{"id":1055,"date":"2016-04-15T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:26:18","slug":"lucy-mcdiarmid-events-women-of-the-easter-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2016\/04\/15\/lucy-mcdiarmid-events-women-of-the-easter-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy McDiarmid Events: Women of the Easter Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated April 15, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>April marks the centenary of Ireland&#8217;s 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution. In commemoration, Lucy McDiarmid, Marie Frazee-Baldassare Professor of English, has written a new book published by the Royal Irish Academy: <em>At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Welcoming Ireland&#8217; Cultural Celebration April 24<\/strong><br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/ireland2016ny.com\/welcoming-ireland\/pier-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">McDiarmid will give a lecture on April 24<\/a> as part of the centenary commemoration sponsored by the Consulate General of Ireland in New York and other community organizations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New media coverage of her book<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/irishamerica.com\/2016\/03\/1916-2016-proclaiming-the-american-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irish America Magazine: &#8220;1916 \u2013 2016: Proclaiming the American Story&#8221; by Turlough McConnell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/irishecho.com\/2016\/03\/new-look-at-women-of-1916\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Echo: &#8220;A new look at women of 1916&#8221; by Peter McDermott<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book tour and lectures<\/strong><br \/>\nShe&#8217;s in the midst of a book tour, giving lectures at locations near and far. Below is a sampling. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ria.ie\/publications\/books\/history\/home-revolution-what-women-said-and-did-1916\" target=\"_blank\">Full list on her publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/ne.independentspiritsymposium\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Spirit: America and the 1916 Easter Rising symposium<\/a> with the Glucksman Ireland House NYU on Thursday, April 21.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/ne.yeatsschool2016\" target=\"_blank\">Taste of the Yeats Summer School at the Glucksman Ireland House NYU<\/a> on April 2. Assistant professor Michael Robbins also spoke.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/1916.rte.ie\/event\/trinity-college\/dublin-easter-1916-what-was-it-like\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin, Easter 1916: What Was it Like?<\/a>: A <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.historyireland.com\/hedge-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">History Ireland Hedge Schools<\/a> event with RT\u00c9, on March 28 at Trinity College Dublin. McDiarmid sat on a panel with editor Tommy Graham and John Gibney, Mary McAulliffe and Joe Connell. <em>Podcast to come<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Monsignor P\u00e1draig de Br\u00fan Memorial Lecture lecture entitled &#8220;<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediahq.com\/nuig\/136385\/nui-galway-2016-monsignor-de-brun-lecture-by-professor-lucy-mcdiarmid\" target=\"_blank\">Fairies, Rebels, Mothers: Lady Gregory and 1916<\/a>.&#8221; Lecture given on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conference.ie\/Conferences\/index.asp?Conference=216\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the National University of Ireland Galway<\/a>. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/nuigalway.mediaspace.kaltura.com\/media\/Monsignor+de+Br%C3%BAn+Lecture,+Fairies,+Rebels,+MothersA+Lady+Gregory+and+1916+with+Prof.+Lucy+McDiarmid\/1_4b7vkba0\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video<\/a>. McDiarmid begins talking at the 7:50 minute mark.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/farmgatecork.ie\/womenofthesouth\/whatwomensaidanddid1916\/\" target=\"_blank\">March 14: Interview with Patricia Coughlan<\/a>, Professor of English at University College Cork, at Farmgate Cafe in Cork, Ireland. <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/farmgatecork.ie\/womenofthesouth\/whatwomensaidanddid1916\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch a video of the lecture<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/birth-mothers-for-barnardos-in-celebration-of-international-womens-day-2016-history-talks-tickets-20125893088\" target=\"_blank\">Jumping into the G.P.O: Women&#8217;s access to the Rising,<\/a>&#8221; at Kilkenny Castle in Kilkenny, Ireland. Lecture delivered March 12.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u200cBook launch in Manhattan<\/strong><br \/>\nA launch event was also held for her book on March 1 in the United States. She gave a lecture at the Consulate General of Ireland in Manhattan called: &#8220;<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/jumping-into-the-gpo-women-in-the-easter-rising-by-prof-lucy-mcdiarmid-tickets-21723037189\" target=\"_blank\">Jumping Into the GPO: Women in the Easter Rising<\/a>.&#8221; <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrelandinNY\/status\/704881289715916800\" target=\"_blank\"><em>McDiarmid, is pictured above, center, with Consul General Barbara Jones and LAOH President Mary Hogan at the launch.<\/em><\/a> Watch <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCtLFD8-ZAw\" target=\"_blank\">the event on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated April 15, 2016 April marks the centenary of Ireland&#8217;s 1916 Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution. In commemoration, Lucy McDiarmid, Marie Frazee-Baldassare Professor of English, has written a new book published by the Royal Irish Academy: At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916. &#8216;Welcoming Ireland&#8217; Cultural Celebration April 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208587,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/208587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}