Calendar of events

March 17, 2005; 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. (brief program at 3 p.m.)

Annual St Patrick’s Day Open House in Celtic Collection
Rare books from the 9,000-volume Celtic Collection
Room LL09 O’Shaughnessy Frey-Library Center

March 29, 2005; 1:30-3:30 p.m.

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (first of a seven week program)

The Deep History:  Landscapes of Legend
John Gleeson, Center for Celtic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sponsored by UST Center for Senior Citizens Education and the Center For Irish Studies
O’Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium

April 4, 2005; 7:30 p.m. (fee)

Writers in Conversation
“Place into Words/Words Into Place”
Kerry Hardie, an O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award honoree, in conversation with writer and publisher Emilie Buchwald
Highland Park Branch Library, 1974 Ford Parkway, St Paul

April 5, 2005

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (second of a seven week program)

The Rough Field of the North by John Montague
Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Department of English,
University of St Thomas; editor, New Hibernia Review

A View from Kilkenny: A Reading by Kerry Hardie
Poet and novelist, winner of the 2005 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award

April 8, 2005; 7:30 p.m.

FREE PUBLIC READING by Kerry Hardie, 2005 O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award honoree
John Roach Center Auditorium (JRC 126)

April 12, 2005

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (third of a seven week program)
Archaeology:

New Directions in Irish Archaeology John Soderberg
Director of Archaeology Labs, University of Minnesota

Lessons and Questions From the Irish Bogs
Stuart McLean
Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota

April 19, 2005 Ireland: An Unfolding Map (4th session)

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (fourth of a seven week program)
Music and Dance

Irish Music on the Further Shore (Lecture and Performance)
John Winston
Traditional musician; past president Irish Music and Dance Association

Irish Dance: Tradition and Change
Katie Stephens
Rince na Chroi School of Irish Dance; certified step-dance teacher

April 26, 2005

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (fifth of a seven week program)

Ireland Today:  Ireland in the Twenty-First Century
Honorable Charles Sheehan
Consul General of Ireland (Chicago)

Irish, American, Transatlantic
A roundtable discussion with citizens of Ireland

May 3, 2005

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (sixth of a seven week program)
The Irish Language

The Not-So-Mysterious Irish Language
Will Kenny Gaeltcht
Minnesota (Irish Language instructor)

A Foot in Both Languages: Irish Literature in Translation
Fintan Moore
Irish language instructor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of St Thomas

May 10, 2005

“Ireland: An Unfolding Map” (seventh of a seven week program)
The Creative Diaspora

Minnesota’s Irish Writers
Jim Rogers
Managing Director, Center for Irish Studies, University of St Thomas

John Ford
Irish and American Filmmaker

Patrick O’Donnell
Normandale Community College; playwright and theater historian