Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin
"Irish-Native American solidarities"
26 August - 6.30pm Australian Eastern Time
This talk will explore how Irish people understand their historical links to settler colonialism and how valid or common it is for them to express solidarity with other colonised peoples, particularly Indigenous groups. Focusing on the relationship between the Irish and Native Americans, especially the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma since the 1990s, the talk explores these expressions of solidarity. It draws on thousands of comments submitted by Irish donors to a GoFundMe page between 2020 and 2024.
Dr Ciaran O'Neill is the co-director, with Dr Patrick Walsh of the Trinity's Colonial Legacies project. His research centres on the social and cultural history of Ireland empire, colonial legacies, modern literature and public history. He is Principal Investigator of Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Paris 1922, funded by the Commemorations Unit at DTAGSM, and of RISING, a Creative Ireland Climate Action collaboration between Unit 18 at Trinity, Brokentalkers, Dublin Theatre Festival, and Algorithm.
This online seminar will be held via zoom
Meeting ID: 883 8893 1559, Passcode: 335885
The zoom room will be open from 6.20 to allow everyone to get the technology sorted. Please put your microphone on mute for the duration of the talk. We will be taking questions via the chat function so you can type in your question anytime and the facilitator will ask the speaker the questions at the end of the talk
MISS co-convenors:
Philip Bull (La Trobe University)
Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University)
Dianne Hall (Victoria University)
Ronan McDonald, (University of Melbourne)
Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne)