Archiving Irish America: Music, Dance, and Culture
April 11-13, 2024
Keynote Speakers
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
8:30–9:00 AM: Registration and coffee/tea
9:00–10:30 AM: Panel 1: Foundations
Chair: Dan Neely
9:00 AM: Richie Piggott, "Chicago Archive of Irish Traditional Musicians & Storytellers"
9:30 AM: Caitlin Finley & Will Woodson, "The Phonograph Project: Learning and Performing Music from Early Irish American Recordings"
10:00 AM: Seán Doherty, "Annotations in the Francis O'Neill Collection at the University of Notre Dame"
10:30–10:45 AM: Break
10:45–11:00 AM: WIMA Spotlight
11:00 AM –12:30 PM: Panel 2: Unearthing
Chair: Samantha Jones
11:00 AM: Siobhan Butler, "Bridging the Gap: Uncovering the Bond Between Traditional Irish Dance and Music"
11:30 AM: Katherine Holt, "Dancing with the Archive"
12:00 PM: Brian Ó hAirt, "Soiléir I bhFolach: A Dancer Hidden in Plain Sight"
12:30–1:00 PM: Project Launch: Capturing O’Neill - a WIMA and ITMA digital humanities project, spanning dozens of archives and personal collections. Scott Spencer, Daniel Neely, Aileen Dillane, Michael O’Malley
1:00–2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00–3:00 PM: Brian Miller, "Songs of an Irish Lumberman-Saloonkeeper"
3:00–3:10 PM: Break
3:10-3:15 PM: Video Presentation: Patrick Egan, "Key Factors for Interacting with Irish Traditional Music in North American Archives: Some Survey Results"
3:15–4:45 PM: Panel 3: Approaches
Chair: Sean Williams
3:15 PM: Sarah Gerk, "Reading Irish American Archives Against the Grain"
3:45 PM: John Waters, "Cross-Cultural Experiments in the Mick Moloney Archives"
4:15 PM: Emily Paulson, "'How do I find Irish Music?'—Creating Resources for Celtic Music at the Archives of Traditional Music"
4:45–5:00 PM: Break
5:00–6:30 PM: Keynote: Jean Butler
“Our Steps, Our Story: An Irish Dance Legacy Archive”
Friday Night Session at the County Clare, 9–11 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
9:00-10:00 AM: Registration and coffee/tea
10:00 AM–12:00 PM: Panel 4: Techniques
Chair: Sean Williams
10:00 AM: Elizabeth Sweeney, "An Archival Partnership to Document Boston's Irish Music"
10:30 AM: Nick Brown, "Tracing the Music Used in Oscar & Malvina"
11:00 AM: Dan Isaacson, "Craft: Oral History Interviews from the Workshops of Benedict Koehler and Patrick and Aaron Olwell"
11:30 AM: Helen Lawlor, "‘Hear the Harp of Tara’: Research-Led Performance of the Princess Grace Song Sheet Collection"
12:00–1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00–1:30 PM: WIMA Spotlight
1:30–2:30 PM: Panel 5: Practice
Chair: Scott Spencer
1:30 PM: Marta Cook, "Jenny Picking Cockles: Performance-Based Research on the Irish Harp"
2:00 PM: Jimmy Keane, "Horse: A Personal Archive"
2:30–2:45 PM: Break
2:45–4:15 PM: Roundtable: "Living Clay: The Archive in Cultural Practice"
Moderator: Jimmy Keane
Roundtable: Marta Cook, Brian Ó hAirt, Emmanuel-Sathya Gray, Erick Boustead
4:15–4:30 PM: Break
4:30–6:00 PM: Keynote: Liz Carroll
6:00–6:15 PM: Summative Remarks
7:00 PM: CelticMKE Céilí featuring Jimmy Keane and friends
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