Selected
Conference Papers
"Re-Inventing Masculinity in late
Eighteenth-Century Ireland," delivered at Princeton University,
February
2003.
“Fabricating Masculinity in 18th
Century Ireland”, plenary address, American Conference for Irish
Studies national meeting,
Marquette
University
, June 2002.
“Anti-colonialism,
Gender, and Republicanism in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland,” plenary
address at History in the Making VIII: Irish Studies in Historical
Perspective, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, March 2002.
"Hibernia in Chains:
Gender and Anti-Colonialism in Irish Whig Rhetoric," American
Conference for Irish Studies national meeting, New York City, June 2001
"'Touch not the Plant of Gallic Growth': The Anti-radicalism of the
Irish Whigs," American Conference for Irish Studies national
meeting, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000
“The
Magistracy and Counter Revolution in Ulster, 1795-98,” delivered at
University of Notre Dame, 1798-1998: The Great Rebellion conference,
March 1998.
“The United Irishmen and the Gendered Citizen,” sponsored by
the Irish Government’s 1798 Commemoration Committee and the Consul
general of Ireland, New York City, March 1998.
“Gender, the United Irishmen, and the Construction of Irish
revolutionary Republicanism,” delivered at the Center for Irish
Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., February
1798.
"'Leaven
in this Lumpish Land’: The United Irishmen and the Impulse to
Revolution” for the 8th Annual Irish Forum, “The Irish
Rebellion of 1798: Causes and Consequences,” Irish American Heritage
Center, Chicago, Illinois, October 1997.
“Eighteenth-century Ireland: Province or colony?” delivered
at a plenary session of the American Conference for Irish Studies
national meeting, Albany, New York, April 1997.
“Masculinity
and femininity in early Irish republicanism,” delivered at the
American Historical Association annual convention, New York City,
January 1997.
“Matilda
Tone,” delivered at a public ceremony commemorating Matilda Tone,
sponsored by the New York Irish History Roundtable and the
American-Irish Labor Coalition, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY,
October 1996.
“The
liberal nationalism of the United Irishmen,” delivered at the American
Conference for Irish Studies national meeting, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, Illinois, April 1996.
"The gendering of Irish republicanism in the 1790s,"
delivered at the Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies,
Immaculata College, Immaculata, PA, November 1994
"The politics of linen: politicization of Ulster weavers in
the 1790s," delivered at the American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 1993
"The Wearing of the Green:
Revisionism and the historiography of the United Irishmen,"
delivered at the American Conference for Irish Studies national meeting,
Villanova University, Philadelphia, April 1993
"The United Irish organization in Ulster," delivered at
the bicentennial conference on the United Irishmen, Belfast and Dublin,
October-November 1991.
"The republican synthesis in Ireland: the ideological
origins of the United Irish movement in the 1790s," delivered at
the Columbia University Seminar on Irish Studies, New York, January
1991.
"'Literary mischief': the United Irishmen and the expansion
of political culture," delivered at the Middle Atlantic Conference
on British Studies, Princeton, October 1990.
"Bridging two worlds: the United Irishmen and the Catholics,
1791-1795," delivered at the American Conference for Irish Studies
national meeting held in St. Louis, April 1990.
"The symbols and rituals of United Irish mobilisation"
delivered at the
Bicentenary of the French Revolution International
Conference: Ireland
and the French Revolution, Dublin, March
1989.
"Propaganda by Riot: The
United Irishmen and the Dublin crowd" delivered at the Midwest
American Committee for Irish Studies conference, Milwaukee, October
1987.
"'Literary Mischief': The
United Irishmen and the Northern Star" delivered at the
American Committee for Irish Studies national conference, Boston, May
1986.
"The origins of Irish republicanism" delivered at the
American Historical Association annual convention, San Francisco,
December 1983.
"Theobald Wolfe Tone: Romantic
Adventurer" delivered at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's
University of Belfast, November 1982.
"'Every Man a Politician':
The United Irishmen and the shift towards revolutionary
republicanism, 1794-6" delivered at the Institute of Irish Studies,
Queen's University of Belfast, November 1981.