Gates-Ferry Lectures at Centenary College
Irish Angles:
Music, Economics, Politics & Literature
Gates-Ferry Lecture Series - Spring 2011
Held in the Sitnik Theater of the David and Carol Lackland Center, Hackettstown, New Jersey.
All events begin at 7:00 p.m.
FREE TO THE PUBLIC
The Gates-Ferry Distinguished Visiting Lectureship at Centenary College recognizes the dedication to the College of Joseph R. Ferry, Trustee from 1948 to 1976 and treasurer of the Board of Trustees for 20 years.
It was established to set high standards and goals for students and faculty alike, and to enrich the quality of life on the Centenary campus.
Spirit, Specter, Shade - A True Story of an Irish Ghost
Your Host: BREANDÁN MAC SUIBHNE, Professor of History, Centenary College.
Breandán Mac Suibhne, Centenary College, is a historian of society and culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland. He has published on paramilitarism and the construction of Irish identity in the 1780s, republican rebellion and its suppression in the 1790s, agrarian ‘improvement’ and social and political unrest in the 1800s. One of the founding editors of Field Day Review (2005), an interdisciplinary journal of Irish politics and culture, past and present, he is editor of John Gamble, Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Field Day, forthcoming 2011), and, with David Dickson, he edited Hugh Dorian, The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal (Lilliput, 2000, 2001; University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), the most extensive lower-class account of Ireland’s Great Famine. He is completing a monograph on north-west Ulster, c. 1786–1822.
Peace, Policing, and Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places - Successes, Difficulties and Failures in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Sudan
Your Host: BRENDAN O’LEARY, Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science in the University of Pennsylvania, has written extensively on national, ethnic and communal conflict and its regulation in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of some twenty books on issues of constitutional design, democratization, policing and state and insurgent violence. Among his recent books are, as single author, How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and, as co-author with John McGarry, Understanding Northern Ireland: Colonialism, Control and Consociation (Routledge, forthcoming 2011). Before, during and since the Belfast Agreement of 1998, O’Leary provided political and constitutional advice to various parties seeking a resolution to violent conflict in Northern Ireland, and from 2003 to 2009 he was a constitutional advisor to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. In 2009–10, he was seconded from Penn to serve as Senior Advisor on Power-Sharing at the United Nations. He regularly provides analysis to the international print and broadcast media.
On the Rocky Road Again: Ireland’s Economic Woes
Your Host: CORMAC Ó GRÁDA, Professor of Economics, University College Dublin and Princeton University.
Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor of Economics in University College Dublin, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. He has written extensively on European and American economic history, including topics as diverse as migration, mortality and fertility, wages, living standards, health, and financial contagion. He is the author of A New Economic History of Ireland, 1780–1922 (Oxford, 1994), and several ground-breaking books on the Great Irish Famine of 1845–52, most recently Black ’47 and Beyond (Princeton, 2006). His other publications include Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton, 2006), a historical demography of a small Jewish community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Famine: A Short History (Princeton, 2009), a global economic history of hunger. He is co-editor of the European Review of Economic History.
If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews : Irish-American Music in Vaudeville and Early Tin Pan Alley
Your Host: MICK MOLONEY, Global Distinguished Professor of Music and Irish Studies, New York University.
Mick Moloney, Distinguished Global Professor of Music and Irish Studies in New York University, has been a key figure, as both a musicologist and performer, in recovering and interpreting Irish contributions to American music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published widely, including, as author, Far from the Shamrock Shore: The Irish American Experience in Song (Random House, 2002), and, as editor, with J’aime Morrison and Colin Quigley, Close to the Floor: Irish Dance from the Boreen to Broadway (Macater, 2009). Moloney has recorded over sixty albums, most recently If It Wasn’t For the Irish and the Jews (2009), which illuminates the role of Irish and Jewish songwriters, theatrical producers, and music publishers in the making of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley. He has also been centrally involved, as researcher, presenter, participant and musical arranger, with many internationally syndicated television series on migration and music, notably Bringing It All Back Home (RTÉ, 1990) and The Irish in America: Long Journey Home (PBS, 1998). In 1999 he received the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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