative Forms
Nelson Marques (Miami) “War and Self: Soldier’s Petitions in Seventeenth-Century Portugal”
Emma Claussen (Oxford) “Forms of living in Descartes’s Les passions de l’âme”
Raluca Duna (Bucharest) “Writing the self with images, painting identity with texts”
1-1.30pm Roundtable and close
Followed by optional lunch in Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
The conference is free to attend, but for catering purposes the organisers would appreciate it if you could sign up using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-lives-1500-1700-tickets-48653964317
If you have any questions, please email the organisers at writinglives@ucd.ie.
This conference is supported by the College of Arts and Humanities and the Humanities Institute, UCD.
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Image credit: ‘The Librarian’, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, c.1566 (Skokloster Castle)
The first meeting of the Irish Renaissance Seminar for 2017 will be held on Saturday 22nd April in the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin.
The theme for this meeting is Conflict and Contestation in the Early Modern World. The meeting will convene in Room J207-8, John Henry Newman Building, UCD, and the schedule is as follows:
1-1:30pm: Welcome
1:30-3:00pm: Panel
Chair: Dr Jane Grogan
Dr Marc Caball (UCD): ‘Hugh O’Neill and his Gaelic and Renaissance Cultural Context’
Professor Andrew Hadfield (Sussex): ‘James Shirley’s The Politician: Anglo-Irish Literature and Politics in the 1630s’
Dr Ann-Maria Walsh (UCD): ‘The Boyle Sisters and the Familial Correspondence Network: A Life-Line in Times of Civil Strife and Beyond’
3:00-3:30pm: Refreshments
3:30-4:30: Keynote
Chair: Dr Colin Lahive
Professor Nicholas McDowell (Exeter): ‘The Poetics of Civil War: Shakespeare to Marvell (to W.B.Yeats)’
4:30-5:00: Roundtable
Convener: Dr Naomi McAreavey
Early Modern Studies in Ireland: Current Locations, Future Directions
6:30: Dinner
The event is generously supported by the School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, and the Society for Renaissance Studies.
For further details on this meeting of the IRS, contact Dr Colin Lahive (colin.lahive@ucd.ie)
This year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and commemorations have been taking place around the world to mark the occasion. University College Cork will make a unique contribution to this commemorative programme through the “Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre” project. Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme, the project comprises a public staged reading of Shakespeare’s Pericles (c.1606) and a symposium exploring this critically-neglected play. Notably, as far as records can determine, the play reading will be only the second ever performance of Pericles in Ireland and the first in Munster.
Led by Dr Edel Semple, Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies in UCC’s School of English, the project involves actors from UCC’s Drama and Theatre Studies and the LittleShoes Productions drama group, as well as scholars from UCC, the UK and USA. The play reading is directed by Sinéad Dunphy, a UCC graduate and Festival Manager of the Cork International Choral Festival.
The staged reading is a free but ticketed event and takes place on Monday 14th at 6pm in the Unitarian Church, Princes Street, Cork. The symposium exploring the play’s sources and critical and performance history, will take place on Tuesday 15th November in UCC, and will conclude with a special public lecture by Dr. Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham).
Overall “Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre” will explore and enhance our understanding of Shakespeare’s drama, his sources, the world he lived in, and his legacy; introduce his late drama to new audiences; and will make a distinctive contribution to the year-long global celebrations of Shakespeare’s life and work in 2016. For further info, please see the School of English website and social media (@EnglishUCC), and for queries contact Dr Edel Semple (email e.semple@ucc.ie).
The “Celebrating Shakespeare 400: Performing Pericles, Prince of Tyre” project is funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme, with additional support from UCC’s CACSSS Graduate School, the UCC Information Services Strategic Fund, and the School of English, University College Cork. The project is also part of the British Council’s Shakespeare Lives programme for 2016.
Tickets for staged reading of Pericles on Eventbrite here.
A detailed schedule for the symposium / graduate masterclass is available from UCC CACSSS Graduate School here (see event listed for 14-15th Nov.)
The 1609 quarto of Pericles
Shakespeare in Ireland 