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Peter Kuch

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Email: peter.kuch@otago.ac.nz

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• Books
• Edited Journal
• Book chapters and articles in refereed journals
• Encyclopaedia entries
• Selection of reviews in refereed journals
• Contributions to International Symposia on Irish Studies
• Conference Papers

 

Publications

Books

• Writings on Literature and Art being Volume IV of The Collected Works of George William Russell (AE). Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2011. (474 + xxii pages). ISBN 978-0-901072-45-0

  Irelands in the Asia-Pacific: Being Papers Delivered at the Second IASIL Asia-Pacific Symposium, UNSW. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2003. ISBN 0-86140-414-9. 489 pages. (with Julie-Ann Robson)

  Bruce Dawe: Australian Writers Series. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-19-553480-8 114 pages.
  • “Bruce Dawe’s poetry finally receives the attention it deserves …” — Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 77, p. 870 (1996)
• Conversations: Australian Writers on Writing. Sydney: Collins/Angus and Robertson, 1991. (with Paul Kavanagh) ISBN 0-207-17005-3

• Yeats and AE: ‘the antagonism that unites dear friends’ . Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1986. ISBN 0-389-20603-2

  Reviewed by: John Kavanagh, Irish Post, 19 July 1986; Derek Mahon, Irish Times, 26 July 1986; Monk Gibbon, Hibernia, July 1986; Richard Pine, Irish Tribune, 3 August 1986; Ulick O’Connor, Sunday Independent, 17 August 1986; Timothy Webb, British Book News, October 1986, p. 608; John Hanratty, Linen Hall Review, Winter 1986, p. 31; Sylvan Barnett, Choice, November 1986, p. 476; Anon., The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. lxvii, 1986, p. 150; Declan Kiberd, Times Literary Supplement, 13 February 1987, p. 166; Aileen Douglas, Studies, Spring 1987; Maureen Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 1987, p. 25; Vincent Buckley, Times on Sunday, 21 June 1987, p. 33; Robert Graecen, Books Ireland, July/August 1987, pp. 135-136; James F Carens, Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, vol V, 1987, pp. 243-246; George Mills Harper, Yeats Annual, vol VII, 1990, pp. 259-262.

  A ‘most sophisticated and sensitive exploration of Æ’s ideas’ — Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford, Times Literary Supplement, 16 May 2003.

  This book closely examines the history of one of the major literary associations of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Focusing on the first twenty-five years of their fifty-year friendship, it seeks to describe Yeats’s and Russell’s association in terms of their respective imaginative developments and the development of the literary movement as a whole. The book draws extensively from both writers’ published and unpublished writings as well as from the literature, diaries, journals and correspondence of the period.

• Monk Gibbon, The Pupil. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1981. ISBN 0 905473 68 X

  Widely reviewed in Irish and English Press. Monk Gibbon (1896-1987), admired as a stylist, is one of Ireland’s most respected minor writers. He has published more than twenty-five books. The Pupil recounts his experiences as an English Master at “Oldfeld”, a Quaker boarding school near Swanage, Dorset, in the 1930s. It sensitively explores his attraction to one of his most engaging students, Anne de Selincourt. In addition to arranging for its publication, I ghosted the novel. The novel has been reprinted three times.

 

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Edited journal

• “Prism! Where is that baby? Locating Wilde in 2004”, Guest edited edition of the Irish Studies Review. Oxford: Routledge, July 2005. ISSN 0967-0882 (45,000 words)

  Contains the following independently peer reviewed articles:

  Peter Kuch, “Prism! Where is that baby? Locating Wilde in 2004” in Peter Kuch ed., Irish Studies Review . Oxford: Routledge, XIII, 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 277-81.

  Peter Kuch, “Wickedness in the Family” in Peter Kuch ed., Irish Studies Review . Oxford: Routledge., XIII, 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 283-90.

  Peter Kuch, “Wildean Politics—‘or whatever one wants to call it’” in Peter Kuch ed., Irish Studies Review . Oxford: Routledge, XIII, 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 369-77.

 

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Book chapters and articles in refereed journals

• Kuch, P.R. "'Irishness' on the New Zealand Stage 1860-1920: The Boucicault and Allgood tours". in "Nations, Diasporas, Identities", Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (Aberdeen 2010), iv, i, 99-118.

  Kuch, P.R. “Truth and Counter-Truth; Rage and Order: W.B. Yeats’s Poems in The Dial, November 1920” in Mariana Gula, Maria Kurda, Istvan D. Racz, eds., The Binding Strength of Irish Studies: Festschrift in Honour of Csilla Bertha and Donald E Morse. Debrecen: Debrecen University Press, 2011, pp. 191-7.

  Kuch, Peter, "Re-Awakening the 'Wake'—Contested Images of 'Irishness' in Colonial Australasia" in Munira H. Mutran, Laura P.Z. Izarra, and Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos, eds., A Garland of Words: For Maureen O'Rourke Murphy. Sao Paulo: Humanitas, 2010, pp. 137-153. ISBN 978-85-7732-153-7

• "Irishness, The Australasian Colonial Theatre and The Public Sphere", in Brad and Kathryn Patterson, eds., Ireland and the Irish Antipodes: One World or Worlds Apart? Melbourne: Anchor Books, 2010, pp. 203-16. (Plenary Address to the Australasian Irish Studies Conference, 9-12 July 2009, Wellington, New Zealand).

  "The Irish and the Australasian Colonial Stage: Confrontation and Compromise", The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol X (2010), pp. 105-18.

• "Dancing Women and Shadowy Gunmen: The Abbey Theatre in the 'City of Churches'" in Jacqueline Hurtley, Michael Kenneally, and Wolfgang Zach eds., Literatures in English: Ethnic, Colonial and Cultural Encounters. Tubingen: Stauffenburg, 2010, pp. 301-314. ISBN 978-3-86057-322-8
• “Kilkenny, Melbourne, New York—George Tallis and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora” in John P. Harrington, ed., Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2009, pp. 78-92. ISBN 978-0-8156-3169-9
• “Sarah Bernhardt, the Irish, et le pays de Kangaroo” in Martine Pelletier et Alexandra Poulain, eds., Études Irlandaises: Théâtres de France et d’Irlande. Villeneuve: Presses Universitaines du Septentrion, XXXIII, 2 (Autumn 2008), 31-41. ISBN: 978-2-7574-0069-2 and ISSN: 0183-973-X
• “An Antipodean Epic: Cloudstreet at the Dublin Theatre Festival” in Nicholas Grene and Patrick Lonergan, eds., Interactions: Dublin Theatre Festival 1957-2007: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series: 3. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008, pp. 157-172. ISBN 978-1-904505-36-5.
• “’We got on splendidly!’—The Irish Players in Queensland in 1922” in Laurence M Geary and Andrew J. McCarthy, eds., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand: History, Politics and Culture. Dublin & Portland, Oregon: Irish Academic Press, 2008, pp. 93-103. ISBN 978 0 7165 2861 6 and 978 0 7165 2862 3
• “The Gigli Concert in Brisbane and Sydney” in Wolfgang Zach and Michael Kenneally, eds., Literatures in English: Priorities in Research: Studies in English and Comparative Literature. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2008, pp. 243-50. ISBN 978-3-8607-321-1; Revised for Laura P. Izarra and Beatriz Kopschitz X. Bastos, eds., A New Ireland in Brazil: Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran. Sao Paulo: Humanitas, 2008, pp. 163-176. ISBN 978-85-7732=072-1
• “The Irish Players and the Conquest of London” in Richard Cave and Ben Levitas, eds., Irish Theatre in England: Irish Theatrical Disapora Series: 2. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2007, pp. 53-66. ISBN-10 1-904505-26-0 ISBN-13 1-904505-26-6
• “Keeping within the Borders” in Edwin Thumboo, ed., Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes: Vol. 1. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2007, pp. 412-23. ISBN 9789810593148 and 9810593147
• ‘The Abbey Irish Players in Australia—1922’ in Nicholas Grene and Christopher Morash, eds., Irish Theatre on Tour: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series: 1. Dublin Carysfort Press, 2005, pp. 69-88. ISBN 1-904505-13-9
• “Seldom visited because it standeth so much out of the way: Images of Terra Australis Incognita in 1621-1622” in Michael Kenneally and Rhona Richman Kenneally, eds., From “English Literature” to Literatures in English”: International Perspectives: Festschrift in Honour of Wolfgang Zach. Heidelburg: Universtatsverlag: Winter, 2005, pp. pp. 37-52. ISBN 3-8253-5084-3
• “Theatre Links—Ireland and Australia” in Munira Mutran and Laura P.Z. Izarra, eds., ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue. Sao Paulo: Humanitas/FFLCH/USP, 2005, VII, 63-73. ISSN 1518-0581
• “Natives, Savages, and People—The Enlightened Observations of Governor Arthur Phillip and Judge Advocate, Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins” in William Taylor, ed., The Geography of Law: Landscape, Identity and Regulation. Oxford: Hart, 2005, pp. 101-114. ISBN 1-84113-556-9
• “’What will I do with this box of notes and photocopies?’—writing a literary history of Irish poetry 1900-1940” in Peter Gray ed., Passing the Torch: The Aisling Society of Sydney 1955-2005. Sydney: Aisling Society, 2005, pp. 183-205. ISBN 0-646-45448-X
• “Seumas O’Sullivan—Getting into and out of Contact” in Donald E Morse and Csilla Bertha, eds., HJEAS: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies. Debrecen: University of Debrecen, 2004, X, 1-2, 163-174. ISSN1218-7364
• “‘Pride and Truth that long to give themselves for wage’ — 1907, W.B. Yeats, Politics and Poetics” in Louis de Paor, Maureen O’Connor, Bob Reece eds., Remembered Nations, Imagined Republics: Proceedings of the 12th Irish-Australian Conference, Australian Journal of Irish Studies: Special Issue. Murdoch: Centre for Irish Studies; Galway: Centre for Irish Studies, 2004, IV, 46-55. ISSN 1444-5409
• “Textual Anthropology and the ‘Imagined Community’” in Interrelations, ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies. Sao Paulo: Humanitas/FFLCH/USP, 2003, V, 39-49. ISSN 1518-0581
• “Writing a Literary History of Irish Poetry” in Tadhg Foley and Fiona Bateman, eds., Irish-Australian Studies: Papers Delivered at the 9th Irish-Australian Conference, Galway, April 1997. Sydney: Crossing Press, 2001, pp. 82-98. ISBN 0-9586713-8-9
• “Writing ‘Easter 1916’” in Bruce Stewart, ed., That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1998, II, 1-17. ISBN 0-86140-418-1 Keynote lecture given at the 10th international conference entitled: “That Other World: The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts” at the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco, 28 May – 2 June 1998.
• “‘Camels, Weasels, and Whales’: Reading Lolita”, Q/W/E/R/T/Y. Pau: Université de Pau, France, October 1995, V, 325-332. ISBN 2-908930-28-5; ISSN 1169-2111
• “Tradition and the Individual Talent” in David Dockrill and Godfrey Tanner, eds., Tradition and Traditions: Prudentia. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1994, pp. 275-288. ISSN 0110-487X
• “Elizabeth Reagen as a subaltern wife: Irish Writing as the ‘cracked looking-glass of a servant’”, Q/W/E/R/T/Y . Pau: Université de Pau, France, October 1995), IV, 291-297. ISBN 2-908930-18-8; ISSN 1169-2111
• “AE’s ‘The Sunset of Fantasy’” in Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual . London: Macmillan, 1993, X, 188-203. ISBN 0-333-53636-3; ISSN 0278-7688
• “John Shaw Neilson and Padraic Colum” in John Barnes, ed., John Shaw Neilson: Meridian. Melbourne: La Trobe University Press, 1990, IX ii, 122-132. ISSN 0728-5914
• “‘For poetry makes nothing happen’: The Poetry of Yeats and the Politics of Ireland” in Richard Finneran, ed., Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, VIII, 188-205. ISBN 0-472-10215-X; ISSN 0742-6224
• “Manuscripts, Metonymy and Method — the Writing of Irish Literary History” in Oliver MacDonagh and W.F. Mandle, eds., Irish-Australian Studies. Canberra: Australian National University, 1989, pp. 155-167. ISBN 0-7315-0805-X
• “A Few Twigs from The Wild Bird’s Nest: Yeats the European” in A.N. Jeffares, ed., Yeats the European. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1989, pp. 101-118. ISBN 0-86140-247-2
• “What can I but enumerate old themes?” in Susan Dick, Declan Kiberd, Dougald McMillan and Joseph Ronsley, eds., Omnium Gatherum: Essays for Richard Ellmann. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; McGill: McGill University Press, 1988, pp. 234-252. ISBN 0-86140-228-X
• “W.B. Yeats’s: ‘Ghosts and Dreams’” in Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual . London: Macmillan, 1987, V, 114-135. ISBN 0-333-35333-1
• “‘Scored for the Voice’: An Interview with Vincent Buckley”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University, 1987, III, 249-266. (with Paul Kavanagh). ISSN 0038-3732
• “‘The Self-Critical Craftsman’: Randolph Stow talks to Peter Kuch and Paul Kavanagh”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University, 1986, IV, 437-443. ISSN 0038-3732
• “‘Daytime Thoughts about the Night Shift’: Alec Hope talks to Peter Kuch and Paul Kavanagh”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University, 1986, II, 221-231. ISSN 0038-3732
• “‘What are the Shades of Grey?’: David Williamson talks to Paul Kavanagh and Peter Kuch”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University, 1986, II, 131-141. ISSN 0038-3732 Reprinted in Daniel G. Marowski and Roger Matuz, eds., Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 1989, pp. 39-44.
• “‘Fifteen Apparitions Have I Seen’: Yeats and the Occult”, Prudentia. Auckland: University of Auckland Press, 1985, pp. 199-218. ISSN 0110-487X
• “An Interview with Les Murray”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1984, IV, 367-378. (with Paul Kavanagh). ISSN 0038-3732
• “‘Precisions, Discriminations and Humilities’: Rosemary Dobson talks to Paul Kavanagh and Peter Kuch”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1983, IV, 363-376. ISSN 0038-3732
• “‘The Fire ’i the Flint’: Bruce Dawe talks to Paul Kavanagh and Peter Kuch”, Southerly. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1983, I. 3-19. ISSN 0038-3732
• “Mananaan MacLir as Monoglot — George Russell and the Irish Language”, The Crane Bag, vol 5, no 2, pp. 49-58. ISSN 0332-060X Reprinted in M.P. Hederman and R Kearney, eds., The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies . Dublin: Blackwater Press, 1982, pp. 880-889. ISBN 0-905471-13-X Anthology reviewed in Irish, English, American and French journals.

 

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Encyclopaedia entries

• Encyclopaedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004 — entry for George William Russell. (AE) (1000 words)

• New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004 — entry for George William Russell “AE” for (4000 words)

 

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Selection of reviews in refereed journals

• Review of Michael Patrick Gillespie, The Myth of an Irish Cinema: Approaching Irish Themed Films. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008 in The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol X (2010), pp. 137-43.
• Review of James Moran, ed., Four Rebel Irish Plays: Thomas MacDonagh, When the Dawn is Come; Padraic Pearse, The Master; James Connolly, Under Which Flag?; Terence MacSwiney, The Revolutionist. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007 in The Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol X (2010), pp. 145-8.

• Review of Nicholas Allen, George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003) in Irish Studies Review (Oxford: Routledge, 2006), XIV, 2, 293-6. ISSN 0967-0882

• Review of Elizabeth Bergman Loizeaux, Yeats and the Visual Arts (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003) in Irish Studies Review (Oxford: Carfax, 2004), XII, 2, 255-6. ISSN 0967-0882

• Review of Anne Saddlemyer, Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) in Irish Studies Review, (Oxford: Carfax, 2003), XI, 1, 105-8. ISSN 0967-0882

• Review of Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Ireland’s Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular Culture Field Day Monographs No 10 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2001) in Irish Studies Review (Oxford: Carfax, 2002), X, 3, 361-2. ISSN 0967-0882

• Review of Liz Christensen, Elizabeth Bowen: The Later Fiction (University of Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001) in Irish Studies Review (Oxford: Carfax, 2002), X, 3, 356-7. ISSN 0967-0882

• Review of Eugene O’Brien, Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2002) in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies/Revue Canadienne d’études Irlandaises (Montreal: Centre for Canadian Irish Studies, 2002), XXVIII, 130-1. ISSN 0703-1459

• Review of Nicholas Meihuizen, Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space (Amsterdam & Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998) Costerus New Series 116, in The English Academy Review (The English Academy of South Africa), 15 (December 1998), pp. 291-5. ISBN 90-420-0388-X

• Review of Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation in James Joyce Literary Supplement (Miami), XI, ii, 18 (Fall 1997). ISSN 0899-3114

• Review of David Fitzpatrick, Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 1995, p. 26. ISSN 0733-3390

• Review of Steven Helmling, The Esoteric Comedies of Carlyle, Newman, and Yeats (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1988) in Warwick Gould, ed., Yeats Annual (London: Macmillan, 1993), X, 295-298. ISBN 0-333-53636-3; ISSN 0278-7688

• Reader and reviewer for Yeats Annual (London: Macmillan); a reader and reviewer for Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Criticism (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press); a reader for The New Literatures Review (Wollongong), and a reader for The Australasian journal of Irish Studies (Melbourne); and reviewed for Irish Studies Review (Oxford), The Irish Literary Supplement (Boston and New York), The James Joyce Literary Supplement (Miami), English Academy Review (South Africa). I am presently on the editorial board of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Irish Studies Review, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, and The Australian Journal of Irish Studies.

 

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Contributions to International Symposia on Irish Studies

• Peter Kuch and Ruth Hegarty, “Government and Media” in Christina Hunt Mahony et. al., eds., The Future of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum (Prague: Charles University, 2006), pp. 39-46. Forum, convened at the European University, Florence.

 

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Conference papers (selection of major conferences)

2010	April 28-1 May: "Re-Awakening the 'Wake': Contested images of 'Irishness' in Colonial Australasia", Conference entitled Brandan Rising! Irish Identities inside and outside the Island, IX International Conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI), held at the University of La Laguna (Spain).
	April 23-24: "Texts-Intertexts-Contexts-Debating "Stage Irishness" in the Australasian Press, 1870-90", Historiography Working Group of the Irish Society for Theatre Research, Annual Conference, held at the Trinity College, Dublin.
2009	30 October-1 November: ‘The Irish and the Australasian Colonial Theatre’, Conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Irish and Scots Studies Centre, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
	9-12 July: Plenary: '"Irishness", The Australasian Colonial Theatre and the Public Sphere', at a conference entitled Ireland and the Irish Antipodes: One World or Worlds Apart, 16th Australasian Irish Studies Conference, 9-12 July 2009, Massey University, Welington, New Zealand. (Accepted for publication)
	6-8 July: ‘”We writers are not politicians”—W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Plays, Prose and Politics, and the Politics of Publication’, for ‘Literature and Politics’, 3rd Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Literature, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Accepted for publication)
2008	27-30 November: “Remapping Cinema: Remaking History”, The XXIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of New Zealand and Australia, University of Otago, Dunedin. Title of Paper: “Imagining History/Historicising the Image—Issues of Historicity in The Crying Game (1992), Michael Collins (1996), and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006).
	13-14 June 2008: 5th Irish Theatrical Diaspora Conference: Théâtres Français et Irlandais: Influences et Interactions: Universite de Charles de Gaulle, Lille 3, France. Title of Paper: Sarah Bernhardt, the Irish and Le Pays de Kangaroo.
	28 July-1 August: “Home and Elsewhere: the Spaces in Irish Writing”, 32nd annual conference of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures) Faculdade de Lettres, Universidade do Porto, Oporto, Portugal. Title of Paper: “Irishness on the 19th century Australasian Stage”.
	27-30 March: Nations, Diasporas and Identity, Stout Research Centre, University of Victoria, Wellington. Title of Paper: “The Irish and the New Zealand Stage 1850-1930”. (Accepted for publication)
	14-15 January: Keynote Lecture to Australian Government Summer School for Teachers of English—Hosted by Centre for Educational Leadership and Renewal, Deakin University; The Centre for Learning, Change and Development, Murdoch University; and The Australian Association of Teachers in English. Title of Keynote: The Place of Literature in the 21st Century Curriculum.
2007	29 November-1 December: Screenscapes; Past, Present, Future: University of Sydney. Title of Paper: “Offscreen in Ireland.”
	4-5 October: “Interactions”: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project in association with The Irish Theatre Institute and the Dublin Theatre Festival celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Title of Paper: “Company B and Irish-Australia Festival Links.” (12 invited speakers only)
	23-27 July 2007: CISLE Conference: Barcelona. Title of Paper: “Dancing women and shadowy gunmen—The Abbey Theatre in the ‘City of Churches.’” (Accepted for publication)
	16-20 July: IASIL 2006: UCD, Ireland. Title of Paper: “Calling a loy a loy—J.M. Synge in Australia.”
2006	12-13 September: University of Otago delegate at Australian Chapter of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes. Humanities Research Centre, ANU, Canberra.
	27-28 April: The Irish Theatrical Disapora Project in association with New York University at Glucksman House. Title of Paper: “Kilkenny, Melbourne, New York—George Tallis and the Irish Theatrical Diaspora.” (Accepted for publication and in page proof)
	20 April: “The Future of Irish Studies”, Center for Irish Programs, Boston College, Massachusetts.
2005	7-10 December 2005, “Keeping within the Borders”, 11th Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region. National University of Singapore, Singapore.
	24-28 July: IASIL 2005, Charles University, Prague: “The Gigili Concert in Brisbane and Sydney.”
	19-24 July: Keynote address: “Research Priorities in Irish Studies: An Australian Perspective” University of Innsbruck, Austria.
	22-24 June: 14th Irish Australian Conference, UCC, Ireland. Title of Paper: “The Irish Players Tour of Queensland in 1922.” (Accepted for publication and in page proof)
	16-17 June: “Triumphs and Tours—The Whiteheaded Boy in London” National Portrait Gallery, London. The Irish Theatrical Diaspora in conjunction with The Theatre History Group and The Institute of English Studies (University of London) hosted a conference on the theme “Irish Theatre in England”. Co-directed by Richard Allen Cave (Royal Holloway) and Ben Levitas (Goldsmiths' College). It coincided with a major exhibition at the Gallery, “Conquering England”, curated by Fintan Cullen and Roy Foster. (Paper accepted for publication and in page proof)
2004	In April 2004 I gave a paper at the inaugural conference of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project held in conjunction with the Royal Irish Academy at The Mansion House in Dublin on the 1922 Abbey “Irish Players” tour of Australia. In July 2004 I developed this paper further at the annual IASIL conference held at the National University of Galway. And, in October 2004, I presented a further development of this paper at the 13th Irish-Australian Conference held at the University of Melbourne. (published)
2003	‘Seumas O’Sullivan—Getting into and out of Contact’, 2003 IASIL Conference held at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. The Conference was entitled ‘Getting into Contact’. (published)
2002	‘Textual Anthropology and the Imagined Community’, 2002 IASIL Conference held at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Conference was entitled: ‘Interrelations: Irish Literatures and Other Forms of Knowledge.’ (published)
	“Pride and Truth that long to give themselves for wage”: W.B. Yeats, Politics and Poetics’ to the 12th Irish-Australian Conference hosted by the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The conference was entitled: ‘From Youghal Harbour to Moreton Bay: Remembered Nations, Imagined Republics’. (published)
1999	“When the top-down momentum of Devolution meets the upward evolution of intersecting communities” in a seminar entitled “Devolution and Beyond”, 9 October 1999, Murdoch University. Opened by Vice-Chancellor. Professor Steven Schwartz, Speakers were: Michael Horne; His Excellency Richard O’Brien; Dr Philip Bull; Dr Peter Kuch.
1998	“Writing Easter 1916: ‘The Light from that consuming fire, which is the end of all desire.’” Keynote address to the 10th International Conference held at The Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco, 28 May-2 June 1998. (published)
1997	“‘Ringed with Earth’: Irish Literature Down Under”: The Concordia Irish Studies Lecture, Montreal, Canada, 27 March 1997.
	“Padraic and James: Poetry, Patronage and Publication.” 9th Irish-Australia Conference, University College, Galway, 1-4 April 1997.
1996	“A Seventeenth Century Hiberno-Dutch view of the Australian Natural Environment.” “Australian Identities: History, Culture and Environment” Conference, UCD, Ireland, 3-6 July 1996.
	“Seldom visited because it standeth so much out of the way.” IASAIL Conference, “Old and New Worlds”, Hofstra University, New York, 17-20 July 1996. (published)
1995	“Just the Occasional Poem.” IASAIL Inaugural Asia-Pacific Symposium. The Centre for the Arts, The National University of Singapore, 4-9 January 1995. (published)
1992	“‘Pinpoint awareness and dim benevolence’—Yeats, Russell and their protégés.” IASAIL Conference on “Creativity and Its Contexts”, Trinity College, Dublin, 12-15 July 1992.
1991	“‘What will I do with this box of notes and photocopies?’: Writing a Literary History of Irish Poetry 1900-1940.” Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 25 July 1991. (published)
1990	“The role of the poetry anthology in the Irish Literary Renaissance, 1880-1940.” 6th Irish-Australian Conference at La Trobe University, 2-6 July 1990.
	“Tradition and the Individual Talent.” Conference on Tradition and Traditions at St Patrick’s College, Manly, 12-15 July 1990. (published)
1989	“‘For Poetry makes nothing happen’: Yeats and Ireland.” 25th Congress AULLA, Macquarie University, 6-10 February 1989.
	“‘For Poetry Makes Nothing Happen’: Yeats and Ireland” a 60 minute paper presented at the opening session, Yeats Symposium, Writers Week, 37th Annual International Festival of Arts, Perth, Western Australia, 12-17 February 1989. (An expanded version of the paper given at AULLA the previous week.) (published)
1988	“Manuscripts, Metonymy and Method — the Writing of Irish Literary History.” 5th Irish Australian Studies Conference, Canberra, 30 August - 2 September 1988.
1987	“‘A Few Twigs from The Wild Bird’s Nest’: Yeats the European.” 3rd International Conference of the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco, 22-25 May 1987. Conference theme: “Yeats the European.” (published)
1985	“What can I but enumerate old themes?” 26th Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, 10-24 August 1985. Taught seminar on “Yeats and Modern Poetry” with Sir Stephen Spender. (published)

 

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