The organizer and moderator of this panel is Jennifer Keating, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Panelist:

Garrett Carr, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
John Carson, Carnegie Mellon University
Mairead McClean, Artist and Filmmaker, from Bath, England and Northern Ireland
Eve Patten, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Ireland’s relationships with Europe have safeguarded features of national identity from the early twentieth century to the present as the region negotiated its long-standing and historically fraught relationship with the United Kingdom. In recent years, Ireland’s role in the EU has further solidified these regional relationships as a counterpoint to its tangled politics with the UK, especially in complex concepts of national identity in Northern Ireland. In the midst of ongoing political tumult in the UK and the complexity of Britain’s extraction from the EU through Brexit, what does Irish nationalism look like today north and south of the border?

Please join Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, artist and filmmaker Mairéad McClean and Professor Garrett Carr, Seamus Heaney Center at Queen’s University Belfast, as we discuss manifestations of Irish nationalism today. Professor Patten will discuss ongoing relationships between the Long Room Hub, its resident artists and scholars and governmental grant programs at Trinity College. Mairéad McClean will discuss her recent Beyond 22 residency supported by the Decade of Centenaries grant to undertake work with the Irish Archives and the Long Room Hub and her exhibition Here, at Belfast Exposed in Northern Ireland. Garrett Carr will discuss his book, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border.