Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

118. Irishness and Celebrity

3:30–4:45 p.m., Olympic III, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the American Conference for Irish Studies

Presiding: Karen M. Steele, Texas Christian Univ.

1. “From Irish Exile to Welsh Celebrity: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Performance of Place,” Fiona Brideoake, American Univ.

2. “Oscar Wilde and the Production of Irish Genius,” Kathleen R. Slaugh-Sanford, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

3. “Two Irish Presidents: Mary Robinson and Barack Obama,” Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale

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