Programme
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Friday, 15 July 2022
Venue: Room T117 (TARA Building), Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
9.30–9.45: Registration
9.45–10.00: Welcome by Dr Loïc Guyon (Honorary Consul of France, Head of the Department of French Studies at MIC, member of the Board of Directors of Alliance française Limerick and founder of the Limerick Bastille Day Wild Geese Festival), Dr Liam Chambers (Head of the Department of History at MIC), and Donal Creaton (Vice-Chair of Limerick Civic Trust)
10.00–11.30: Panel 1: Soldiers and Wild Geese
Chair: Dr Loïc Guyon (Mary Immaculate College)
Dr Pádraig Lenihan (National University of Ireland Galway) The ‘barbarous Muscovite’ and the ‘Hero’: Rosen at Derry (1689) and Boisseleau at Limerick (1690)
Dr Pierre-Louis Coudray, ‘The Hibernians are a deceiving lot. It is a treacherous nation.’: A century of complex Franco-Irish military relations (1690-1792)
Dr Ciarán McDonnell, For king or country? The Irish Brigade in the French Revolution
11.30–12.00: Tea/Coffee
12.00–1.00: Keynote Lecture 1
Chair: Dr Liam Chambers (Mary Immaculate College)
Professor Thomas O’Connor (Maynooth University), The Irish in Europe as a field of research: challenges and opportunities
1.00–2.00: Light Lunch
2.00–3.30: Panel 2: Communities, Women and Children
Chair: Dr Clodagh Tait (Mary Immaculate College)
Professor Marian Lyons (Maynooth University), The Irish at St Germain-en-Laye, c.1692-c.1725
Dr Frances Nolan (University College Dublin), Tracing a transnational life: a posthumous inventory of the estate of Frances, duchess of Tyrconnell (c.1649-1731)
Muireann McCann (European University Institute), Women and children in exile: the “Wild Geese” and the British Establishments, 1798–1815
3.30–4.00: Break
4.00–5.30: Panel 3: Empires
Chair: Dr Stephen Griffin (University of Limerick)
Dr Igor Pérez Tostado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville), Invisible lives: Irish experiences in the early modern Spanish Caribbean
Professor Finola O’Kane Crimmins (University College Dublin), Some sharp island gradients: the eighteenth-century Franco-Irish landscapes of Saint Domingue (Haiti)
Dr José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martinez (University of Salamanca), On empire’s edge: reconsidering Irish networks in Spanish America in the late eighteenth century
Saturday, 16 July 2022
Venue: Dance Limerick Space (St John’s Church), John’s Square, Limerick
9.30–9.45: Registration
9.45–10.00: Welcome
10.00–11.30: Panel 4: Migrants and Agents
Chair: Professor Marian Lyons (Maynooth University)
Dr Éamon Ó Ciosáin (Maynooth University), The Wild Geese before the Wild Geese: patterns of Irish emigration prior to 1690.
Dr Matteo Binasco (Universidad Pablo de Olavide -Seville/Università per Stranieri di Siena), The Hibernesi and the Urbs during the early-modern period: a contrasting relationship
Dr Stephen Griffin (University of Limerick), Irish émigrés, Jacobite agents, and Imperial service in the Austrian Habsburg lands in the early eighteenth century
11.30–12.00: Tea/Coffee
12.00–1.00: Keynote Lecture 2
Chair: Ambassador of France, H.E. Vincent Guérend
Dr Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac (Cheffe du Service Historique de la Défense, France), The French, the Stuarts in exile and the Wild Geese
1.00–2.00: Light Lunch
2.00–3.30: Panel 5: Roundtable Discussion: History and Migration Today
Chair: Professor Lorraine McIlrath (Mary Immaculate College)
Discussants:
Professor Bryan Fanning (University College Dublin)
A speaker from Doras
Florence Ajala (Mary Immaculate College)
Dr Olesia Zhytkova
3.30–4.00: Break
4.00–5.30: Panel 6: Students and Irish Colleges
Chair: Tracy McCarthy (Mary Immaculate College)
Dr Karie Schultz (University of St Andrews), The Irish college at Salamanca: student mobility and identity formation in the seventeenth century
Maura Valenti (University of Oxford), Portable organs and stencilled plainchant: music at Irish continental colleges in the eighteenth century
Dr Mathieu Ferradou (Le Mans University/TEMOS (UMR 9016), From Jacobite to Jacobin: The Irish college at Paris as a laboratory of political mutation