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Irish and Irish
Immigration Studies
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SIUC offers numerous resources and opportunities
related to Irish
and Irish Immigration studies not available elsewhere. Below is a brief
description of some of the resources the campus has to offer.
Irish Holdings in
the
Morris Library Holdings in Irish
literature in the
Humanities Division and Special Collections of the Morris Library are
among the most extensive in the United States. The general collection
boasts a broad selection of secondary material on Irish literature,
particularly the early Twentieth Century. The strengths of the Special
Collections manuscript and rare-book holdings are in James Joyce,
William Butler Yeats, and the Abbey Theatre, and many other Irish
artists are well represented, including Flann O'Brien, Lennox Robinson,
Katherine Tynan Hinkson, and Mary Lavin. An academic
exchange
program with the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI-Galway) Students enrolled at SIUC
have an
opportunity to undertake formal coursework and, especially at the
graduate level, independent reading and research projects at this
constituent college of the National University of Ireland. At the same
time students from NUI-Galway take courses at SIUC, affording the
Americans the opportunity of meeting and studying with their Irish
counterparts. The Irish Studies
Forum A university-recognized
campus
organization, this group brings together Irish and SIUC students
together for weekly, informal discussions of shared Irish readings and
Irish issues. In Spring 1999, the ISF hosted the National Graduate
Conference in Irish studies. As part of our on-going
development of
Irish Studies, SIUC is the location of various symposia, featuring an
international assembly of experts, on various topics relating to Irish
and Irish Immigration studies. The subject of the 1997 symposium was
Irish and Irish-American musical interactions, and in 1998 the focus
was the Irish Diaspora. Visiting Writers
and
Scholars SIUC
hosted the 1996 annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish
Studies. Keynote speakers were former Senator George Mitchell and
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist William Kennedy. This gathering
continues a tradition of bringing internationally recognized writers,
leaders, and scholars to campus. Recent visitors have included Irish
statesman Conor Cruise O’Brien, playwright Thomas Kilroy, and poets
including Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, Eavan Boland, and Nobel
Prize recipient Seamus Heaney.
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