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1. GIST: Bilinguals at the Bar: Maamtrasna RevisitedWhen: 7th JuneWhen: 7th JuneBio Prof Margaret Kelleher is Director of An Foras Feasa, the Humanities Research Institute at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Prof Kelleher received her BA from University College Cork and PhD from Boston College. She is the author of The Feminization of Famine (1997) and co-editor with Philip O’Leary of the landmark Cambridge History of Irish Literature (2006); she has also published widely in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, women’s writings and Irish literary and cultural history. Margaret is the current Chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) and NUI Maynooth’s Principal Investigator for the government-funded inter-institutional Structured PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities. In October next she will take up the post of Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. Abstract This talk will revisit the infamous Maamtrasna murders which took place in August 1882 near Cong (then Co Galway). The succeeding legal trial which led to the wrongful execution of Myles Joyce, first cousin of the murdered Joyce family, has been the subject of a number of recent publications and documentaries. As early as 1907 the conduct of the trial of Myles Joyce was made the subject of critique by James Joyce in his famous essay ‘Ireland at the Bar’. Based on detailed archival research, this talk will reexamine the trial from the perspective of language use, including the treatment of monolingual speakers of Irish and the significance of contemporary bilingualism. It will show how the case of Maamtrasna throws light on the dramatic language shift that took place in nineteenth-century Ireland, the consequences of which remain evident in Irish society to this day.Room 327 Robert Webster Building, UNSW Kensington Campus
2. Bloomsday on Bondi 2012When: 16th JuneWhen: 16th JuneBLOOMSDAY ON BONDI 2012 In partnership with the Consulate General of Ireland Sydney, Waverley Council, the Irish Echo newspaper and O'Punksky's Theatre, the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies presents Bloomsday on Bondi for 2012. Date: Saturday 16th June 2012 Location: The Pavilion, Bondi Beach Facebook page Programme (draft) 10.00 - 12.00 Breakfast Session (ticketed session) 12.00 - 16.00 Individual and group readings from Ulysses (free session) 16.00 - 18.00 Film screening (free session) 19:30 - 21:15 Evening Session, rehearsed readings with O'Punksky's Theatre Group (ticketed event) Tickets Bloomsday Breakfast Session $15 Bloomsday Evening Session with rehearsed readings with O'Punksky's Theatre Group $20 Click here to book ticketsThe Pavilion, Bondi Beach, Sydney

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