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Panel
One: Historiography
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| Chair:
Mary Harris (NUI Galway)
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Laragh Neelin (Dublin): ‘Eric T.D. Lambert:
early
researcher of the Irish in Latin America’
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Edmundo Murray (University of Zurich): ‘Contrasting
histories: Discourses in Irish Latin American studies’
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Panel
Two: Origins
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| Chair:
Mary Harris (NUI Galway)
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| Igor Pérez Tostado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): ‘Why did
the Irish migrate to the Spanish Caribbean in the 17th
century?’
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| Diego Téllez (Universidad de La Rioja): ‘Mr.
Edward Wall: an Irishman in the River Plate (1756-62)’
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X |
| Fiona Clark (Queen's University Belfast), ‘Daniel
O’Sullivan (1760-1796): An Irish military physician in
late colonial Mexico’
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X |
| Jorge L. Chinea (Wayne State University): 'Jaime O’Daly y
Blake: An enlightened Hispanicised Irish
planter-administrator in late Bourbon Puerto Rico,
1776-1829'
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Panel
Three: Settlement Schemes I
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Chair: Claire Healy (Immigrant Council of Ireland,
Dublin) |
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Orla
Power (NUI,
Galway): 'Irish Catholic planters in the Caribbean:
Montserrat and St. Croix 1747-1775'
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Louise O'Connor (Texas): 'False Claims and
Sacred Lands: Irish Colonies in Mexican Texas'
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X |
| Oliver Marshall (University of Oxford): ‘From Cork to St
John: An early example of Irish migration to New Brunswick’
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Panel
Four: Settlement Schemes II
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Chair: Oliver Marshall (Centre for Brazilian Studies,
University of Oxford)
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Martín Pérez Acevedo (Universidad
Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo):
‘The Irish in Mexico during the Porfiriato (1876-1910). A
description of a minority migration.’
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| Juan Pablo Alvarez Pearce (Buenos Aires) & Santiago Delfín
Boland (Bahía Blanca): ‘La Vitícola, the Irish colony of
Napostá 1889-1891, the largest foreign colony in the history
of Bahía Blanca’
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X |
| Claire Healy (Dublin): ‘"Al otro lado:" Latin American
migration to Ireland, 1973-2006’
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Panel
Five: Journalism
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Chair: Arnold R. Highfield (University of the Virgin
Islands) |
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Félix Flores Varona
(Universidad de Ciego de Ávila, Cuba): 'The Irish
element in José Martí’s New York Chronicles' |
X |
| Peter Hulme (University of Essex): ‘James J. O’Kelly in
Cuba’
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X |
| Ana M. Castello (Universidad Católica
Argentina): ‘Community press and local
politics (1875-1880): towards the formation of a
"Hiberno-Argentine" political opinion?’
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Panel
Six: Business
and Employment
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| Chair:
Derrick Marcus (São Paulo)
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Moises-Enrique Rodriguez (Vevey): 'Freedom's mercenaries'
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X |
| Gera Burton (University of Missouri-Columbia): ‘"A Contagion
of Liberty": Richard Robert Madden in the Caribbean’
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X |
| Margaret Brehony (National University of Ireland,
Galway): ‘Los Irlandeses in Cuba: Irish railroad
workers in Cuba 1835-1840’
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X |
| Lawrence Clayton (University of Alabama): ‘Adapting
to conditions: W. R. Grace & Co. in Latin America’
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Panel
Seven: Diplomacy
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Chair: Laura
Izarra (Universidade de São Paulo and
SILAS President)
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Lourdes De Ita
(Universidad
Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo):
‘Irish travellers judged by the Inquisition in Colonial
Mexico’
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X |
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Lesley Wylie (University of Essex): ‘Roger Casement and two
Putumayo Indians’
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X |
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María Eugenia Cruset (Universidad Nacional de La Plata):
‘Diplomacy and diasporas: The Irish-Argentine case’
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Panel
Eight: Identities
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| Chair:
Derrick Marcus (São Paulo)
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| Seamus King (Ireland): ‘The game of hurling among the Irish
in Argentina 1890-1950’
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X |
| Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan (Ireland): ‘Christian Brothers in
Carrasco, Uruguay’
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X |
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Paula Migo and Andrés Bisso (La Plata,
Argentina): 'Saint Patrick´s Day Celebrations in the
Argentine province of Buenos Aires during the Twentieth
Century' |
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Panel
Nine: Literature
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| Chair:
Edmundo Murray (University
of
Zurich)
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| Patricia Novillo Corvalán (Birkbeck College,
University of London): ‘"Fallen on his feet in Buenos
Aires": Ulysses in Argentina’
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Laura Izarra (Universidade de São Paulo):
'Letters and Diaries from South America: a
"New Ireland"'
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